I would much rather have that in a pair of lightweight glasses than contacts. Put the Zoom button on the glasses arm near the temple, and Go-Go Gadget binoculars
I have worn glasses since kindergarten, I don’t get why people dislike them so much that they rather shove plastic in to their eyes than wear glasses.
Glasses are fantastic, not only do they correct your vision, they also protect your eyes against rain, wind and dust.
Protection aigainst rain? Whenever there’s a light drizzle, I get waterdrops on the inside of my glasses.
It happens, yes, but you don’t really get rain in your eyes.
I got corrective eye surgery cause glasses were an annoyance on everyday life. Can’t see from some peripherals, weight on your nose and ears, annoying when you lay down, cuddle etc. They bump about, and fall off if you’re active (such as parkour and flipping). Also forgetting or relying on them to see was always irritating, they fog up, smudge, etc. Just generally a hassle I did not want to deal with any longer. They also break, are expensive, and potentially need multiple pairs if sensitive to sunlight, have different prescriptions, or need safety glasses.
I’m sure they’re fine for most people but they suuuuuucked in my case.
Yeah, i hate glasses. I would much rather put my semi-permanent contacts in my eyes a couple times a month.
Contacts gives you full field of vision, and they don’t get dirty. If you are lucky you only have to take them off and on for switching once per month and can sleep with them. I am one of those, and can buy the cheapest contacts too.
In other words, always good vision, with full FOV
I switched to contacts when I got a job where I am required to wear safety glasses. Contacts + the normal plastic glasses is just easier to deal with than having to get and replace prescription safety glasses.
I can understand that, it is a special usecase.
I reckon it’s the cleaning.
I’ve never used contacts because the idea of touching my eye squicks me out (even if it’s something meant to go there, just – no.), but having your eyelids do all the cleaning and never having to worry about them getting dirty or scratched while using them is probably something a lot of people appreciate. (obviously you do still have to be careful with them when they’re not in your eye, but they’re much less likely than glasses to get dirty or scratched)
Me, I’m happy just using a microfiber cloth and being careful.
But then they miss out of the amazing feeling of washing your glasses in hot water and dishsoap, and put in on clean and warm glasses radiating heat onto the eyes for a few seconds
But that’s not nearly as cool and it doesn’t make you feel like you’re chroming up
It would be pretty cool to me, and I would prefer not to attach machines to my eyeballs
It looks like an actually useful tech.
I’m SO DOWN FOR THIS GIMME
At first, I thought this was the joke… But then realized it’s because catbox doesn’t load for me, for whatever reason.
I use a VPN that won’t load catbox images for some reason. If I turn it off, catbox starts working again.
Well now I want to know more about it!
The short version is they have developed a soft robot that can contract to increase the focal point (aka “zoom”) on a lens, and they can control it with eye movements. An actual zoom contact is not available yet, and would probably require another decade of testing and prototyping before a consumer-grade model is available at a reasonable price point.
That makes sense.
Thanks.
:goes back to pushing Shadowrun books around:
That would be insanely handy in surgery. 99% of inner ear instruments look identical at first glance, but have different shaped tips that are plenty distinct under the microscope. Setting up for that shit is a pure guessing game if you have bad eyes.
And vascular… loading and keeping track of 150 suture needles that are 1/5 the size of an eyelash… yeah…
acog lenses
This meme is like 10 years old.
