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Add a Style Shade and Transform your Silhouette Frame into Sunglasses!

Flexible, dynamic, quick and simple. Use this must-have accessory to transform a Silhouette frame into a beautiful sun frame.

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New Frames Inspired By Le Festival De Cannes

New from Freakshow, inspired from Le Festival De Cannes, 2015 is the release of the Bullitt model dedicated to the character of Frank Bullitt.

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CCLR Update Spotlights Sports Vision in Practice

A European study of 157 Olympic-level athletes in a variety of sports is reviewed, giving clues as to how clinicians might help customize their approach to optimize on-field performance.

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Compact, fast, practical and elegant: ALM 500 Auto Lensmeter

The ALM Auto Lensmeter accurately measures all types of lenses and frames. A tilting colour screen provides for operators, whatever their position.

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Briot Alta Pulse – At the Heart of Your Business

The Alta Pulse is built for reliability and flexibility, and is specially designed for mid-sized practices.

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Waterloo Student Wins $100,000 Grant to Develop Smart Contact Lenses

The Thiel Foundation announced last week that its class of 2015 Thiel Fellows includes University of Waterloo student Harry Gandhi, co-founder and CEO of Medella Health, a Canadian start-up which plans to develop glucose-monitoring “smart” contact lenses to aid in diabetes management.

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Google Patents Biometric Contact Lens

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office, Google has been awarded a patent on several designs and implementations of contact lenses capable of scanning the wearer’s iris and using it as a biometric “fingerprint”.

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Transitions Optical Expands Dragon Partnership

Transitions Optical, Inc. and Dragon have announced an expanded product portfolio, launching EnduroX trail sunglasses with Transitions® adaptive sun lens technology.

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Drug Delivering Contact Lenses Improve with UV-blocking

Researchers at the University of Florida, found that UV-blocking contact lenses protected photosensitive drugs from degrading and showed that contact lenses could be an effective way to deliver photosensitive extended-release drugs.

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New AudiVue Auditory Glasses

Siemens Audiology and Frederic Beausoleil teamed up to create a new and innovative two in one solution, AudiVue, that combines the efficiency of a pair of glasses with the performance of a hearing aid.

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