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- mickgauntlet reviewed 10 days ago
- Great, I want a pair.
Anyone know where i can get some?
 1hitwonder rated 12 days agoscience - Wow that's a really ingenious solution
- Geiste75 rated 4 weeks agoscience
- brilliant.
- Lolaone rated 6 weeks agohealth, sight, science, creativity, design
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I can't say enough about this wonderful invention,and great man!British inventor Josh Silver, a former professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a game-changer of a product design with his water-lensed glasses.
Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device's tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles.
The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription.
Thanks:http://geoff.stumbleupon.com
- tewo rated 6 weeks agoscience
- simple idea, yet brilliant
- civver reviewed 2 months ago
- Intriguing. @Ballistix: impractical? Just because it can't serve on segment of the population? Hey, let's ditch solar power technology because it only works in sunshine. It's so impractical...And yeah, why not modify the technology so it fills in at the ends of the lens?
- Solution9 rated 3 months agoscience
- Wow, that's amazing!
- mesenja rated 3 months agoscience
- a stroke of pure brilliance
- AnnoyingMoose rated 3 months agoscience
- @Ballistix: I don't see how. The membrane is probably made to collapse inward given room to do so, creating a concave lens. The real problem with this is that it renders the entire eyeglass industry obsolete, or at least to people unwilling to spend hundreds of dollars extra for contact lenses or lighter, more stylish eyeglasses. The two last things the economy needs right now are fewer jobs and less incentive for people to spend. Ah, capitalism...
- dallawalla rated 3 months agoscience
- Amazing, lenses filled with water so you adjust your own prescription
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