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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 370750" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It never occurred to me to leave my glasses at the glasses place. I have had optometrists and opthalmologists who were awesome and who were awful. As with anything else it largely depends on the individual and what you need. </p><p> </p><p>My boys are incredibly hard on glasses. thank you has been harder than husband and Wiz combined! We have a place called Eyemart and they usually will do 2 pair for about $175, so we do that for the kids. That way if one pair gets scratched, bent or falls apart they can wear the other pair. I keep the previous year's glasses (both pair) just in case. thank you wants to use the same frames this coming year, which might actually work. Most of his problems this year have been caused by screwdrivers. He saw them adjusting and tightening them and keeps wanting to try to do that to his own. I now have about a dozen screws for each of his pairs of glasses - I bought them from the glasses place because thank you was driving me nuts. </p><p> </p><p>Other than keeping a spare pair, I donate old glasses to some club here that sends them to other countries.</p><p> </p><p>Has anyone seen the new liquid filled universal glasses? An inventor came up with lenses that you can make fit any prescription by adjusting the amount of liquid in them. A group of scientists (in Massachusetts, I think) had developed a cell phone app and a little plastic device that gives very accurate measurements for glasses prescriptions. The plastic thingy goes onto the cell phone then the patient looks through the gizmo and lines up markers using the phone controls. The program translates this into an eyeglass prescription. This new technology is supposed to be as accurate or more accurate as a professional eye exam!</p><p> </p><p>These are being developed because most of the world needs glasses. In many countries there are hundreds of thousands of people for each optometrist and glasses can be phenomenally expensive relative to the average income. With this technology it is possible to get eye exams and glasses to areas that currently have no hope for ever getting glasses.</p><p> </p><p>(Simple Attachment for Cell Phone Provides Cheap, Fast Eye Exam: <a href="http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/simple-attachement-for-cell-phones-provides-cheap-fast-eye-exams.html" target="_blank">http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/simple-attachement-for-cell-phones-provides-cheap-fast-eye-exams.html</a>)</p><p> </p><p>(Josh Silver Demos Adjustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses (video): <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses.html</a>)</p><p> </p><p>The glasses may not be the most "fashionable" but I bet a whole lot of people could care less if they get to see clearly. Can you imagine trying to raise a child in a Third World country if you could not see? I cannot even pour a glass of milk or safely walk across a room, much less work any kind of job or keep a child safe with-o my glasses. Many of the factories where our clothing and other consumer goods are made are in these very impoverished countries. A significant number of the people who work in these factories likely do not have glasses but need them. Imagine the accidents and injuries they suffer because even if they could afford glasses the number of optometrists is so low that they likely could not get an exam. I hope that both of these technologies can be implemented on a very large scale in the very near future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 370750, member: 1233"] It never occurred to me to leave my glasses at the glasses place. I have had optometrists and opthalmologists who were awesome and who were awful. As with anything else it largely depends on the individual and what you need. My boys are incredibly hard on glasses. thank you has been harder than husband and Wiz combined! We have a place called Eyemart and they usually will do 2 pair for about $175, so we do that for the kids. That way if one pair gets scratched, bent or falls apart they can wear the other pair. I keep the previous year's glasses (both pair) just in case. thank you wants to use the same frames this coming year, which might actually work. Most of his problems this year have been caused by screwdrivers. He saw them adjusting and tightening them and keeps wanting to try to do that to his own. I now have about a dozen screws for each of his pairs of glasses - I bought them from the glasses place because thank you was driving me nuts. Other than keeping a spare pair, I donate old glasses to some club here that sends them to other countries. Has anyone seen the new liquid filled universal glasses? An inventor came up with lenses that you can make fit any prescription by adjusting the amount of liquid in them. A group of scientists (in Massachusetts, I think) had developed a cell phone app and a little plastic device that gives very accurate measurements for glasses prescriptions. The plastic thingy goes onto the cell phone then the patient looks through the gizmo and lines up markers using the phone controls. The program translates this into an eyeglass prescription. This new technology is supposed to be as accurate or more accurate as a professional eye exam! These are being developed because most of the world needs glasses. In many countries there are hundreds of thousands of people for each optometrist and glasses can be phenomenally expensive relative to the average income. With this technology it is possible to get eye exams and glasses to areas that currently have no hope for ever getting glasses. (Simple Attachment for Cell Phone Provides Cheap, Fast Eye Exam: [URL]http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/simple-attachement-for-cell-phones-provides-cheap-fast-eye-exams.html[/URL]) (Josh Silver Demos Adjustable Liquid-Filled Eyeglasses (video): [URL]http://www.ted.com/talks/josh_silver_demos_adjustable_liquid_filled_eyeglasses.html[/URL]) The glasses may not be the most "fashionable" but I bet a whole lot of people could care less if they get to see clearly. Can you imagine trying to raise a child in a Third World country if you could not see? I cannot even pour a glass of milk or safely walk across a room, much less work any kind of job or keep a child safe with-o my glasses. Many of the factories where our clothing and other consumer goods are made are in these very impoverished countries. A significant number of the people who work in these factories likely do not have glasses but need them. Imagine the accidents and injuries they suffer because even if they could afford glasses the number of optometrists is so low that they likely could not get an exam. I hope that both of these technologies can be implemented on a very large scale in the very near future. [/QUOTE]
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