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2. Adjustable-focus eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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   Adjustable focus eyeglasses are eyeglasses with an adjustable focal length. They compensate for refractive errors (such as presbyopia) by providing variable focusing, allowing users to adjust them for desired distance or prescription, or both. Current bifocals and progressive lenses are static, in that the user has to change their eye position ...

3. Unbreakable glass - Wikipedia

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   According to Petronius (c. 27 AD – c. 66 AD) in his work Satyricon, an inventor brought a drinking bowl to the Roman emperor Tiberius made of vitrum flexile - translated as either flexible or unbreakable glass - which did not shatter but merely dented. Tiberius asked if anyone else was aware of the invention.

4. Presbyopia - Wikipedia

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   Presbyopia is a typical part of the aging process. [4] It occurs due to age-related changes in the lens (decreased elasticity and increased hardness) and ciliary muscle (decreased strength and ability to move the lens), causing the eye to focus right behind rather than on the retina when looking at close objects. [4]

5. Bifocals - Wikipedia

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   Bifocals. A bifocal lens with areas of differing magnification. Bifocals with separate lenses. In this case, the Swedish ethnologist Jan-Öjvind Swahn [sv]. Bifocals are eyeglasses with two distinct optical powers. Bifocals are commonly prescribed to people with presbyopia who also require a correction for myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism.

6. Glasses - Wikipedia

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   Ophthalmology, optometry. [edit on Wikidata] Glasses, also known as eyeglasses and spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears. Man with glasses.

7. Pinhole glasses - Wikipedia

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   Pinhole glasses, also known as stenopeic glasses, are eyeglasses with a series of pinhole-sized perforations filling an opaque sheet of plastic in place of each lens. Similar to the workings of a pinhole camera, each perforation allows only a very narrow beam of light to enter the eye which reduces the size of the circle of confusion on the ...