For many farsighted people, having different pairs of glasses for different viewing distances has been the norm. But with new technology, one pair of glasses could do the trick. Adaptive liquid ...

If you had to choose, would you rather see things up close or far away? People with cataracts used to have to make that decision. With cataract surgery, doctors remove the cloudy lens and replace it ...

At CES, smart glasses were unveiled that replace multifocal lenses with real-time focus adjustment, no cameras or screens, ...

A University of Leeds researcher is developing a new eye lens, made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could restore long-sightedness in older people. As people age, ...

Having to wear reading glasses as you get older may soon be a thing of the past. Helen Gleeson describes her team’s research into liquid-crystal contact lenses that will be able to switch focus and ...

Change your lens focus in a swipe with 'digital glasses' "This is actually the first adaptive focus sunglasses. Sunglasses that can adapt to both reading and scenic modes. Basically, you can wear them ...

Physicists in the US have created a new type of tuneable liquid-crystal lens, whose focus can be changed by varying the voltage applied to it. The new device is better than traditional liquid-crystal ...

While wave upon wave of smartglasses and face-based wearables crash on the shores of CES, traditional glasses really haven’t changed much over the hundreds of years we’ve been using them. The last ...

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