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January 21, 2016April 24, 2018

Created with Love, by GX

Gwen Stefani creates GX, a retro chic collection created for the younger, self-expressive individuals. The frames emulate Gwen Stefani’s flare for fashion while maintaining an affordable way for the spectacle wearers to have multiple pairs. GX006 is a creative masterpiece, a retro designed frame with a pearlized gradient shade of green to brown. GX013 has a bold shape with a pop of colour making it playful, eye catching and a definite statement piece. “This has been a dream come true” states Stefani, and for us four eyed by-spectacled individuals as well.

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January 20, 2016April 24, 2018

ÖGA Pilträ: perfect visual unity

A masterpiece of technical engineering, the latest addition to the ÖGA brand is known as Pilträ which ingeniously combines wood, aluminum and acetate for a distinguished product of unrivalled purity!

The temple, made up of two pieces of Stamina (wood) joined by a fine aluminum strip, has the appearance of a homogeneous material. The softness and natural feel of wood, combined with the hardness and sheen of metal and the finish of acetate is a true feat of technical engineering in the service of design. The double-action stainless steel flex-hinge is fitted with an anti-rocking mechanism to optimise the positioning of the temple.

ÖGA: unique products for men with assertive personalities.

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January 20, 2016April 24, 2018

Tiny 3D Glasses Confirm Mantises Use 3D Vision for Hunting

Researchers from Newcastle University built a 3D cinema for insects, along with an old-school pair of 3D glasses, in order to determine if the praying mantis perceives objects in 3D. Stereopsis has been shown in mammals, amphibians and birds but little was known about how insects perceive 3D.

The glasses were constructed out of one blue and one green lens, because praying mantises see red light poorly, attached to the mantis with beeswax. The mantis was then shown footage of bugs crawling around. 2 dimensional footage of the bugs were ignored but when the bugs were shown in 3D the mantis would strike out at them, confirming that mantises do use 3D vision similar to vertebrates. Initially, researchers tried using polarized lenses similar to modern 3D technology but found that the screen was too close to the subject for the images to be properly separated.

It is hoped that understanding stereopsis in simpler systems such as insects will lead to the development of robust stereo algorithms for use in robotic 3D sensors.

Further information: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep18718

January 20, 2016April 24, 2018

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January 19, 2016April 24, 2018

ZEISS Smart Glasses Look Like Glasses

ZEISS smart glasses feel like a pair of glasses you can wear every day, according to a review from Wired comparing the glasses favourably to Google Glass and Microsoft’s Hololens. By integrating a Fresnel structure within the lens the display can be reflected to the eye, resulting in an unobtrusive and fashionable system that can work with prescription glasses.

“Glasses now are sold by design. It’s an illusion right now to think that somebody goes to an optician and really wants a perfect lens. He just wants a perfect frame that looks good afterward,” says Dr. Kai Jens Ströder, leader of the ZEISS Smart Optics project, to Wired. “You have to bring the lens to the frame, and adapt the lens that it fits in stylish frames, and not the other way around.”

The lenses in the ZEISS smart glasses are 5 grams heavier than standard lenses, and the intention is to refine the design until they are indistinguishable from normal glasses.

Further information: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/zeiss-smart-glasses/