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Rochester Optical to Provide Rx Frames and Lenses for Vuzix's M100 Smart Glasses
Rochester Optical recently announced that it is collaborating with
Vuzix Corporation (OTCQB:VUZI), to provide prescription frames and lenses for Vuzix
M100 Smart Glasses wearers. Rochester Optical's development of the patent pending
Smart GOLD (Glass Optimized Lens Designs) lenses will allow for M100 Smart Glasses wearers to mount prescription fashion frames to the smart glasses device. The Smart GOLD lens design for Vuzix customers will be digitally optimized specifically for the location of the Heads-Up-Display (HUD) on the M100.
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JINS Meme Eyewear Uses Electro Oculogy Sensing Technology for Visualizing Exhaustion and Drowsiness
Seeing an opportunity in what it calls the "sensing eyewear market," JIN, a leading Japanese optical retailer and eyeglass maker, has developed eyewear that can monitor attention levels and provide other biometric feedback to the wearer.
JIN said its self-sensing specs, known as JINS Meme, are equipped with a proprietary, three-point Electro Oculogy Sensor. (JIN noted that human eyes normally have a positive electric charge on the cornea side and negative charge on the retina side; the difference in these potential is called Electro Oculogy (EOG). The technology used to detect this difference when the eye moves is known as Electro Oculogy Sensing Technology).
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Tobii Launches Gaze Viewer for Vision Assessments
Tobii Assistive Technology, a division of the Tobii group, is launching
Tobii Gaze Viewer, a compact assessment tool intended to give professionals and caretakers quick, simple, on-the-fly eye-tracking evaluations for vision assessments, cognition, reminiscence testing and even reading comprehension.
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New Technology Could Lead to Night Vision Contact Lenses
An ultrathin light detector that can sense wavelengths our eyes can't see has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens, its University of Michigan developers say.
Heat or thermal vision, one variety of night vision, illuminates the heat being emitted by animals, humans, cars, electronic devices and more.
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Andrew Karp, Group Editor, Lenses and Technology
Send us news about new optical technologies, provide us with subjects and/or questions for a future Eye² Q&A or let us know what topics you'd like to see covered. Contact Eye²'s Editor Andrew Karp at akarp@jobson.com.
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