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  1. Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete

    Exciting news for those enough who are 40+ and spend too much time in front of a computer screen: a Finnish startup called IXI is promising to end the era of clunky bifocals and the ‘head-tilt’ struggle of progressive lenses, replacing them with a pair of glasses that focus as naturally as the human eye using a combination of infrared eye tracking and liquid crystal-transparent indium tin oxide glasses

  2. Another #MechanicalKeyboard milestone: I have taken my failing #Microsoft4000 #ErgonomicKeyboard off my desk, leaving just my little DIY 36-key keyboard (and a vertical mouse).

    This was actually prompted by my optician suggesting that as my close vision has deteriorated slightly, I should try glasses with a reading wedge (baby #bifocals) and the monitor lower down so I look at it through the lower part of the lenses. I need to sit straight now!

    (Plan B is dedicated intermediate / #ReadingGlasses)

  3. Packing for Europe AND for my daughter's out-of-state graduation. If anyone sees my bifocals, I'd be grateful!

    (Thankfully, the older prescription is still viable... -ish...)

    #Lost #Distracted #PackingWoes #Bifocals #NeedGlassesToFIndGlasses

    gocomics.com/offthemark/2014/0

  4. Holy crap.

    So, yes I'm old enough to need #progressive (read #bifocals) lenses in my #glasses. Spurred by this weekends *breaking* of my non-tinted pair, I finally went for an eye-exam for the first time in nearly 5 years.

    The frame alone is $350 (thanks #Luxottica Group S.p.A monopoly asshats)** **and the lenses are $275 each.

    And guess how much the benefits cover: $250 every 24 months. Do unspent amounts rollover? nope.

    *Tragically, few #optometrists have layaway or installment plans.*