eyeglasses News Archive

11-Jul-2007

 

  • Burberry First-Quarter Sales Rise, Swelled by Stores (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)
    July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Burberry Group Plc, the U.K. maker of $1,500 handbags and trench coats, said first-quarter sales increased 24 percent after the company added stores and brought forward wholesale orders from the second quarter.


  • Myvu solo personal media headset for iPod (MacNN)
    Myvu today launched myvu solo, a personal media viewer that users wear like eyeglasses designed to provide everything needed for watching videos on a fifth-generation iPod. The myvu solo -- which offers a viewing experience comparable to a large screen TV from six feet away -- includes a new charging feature that powers myvu directly from the iPod,...


  • Area gun dealers cope with red tape (The Record)
    Think of a gun shop owner, and you're probably not picturing people like Billy Meltzer or Michael Luciano. Meltzer, a third-generation owner of Meltzer's Sporting Goods on Outwater Lane in Garfield, has eyeglasses and a full head of wavy gray hair that give him an intellectual air.


  • Black asks to avoid jail, give eye exams (The Charlotte Observer)
    Former House Speaker Jim Black, having pleaded guilty to charges of public corruption, wants to stay out of prison so he can give free eye exams and eyeglasses to the poor. In court papers filed Monday, Black submitted an 11-page business plan for the optometry clinic and said it could be running within days. He has been an optometrist for more than 40 years, often seeing patients when not in ...


  • It takes vision to find best price for eyeglasses (Lansing State Journal)
    NEW YORK - Mass-produced eyeglasses cost roughly $2 a pair to make, according to a 2005 MIT report, but Americans regularly shell out hundreds of dollars for a single fancy pair. What are we paying for exactly?


  • Daniel Radcliffe will strip off his Harry Potter eyeglasses and robes for his London stage debut next year. (WIBW-TV Topeka)
    The 17-year-old actor, who plays the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Hollywood adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels, will star as a troubled stable boy in Peter Shaffer's "Equus."


  • Black offers free eye exams in lieu of prison (The News & Observer)
    Former House Speaker Jim Black, having pleaded guilty to charges of public corruption, wants to stay out of prison so he can give free eye exams and eyeglasses to the poor.


  • Heaven on Wheels, and in Leg Warmers (New York Times)
    This new, improved ?Xanadu? is an outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980.


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