PixelOptics Liquid Crystal Glasses Make Bifocals Obsolete [Video]

Bifocal and progressive lenses suck. They’re old tech. Like, Benjamin Franklin old. PixelOptics take a more 21st century approach- liquid crystal lenses that vary their focus in a fraction of a second, for differing focuses while you need them.

All that’s required to shift the glasses-which might be fitted into any design of frame-is a tap to their touch-sensitive side. an easy electrical impulse changes the liquid crystal, instantly-enabling or disabling a shapeshifting reading zone inside the lenses. Or, for an I-can’t-believe-I’m-this-impressed-by-glasses moment, slide your finger along the side of the specs to active a tiny gyroscope that’ll adjust the main focus as you move your head.

It’s a subtle shift that’s hard to comprehend without, you know, wearing the glasses. But as you can find from my try and test the incredible lenses (inspect the shifting pattern on the gent’s tie!), it works. PixelOptics hopes to bring the glasses to market by April, but really, provided that they’re out by the time I hit 40, I’m content. And I’m hoping the value could have come down from $1,200 [ PixelOptics ]

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