eyeglasses News Archive

07-Jun-2009

 

  • These maps are fun, foldable and fabulous (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
    They're made from microfiber and can also serve as a cloth to clean eyeglasses or a smudge.


  • Increase Global Productivity By Giving Eyeglasses To All In Need (Medical News Today)
    Huge economic gains could be made if eyeglasses were provided to approximately 150 million people in need, according to research published today in the international public health journal, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Researchers estimate that the global productivity loss due to uncorrected visual impairment in people aged 16 to 50 years is $121.4 billion.


  • Increase global productivity by giving eyeglasses to all in need (Thaipr.net)
    Huge economic gains could be made if eyeglasses were provided to approximately 150 million people in need, according to research published today in the international public health journal, the Bulleti


  • Safilo Gains in Milan on Speculation of Sale of Majority Stake (Bloomberg)
    June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Safilo Group SpA , the world?s second- biggest maker of eyeglasses, advanced the most in almost three months in Milan on speculation about the sale of a majority stake in the company.


  • Interactive data eyeglasses could bring the PC to your face, won't fix nearsightedness (Engadget)
    Leave it the mad scientists at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to concoct this one. Rather than just figuring out a way to read back information in one-way fashion on one's glasses (think Sixth Sense , but with eyewear), these folks are diving right in to the real stuff: bidirectional communication. In essence, their goal for the interactive data eyeglasses is to track eye movement in order to allow ...


  • Interactive Data Eyeglasses (PhysOrg)
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The data eyeglasses can read from the engineer's eyes which details he needs to see on the building plans. A CMOS chip with an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes this possible. The eyeglasses are connected to a PDA, display information and respond to commands.


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