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- rye425, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I actually like the proto. It seems to scream out "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME, IM READING!". No more being bothered while you read cause no one wants to talk to you when you look like that. I digg it!
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7that prototype looks kinda chunky. cool tech though. plus you get to look like robocop :)
- bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Go Go Gadget Glasses.
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5That alone is probably why we'll never be able to buy them.
- dubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Last glasses you buy until you sit/step on them.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was so thinking that, even before I read your comment. Digg++ Long live Johnny 5...
"Megabytes of input!!" - extremeg24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why would I wanna look like Number 5 from Short Circuit?
- prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Don't you worry..the marketing department has made it so the the "no scratch coating" option will cost $500 and need to be reapplied twice a year.
- Reliant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah and can anyone hear your eye doctor saying: "These only cost $2000.00!!"
Good Digg though. I wear glasses and that would be a welcome in my life!! - Aflat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Another advantage is that they can be the last pair of glasses you ever have to buy. Since they can change the focus, if your prescription changes, you just have to change the focus on the glasses, and not get new glasses.
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty cool technology,
...but I don't see how it decreases eye strain. It doesn't detect where the person is looking and determine focal length based on object distance. It has two settings and the user toggles between the two by the flick of a switch, which in my book would cause the person to become even MORE dizzy.
Neither does this increase the speed at which the person's eye's lens can physically adjust between long distance and short distance. (A main cause of eye strain)
Still, in the very least it's a cool technology that may help some people. (Digg points just for that)
(Do you have to change your name to 'Locutus' when wearing them, though?) - airship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is seriously cool stuff. I have had plastic lens implants in both eyes because of cataracts, and while my eyesight is vastly improved, the stiff plastic implants don't flex and focus like your natural lenses, so I have to wear progressive bifocals to focus back and forth for distance and reading. To have glasses that do this for me would be great.
- sandhawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not Arizona State University, it's the University of Arizona. The original press release (with more technical details) on this can be found here:
http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/6/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=12483
It is cool, though. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pretty cool, even in the chunky prototype phase.... hopefully though i will not be needing bifocals anytime soon, 20 years from now the tech should be much better...
- burnt1ce85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's great. if they can decrease the size i would personally buy one.
- sfields, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the idea, but they have to find a way to make the glasses look "normal" enough and not that expensive. I know the R&D cost must be waaay up there, but hopefully this will translate to (somewhat) consumer-friendly prices anyway (i.e. production cost is not that high).
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This tech will be especialy useful for those of us who have trouble focusing their eyes (I have a lazy eye). Mine's only minor, but the difficult part is going from focusing on something close to something far. It takes a lot of effort to get my eyes to cooperate, especially when I have my glasses on. I'm really looking forward to this becoming common.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmmm... whatever happened to contact lenses?
- jobalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heard about these on NPR and they were saying that a version was in the works that does autofocusing to determine what distance you are looking at. That sounds sweet until you think about driving. That dirty windshield of yours could trigger them to go in to reading mode on the expressway.
- lukes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i can just imagine discretely taking a pair of /those/ out on the first day of school ..
- kingygk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want a pair of these. But man it must suck to run out of batteries on these :)
- kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And a disadvantage to their ability to change prescriptions as your eye changes: they're valuable to steal. Before nobody wants your glasses cause they're your prescription. Now, everybody can use the same glasses...
- RandomWhim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rye425, the only comment to make me laugh out loud all day. You rock.
- btitus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool, all it needs is an opti-grab.
- azmanman, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0Do you want to sale reading glasses.
http://wholesale-reading-glasses.blogspot.com/ - bobtricities, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great. The battery goes dead and you're, what, blind?
- jabelar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How much for the high-def version!
Seriously though, once your lenses become active there are probably lots of very cool applications, including interaction with head's up displays, polarization on demand, holographic or 3-D effects, ... - xhadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So where does this fit on the timeline to true X-Ray Glasses????
- gutterboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3One step away from zoom able eye glasses. That is what I want.
- thripper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"But as any of more than 40 million people in America who need bifocals know, they're a pain."
So ... it's a pain for 40 mil people but it was OK for say 100 people.
Moneymaker - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1
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