It was a curious thing, this old journal that I now held in front of me. It came to my by way of the passing of my great uncle, George Angle, a researcher in optical technologies at a small university just south of Boston. Now, Professor Angle was a widely-known authority on photochromic lens technology, and his sudden demise had caused quite a stir in the community. Even … [Read more...]
Daily Soft Contact Lenses 2016
I have seen the soft contact lens market accelerate in exciting ways over the past 20 years. Companies are trying to stay ahead of what patients want and for the most part, they have been doing an excellent job. Soft contact lenses that have out-performed their usefulness have been discontinued. Companies are changing their names such as Ciba Vision, now Alcon, and Vistakon, … [Read more...]
Endless Night: The Trouble with ‘Big T’
IT was a warm and sunny afternoon. I sat behind my desk, taking a long draw on a freshly-filled electronic cigarette. There wasn't much going on today – hardly a customer all week, come to think of it. I was a loner, an independent. I played by my own rules, and sometimes that kept clients away. I looked up as the door chime jingled – and there she was... Out of all the … [Read more...]
Birefringence: Rainbow Rising
In the heat and the rain – that's where you typically expect to see rainbows. A nice spring day, a light shower, and a pot of gold hidden off in the distance. Not so much when it comes to your lenses. Anyone that's dealt with lenses long enough has experienced this before – an oil-slick like effect, or rainbow, in the lenses. As this is one of the few places in life where you … [Read more...]
Independence® Coatings
When you offer a product in your store - especially AR coatings - you want to be sure of the product you’re selling. You don’t want to find out later that what you sold wasn’t any good, since you’re the one that it’s going to come back and bite. When it comes to a quality coating, I like to look at the warranties. Usually the longer the warranty, the safer you are, … [Read more...]
Roxanne… You don’t have to worry about that blue light.
Those days are over - you can easily protect your sight. This song is becoming more and more familiar these days. Protection from the ever-present blue light is everywhere, and there’s more products now than ever that offer some form of protection from it. But as more and more products come out on the market, how can we tell them apart? Products range from lenses that use a … [Read more...]
If you only knew the power of glass lenses
When 700 years old you reach… Look as good you will not. For the majority of their history, eyeglasses have been made of just that - glass. These Are the Lenses You Are Looking For Glass has, believe it or not, changed over the past few decades. There’s been plenty of advancements in making it thinner and stronger than ever before. The best example of this is probably sitting … [Read more...]
Visual Improvement – Does everybody know what time it is?
I’m not sure about you, but day-to-day I tend to carry around a multi-tool. It’s incredibly useful at getting the job done most of the time. Need to cut something? Bam, here’s a knife. Need a screwdriver? Bam, here it is. It’s pretty awesome. Need a hammer? Well….I can smack it with the side of… nevermind. Maybe it’s not the solution to every problem, but the majority of the … [Read more...]
Eagle™ Lenses
Eagle™ lenses are dedicated to giving you the best, most technologically advanced lenses available. This is why Eagle™ represents not simply ‘a lens’, but rather a whole portfolio of digital free-form lens designs. Having a good product is about giving you choice. We all know that there’s no such thing as a silver bullet when it comes to lenses. One lens isn’t going to solve … [Read more...]
Understanding Digital Lenses
Does anyone have trouble understanding all the new terms used to describe progressive lenses? I am referring to terms like; free-form, direct-to-surface, high definition, digitally computed, digital processing, digitally enhanced, and so on. I will try to blow away the clouds of confusion to give you a better understanding of what going digital is all about. When you read … [Read more...]