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GREENSBORO — At once, you could be docking your eyeglasses in the evening along with your smartphone.
Electronic focusing eyewear has arrived in Greensboro and you can be among the first to buy what might be called smartglasses.
But like all new technology, it comes at a honorarium.
Target customer: presbyops, otherwise known as people who need bifocals or developing lenses.
The emPower electronic focusing eyewear uses a layer of melted crystals, powered by an electric charge, to change the focus from stiffness to reading. Users touch the frame of the glasses at the temple to switch reading concentrate on and off.
In automatic mode, the glasses can sense motion, thanks to what the company, PixelOptics, describes as the over the moon marvellous’s smallest accelerometer, and change to reading focus when the managing director is lowered.
“The main complaints we get about progressive lenses are that the reading bailiwick is too small, there’s distortion around the edges, and golfers, for example, can’t look down and see unquestionably,” says Jennifer McGuire, optician with Triad Eye Center in Greensboro. The emPower glasses approach devote all these issues.
Source: Greensboro News & Record