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Don’t Call Me Bono… These Here Are Computer Glasses

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I personally wear contacts for my pitiful eyesight; even getting 12" away from the monitor, I can't read anything without my contacts, even with Firefox on highest magnification. With correction, I have 20/25 vision, but I still sometimes get eyestrain and can feel my eye muscles going limp/lazy/cross-eyed when I'm staring too much at a monitor or TV, and I wonder if perhaps these sort of glasses might help.

However, I didn't quite grasp what the glasses actually did for him, or what they offer to the wearer; is there a better explanation someone wants to offer?

I'd like to hear an answer to this, too. Could it be the magnification? Basically, do these things just work like very low-power reading glasses (say, +0.25)?

It seems like making everything yellow is like dropping out the brightness a little and reducing the contrast. I feel like I could adjust my monitor to do this.

Get a special prescription if you already use eyeglasses. And you won't have to make inadvertent fashion statements.

I have had computer prescription eyeglasses for over five years now. They are a variation on your standard prescription that you can get from your eye doctor. They have helped stabilize my worsening eyesight. I highly recommend that if you stare at a screen all day long to at least consider investing in a pair and using them. Don't take your eyesight for granted.

My eye doctor also recommended the 20-20-20 rule - every 20 minutes look at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. It helps unfocus your eyes and you know how quickly 20 minutes can go in a coding binge.

My eye doctor also recommended the 20-20-20 rule

Good call! I'd recommend AntiRSI.app (http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/) too remind you to do this. It has breaks and micro-breaks. Micro breaks are for your eyes, breaks are for the rest of you as well.

I'm fortunate enough to work at an office building with a pier overlooking a lake. Every so often I take a non-smoking break and walk out to the end of the pier and focus on the tree line on the horizon at the opposite end of the lake.

I have no science to back up any claims but it certainly feels good to do that, and looking at the LCDs again afterwards feels nicer too.

I also got prescription computer glasses a few months ago after using non-prescription reading glasses. They seem to work well, and I paid extra to get the anti-reflective coating too. I spend 8-16 hours a day staring at computer screens. I wish that my boss would replace the ancient 21-inch CRT displays on my desk at work with a flat screen LCD--even with good glasses, the displays are fuzzy (and I'm sure it's the displays and not my eyes now.)

Argh, everything will look blue after wearing those.

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