Category: News & Announcements
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Samsung Patents Smart Contact Lens With Built-in Camera
You can forget about all those top of the range smart glasses. Yes, Google may have already jumped on the tech bandwagon with their Google Glass product, but contact lenses are set to undergo a gizmo renaissance thanks to Samsung. The South Korean giant has filed a unique patent that features a built-in camera. This…
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Shoppers Beware: Facebook Ray-Ban Sunglasses Scam!
Ray-Ban sunglasses are some of the most iconic sunglasses in the world. They’ve been worn in some of modern culture’s most important Hollywood movies including Top Gun, Reservoir Dogs, Terminator 2, Risky Business, Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro and Cobra with Sylvester Stallone as well as the more recent films, James Bond’s Casino Royale and the…
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Lasers Stopped in Their Tracks Thanks to Innovative Glasses
Following our previous piece about the danger of laser pens, it seems they’re still causing creating news. As we are all fully aware, laser pens can cause severe damage to your eyes and are unfortunately being utilised at airports, especially when pilots are due to take off. These pocket sized products really do pack a…
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Microsoft HoloLens: The True Future of Augmented Reality?
Tech companies are certainly doing some clever stuff with glasses at the moment – to the extent that an emerging product category, that of “smart glasses”, has been tipped to see sales of over 12 million by 2020. We’ve been particularly intrigued by one of the early projects in this area, Google Glass – but…
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Half of Global Population will Require Specs by 2050
When it comes to that old favourite, Marmite it tends to split individuals. Some either love it or hate it. However, are you a glasses half full or empty kinda person? Never mind about seeing the world through rose tinted spectacles, check this out for size. It seems that in less than four decades, half the…
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The Age of the Bionic Eye
We’ve all seen sci-fi films which feature a bionic eye one way or another, but who knew it would actually be developed and is now giving blind people the gift of sight once again! Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital has been undergoing trials for a new pioneering implant – an electronic, ‘bionic’ implant, which has been…
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Man Sees Colour Thanks To Super Specs
You wont believe your eyes about what we’re about to tell you. If ever there was a Christmas tale to cheer you up then here it is dear reader. For the very first time, someone has been shown their true colours. A 23 year old man, once colourblind is no longer due to a snazzy…
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British Airways Pilot in Shocking Laser Eye Attack
We all know too well the damage that laser pens can wreak on our eyes. But for one BA co-pilot, things became even more serious when a military strength laser was shone directly into the cockpit. As a result of this laser attack, the individual received major damage to his peepers including burnt retinas. Playing with…
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Beetles Are Able to Grow Special Bifocal Eyes!
Go on, I dare you to say Beetlejuice three times – but before you cower behind the sofa, you might want to peel back your eyes. It turns out that the humble diving beetle has the ability to grow bifocals all by themselves. The complexity of this appears to be mind boggling in its own…
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It’s The Dogs: US Firm Launches Protective Sunglasses For Pooches!
Cats playing the piano on the web is just so last year. How about funky sunglasses for dogs? Now we’re talking! We all love our pets and many of us can’t get enough of pampering our beloved pooches. But for one company in the US, they have now taken their passion for dogs that one…