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A Japanese eyewear maker Masunaga Optical employee displays the blinking "Wink Glasses", which are supposed to help prevent dry-eye when the users concentrate on video gaming or on the Internet. The Wink Glasses, powered by button batteries or USB, have a small sensor to watch how often the user blinks and to make the lens fog when the user keeps his eye open for five seconds without blinking.

The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin's designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking.

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New Japanese glasses bring tears to the eyes

The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin's designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking.
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Eh... people need technological help to remember blinking?
 
T.s.e said:
Eh... people need technological help to remember blinking?
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It probably helps some people. I think that it could sell good in America if they where glasses that prevented the user from looking thru his/her neighbors windows:p
 
Id buy it if It would be affordable. Its not that hard to get dry eyes at certain moment and the feeling can be quite irritating.
 
You do know dry eyes from monitors is because you dont have LCD and your emitting radiation. We use to make women at offices wear vests when they were pregnat, to ensure that the radiation didnt harm the baby. If you have the money to purchase these glasses, your actual choice should be to upgrade the monitor. And as for a book, I have never got dry eyes while reading. I think the actuall feature here is that it sense your blinking pattern, it might have some great use in future technology, but dry eyes is the least of our worries.
 
Glasses which make you cry? Only in Japan. :rolleyes:
 
I blink, there for I am.
 
I guess what everyone is trying to say is the consequence for not blinking is dry eye, this item only fogs up, creating a second consequence, what does it resolve?
 
It protects you from light radiation. You know, electro-magnetic waves entering your iris and stimulates your retina, if stimulated for too long, can cause your retina to strain, and may cause nearsightness. (Muscles being pulled back to avoid being stimulated too much by the light.)

Yay! My Warren finally got "Blink".

*blinks*

Ah...! My eyes!
 
>I guess what everyone is trying to say is the consequence for not blinking is dry eye, this item only fogs up, creating a second consequence, what does it resolve?

The glasses detect your blinking. When you stop, the glasses fog up, when you start again, they clear. When you get dry eyes, your eyes fog up. So you blink to clear them.

The idea is to simulate the natural result of not blinking (foggy vision), and let the body naturally compensate (by blinking), but force it to do so early than it otherwise would.

>It protects you from light radiation. You know, electro-magnetic waves entering your iris and stimulates your retina, if stimulated for too long, can cause your retina to strain, and may cause nearsightness. (Muscles being pulled back to avoid being stimulated too much by the light.)

Reading or using a computer (a lot) (or any other kind of close work) is associated with nearsightedness/myopia, but the method by which myopia emerges isn't known. The immediate cause of the blurry vision is an overly elongated eyeball, which focuses light incorrectly; in other words, myopia-as far as we know-isn't caused by the (miss-)position of the muscles in the eye.

Also, though these glasses would reduce the amount of light that reached the eye when they were fogged up, their ultimate goal is to induce you to blink more, so your eyes don't fog up too!
 
After reading your post, it somehow made my post less knowledgeable...:(

But, really, I didn't think that fogging up your glasses can induce you to blink...
 
tom_mai78101 said:
After reading your post, it somehow made my post less knowledgeable...:(

But, really, I didn't think that fogging up your glasses can induce you to blink...
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Fog = Water in Gas Form turning into liquid why do you need to blink if your getting water to stimulate your eyes to not blink.
This is the dumbest idea after the solar powered flashlight.

People need to stop watching to much tv and internet to prevent harm to their eyes.

Seriously, only in Japan
 
It's their culture, my friend...

They live in a tight space, while you guys live in an open space.

Thus you guys aren't that dependent on Internet and TV than Japanese people. Otherwise, where would you go during the aftermath of the economy crisis?
 
tom_mai78101 said:
It's their culture, my friend...

They live in a tight space, while you guys live in an open space.

Thus you guys aren't that dependent on Internet and TV than Japanese people. Otherwise, where would you go during the aftermath of the economy crisis?
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Living in a tight space doesn't prevent you from blinking... and what do you mean you guys? Tokyo isn't the only city in Japan either.
 
I meant to say about how they take in the Internet as a lifestyle in major cities in Japan. Much like how Koreans take video games and Internet as their culture.

Because of many people are mostly watching TV and using their computers, it's not hard figure out that all of those are their habits, and it's hard to change them.

And even if there's someone out there who can stop that person's habits, the rest can't do it the same. They will just keep on doing it, and they need to try and figure out how to stop it. It's an addiction that most people are having in Japan.
 
You can forget to do basic stuff if you focus too much on something. For example, why do you suppose people yawn?
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Yes, but it takes the blink of an eye to fix the dry eyes... It isn't really that hard.

And also, there are several theories as to why people yawn, but I would like to hear your explanation :p
 
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