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Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete (hothardware.com)
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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

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The part that worries me is what happens when the glasses batteries are empty. Do they get fall back to "long-distance / myopia" mode so that you can still see at at distance and able to drive?

I love tinkering with gadgets, but sometimes the manufacturers of these tech-based version forget to cover the basics before enhancing it with tech.

A good example are smartwatches. They can be filled with sensors, but they need to at least do one thing well, and that is to show time reliably.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Per another commenter (and the article):

When the battery dies, the glasses continue to function as a traditional pair of single-vision specs, ensuring the wearer is never left in the dark or have safety compromised such as when driving or operating machinery.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

At least they covered that 😬