When glasses combine with electronic technology

In the era of powerful electronic technology boom today, many products have stripped off its simple features and replaced the brilliant "technology shirt", with a multitude of new useful functions. Glasses are one of those stories.

1. Glasses adjust themselves according to the needs of emPowers

Bifocal glasses usually have two lenses, located above and below the glasses, which allow users to zoom out or narrow their view by using a high-pitched glass adjustment arm. But things will get simpler with the emPowers technology glass - a battery-operated electronic glass that can adjust the distance according to the owner.

When you want to read the word, emPowers glasses, equipped with microchips and a battery on the rim of the frame, will detect movement and activate the battery to generate an electric current that causes the liquid crystals in the glass to change the structure of the lenses. become thicker or thinner to be compatible with the owner's use. £ 800 emPowers.

2. Hearing aid glasses

The type of glass manufactured by Varibel (Netherlands) contains a series of 4 small microphones on each side of the glasses, helping to select the sound in the direction that the owner is looking at. The sound produced by the microphones will be transmitted into the owner's ear canal, so that the hearing impaired will reduce dependence on hearing aids.

The inventors believe that the type of hearing aid will make speeches easier to understand and allow the deaf person to distinguish the speech of the speaker from other noises in the crowded room. This glass costs £ 1,700.

3. Glasses create joy

Light therapy is used to treat many diseases such as emotional disorders and depression, in particular, white light is thought to promote the formation of chemicals that cause excitement in the brain. Luminette, fun glass is designed with 8 small bulbs to provide white light to the eyes of users.

Conducting trials for 32 users of Luminette, researchers at Liege University (Belgium) concluded that the depressive symptoms in the trial participants had decreased while the excitement state increased. Luminette costs £ 200.

4. Glass stained with veins

This special type of glass is very useful in the medical field because it helps the veins under the skin appear clearer and easier to see. They have 3 colors: purple, green and pink.

Purple glass will "turn" the veins under the skin into purple and help determine the amount of oxygen in the blood, blue glasses help measure the amount of blood under the skin, while pink glasses help detect subtle changes in the skin. emotional. Researchers believe that the skin of the angry person will be redder and the anxious person will be greener. In these cases, emotional identification is often used in security work and may also be applications in autism treatment research.

5. Reduce the risk of illness when working at night

Working at night often has many health risks such as cancer, heart attack, depression and weight gain. Research has demonstrated a link between this condition and low levels of melatonin, a hormone that plays an important role in regulating the body's circadian clock. The production of melatonin in the body naturally increases in the dark, but this process in night shift workers is destroyed because they are always exposed to light.

To eliminate this risk, researchers at the University of Toronto (Canada) have developed a glass that can block certain light wavelengths that are involved in inhibiting the body's production of melatonin.

6. Reduce fatigue after long flights

Invented by scientists at Flinder University (Australia), the Re-Timer can be used to reduce fatigue in people who experience long flights thanks to the green light designed on the two sides of glasses used in the eyes of users.

Professor Leon Lack, a psychologist participating in the invention of the Re-Timer glass, said that extensive research shows that green light is one of the most effective wavelengths in improving or delaying the circadian rhythm of muscles. can. Glass Re-Timer costs 175 pounds.

7. Companion with the visually impaired

A pair of glasses designed with two tiny cameras attached to the lenses of the lenses, has become an effective assistant for the visually impaired in the tests.

The glass, studied by scientists at Oxford University, works on the principle of using cameras to record obstacles moving around the wearer and conveying the image to the lens, whichever is closer. the brighter the light. Expected, the £ 600 glass will be available in the market for about two years.

8. Respect dizziness and dizziness

Dizziness, dizziness occurs when balance sensors in the body (both in the inner ear and the brain) are disordered. Scientists believe that our peripheral vision - the area around the central vision - is the determinant of the body's feeling with its surroundings, so creating a fixed point at The peripheral vision area will help solve the body's balance problems.

Israeli researchers have successfully developed a type of glass containing focus points on lenses to help treat dizziness, dizziness and being tested at Meir Medical Center.

9. Helping to detect autism

Researchers in the United States are using eye tracking lenses to assess eye interactions in children - an important factor that helps diagnose many diseases in children, especially autism.

This new type of glass contains two small cameras to monitor eye movements and researchers believe that the new technology could be helpful in helping doctors identify autism early, often diagnosed fairly. late, making children do not have many opportunities to improve their communication and learning abilities.