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Product: EnChroma Cx3 Sun SP lens
Top Line: EnChroma is expanding its line of glasses for color blindness with the addition of announced the EnChroma Cx3 Sun SP lens, a new lens specially engineered for people with strong protan-type color vision deficiency (CVD). The Cx3 Sun SP lens delivers a broader range of clear, vibrant color optimized to assist the visual needs of individuals with strong protanomaly.
Close Up: The Cx3 Sun SP lens is now available online at EnChroma.com and will also be available through Authorized EnChroma Eye Care Professionals in mid-November. All styles of EnChroma glasses for adults and kids can be made with this new addition to the lens lineup that includes the best-selling Cx3 Sun Outdoor lens and the Cx1 Indoor lens, each engineered for different categories of lighting conditions.
“Building on more than ten years of research and innovation, we’re excited to bring vibrant color to strong protans, a group particularly challenged by color blindness because they typically see an even more limited range of color compared to the average color vision deficient individual,” said Andrew Schmeder, CEO and Co-founder of EnChroma. “To offer a solution specifically for this underserved group is a testament to our ability to develop technology for color blindness that enables access to color for all.”
Strong protans struggle to see red, and colors containing red, and are often more acutely affected by their condition. People with strong protanomaly represent up to 10 percent of the estimated 300 million people worldwide with blindness.
“The EnChroma SP lens for strong protans is a game-changer because it provides the color blind with more individualized solutions,” said master optician Barry Santini of Long Island Opticians (www.liopticians.com) in Seaford, N.Y. “I appreciate that my color blind patients can now try EnChroma lenses for all types of red-green color blindness including mild, moderate and strong forms.”
Vital Stats: Color blindness affects one in 12 men (8 percent), and one in 200 women (.5 percent)—roughly 300 million worldwide, and an estimated 13 million in the U.S. EnChroma lenses enable red-green color blind people to see a broader range of clear, vibrant color. Special optical filters in the lenses remove small slices of light from the visible spectrum to establish a more accurate ratio of light entering the eye. This enables the color blind to experience a more normal spectral response and participate more fully in life’s colorful moments.
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