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ArticleKarün Eyewear to get a Walmart boost
Karün Eyewear, the Chile-based brand of eyewear made from recycled and traceable materials, has signed a nationwide, but non-exclusive, partnership with Walmart for the distribution of its frames in the U.S. retail giant’s Walmart Vision Centers. ”We chose to work with Walmart as our U.S. national retailer to expand access ...
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News briefsTom Davies goes full Wonka with giraffe-milk smelling frames
Tom Davies has partnered once again with Warner Bros. Discovery to design bespoke frames for two characters in Wonka, the upcoming movie inspired by Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory children book and starring Timothée Chalamet. Previous collaborations between the British eyewear designer and U.S. studio included eyewear featured ...
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ArticleShamir launches myopia management lens
Shamir Optical Industry, the Israeli-based lens manufacturer, has announced the launch of Optimee, its first lens in the child myopia management segment. The launch follows the first-year results of a clinical trial with 126 children in Israel which showed that the new lens slowed by 43 percent the axial elongation ...
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ArticleSmart glasses win at CES 2024
Four pairs of smart-eyewear are among the winners of the latest Innovation Awards from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), whose 2024 edition is scheduled for Jan. 9-12, 2024, in Las Vegas. Ampere First up – in alphabetical order by company – is Dusk Rx, which the producer, Ampere, describes as ...
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Microoled updates app to tap Strava’s 100 million users
MICROOLED, the French-based supplier of micro displays for eyewear and other products, has announced a major update in its ActiveLook smart eyewar application for Apple Watch that will make it compatible with Strava. Strava is one of the leading subscription platforms for sports enthusiasts with over 100 million users in ...
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Moncler eyewear license goes to EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica and Moncler have announced the signature of an exclusive licensing agreement for the design, production and global distribution of Moncler-branded eyewear, including eyeglasses and sunglasses. The agreement will be in effect from January 2024 until December 2028 with an automatic renewal option for five more years, and the first ...
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Spanish eye health tech start-up enters U.S. market
Wivi Vision, a Barcelona-based start-up focusing on children eye health, has announced the signature of a partnership with Vision Rehab Technologies for the distribution of its products and services in the U.S. Wivi Vision has developed a technology that evaluates visual disfunctions in children, such as dislexya for example, and ...
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75% of French opticians offer myopia management lenses, poll finds
According to a poll by French website Acuité, only 25 percent of optical shops in the country do not sell myopia management lenses for children, indicating a strong penetration of the relatively new product category in the retail channel. Over 900 optical stores, or about 7 percent of the total ...
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French company to launch mosquito-repellent glasses
15-1 Diffusion, the French eyewear company behind some fashion eyewear licenses such as Mauboussin or Armor-Lux, has developed and patented a new technology that enables to encapsulate active substances into micro capsules that are both oxygen-proof and sufficiently porous to release them under certain conditions, like body heat for example. ...
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Japanese myopia eye drops research enters clinical trial phase
Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical is partnering with Tsubota Laboratory for research and developement of a new myopia management eye drop solution. The eye drops, which were successfully tested on mice according to an article by Nikkei Asia, aims at slowing myopia progression by suppressing the thinning of the sclera, thereby reducing ...
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Flö-Optics signs with three U.S. labs
Flö-Optics, the additive manufacturing company that recently signed a partnership with PPG, has announced that it has signed agreements with three U.S. ophthalmic labs - Cherry Optical Lab, Encore Optical and Superior Optical Labs - which will be the first ones to make use of its coating technology. Orders were ...
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IOT enters myopia management market
IOT, the Spanish and U.S.-based lens manufacturer, has announced that it was entering the myopia management segment with the launch of MyoLess, a new lens developed to slow down the progression of axial elongation in chidren’s eyes. “The lens incorporates asymmetric positive defocus on the back surface, calibrated to the ...
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The Vision Council updates Lens Product Desciption Standard
The Vision Council has announced the completion of Version 1.00 of its Lens Product Description Standard (LPDS), a reference industry standard for lens manufacturers to provide technical information on their lenses and lens blanks. The new standard, which was unanimously approved by the U.S. association’s LPDS committee at the recent ...
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ArticleMaterialise to 3D-print new translucent material
Right across from the Futurology space at this year’s Silmo was a booth for Materialise, the company that supplies frames for the Futurology companies Skugga and Lexilens, not to mention Morrow Eyewear, winner of one of this year’s Silmo d’Or awards. Founded 30-odd years ago, Materialise is headquartered in Leuven, ...
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News briefsMister Spex launches 3D-print customized range
Mister Spex is launching EyeD, its first custom collection of 3D-printed eyewear. The range includes six customizable different models in seven colors that are being offered at 37 Mister Spex stores in Germany and Austria for €249, plus the price of the lenses. The measurements - including parameters such as ...
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ArticleA tour of Silmo’s Futurology
This year’s Silmo show took place over the weekend of Sept 29 to Oct. 2. In Hall 6 was the Futurology space, a showcase for the new and the innovative, curated by designer, optician and artist Sébastien Brusset. Join us for a tour of its companies and products. Laclarée The ...
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Akoni adds optical frames to Valentino
Luxury eyewear group Akoni is launching a first optical collection for its Valentino eyewear license. The initial range includes six models in a total of eighteen colors but the company said it would expand it with its SS24 collection. The frames, which are all made exclusively in Japan from Japanese ...
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ArticlePPG partners with lens coatings’ 3Dprint start-up
PPG has announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Flö-Optics, a start-up specializing in additive manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses’ coatings. Under the terms of the partnership, PPG will supply its HI-GARD scratch-resistant coatings, which are said to make lenses four to six times more resistant to abrasion, to ...
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Safilo expands portfolio and partnership with Tapestry
Safilo Group is expanding its partnership with Tapestry by adding a license agreement with the U.S. luxury fashion group’s Stuart Weitzman brand of women footwear. Safilo will design, produce and distribute globally Stuart Weitzman-branded sunglasses and prescription frames until June 2029 and starting with the Fall/Winter 2024 season. It is ...
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ArticleMeta and Ray-Ban beef up smart glasses with influencers in mind
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday at the group’s developer conference the launch of the second generation of smart glasses developed in collaboration with EssilorLuxottica and its Ray-Ban brand. For this second generation of the smart glasses, the partners have significantly upgraded several key features from the initial product, the ...
