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The end of glasses?
Eyeglasses work by refocusing light onto the retina, the light-sensitive tissue in the back of the eye responsible for transforming photons of light into signals the brain can turn into images. Unfortunately, the bending of the light isn’t perfect, and the eye ends up elongating and compensating even more to make up for the difference, exacerbating the Myopia. “The experimental lenses use different focal powers within a single lens: either alternating focal powers across the lens, or confined to the outer edge,” reports Phys.org.
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Yay. Now I can wear contacts so I never have to wear contacts!
WeekendAtBernankes on October 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM
I like my glasses, thank you. Been wearing them since 1984. Laser surgery would make my night blindness even worse.
Glasses work. Just as they have for centuries.
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Exactly.
Like I said, glasses have worked for over 300 years. Laser surgery has been around for less than 30. Contacts for barely more, and they are glasses that are higher maintenance.
I tried contacts back in the 2000′s… I have astigmatism. Which means I have to wear contacts that stay in the same alignment. They don’t. Which made walking across the room a vomit motion sickness feat. I like my glasses, trust me.
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:42 PM
The end of glasses will spell the end of men and women looking sexily over their glasses at each other, signaling that something wonderfully dirty will take place. We cannot afford to lose this so glasses will always have a place in society.
thebrokenrattle on October 7, 2012 at 8:47 PM
Cure Presbyopia and make a mint guys. I didn’t have to wear glasses until about four years ago and I hate them. I hate not being able to see close but I hate wearing glasses. I hate wearing them under my flight helmet. I hate, hate wearing glasses.
I’d pay big bucks.
hawkdriver on October 7, 2012 at 8:48 PM
The sexiest and highest quality women wear glasses.
Like Sarah
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:49 PM
Gotta be able to see the kids you’re yelling at to get off of your lawn.
Capitalist Hog on October 7, 2012 at 8:50 PM
I am 40 years old. Contacts (as I detailed above) don’t work for me. I don’t consider myself THAT old
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:54 PM
I wanted to use contact lenses but I couldn’t handle practically poking myself in the eye… I’ll get LASIK sometime.
ninjapirate on October 7, 2012 at 8:55 PM
Anyone born in 1972 (me) or earlier who wear glasses care to check in?
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 8:58 PM
No more glasses? That’s kind of sad, really.
Of course I don’t need glasses though, so I sound like one of those libtards from (treeless) Manhattan who throw themselves in front of bulldozers whenever they hear a tree out in the middle of Nowhere, North Dakota is in danger of being chopped down.
Glenn Jericho on October 7, 2012 at 9:05 PM
Yes. Born in 1959, been wearing glasses since 1974 (nearsightedness). My glasses are a boon for seeing far off, but I can see better close up without them. I can easily take my glasses off when needed, or look over the top of them, so I have no intention of giving them up.
backwoods conservative on October 7, 2012 at 9:12 PM
When I was younger, I used to look for women with glasses. The more nearsighted the better.
The theory was if she’s darn near blind without them, she won’t be taking them off unless she’s about to get in bed. Or get really really close to me. It never failed so I guess it’s more than a theory.
platypus on October 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM
I might add that the Transitions lenses mean I always have sunglasses when I need them.
backwoods conservative on October 7, 2012 at 9:14 PM
I just find them to be less hassle than contacts. I would settle for 20-20 vision, but barring that miracle, I will stick with my glasses. I have had several people in my family try contacts and they all, sooner or later went back to glasses.
sharrukin on October 7, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Yup. Wearing them since college. In the wrong year, it might have cost me my flying slot. I hate having to wear them in general, but I can’t stand the idea of sticking a contact into my eye, and I still don’t like the idea of someone using a scalpel – steel or coherent light – to cut my eye up.
I don’t know about exacerbating myopia. When I first got glasses, I actually got a temporary pair. The doc told me to wear them for a couple of weeks, then come back and get re-tested. I wore them for about two months, and when I went back my eyesight had almost returned to 20/20 (sans glasses). So, they actually improved my vision – mostly by relieving the strain.
GWB on October 7, 2012 at 9:23 PM
I’ve always found women who wear glasses to be of superior intelligence. And usually more sensible than those who don’t.
wildcat72 on October 7, 2012 at 9:23 PM
Born in 64, I got no choice, had new lens put in. I had cataracts about eight years ago. There I was, a forty year old guy, sitting in the waiting room full of sevetysomthing year olds in line for cataract surgery. Reading glasses for life now.
lowandslow on October 7, 2012 at 9:23 PM
I wear contacts and have for over 35 years. I don’t own a pair of glasses, and strangely, my near vision uncorrected is great–surprising for someone in her middle fifties. My contacts do okay with near vision, but if I really want to do detail work, I take them off.
I can’t see past the end of my nose, but near vision rocks.
Bob's Kid on October 7, 2012 at 9:24 PM
I’m 42 and have 20/15 vision. But my wife wears glasses for her farsightedness.
fossten on October 7, 2012 at 9:37 PM
I can’t see the end of my nose. I could tell you what kind of aircraft is at 3 oclock and 5 miles away, but I can’t even read a checklist anymore without my reading glasses.
Makes me feel like grampa.
hawkdriver on October 7, 2012 at 9:46 PM
Born in 1955.
One of the worst days of my life was when the optometrist said the word, “bifocals.” Not because I didn’t want to wear them. It just hit me that I was indeed growing older.
We’ll always have glasses. Simply because there are always going to be some people who can’t wear contacts. I’m legally blind in one eye, but my sight in the other is corrected to 20/20. Most optometrists won’t prescribe contacts (rightly so) because if there were a problem with them and my good eye is damaged somehow I’d be royally screwed. Plus my glasses provide some protection from foreign objects.
Mitoch55 on October 7, 2012 at 9:47 PM
I was born in ’55 and I had eagle eyes until I hit 40. My vision started deteriorating and I fought it until I was 43 when I finally broke down and got bifocals.
I work in commercial construction and on many jobs I have to wear safety glasses at all times so I tried contacts and I still wear them but only in the daytime, taking them out at night and putting my glasses on. My prescription is for mid to far distance so I have to use reading glasses with the contacts in.
I have cheater lenses in my dive mask so I can read my gauges when I’m diving.
Glasses and contacts each have their own problems and discomforts. When one is uncomfortable or inconvenient I just switch to the other.
I hate having to use corrective lenses but there’s nothing I can do about it.
single stack on October 7, 2012 at 10:14 PM
There are worse things.
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Bob's Kid on October 7, 2012 at 10:23 PM
Better not be. I have a strong attraction to women in glasses.
topdawg on October 7, 2012 at 10:45 PM
I’ve been wearing glasses for over half a century.
First things on; last things off.
Hate’ em. If I ever get finacially secure–LASIK.
davidk on October 7, 2012 at 11:25 PM
Born 1968, have worn glasses for distance since Grade 10. Like wearing a good suit, I find that I feel more confident when I wear them — but that confidence may actually come from being able to see. In the last year I have been prescribed bifocals, but I am resisting them: I’m not that effin’ old. That, I can just just remove the glasses for close work. The only vision things that are really starting to piss in my cornflakes are “floaters”. If there was laser treatment for that, I’d be in the waiting room right now.
Lickmuffin on October 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM
1961.
This and therefore this:
Odysseus on October 8, 2012 at 6:30 AM
Born long before that. Wore glasses from 2nd grade on. Yeah, Four Eyes. That was me.
But about twenty I found I only wore them at work. (Didn’t like to see the dust and dirt at home?). When I stopped working I stopped wearing them period. My eyes started improving over a period of several years. (Though that’s not saying much, really). Until a couple years ago. Now they’re pretty bad again. Age I guess. And I need an appointment which I’ve been avoiding.
I can’t even get eyedrops in my eyes. No way I could deal with contacts.
MaggiePoo on October 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM
I can’t read this article.
I can’t find my glasses.
Anyone seen my glasses?
(And don’t say, “where did you leave them last?”)
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on October 8, 2012 at 7:19 AM
Um, they’re on top of your head.
Odysseus on October 8, 2012 at 7:54 AM
Born in ’39 and was blessed with good vision until my late 40′s Then a slow progression towards worsening vision. Glasses always worked for me except on the golf course. Contacts there made a huge difference in my ability to strike the ball.
Now if science can find a way to reverse macular degeneration I’d be a happy man.
oldernwiser on October 8, 2012 at 8:37 AM