Is Essilor's Eyecode Ready?

The optical world has been moving toward individualized/personalized/customized  eyewear for the past few years.  With the advent of the Izon lenses and Z-view aberrometer and, Zeiss' iScription lenses  and now Essilor brings it's new pony to the party with eyecode.

Izon and Zeiss both use an aberrometer to correct higher order aberrations.  The Essilor Eyecode claims to calculate the rotational axis of the eye and use this data to manufacture a lens that corrects the lens Rx throughout the entire lens surface by compensating for the change in vertex distance.  Although this is novel idea, is it too early?  are we too close to marrying both of these technologies to chose one above the other?

In July of 2009, Essilor applied for a manufacturing patent on how to manufacture an ophthalmic lens using photoactive material.  This looks like a Essilor already has the technology to develop a lens that corrects higher order aberrations.  Only time will tell.

As ECPs we all want the best acuity for our patients and it's obvious that we can achieve this by combining both of these techniques for collecting data to manufacture a better lens for our patients.






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Wall Street: Cool glasses never sleep

Last night I went to the movies to watch Wall Street: Money never sleeps.  In my opinion the movie fell sort of my expectations.  This movies' predecessor was not as depressing.  The sad reality is that WS:Mns does a good job depicting what happened almost two years ago when the run was made on Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase bought them up pennies on the dollar.  It's as if the scene in the back room inside the Federal Reserve Bank of NY was actual video footage of what happened that Sunday night.


On a lighter note, the sunglasses worn by Michael Douglas were nothing short of sweet.  I originally thought these were oliver peoples Racine but when I researched it in sunglassesid.com I found that these are Barton Perreira Halston. I have noticed the change to crystal/ transparent eyewear in the past few months.  This look will definitely work for someone with a fair complexion that doesn't feel comfortable wearing the dark "horn rimmed" plastic frames that have become so popular.

To achieve the same look on a budget you can try: RayBan 2132 in Honey, part of the new wayfarer collection. The darker temples do not take too much from the look.  Light amber tinted lenses with Anti-Reflective coating would polish the look off.  If you're interested in taking a look at these contact me. 

Some info for 3D movie goers.

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