It's not hard to guess how they'd react to this getting more prominence (the concept isn't new but it's been in the news more recently)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/16/liquid.glasses.self.refraction/index.html Quote - In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don't have access to the eye glasses they need. But a pair of glasses developed by Joshua Silver, a physics professor at the University of Oxford, offers an affordable solution. The glasses can be adjusted to the right strength by the wearer, without the need for them to visit an optometrist. - There's an idea ? :) I personally intensely dislike the B&M aspect of the whole thing, even the eye exams but then I hate being regarded as a potential victim whose pocket is to be picked as soon as I walk in the door. I'm strange that way. I also think all the hoohaa about 'being fitted properly' and 'needing adjustments' and measuring 'exact distances' to monitors etc is ridiculous. I move my glasses around all the time, view screens, books and paper at all kinds of distances (as in normal life!) and think the B&M people are out to scare and intimidate with spurious lines about 'precision' and 'proper fit'. I went through this a few weeks ago with an OD I asked for a prescription for computer glasses at around 30-36" very approximately (I use multiple monitors at all kinds of distances and of course cannot tell a client where to put his screen so my glasses will work (LOL at the prospect)).. She went on and on about how she could only do it for 28" and how she didn't want to do it (!) and it wouldn't work and she would hate for me to waste my money and how I should see a specialist and get a 'proper' prescription (what is an OD for exactly!?). I eventually persuaded her to do it for 28" and of course the glasses made to that prescription are fine for me to about 8" to 6 foot. :). I couldn't get out of her office fast enough after that experience and I don't ever want to go back. And the idea of having 10 pairs of cheaper glasses for the price of one, why the heck not. Plastic IS cheap and by now many of us have seen the youtube videos of how lenses are actually produced. Most adults know what is a reasonable markup for services, overheads etc and the B&M diehards are going to have to deal with daylight being shone on their business model. I'm waiting for a pair of glasses from Coastal right now. I hope somebody from optiboard reads this :) :) On Sep 15, 9:22 pm, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > OptiBoard is a forum where most of the ECPs gather and discuss. I come > across this forum and found discussions about the online optical > stores. Most of them still strong oppose this new form of business. > They mention Coastal and Zenni. Here are the links: > > http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37086 > > http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37066 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
