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Adlens updates adjustable lens for digital screen users
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LAS VEGAS – Adlens launched a new version of its Interface lens designed to protect eyes from 80% of harmful blue light emitted by digital screens.
The new Interface has an adjustable range of 0 to 2.75 D to facilitate focusing on computers and handheld devices while reducing eyestrain resulting from focusing on these screens for extended periods of time, Adlens said in a press release distributed here at Vision Expo West.
Adlens director of regulatory and industry affairs, Graeme MacKenzie, OD, told Primary Care Optometry News that digital display users suffer from insufficient blinking, maintaining computer distance focus and blue light exposure, and the Interface addresses two of these factors.
MacKenzie noted that the Interface product is considered an over-the-counter solution and does not replace prescription glasses.
The company launched the AdlensFocuss, a prescription adjustable focus lens for presbyopes, in June, and currently 86 eye are practitioners are dispensing it. MacKenzie said the company is keeping the launch “small and controlled” in order to obtain feedback. One hundred twenty more providers are lined up to begin distribution in 2016, he said.
MacKenzie also discussed the philanthropic efforts of James Chen, the majority owner of Adlens.
Chen took the adjustable lens technology to Rwanda, “to demonstrate what could be done with the technology in a developing country,” MacKenzie said. “Two years later, every nurse in the country is trained to conduct vision screenings and can dispense reading glasses and adjustable glasses.”
Chen wants to set up a platform to provide vision correction to those in need, MacKenzie said, and connect those with more serious problems to advanced levels of health care. Chen will announce his next steps in New York on Oct. 8, World Sight Day.
MacKenzie added that Adlens will donate 7.5% of sales of all of its “instant eye wear products” sold between Oct. 8 and the end of the year to Chen’s project. – by Nancy Hemphill, ELS, FAAO
Disclosure: MacKenzie is employed by Adlens.