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Encouraging results for Sightglass Vision’s myopia glasses
Interim data from the first 24 months of a CYPRESS clinical trial suggest that glasses with SightGlass Vision’s Diffusion Optics Technology reduce both axial length and cycloplegic SER progression in six- and seven-year-old children. A paper on the trial – titled “Two Year Effectiveness of a Novel Myopia Management Spectacle ...
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Kubota Glass hits the U.S. market in New York
Manhattan Vision Associates (MVA) of New York will be the first eyecare shop to prescribe Kubota Vision’s myopia-management glasses in the U.S. As we have reported, the U.S. subsidiary of Kabuta Pharmaceutical Holdings registered its device with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month. Registration with Taiwan’s Ministry ...
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New eco-friendly eyewear brand from Switzerland
Veteran action sports designer Tony McWilliam is the driving force behind Attika, a new eco-friendly sports eyewear manufacturer that uses only biopolymers and recycled materials instead of virgin plastic and offers a repair service and used product (end-of-life) collection. Based in Verbier, Switzerland, Attika says its management team includes seasoned ...
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Younger Optics launches NuPolar 1.74
Younger Optics is launching its NuPolar polarized lens for high index 1.74 lenses in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. The new lens is made from Mitsui’s MR-174 material, offered in four base curves and covers the -13.00 D to +9.00 D Rx range. According to David Rips, CEO of ...
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Kubota Glass gets FDA registration
Kubota Vision, the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese-based Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings, has announced that it has completed the registration with the Food and Drug Administration of its myopia management glasses. Called Kubota Glass, the device is based on the company’s proprietary technology, which consists in the projection of myopically-defocused virtual images ...
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News briefsCapsule collection with video game creator for Jean-François Rey
French eyewear designer Jean-Frannçois Rey and Hideo Kojima have partnered for a new capsule collection inspired by the futuristic universe of the Japanese video game creator, known for its Metal Gear Solid series and the Death Stranding video game. It is the second time that both designers collaborate on eyewear ...
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ArticleMyopia management research updates presented at ARVO
Three recent studies by the three main players that have developed myopia management eyeglass lenses were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference earlier this month. Hoya Vision Care has announced results from a six-year study of its MiYoSmart lens, which is based on the ...
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Anon Optics releases sunglass collection
The goggle brand Anon Optics released a collection of sunglasses on May 2. Made in small batches by craftsmen from Japan’s Fukui region, the glasses have Perceive polarized, high-contrast lenses, with water- and oil-repellant treatments and glare reduction. The frames are made of hypoallergenic beta-titanium and cellulose acetate, with stainless-steel ...
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Kenmark’s new collection to use Eastman materials
Kenmark has launched the Spring Paradigm collection, with a 1970s aesthetic and frames and lenses made of Eastman’s Acetate Renew and Tritan Renew, respectively. It is the brand’s first collection to have received ISCC Plus certification in the U.S. Eastman Renew, which is being adopted by a growing number of ...
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Marchon renews with Nike, signs with Shinola
Marchon Eyewear has signed two licensing deals. First, as Vision Monday reports, the VSP Vision-owned manufacturer and distributor has renewed its multi-year global deal with Nike to design, develop, produce and distribute ophthalmic eyewear and sunglasses under the Nike Vision brand. The original deal dates to 1999, and Marchon has ...
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Multiópticas enters the audiology sector
Look Vision reports that Multiópticas has launched a brand of hearing aids, called Multisound, that will be exclusive to Spanish company’s audiology chain, Centros Auditivos Multiópticas. As CEO Carlos Crespo explained: “The acoustic contamination to which we are subject every day will in the future make audiology one of the ...
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Mitsui launches plant-derived 1.60 index lens material
Mitsui Chemicals is launching MR-160DG, a new plant-derived high index lens material that will complement its Do Green series. The new material has received the Biomass Mark certification of the Japan Organics Recycling Association, making it the first biomass-certified optical lens material with a refractive index of 1.60, the company ...
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Satisloh introduces lamination system for small labs
Satisloh says that its new method of film lamination can provide in-house coating at one-third the investment and ten times the speed of traditional hard & AR coating, with all equipment contained within five square meters of space and less water and energy consumed. The system, called Film Lamination Technology, ...
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News briefsMaterialise and Odette 3D print eco-friendly eyewear
The Belgian eyewear brand Odette Lunettes is releasing a collection in partnership with Materialise, a 3D-printing company, also headquartered in Belgium. Former professional cyclist Tom Boonen also collaborated to the project. Source: Materialise For this collection, Materialise has begun to use a raw material called Polyamide ...
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Sunglasses by CFDA members to benefit LGBT center in L.A.
To celebrate Pride Month, in June, three Los Angeles members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) are collaborating on a limited edition of sunglasses, part of whose revenues will go towards the non-profit Los Angeles LGBT Center, especially its services for the elderly. Barton Perreira is contributing ...
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Luxexcel partners with a reflective waveguide tech company
Luxexcel, the pioneering company specializing in the 3D-printing of prescription lenses, has announced a new partnership with Lumus, an Israel-based optics company producing AR transparent displays. Both partners have co-developed a prototype of a prescription lens that embeds a reflective waveguide and a projector and delivers high-quality images as the ...
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Ray-Ban Stories released in parts of Europe
Ray-Ban and Meta, the former Facebook, launched Ray-Ban Stories in Spain, in Austria, in Belgium and online on March 17. France will be next, on April 14. New frame and lens colors and software features are due in the coming weeks, and the country count should soon thereafter reach ten. ...
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Julbo to produce Olympic sunglasses
Julbo will be producing two sunglass collections under license from the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Paris 2024 line, with gold lenses, consists of 12 models subdivided under the names Fury, Renegade and Renegade M, Meta, and Cruiser and Fury S. The Equipe de France line, with Spectron ...
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Marchon and Calvin Klein celebrate 30 years with a capsule
Marchon Eyewear and Calvin Klein are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their licensing deal with a capsule collection and dedicated marketing campaign. Consisting of five eyeglass and four sunglass models, the capsule will pay homage to the original collection’s spare and modern aesthetic. All models will be unisex, made of ...
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Millmead partners with designer Yair Neuman
Jai Kudo Lenses, one of Millmead Optical Group’s brands, has embarked on a partnership with Yair Neuman, a Dutch eyewear designer in London whom we profiled last year. Neuman holds the patent on a material called Delerex, made entirely from discarded demo lenses fused together in a series of press ...
