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emPower!™, the first electronic
focusing prescription eyewear! |
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You are truly seeing history in the making! What you are
looking at is actual video footage of images seen
through a leading progressive lens (left image) as
compared to PixelOptics' emPower!' lens (right image).
PixelOptics' emPower! allows for the near reading area
of the lens to be switched on and off. You can see an
actual demonstration by toggling the
ON and
OFF buttons
on the right. Note the letters increasing in size within
the reading zone of empower! Without the increase of
distortion (the curving of the horizontal lines) |
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| Actual Video footage
- Not a simulation. |
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This is a side-by-side comparison of a premium
progressive lens design and PixelOptics' emPower!™. Both
lenses are of equal power. This is actual video footage
- not an animation. The video footage was filmed through
each lens with a rotating sequence of letters and lines
behind it. Note the following as you toggle the
ON
and OFF
buttons above. |
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Focus as fast as you can blink your eye
Provide an invisible electronic near focus zone when desired
Offer three modes of operation: automatic, manual on, manual
off
Provide wider fields of view compared to a progressive
addition lens
Allow for less distortion than a progressive addition
lens
Vision correction for all ranges of sight: far, near, and in
between
Allow you to turn near reading power off when desired
Rechargeable hidden battery |
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What does this mean to your vision?
It means
that you can have the ability to switch the reading
portion of your lenses on and off whenever you want. Or,
switch it to "automatic" mode and forget about it. You
will have uninterrupted vision, just like your
progressive lenses but with wider distance vision, wider
intermediate vision, wider reading vision and half of
the peripheral "swim" that most people experience while
wearing a progressive lens |
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If you wear progressive
lens glasses or bifocals, you know you have to look
right at whatever you're looking at to see whatever
you're looking at in focus. With progressive lenses,
everything on your periphery or beneath your straight
ahead gaze is fuzzy if you merely shift your eyes rather
than your whole head.
Not any more. Pixel Optics
has teamed with Panasonic Healthcare to develop emPower!™,
the first electronic focusing prescription eyewear for
those with presbyopia.
emPower!
lenses are covered with a thin transparent LCD layer.
Enabled by microchips, micromachine accelerometers and
nano-rechargeable batteries, emPower! lenses
electronically change their molecular structure
depending on head movement - essentially, the lenses
"know" what you're looking at and activate the near
focus prescription only when needed. Otherwise, the
entire lens stays at full distance viewing prescription
- and you get your old eye-shifting peripheral vision
back.
If you tilt your head down to read, the
accelerometer detects the motion, the microchip sends an
electronic signal to the LCD layer and alters how the
liquid crystals refract light, changing the prescription
of the lenses, well, faster than a blink of your eye, at
least according to Pixel Optics. You can switch the
glasses to manual, automatic or off - their natural,
progressive prescriptions.
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Since you don't need two separate
lenses like in bifocals or large enough areas to
accommodate two prescriptions as in progressive lenses,
emPower! glasses can be stylishly narrow, as you can see
from the otherwise non-descriptive photo above.
An emPower! battery charge will last approximately 30 hours
and comes accessorized with a nightstand induction
recharger. |
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