An eyewear breakthrough by Finnish company IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the 'head-tilt' struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the human eye.

Exciting news for those enough who are 40+ and spend too much time in front of a computer screen: a Finnish startup called IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the ‘head-tilt’ struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the human eye using a combination of infrared eye tracking and liquid crystal-transparent indium tin oxide glasses

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.

    As someone with clunky bifocals, the weight of the frame (even the chunky ones) is absolutely unnoticeable compared to the weight of the lenses. You don’t get thin wireframes for the lower weight, you get it because they’re less noticeable visually.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Good to know. But unless you want to be giving Rivers Cuomo the autofocus ones probably aren’t your style.

      Also, could there be a backlash against thick frames in the future because they might be hiding electronics