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2012-06-26

Eyejusters Self-Adjusting Glasses

Adjustable Eyejusters Glasses Let You Alter Your Own Prescription! | Inhabitat

Eyejusters are just like a regular set of glasses except they are self-adjustable, allowing the wearer to alter the focus at the twist of a dial. It is hoped that the glasses will be able to help those in the developing world who don’t have access to the glasses they need.


Eyejusters - Self-adjustable glasses

Each SlideLens in a pair of Eyejusters is adjusted to suit a user’s eyes with the simple turn of a dial, so almost anyone can dispense them. They're durable, easy to clean, have attractive metal frames that fit most faces, and come in a range of colours.


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The SlideLens adjustable lens technology is the product of intense engineering, manufacturing and optical design. We've designed, simulated and measured the lenses with nanometre-scale precision to ensure the best quality optical experience. Try out a demo →


Eyejusters - self-adjustable glasses designed for the developing world

There are two different types of SlideLens - positive power (for long-sightedness) and negative power (for short-sightedness). The range of the positive power lenses is from +4.5 to 0 diopters, while the range of the negative power lenses is from 0 to -5.0 diopters. This covers the majority of common cases. The glasses are priced at US$39.95 for the individual buyer, but the main aim is to distribute these to people in the developing world.

A pair of Eyejusters glasses being worn in Malawi



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2012-02-07

Google's Heads Up Display (HUD) Glasses

Google's HUD glasses have been sighted | Digital Media - CNET News

In December, rumors spread that Google was finishing up a prototype on high-tech glasses known as wearable head-up displays (HUD) that could tap into Google's cloud-based location services and detail users' surroundings. The information would then appear as an augmented reality computer display.

Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers. Their main goal: to sell more smartphones. (In Google’s case, more smartphones sold means more advertising viewed.)

In Google’s secret Google X labs, researchers are working on peripherals that — when attached to your clothing or body — would communicate information back to an Android smartphone.

People familiar with the work in the lab say Google has hired electronic engineers from Nokia Labs, Apple and engineering universities who specialize in tiny wearable computers.

They are in late prototype stages of wearable glasses that look similar to thick-rimmed glasses that “normal people” wear.  However, these provide a display with a heads up computer interface.  There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses.  Additionally, we are not sure of the technology being employed here, but it is likely a transparent LCD or AMOLED display such as the one demonstrated below:

In addition, we have heard that this device is not an “Android peripheral” as the NYT stated.  According to our source, it communicates directly with the Cloud over IP. Although, the “Google Goggles”  could use a phone’s Internet connection, through Wi-Fi or a low power Bluetooth 4.0.
The use-case is augmented reality that would tie into Google’s location services.  A user can walk around with information popping up and into display -Terminator-style- based on preferences, location and Google’s information.

HUD Google Glasses are real and they are coming soon | 9to5Google | Beyond Good and Evil

Our tipster has now seen a prototype and said it looks something like Oakley Thumps (below). These glasses, we heard, have a front-facing camera used to gather information and could aid in augmented reality apps. It will also take pictures. The spied prototype has a flash —perhaps for help at night, or maybe it is just a way to take better photos. The camera is extremely small and likely only a few megapixels.

I/O on the glasses will also include voice input and output, and we are told the CPU/RAM/storage hardware is near the equivalent of a generation-old Android smartphone. As a guess, we would speculate something like 1GHz ARM A8, 256MB RAM and 8GB of storage?  In any case, it will also function as a smartphone.


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2011-01-15

New Metallic Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel



Scientists in the U.S. have created glass that's tougher to breaker than steel.

The damage-tolerant metallic glass was fabricated by combining up to five elements, including the rare metal palladium.

Whereas the other metals add strength, palladium increases the plasticity of the glass and prevents cracks from spreading.
The end of broken glass? Scientists have created glass tougher than steel out of five elements, including the rare metal palladium


New Metallic Glass Stronger and Tougher Than Steel



The resulting material, called DH3, reacts totally differently to normal glass when you subject it to stresses like bending: Where normal glass would quickly form a fracture, which would then run speedily through the material leading to a catastrophic break, the palladium glass forms many "shear bands"--where the glass and metal materials inside it slide over each other, absorbing much of the stress energy, before they fail in the formation of cracks. As a result the glass behaves much more plastically than like a glass, and can bend very significantly before it breaks.

In fact the glass is actually tougher (in the physics sense, meaning its resistance to fracture) and stronger (meaning resistance to flexing or stretching) than any other known material.

Caltech-Led Team Creates Damage-Tolerant Metallic Glass - Caltech Media Relations


Glassy palladium rods, with diameters ranging from 3 to 6 mm.

A transmission electron micrograph shows the amorphous structure of glassy palladium. (The area shown is 10 nm x 10 nm.)

A notched, glassy palladium sample does not shatter after severe bending, despite the generation of multiple cracks.





Typical strengths and elastic limits for various materials. Metallic glasses are unique.


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2010-03-04

Zeiss Cinemizer Plus 3D screen Eyewear

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3D screen eyewear ‘Cinemizer Plus’

Carl Zeiss presented its 3D screen eyewear ‘Cinemizer Plus’ at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany.

With resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, the Cinemizer plus has been optimized for mobile video players and enables up to four hours of movie enjoyment on the road.





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Your favorite movies – anywhere and everywhere


 

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Enjoy the 3D-Cinema and 3D-Gaming* experience with "real" 3D stereoscopic technology.
Watch brand new Hollywood 3D movies and be part within the action scenery.


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How does the visualization of stereoscopic 3D work? The main principle is that a side-by-side video is played on a video devices and the output is connected to cinemizer. The left and right images are separated from the video stream, processed (interpolated) and displayed to the appropriate eyes.







Sources:
  1. 3D screen eyewear ‘Cinemizer Plus’ | 7Gadgets.com
  2. Carl Zeiss cinemizer Plus - Go for Entertainment - Carl Zeiss AG
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  1. Carl Zeiss to present its 3D screen eyewear ‘Cinemizer Plus’ · TechBlogger
  2. Expo: Carl Zeiss plans improvements to Cinemizer video eyewear | Accessories | Macworld
  3. Carl Zeiss anounces new Cinemizer plus Video Eyewear
  4. Zeiss Cinemizer - Praxis-Test - Drei Videobrillen fürs Handy - CHIP Handy Welt
  5. Carl Zeiss Cinemizer Plus video headset for iPhone - SlashGear
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2007-12-17

Emergency Glasses

How to make a quick, emergency pair of glasses



Science Experiment #37

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