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We find the process of how prescription glasses are made fascinating and we think you may too after you read this article. The process of how prescription glasses are made is quite complex, though at Glasses Direct the prices are still lower than the price on the high street as you can see in our comparison table.

The more complex glasses prescriptions go through the following stages, although simpler prescriptions may skip some of the earlier stages:

Stage 1 – The laboratory select the lenses from a number of basic variants. These are pre-formed plastic blocks.

Stage 2 – The lenses are ‘blocked’ and semi-finished so they can be held in the generator – the machine that grinds the lens to shape.

Stage 3 – Your individual lenses are created from a template.

Stage 4 – They’re ‘generated’ – a process which grinds away much of the material of the lens, so that it is the right prescription and shape.

Stage 5 – Next they are polished so they become optically blemish-free.

Stage 6 – The lenses are then edged and marked up – which means their matched with their frame, and verified as being the right prescription.
Stage 7 – Lenses are cut to the right shape.
Stage 8 – Hand-edging removes any sharp edges and ensures a perfect fit with your glasses frame.
Stage 9 – Tints and coatings are added by dipping the lenses in dye or coating chemicals that bond to the lens surface
Stage 10 – The glasses are checked against your prescription for accuracy.

Further checking at Glasses Direct

When the glasses return from the laboratory, they go through a further set of stringent checks by our own quality assurance team who verify they’re the right frames with the correct prescription. We think this final stage is so important that we introduce you to the person who checked your glasses by including a card with your order showing the checks they completed. Once he or she is happy, your glasses are placed in their case with a cleaning cloth, plus any other items in your order, and dispatched via next day delivery. We use a courier so that we can trace the glasses right to your door.

Custom made prescription glasses from just £15!

From time to time we hear interesting tips and tricks to help improve eye health. This time we chose to mention a unique method using a small software application EyeDefender. Free application EyeDefender regularly reminds you to take breaks and walks you through eye exercises to help you avoid headaches and blurred vision of the dreaded computer vision syndrome. EyeDefender is a simple program, allowing you to set breaks whenever you need them. Once installed, EyeDefender sits in the system tray and displays the time left until the next break. When the time for a break comes, the program does one of the following:

* Displays a predefined picture;
* Runs the visual training to relax the eyes;
* Runs a default screensaver;
* Displays a popup timed reminder in the system tray.

EyeDefender is free for private, non-commercial use, Windows only.

Via Lifehacker.com

We recently read an optical report, here at Glasses towers, which finished with the idea that companies who’s staff have uniforms may wish to extend their uniform to glasses.

This provoked an unexpected reaction with me - I found the idea incredibly difficult to stomach. I’d be happy to have to put on any item of clothing a company wanted me to wear - trousers, shirt hat, tie, jacket, socks, even pants if they were M&Ss finest. I’m totally happy to sacrifice individuality for a job, if that’s the nature of the job.

In fact sometimes is quite nice not having to think about what to wear.

However, when it comes to glasses I suddenly found the idea extremely difficult to accept.

It reminded me again what a unique relationship we have with our glasses.

• We wear them every day, yet often only change them every couple of years
• We begrudge spending money on them, yet they sit on our face, right in front of our eyes
• We’ll happily spend lots of money on shoes, lots of pairs of shoes, yet not many people notice them whereas glasses can change the entire way you’re perceived
• No-one else can wear them, they’re virtually unique to us
• Many people would rather not be wearing them at all
• Not many people would wear a different pair on consecutive days, yet we’d never think that about other items of clothing
• We never think “oooh, he’s wearing those glasses again, hasn’t he got any others?”
• They make people look intelligent, yet no other item of clothing does.

Going back to the idea of uniform glasses, the closest feeling we could come up with was if a company asked us to all have the same hairstyle.

Having said all that - if any companies are entertaining the idea, we’d love to chat…

Customeyes is a pioneering system we have developed so that you can see how you will look like wearing these glasses. More and more of our customers are now trying glasses online. Try Customeyes yourself today.

All of our frames can be “tried on” online by following these simple steps:

1. Take a picture of your face using a digital camera or a mobile phone, or scan an existing photo
2. Save that picture onto your computer and find it by pressing the “Browse…” button below
3. Press the “Go!” button
4. On the next page feel free to resize (using the blue “knobs” on the right-hand side next to the picture) and position (by dragging the picture/frame with your mouse) the glasses of your choice.

Let us know how you get along!

Looking to lose weight but finding it tricky? Looking for the equivalent of a magic weightloss pill that requires no effort?

Why not try some blue glasses? Research has shown that food appears more bland and less appetizing when viewed through a blue filter

You can get a similar look from GlassesDirect by trying a pair of ‘cowboy’ glasses with a blue tint – total cost £25. (if you’re going to wear them outside, not just at the dinner table, you should probably add a UV400 filter for another £10)

Cowboy ‘aviator’ style glasses on our site

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As a glasses obssessive, and a geek, nothing could be much better for me than these super techno glasses.

They can recognise objects, rewind to the moment in time that you saw them, and help you find lost items.

I need some.

Now.

via times online