buyer’s guide

Alicia Hoglund and Susan P. Tarrant

ADLENS Hemisphere Eyewear

SPECTACLE LENSES

SEEING BLUE IN SYNC

Eye Solutions, Inc., has developed its Blu-Tech Lenses to help protect against the onset and progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) while maintaining natural color vision. The lenses are designed to filter damaging high-energy blue wavelength light, which has been identified as a culprit in AMD advancement. The blue wavelength light comes not only from the sun, but also from LED screens and energy-efficient light bulbs. The indoor and outdoor Blu-Tech lenses are available as plano lenses and as Rx-able lenses in a variety of base curves, powers, adds, and coatings. INFO: blutechlens.com EYE SOLUTIONS Blu-Tech Lenses The Hoya Free-Form Company’s Sync single-vision lenses help wearers battle the eyestrain that handheld digital devices can cause. Sync lenses generate overlapped, comfortable retinal images to guarantee relaxed binocular vision in all directions and consistent clear image perception and depth of vision. They are not progressive lenses, but rather have vertical aspheric singlevision design elements applied across the width of the lenses to provide functional accommodation support for intermediate and near vision. The functional support shifts gradually from distance refraction correction toward values up to +0.53 D (Sync 5) or +0.88 D (Sync 8). INFO: thehoyafreeformcompany.com THE HOYA FREE-FORM COMPANY Sync single vision lenses

Changing Focus

Adlens opens a new category of vision correction with its complete range of variable focus prescription eyewear. Available as both clear ophthalmic and sunwear, its Hemisphere and John Lennon eyewear lines offer fluid-injection technology to provide instant vision correction for myopia, hyperopia, and presbyopia as well immediate dispensing. The refractive power of each polycarbonate lens is set by adjusting the external reservoirs of optically clear silicon fluid. Once the prescription in each eye is set, the dispenser can remove the reservoirs and seal the lens. Hemisphere covers spherical powers from -4.50D to +3.50D. The technology was developed to provide vision correction in less developed countries, and Adlens will donate a pair of glasses to someone in the developing world for every pair purchased through its Buy One Give One program.

INFO: 888-459-9793, adlens.com

SHAMIR Insight DLC Trivex Transitions

NEW IN SV

Shamir Insight has released the newest material available for its Single Vision product line: DLC Trivex Transitions. Available in gray and brown, the lens provides light weight and strength along with UV protection and all the benefits of a Transitions lens. The material is compatible with Crizal, Hoya, iCoat, and Zeiss AR treatments, and with all Freeform designs, including Autograph II. The 1.53 index lenses have a power range from -14.00 to +7.50, with base curves from 0.5 to 9.

INFO: shamirlens.com

DIGITAL XPRESSION

VSP Optics Group has unveiled a new, advanced digital progressive lens: Unity PLxpression with Cascade Technology. The ‘N’ category progressive combines form and function, offering optimized viewing zones through variable curve technology, advance position-of-wear customization, and flatter and thinner lenses. VSP practices can receive up to $25 in UNITY Savings on qualifying claims.

INFO: vspopticsgroup.com/unity

VSP Optics Group Unity PLxpression

NEW YOUNGER RELEASES

Younger Optics has released Transitions Vantage single vision lenses in Trilogy, Younger’s award-winning lightweight lens material. The thin, light lenses are made with Trivex, provide excellent optics and impact and chemical resistance, and feature variable polarization and darkening in bright sunlight.

Also available from Younger is Transitions XTRActive finished single vision lenses in polycarbonate. Available in an Rx range of -6.00 to +4.00, cylinder out to -2.00, labs have the ability to fill more prescriptions with finished lenses, rather than processing semi-finished XTRActive lenses.

INFO: youngeroptics.com

YOUNGER OPTICS Transitions Vantage

PRACTICAL SYSTEMS Sure-Lock Hydrophobic Gripping Discs