Great. Now, when will we get glasses that don't get scratched up when you wipe them without rinsing them first?
Maybe glass for glasses is at its zenith, but it's sort of hard to believe that when you look at something like smartphone screen changes over the past 10-15 years.
"Monopoly" is not the correct word. At least in a global sense - they are more dominant in some places.
I recently got new glasses after 5 years, I almost never wet them before wiping them, and I usually wipe them with my t-shirt. Zero scratches on old glasses, it was actually the finish on my frame that started failing and prompted getting a replacement (turned out my eyes also degraded slightly, so I got new lenses anyway)
It's luckily in Paperless ;) I could buy a modern GPU for that price, paid 262 € per lens.
You can use the edges of a lens cloth to brush first. Grip it in the middle so all the edges bunch together to form a sort of brush. Or a dedicated product that separates the two steps: this is the best glasses cleaner I’ve ever used:
> Our technology will clean your lenses 500 times!
I know that you're supposed to get the dust off first, and I wash my glasses daily with dish soap, but I want to be able to use any clean paper tissue or cloth to clean my glasses, without having to worry about having an emergency lens cloth on my at all times.
there's a body of proof that it does, both theoretically and practically, and it's been around long enough now that we know about the long term effects.
Laser eye surgery is a well practiced surgery what are you talking about..?
I just for PRK and while the recovery is way worse than LASIK, the results are already great 2 months in.
I saw in another comment you were asking about side effects. There definitely are, and tbh if you're happy w/ glasses and they work for your lifestyle then more power to you. LASIK side effects from what I've read are most commonly really dry eyes and star burst effects from light sources at night. Seems a lot of people after going through PRK have bad night vision (which I'm experiencing), and moderate to severe light sensitivity, which I personally have none of. So yea, there are side effects that can be really bad, but for the most part people seem very happy with both LASIK and PRK.
I can certainly say PRK was one of my best life decisions, it's definitely been worth it to me because I hated wearing glasses and I do a lot of outdoor activities as well as Jiu jitsu, so I was basically the ideal candidate
I find I need different glasses for different things but I'm very very long-sighted - I can see more than well enough to drive, and indeed can see the guy wires on radio towers a few miles either side of the road I drive on most days to get to work, and can see what the dude in front is watching on his phone instead of the road, but can't really see the instrument panel except as a big green blob with a vague suggestion of pointers in it. No matter, as long as nothing is lit up red.
I wear different glasses for reading to using the computer or watching TV, basically to pull the range of focus I have in to about half a metre to a metre, or a metre to a couple of metres, and I have a couple of pairs of prescription safety glasses which fit under the visor of my climbing helmet, which is handy for work.
For welding and such, I just keep some cheap shitty "pound shop" reading glasses that are "close enough" and that I don't care if they get wrecked in the workshop, which again fit under my welding mask or grinder shield.
I do kind of wonder how well people who have had LASIK can deal with a very very wide range of focal lengths.