Electronic Progressive Glasses
Electronic Progressive Glasses
Optometrist discusses the latest in bifocal technology: electric eyeglasses.
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" Excellent and that is optometry practice doctor Daniel and helps patients who had troubles seen clearly. Pretty impatient to. Q where is the latest -- regrettable that. Who knows all too well the drawbacks. You always knew you have progressives ought to look at a lower half of -- things are slightly -- to look at that. Stairs -- things at a distance. A contempt for the way on the ground. So when he heard about new electronic grass is coming onto the market he was curious to try -- himself. Unlike regular glasses these electronic net that have tiny batteries and microchips in them. The -- are filled with liquid crystals that can change the magnification. Intricately. A liquid crystal in these land -- our of that which when turned on re rack or -- light so we can see to our pulled me out of here. So when you want to read -- wants on this side of the -- to activate the liquid crystals at certain reading his. Cap and deterred at all. Or you -- it's automatic. And the glasses the Jack. Where the -- far and near vision they got they killed -- your. Your iPad when you flip out and it goes from portrait to landscape and you see that picture like that. That's called an excel around her. This happens to. To have the world small that Celeron that are built into the micro processing unit in charged -- night to charge. The battery lasts for about two full days. Our clients that he was skeptical at first about these glasses. But the doubts vanished when he tried I literally put it on this morning for the first time. And I moved my hand look at the floor on right now it's still clear you don't get the blurry images on the floor impressed that are innovative. And the wonderful."
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