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Making Eyeglasses That Let Wearers Change Focus on the Fly
The glasses have a tiny adjustable slider on the bridge of the frame that makes it possible to focus alternately on the page of a book, a computer screen or a mountain range in the distance.
Read full article: on NYT site.
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A Bridge for the Bifocal Set
For people who just can't adjust to wearing regular bifocals or progressive lenses, help is here. Adjustable-focus glasses have a nosepiece slider that let the user adjust the focus for distance, intermediate or near vision.
Read full article: on WSJ site.
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TruFocals wins Popular Science 2009 Best of What's New Award
Popular Science Magazine has named TruFocals, the market’s first adjustable focus eye glasses, a winner of its coveted 2009 Best of What’s New Award in the Health category. Chosen from thousands of entrants, TruFocals' revolutionary lens unit system provides a new alternative for conventional multifocal wearers who want a clear field of view at any distance.
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KGO-TV San Francisco: Adjustable glasses let you focus on the fly
Carolyn Johnson
"A new type of adjustable glasses is promising to give patients the power to focus at almost any distance. But unlike bifocals or progressive lenses, you do not move your eyes. You adjust the lens instead..."
View video: on KGO-TV site
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TierneyLab: New See-All Eyeglasses: A Consumer's Report
John Markoff
"I have now been using the Trufocals for a week, and I'm a convert, although I have to confess I'm not using them as my only pair of glasses -- yet. The problem they do solve brilliantly is where bifocals, computer glasses and progressives have all failed for me: going back and forth between computer screen, laptop computer display and books, magazines and newspapers."
Read full blog posting: on NYT site.
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Rainy Day SOHO: TruFocals FirstLook
"Reading glasses of different prescriptions started multiplying around the office like bunnies....Actually, there is another solution..."
Read full blog post: on RainyDay SOHO site
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The Autopilot: TruFocals...far or near, everything is clear
Candace Morrow
"If you can't see, you can't fly. Unfortunately, visual impairment commonly intensifies for people who've hit the 40-year-old mark....[TruFocals are] perfect. I can focus in as close as I want to view en route charts..."
Full article available in the April 2010 Southwest issue of The Autopilot
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TruFocals offer new option for presbyopic eyes
Read summary article: on medGadget site.
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TruFocals: New glasses for the fidgety
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
CNet Health Tech section
"Twenty years in the making, physicist and inventor Stephen Kurtin's adjustable focus eyeglasses -- with the cute, Web 2.0-ey name TruFocals-- are finally here."
Read full article: on CNet.
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Popular Science Gift Guide
Fox News, NY
Lauren Aaronson, senior associate editor of Popular Science, gives Brett Larson the run down of some of 2009's coolest gadgets and products.
See video.
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Focusing on the Future
"Kurt the CyberGuy" reports on KTLA
"Fifteen years of research from one of America's top inventors has finally led to a major break-through in optometry. Get ready to throw out your old pair of reading glasses as Kurt the CyberGuy tests the new product being hailed as the fountain of youth for your eyes."
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Hip lenses for new outlook on life
Rob Muir reports
"A California inventor is marketing what he calls a breakthrough design in glasses for those in the over-40 crowd who are forced to wear bi-focals or progressive lenses."
View video.
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Caltech grad may have invented eyeglasses of the future
Nathan McIntire
"After obtaining more than 30 patents for multiple inventions, Caltech graduate Dr. Stephen Kurtin years ago decided to turn his visionary inclinations towards his own vision, or lack thereof."
Read full article: on the Pasadena Star-News site.
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Occhiali, buone notizie per i presbiti
"Basta bifocali o progressive. Il brevetto di un fisico Usa dopo 20 anni di ricerche."
("Good news for presbyopes. Enough with bifocals and progressives. The invention of a doctor is the result of 20 years of research.")
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Finally, the birth of adjustable focus glasses.
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