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Maui Jim introduces lens for screen users
Maui Jim has released a lens designed to reduce eye strain for habitual users of digital screens, who are “constantly focusing and refocusing while shifting between various near objects.” The MauiPassport Boost comes in two flavors, both for single-vision wearers: the +0.50D Boost Zone, for mild to moderate eye fatigue, ...
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Five brands to use Kering’s Blue & Beyond lenses
Kering Eyewear’s Blue & Beyond initiative, launched in May 2021, has expanded from three brands, Gucci, Saint Laurent and Montblanc, to five with the addition of Chloé and dunhill. Blue & Beyond combines blue-light-filtering with photochromism, to protect the wearer at once from the high-frequency light of screens and from ...
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ArticleJINS tests violet light for myopia management project
JINS, the Tokyo-based optical retail group, is about to launch the second stage of its clinical research on the suppression of myopia progression, in partnership with Tsubota Laboratory, a startup from Keio University, one of the top universities in the country. The project takes its roots in 2011 when JINS ...
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Christopher Cloos launches collection with ex-Victoria Secret model
According to Vision Monday, Christopher Cloos has a selected a former Victoria’s Secret model, Elsa Hosk, to be its first female global ambassador and to front its first eyewear line for women. The Cloos x Elsa collection has an old-Hollywood aesthetic, and its frames are biodegradable. The brand’s other ambassador, ...
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U.S. insurer offering discounts on blue-light filters
Whereas eyewear brands are producing lenses to block blue light for the receptors, our eyes, at least one major medical insurer has begun incentivizing its policyholders to invest in filters to block blue light at the source, the screens of our digital devices. UnitedHealthcare in the U.S. is offering a ...
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OWP celebrates 75th anniversary with limited edition
OWP (Optische Werke Passau), founded on Jan. 13, 1947, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. This month it is launching 249, an anniversary frame that revives an acetate model designed in 1981. The edition is limited symbolically to 1,947 pieces. OWP owns the Metropolitan Eyewear, Mexx, Flair and Cazal brands. It ...
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Bollé Safety introduces a blue light-blocking eyewear range
Bollé Safety, the protective-eyewear specialist, is releasing a product line, called ProBlu, to block blue light from devices with LED screens. Long-term exposure to light of this frequency is said to cause eye strain, if not retinal damage, and interfere with sleep. The line consists of 19 models of glasses ...
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Fielmann to supply frames for Vuzix smart glasses
Fielmann Group has struck a deal with Vuzix Corporation, a supplier of smart glasses and other augmented reality (AR) products, and TeamViewer, which provides AR productivity tools and serves Vuzix as a value-added reseller (VAR). Fielmann will be providing frames for Vuzix’s M400 and M4000 model smart glasses, used notably ...
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Etnia is having a corporate makeover for the new year
Etnia Barcelona is charging into the new year with new investments and an expanded portfolio of brands. Founded in 2001 by David Pellicer, Etnia is perhaps the fastest-growing independent eyewear brand of the past decade. The company says it has rounded out 2021 with overall business growth of 16 percent ...
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Safilo’s Smith brand introduces custom, 3D-printed goggles
Safilo Group, the Italian eyewear company, has begun 3D-printing products through its American brand of sports glasses, Smith, with what it calls Imprint 3D Technology. One result is the Smith I/O MAG Imprint 3D goggle, which it claims to be the “first custom goggle built to the individual features of ...
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ArticleAfter Balmain, Akoni adds Valentino to portfolio
Valentino, the Italian fashion house, and Luxottica have announced the termination of their global eyewear licensing agreement in June 2022, after a five-year collaboration that has been described as successful by both partners. The Rome-based brand announced on the same day that it had signed a new licensing partnership with ...
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Julbo, Vuarnet to launch Paris 2024 collections
Julbo has announced that it would launch next year a collection of sunglasses under the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics license, in both its optical and sport distributions networks. The collection will consist of a Paris 2024 range and another one carrying the colors of the French team. The company ...
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CooperVision reveals new MiSight research data
CooperVision has disclosed new clinical trial data for its MiSight 1 day myopia contact lens, showing no rebound in children myopia one year after cessation of treatment. After six years of clinical trial using MiSight 1 day, study participants were transitioned to single vision lens in order to measure whether ...
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Walmart and Sam’s Club Elton John collection
Walmart and a subsidiary, the warehouse-store chain Sam’s Club, are launching a line of eyewear designed in collaboration with the singer-songwriter Elton John. The model names – Rocketman, A-List and Prodigy, for example – also come from John and reflect his life and career. Walmart Inc. will be donating at ...
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ArticleCharmant Europe displays Japanese heritage and craft with new brand
Visitors at the recent Silmo eyewear trade fair in Paris were able to take a look for the first time at Charmant’s new house brand, Minamoto, just launched by the European subsidiary of the Japanese eyewear maker. Satoshi Otsuki, president of Charmant Europe, told us that Minamoto, which means “origin” ...
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Allergan gets FDA approval for presbyopia eye drop
Allergan has announced the approval that its VUITY eye-drop presbyopia solution had just received the approval of the U.S. Foods & Drugs Administration (FDA). Phase 3 clinical studies have showed that VUITY, based on a formulation of pilocarpine and delivered by the company’s proprietary technology pHast, improved near and intermediate ...
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Ray-Ban enters the NFT market
EssilorLuxottica is entering the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with its Ray-Ban brand in collaboration with Extraweg, a German artist renown for its 3D Motion Designs. NFTs, which are assets certifying the authenticity and uniqueness of digital products, have been gaining popularity in the contemporary art sector in the last ...
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ArticleMICROOLED partners with urban mobility start-up on smart eyewear
Cosmo Connected, a French start-up company founded in 2015, has announced the launch of Cosmo Vision, its connected glasses designed to replace the use of smartphone for bicycle and motorbike users during their rides. The company, which is led by Romain Afflelou, develops safety solutions for urban mobility such as ...
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Kubota gets ISO certification for myopia management device
Kubota Vision, a subsidiary of Kubota Pharmaceutical, has announced that it has received the Quality Management System - ISO 13485:2016 certification, an international safety and quality standard, for the design and development of ophthalmic medical devices. The company said it was in the final development stages of its Kubota Glass. ...
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Horizons launches VR system for tailored progressive lenses
Horizons Optical, the supplier of lens designs, coatings and services, has launched Mimesys, a new technology for the personalization of progressive lenses, at the recent Silmo trade fair in Paris. Based on VR measurements, the system registers and interprets the gaze dynamics of the patients. The information is collected through ...
