For those who struggle to focus on objects in the distance and close up, it can mean a frustrating future of swapping glasses or wearing multifocal lenses. But a new technology promises to deliver ...

For the last month, I have been testing out Lensbaby's new fisheye and soft-focus optics, two glass cores which are drop-in replacements for the optic which comes inside the Lensbaby composer. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Change your lens focus in a swipe with 'digital glasses' "This is actually the first adaptive focus sunglasses. Sunglasses that ...

A significant part of the human population wears glasses (or will need to wear them in the future). Most glasses or bifocals have a maximum of two focuses, one for each lens. This has been the way of ...

The Lensbaby Soft Focus Optic works with Lensbaby’s Creative Effects SLR camera lenses, the Composer, Muse and Control Freak. Images created with the 50mm focal length Soft Focus Optic feature a soft ...

One reason we love cyclocross is it packs fitness, skill and mental strength into an intense 30-60 minute package. Riding all out for an hour is a grueling test of toughness, but staying mentally ...

A layer of transparent LCD creates bifocals you can turn on and off electronically. Move over Ben Franklin, we finally have a replacement for bifocals. Virginia-based Pixel Optics has developed a ...

The complex optics involved with putting a screen an inch away from the eye in VR headsets could make for smartglasses that correct for vision problems. These prototype “autofocals” from Stanford ...

An Israeli startup is making glasses with lenses that can automatically adjust their optical power in real time, which may be a boon to people with age-related trouble focusing on nearby objects and ...

It happens to everyone—you get older and your near-sighted vision fades, an ailment known as presbyopia. Inevitably you end up tilting your head back to peer through the bottom of a pair of multifocal ...

April 15, 2006 The end is nigh for bifocals, and not a moment too soon. Optical scientists at the University of Arizona have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive eyeglass lenses ...