PixelOptics emPower! – World’s first Electronic Focusing Eyeglasses

PixelOptics, an eyewear company has just announced that their award winning emPower! eyeglasses, world’s first electronic focusing eyeglasses – no longer will wearers be limited to the fixed focusing capabilities of their regular spectacles.

Now, no more switching between different two pairs of glasses for different purposes i.e. one for reading, and one for the TV that’s further away, or if you have to take off your glasses and put them back on again all the time, emPower! is for you.

These specially designed spectacles contain a special LCD-like layer that can be turned on and off to aid with short distance focusing. Switch them on to read a book in front of you and turn them off to make them regular long sighted glasses again for you to see in the distance.

While the wearer is able to manually activate the change of focus by touching the arm of the emPower! glasses, thanks to an accelerometer embedded in the arm, with a swipe they can also set the glasses to change focus automatically when they look down to read.

The only problem with these glasses is the need to charge yet another device, since it runs on battery, But with an expected battery life of 2-3 days, you won’t need to charge these glasses every day.

The PixelOptics emPower! isn’t available yet, but it will be launched in mid-March this year at the Vision Expo East in New York City.

Visit the official website for more details.

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