enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: fixing broken metal eyeglass frames for men

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rimless eyeglasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimless_eyeglasses

    Rimless glasses were a popular style of eyeglasses from the 1880s until into the 1960s, and re-emerged in popularity in the latter part of the 20th century and early 21st century. Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs wore round rimless eyeglasses for 18 years, from 1993 until his death in 2011. Despite these shifts, they are unique among ...

  3. Horn-rimmed glasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn-rimmed_glasses

    Many glasses manufactured during this period tended to imitate popular metal eyeglass styles, with significantly thinner frames and vertically smaller lenses. The popularization of 1960s styles by the television show Mad Men led to horn-rimmed frames produced in the 2010s being more traditional, with large lenses and thick, heavy frames.

  4. Kintsugi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

    Kintsugi. Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), [ 1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

  5. Glasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasses

    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. Glasses are typically used for vision correction, such as with ...

  6. Windsor glasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_glasses

    Windsor glasses (also known as tea glasses or round granny glasses[ 1]) are a type of eyeglasses characterised by circular or nearly circular eyerims and a thin metal frame. The style emerged in the 19th century and first became popular in the 1880s. Traditionally the bridge of Windsor glasses is a "saddle" (a simple, arched piece of metal ...

  7. Bates method - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method

    The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight.Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles effected changes in focus and that "mental strain" caused abnormal action of these muscles; hence he believed that relieving such "strain" would cure defective vision.

  8. Pinhole glasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_glasses

    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 ...

  9. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglasses

    Hunter S. Thompson was known for wearing yellow-tinted driving glasses. When driving a vehicle, particularly at high speed, dazzling glare caused by a low Sun, or by lights reflecting off snow, puddles, other vehicles, or even the front of the vehicle, can be lethal. Sunglasses can protect against glare when driving.

  1. Ads

    related to: fixing broken metal eyeglass frames for men