Eyeglass retailer Warby Parker launched a new service called Prescription Check this month, an app meant to help people check their eyeglass prescription without having to visit an eye doctor.
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Some brands of eyeglass lenses are made from this material.
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The two companies are the biggest U.S. retail eyeglass sellers.
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This section had a lot of jewelry, bags, and eyeglass frames.
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Consumers need real choice, not fake choice in the eyeglass market.
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She visits regularly, she said, for eyeglass adjustments and other needs.
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Easy and simple focusing system, with retractable eye cups for eyeglass wearers.
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Pishevar also invested in eyeglass start-up Warby Parker while at Menlo.
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The waitress returned the favor by complimenting the man's circular eyeglass frames.
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Warby Parker is a great example of a really ... a brand that's a tech brand in the eyeglass retail industry now, and totally disrupted the eyeglass sector, Fast Company has named it the most innovative company in America.
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Raider was also one of the founders of the eyeglass maker Warby Parker.
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The company also owns the Lenscrafters and Pearle Vision chains of eyeglass stores.
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She was working at an eyeglass store doing the night shift selling sunglasses.
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Note that a portion of my eyeglass frame did get bokehed out of existence.
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Still, several also expressed concern about the creation of an eyeglass giant with outsized clout.
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Well, now you can get a much more advanced mood-detecting accessory — in stylish eyeglass form.
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He founded Warby Parker, a high-end eyeglass company that's now worth over a billion dollars.
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No eyeglass company in the United States - the biggest market for both firms - would come close.
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That eyeglass frame shop would become Luxottica, which now manufactures brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley.
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It's a key move for Warby Parker, which has a big presence as an online eyeglass retailer.
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Her walls — like her hair, sexy-nerdy eyeglass frames and sense of humor — are all fairly black.
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Let's start with the surprising cooperation between fast food chain Arby's and hipster eyeglass manufacturer Warby Parker.
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The antenna, charging module, dual microphone, chipset, speaker and battery are all integrated in the eyeglass temple.
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Mr. Cohen also works in New York, as a customer experience adviser at Warby Parker, the eyeglass retailer.
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He had served on the board of Apple and advised the direct-to-consumer eyeglass company Warby Parker.
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Many of the eyeglass manufacturers featured at Berk Eye Care Center are among the top designers in their field.
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The company said it will soon release a prescription lens insert for the headset, customized based on eyeglass prescriptions.
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They look a bit like exaggerated eyeglass temples, looping securely over the ear and not moving during a workout.
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Eyeglass retailer Warby Parker and men's clothing company Bonobos started online but have since been opening up physical stores.
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The eyeglass makers fear losing access to inputs such as lenses, according to two sources familiar with the process.
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The eyeglass retailer is keeping its online operations running but all stores will close March 15 through March 27.
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As he hands over his bag, he realizes he has a small amount of marijuana in an eyeglass case.
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The app is meant to help people check on their eyeglass prescription without having to visit an eye doctor's office.
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Over the past two years, she's produced 400 handmade items, including robes, scarves, pot holders, eyeglass cases and walker bags.
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Warby Parker, the direct-to-consumer eyeglass brand, disrupted this process with its system for trying on glasses at home.
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"I want to get into eyeglass design and probably sock design because I love my socks as well," she says.
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Better yet, it stays put in windy conditions, and has a handy eyeglass-cleaning cloth tucked away in the shirttail.
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To earn a living, Del Vecchio went to work in a factory making molds for auto parts and eyeglass frames.
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Warby Parker, the $1 billion+ eyeglasses retailer, just launched an app that could make it easier to check your eyeglass prescription.
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AI, meanwhile, uses Chatbase with a bot built for a large, Australian healthy insurer to help customers of its eyeglass stores.
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For a moment, I thought Bieber's neck tat was an eyeglass chain and my whole belief system was about to change.
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Getting regular eye exams and updating eyeglass prescriptions as needed is important to prevent blurred vision, which can lead to falls.
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AR Trapp Opticians, on Madison Avenue near Rockefeller Center, had a national clientele because of its old-fashioned, unusual eyeglass frames.
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Find new frames at Kaibosh, a Norwegian eyeglass brand beloved for its stylish sunglasses and bargain-basement prices (from 100 kroner).
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Shortly after graduation he traveled to Italy, where he fell in love with Veneto, a tiny town with many eyeglass makers.
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The Toms eyeglass brand helps finance eyesight restoration; proceeds from its coffee-roasting operation help supply clean water in poor communities.
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Eyeglass retailer Warby Parker will add roughly 22 stores to get to nearly 2500 stores by the end of the year.
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Online vision testing may be appropriate for adults, 18 to 39, without severe corrective eyeglass prescriptions and symptoms of eye disease.
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The eyeglass company Warby Parker blamed "third-party ad networks or ad exchanges," and affirmed its commitment to diversity and inclusivity.
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A huge deal for eyeglass prescriptions The CVS/MyEyeDr deal was valued at $2.7 billion, a source close to the situation said.
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The Pentax has longer eye relief and eye cups that quickly telescope out for spectacles-free viewing, and retract for eyeglass wearers.
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AMSTERDAM, April 19 (Reuters) - Dutch eyeglass store operator Grandvision said on Wednesday it will acquire Tesco's chain of more than 200 opticians.
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In terms of everyday costs, Democrats mentioned consolidations in the airline, cable, internet, phone, beer, food and eyeglass industries as especially problematic.
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They can then select which frames fit best, send in their eyeglass prescription and return their kit with a prepaid shipping label.
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Prescription glasses: The friendly sales people at the eyeglass store always try to upsell you to something not covered by your insurance.
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After Stanford business school, he went to Italy, fell in love with a tiny town of eyeglass makers and founded Dom Vetro.
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Eyeglass retailer Warby Parker has raised $75 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its total funding to nearly $300 million.
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"When it comes to any of my eyeglass needs, this is the only place," Ms. Sommer, a customer of four years, said.
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"You could invent anything you had in mind—you could have eyeglass more for the the look than for the eyesight," Dvash says.
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If you do realize you're sensitive to the nickel in your jeans, watch out for it in eyeglass frames, watches, coins, and zippers.
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But the key to Old Sins is a magical eyeglass that lets you enter the rooms of the house, and explore even further.
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"He always had an eye for something different," she said of her father, who has a collection of weird eyeglass frames and watches.
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The question raised by the email to Ms. Lauch is whether Mr. Borker had returned to the eyeglass business and his bullying ways.
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Eyeglass retailer Warby Parker, founded online in 2010, plans to have nearly 100 stores across the U.S. by the end of this year.
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Lerer is an investor in spectacle startup Warby Parker, which has aggressively lobbied the Federal Trade Commission for stricter enforcement of the so-called Eyeglass Rule, which requires ophthalmologists to provide patients with a copy of their eyeglass prescription immediately following an eye exam, ensuring the consumer's ability to comparison-shop for prescription glasses, especially at decentralized places like Warby Parker.
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In 2016, a team at Carnegie Mellon used patterns printed on eyeglass frames to fool face-recognition systems into thinking the wearers were celebrities.
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In 2015, the city partnered with the eyeglass company Warby Parker to provide free eye exams and glasses for students in low-income neighborhoods.
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Companies are now routinely printing titanium engine parts, customizing dashboards of high-end cars, turning out jewelry and eyeglass frames and developing rocket engines.
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Gerard Masci, founder and chief executive of Lowercase, a start-up eyeglass maker in Brooklyn, just hired a vice president for communications on Werk.
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One day, this cat will be able to catch the hanging paper roll on a string — perhaps maybe after it gets a decent eyeglass prescription.
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I then used a disposable lighter to heat the business-end of a tiny screwdriver meant for eyeglass repair (about 60 seconds for each hole).
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One example is the nitinol wire found in everything from helicopter blades, stents, and heart valves, to golf clubs, underwire bras, and flexible eyeglass frames.
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To keep supply costs down, Costco owns or invests in everything from chicken coops and hotdog factories to eyeglass grinding facilities and farmland and plows.
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Years ago I might have been among them, but now I am old, have drunk a dictionary and an eyeglass, and, frankly, they revolt me.
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Many of the tusks enter an underground pipeline to Asia, especially China, where ivory is used to make eyeglass frames, combs, statuettes and other trinkets.
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Clothing start-up Everlane, eyeglass retailer Warby Parker or activewear brand Lululemon could be potential takeover targets, Maxim Group managing director Tom Forte told CNBC.
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At sundown, an eyeglass case, a belt buckle, the carcasses of dogs and the shells of cellphones dotted the still-smoldering field where they fell.
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It is the latest addition to a portfolio that has included retail, office and sports complexes, along with her namesake eyeglass line and nine books.
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Noisey: At one point you were wavering between working a stable job as an eyeglass factory manager and moving to London to join Bowie's band.
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When headphone pads sit directly on the ear, they can be displaced by eyeglass frames, hair, or even just the weird shape of your ears.
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Now, with matching clear lenses and eyeglass frames, it's easy to see how the conceit of Almost Famous suffers under the fashions of our own age.
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Two of the world's leading eyeglass companies are about to merge, creating the closest thing to a monopoly the industry has ever seen, reports the Guardian.
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In my own experience, I found that wiping down the earbuds with a microfiber cloth — like the ones typically used to clean eyeglass lenses — worked well.
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And companies like eyeglass vendor Warby Parker have built successful business by targeting markets where traditional players had huge markups on their products and underselling them.
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Vitaly Borker served a three-and-a-half-year stint in prison for threatening to stalk, maim and murder customers of his online eyeglass store, DecorMyEyes.
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When patients rely on an app for an eyeglass or contact lens prescription, they can receive inaccurate or misleading information and potentially delay essential sight saving treatment.
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Lumus' technology consists of an eyeglass lens that contains an array of ultra-thin transparent reflectors and a mini-projector that injects an image into the lens.
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The Silicon Valley-based brand follows in the footsteps eyeglass retailer Warby Parker and mattress start-up Casper, which have seen sales skyrocket online and in stores.
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Glasses outfitted with a camera sound like a gimmick, especially given Google's failure to popularize Glass, the eyeglass-computer it tried to introduce a few years ago.
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And in the years since it sold its first pair of eyeglasses, in 2010, other start-ups have launched well over a dozen new online eyeglass brands.
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Harry's was founded in 2012 by Raider, who is also a founder of the Warby Parker eyeglass brand, and Katz-Mayfield, a former Bain and Company consultant.
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You asked, and Warby Parker listened — the cult-favorite affordable prescription eyeglass brand has officially announced the launch of their new, first-ever daily contact lens brand.
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Much of that focus appears to be on ensuring better prices for consumers, singling out the airline, beer, eyeglass, food, and telecom industries—all of which have consolidated significantly.
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In the immediate term, a better way of understanding the value of scientific studies might be to think of each as a slight adjustment of an eyeglass-lens prescription.
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In 2012, 60 Minutes ran a story on the false choice in eyeglass frames, explaining that most brands you see in the stores are owned by the same company.
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It turned out that the online vision test and the in-person exam produced the same prescription results, revealing that my prior eyeglass and contact prescriptions had not changed.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that while eyeglass computers might be the future of augmented reality, Facebook won't wait for it, and the smartphone is already a capable AR device.
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It pictures the acquisition of hands becoming similar to picking eyeglass frames or a paint color for a car: unremarkable and at the same time an expression of personal identity.
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It owns several popular brands, like Ray-Ban and Oakley, manufactures frames for dozens of luxury fashion houses, owns several eyeglass retail chains, and even operates the vision insurance company EyeMed.
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You get a VR headset, touch controllers, power adapter, eyeglass spacer, and the Oculus Insight tracking system, that instantly reflects your movements in VR without the need for any external accessories.
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My Workout Neil Blumenthal, 37, a founder of the eyeglass brand Warby Parker, keeps a hectic work schedule, but his mornings are ruled by his children: Gemma, 2, and Griffin, 6.
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He would use the authority on coal-mining and oil-drilling operations, railroads, department-store chains, and the U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned eyeglass, champagne, and beer companies, among several others.
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Ruttenberg said that Pinecrest, which opened last year, is home to such trendy retailers as eyeglass seller Warby Parker, custom suit maker Indochino as well as bowling and bocce venue Pinstripes.
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Robert Lawrence, a Harvard professor who has analysed which of Mr Trump's products are made overseas, found that Donald J Trump eyeglass frames, cufflinks and sports jackets were all made in China.
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One day recently, we visited Amazon's website in search of the best deal on Loctite super glue, the essential home repair tool for fixing everything from broken eyeglass frames to shattered ceramics.
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Like the men's apparel brand Bonobos and the eyeglass purveyor Warby Parker, they chose to create a physical footprint by opening a few locations where bridal parties could try on the dresses.
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Hubert Sagnieres, the chief executive of Essilor, a French eyeglass company and a partner in the fund-raising campaign, said he often confronts ambivalence when pitching the cause to big-name philanthropists.
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The eyeglass retailer Warby Parker, the French film director Louis Leterrier and others have paid for 100 yearlong memberships, earmarked for two public schools and the Red Hook Initiative, a community nonprofit.
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" Primrose Eyeglass Frames in Gray Clear — $32 See Details Leah Stodart, Shopping Writer "Finding a reliable eye cream has been harder than finding an apartment in NYC that checks all of my boxes.
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The German company, which was founded in 1991, has done significant work in eye-tracking research with proprietary eyeglass hardware while also working on consumer-focused applications like eye-tracking for virtual reality.
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Eyewear e-commerce giant Warby Parker is accused of signing partnership contracts and NDAs with online eyeglass prescription test startup Opternative, then stealing the technology to launch its own competing "Prescription Check" feature.
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When he and Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House leader, unveiled the party's "Better Deal" platform for the midterm elections, a proposal to attack "corporate monopolies" focused on airlines, beer companies and eyeglass makers.
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Warby Parker — the start-up that has disrupted the eyeglass retail market — is among the businesses that started as digitally only and opened shops for customers to try the product before they buy.
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In October 2014, Google invested $542 million in Magic Leap, a digital visual technology company that is working on creating an eyeglass that would allow people to see holographic images in real world settings.
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The shop owner Abdullah Demir sells from his own 10,000-piece collection of vintage never-used eyeglass frames, including eccentric designs seen on Elton John and Lady Gaga and colorful frames created by Karl Lagerfeld.
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Just this month, the American Optometric Association complained to the F.D.A. about Opternative, a start-up that offers eyeglass prescriptions based on a self-administered online test, without the need to visit an eye doctor.
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They're useful for keeping thousand dollars lenses from clanking against each other in transit, or for making sure your makeup bag steers clear of the eyeglass case you frequently confuse it for (I am very blind).
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BPA is still available in many consumer products such as water bottles, food-storage containers and plastic tableware, as well as contact lenses, eyeglass lenses, compact discs, water-supply pipes, and some dental sealants and composites.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's biggest eyeglass frame maker is planning to merge with the largest lens maker in a tie-up U.S. antitrust experts fear will be bad news for consumers, but could still be approved.
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My wallet and change pouch and eyeglass case fit easily into the middle section, and the third section fits my keys, lotion, chapstick, and a variety of other little accessory items (again, with room to spare!).
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Eyeglass maker Warby Parker, shaving start-up Dollar Shave Club and mattress seller Casper started by selling online — with the help of venture funding — and grew by finding loyal customers that promote their brands on social media.
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MI, the leading frame maker, to create a company that would produce everything from Ray-Bans to Giorgio Armani frames, and be the top U.S. eyeglass retail outlet as well as a leading provider of vision insurance.
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The deal between Luxottica, the world's biggest eyeglass frame maker, and Essilor, the world No. 1 lens maker, would create a company that would make products for various well-known brands such as Oakley and Ray-Ban.
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The eyeglass retailer said it just shared a Snapchat story with its followers with a unique URL where, for a limited time, they can buy "head-turning Haskell in Crystal, now with new silver mirrored lenses" for $95.
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Democrats will propose standards that companies must meet to complete large mergers and enhanced post-merger reviews, singling out the airline, telecommunications, beer, food and eyeglass industries as areas of concern, according to policy proposals provided to reporters.
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"The use of DigiLens waveguide technology will help us develop cutting-edge lenses that are much thinner and more transparent than any smart glass on the market today," said Hiroshi Mukawa, GM of the AR Eyeglass Program at Sony.
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Slight but conspicuous with his candy-colored eyeglass frames, Mr. Castle taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was artist in residence until his death, and the College at Brockport of the State University of New York.
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Personally, I can't think of a better way to describe it than as an eyeglass case: it's a clamshell that's just marginally bigger than the hard case that came with my Warby Parkers, hinged on one of the long sides.
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The longer you think about what it would take to design a truly one-size-fits-all pair of VR eyeglass frames, the more sense it makes to just fall back on the cheap, sturdy, and easily adjustable head strap.
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Democrats proposed new standards that companies must meet to complete large mergers and enhanced post-merger reviews, singling out the airline, telecommunications, beer, food and eyeglass industries as areas of concern in the proposal dubbed "A Better Deal" for working Americans.
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Georg Scholz stands out in "Self-Portrait in Front of an Advertising Column," also 1926, in part for the glittering precision of his bowler hat and eyeglass lenses, but mainly because he includes alongside himself a piece of the larger world.
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Then, in 2012, Abloh launched his own brand, Off-White, and has since done numerous collaborations, including with furniture giant Ikea, the New York City Ballet, eyeglass brand Warby Parker, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and most recently, the Louvre.
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Roughly a decade after founding Mobileye, whose camera-based sensor chips and software systems are helping to develop self-driving cars, Shashua set up OrCam, which uses a camera mounted on eyeglass frames to help the visually impaired interact with their surroundings.
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The results suggest that vision fixes, like a new eyeglass prescription or surgery to remove cataracts, can go a long way toward helping older people stay mentally sharp, said lead author D. Diane Zheng of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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Among those holding down a table for the soon-to-open eyeglass store Vista Site Optique was a co-owner, Boris Nemirovsky, who said he might hire two people, and that they would have to be able to navigate insurance reimbursements for customers.
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Berk Eye Care Center offers some of the top eyeglass brands available on the market today, including Ray-Ban, Adidas, Burberry, Converse, Dolce & Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, Kate Spade, John Varvatos, Ted Baker, Spine, Michael Kors, Hugo Boss, Jimmy Choo, Juicy Couture, Nike and many more.
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The success of the audio version relies heavily on the comedian's vocal and modulating verve, the aural equivalent of a pair of eyeglasses that slide down the nose only to be pushed back up again (which I've seen Bell, like other eyeglass wearers, do).
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Availability: Now in preorder; shipping October 30thPrice: $129.99 One of two products that can be considered more experimental than anything else, the Echo Frames will accommodate your eyeglass prescription, but are available by invitation only (you can request an invitation on the product page).
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Jen Rubio and Steph Korey met while working at eyeglass outfit Warby Parker, and they together spied what looked like a gap in the market between junky travel offerings that threatened to fall apart and richly priced luggage that was too expensive for even gainfully employed millennials.
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I would sort through our mail and papers drawer only to find a stack of mail on the dining table and would wonder whether my eyeglass prescription was in the papers drawer or the "important papers" accordion file we keep on the bookshelf in the living room.
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If you are buying an actual object and live in a major city, you might find a brick-and-mortar storefront decked with ha-ha-clever wallpaper where you can hold the toothbrush of the future or try one of five purportedly game-changing eyeglass frames.
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Working with a team of online hackers intent on freeing the iPhone from its AT&T bondage, Hotz logged 236 hours investigating the phone's weaknesses before finding a roadmap to the Holy Grail: First, he used an eyeglass screwdriver and a guitar pick to remove the phone's back cover.
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CreditCreditTim Franco for The New York Times WATCH Système Glashütte pocket watch, adapted for the wrist OCCUPATION Founder and chief executive, Frame Montana, an eyeglass frame company "I used to collect vintage watches but lately I downsized my collection to just three or four pieces," Mr. Choi said.
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The online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker and Louis Leterrier, the French film director whose latest project is the "Dark Crystal" series on Netflix, and others have paid for 100 yearlong memberships, which have been earmarked for two local public schools and the Red Hook Initiative, a community nonprofit.
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"He had a drive, had a passion, and what certainly has been shown to be an insatiable focus on disrupting a category," said Duda, a managing partner at Bullish, a startup accelerator and investment firm that has also backed the online mattress firm Casper and the eyeglass retailer Warby Parker.
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The Eyeglass Rule is not a law, however, and as such it is relatively easily rescinded—reason enough for a startup to keep paying lobbyists to keep lobbying the FTC on this "and other legislative proposals," despite the fact that the FTC issued a warning favorable to Warby Parker in May of last year.
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A teenager who worked at a mall ice-cream parlor, a hipster in a hoodie and eyeglass frames without lenses, did a world-class beatbox for me and Moriel Rothman-Zecher, a writer and organizer who had walked me into the camp in order to make introductions between me and Baha and to serve as my Arabic interpreter.
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As the Cubans congregated on the corner, leaning against the faded stucco wall of a money exchange store and eyeglass shop — nearby store owners said they had become friendly with the Cubans, and one had even offered one a job — a cluster of men gathered around a visitor from the U.S. "Here I feel like I'm with my family," said Rainier Prado, a Cuban-American who had migrated to the U.S. five years earlier and now lives in West Texas, where he's working to save money to bring his wife and child to the States.
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The wall next to the table is covered with an expanse of lumberyard flakeboard, a Gen X mood board of sorts featuring a faded cardboard cutout of Socks, the Clinton family's White House cat; a dime-store eyeglass chain packet featuring a shot of his mother from her modeling days; a photo of himself with a beard from a British GQ spread; and a warped cover of a Partridge Family LP. Producing a plastic bag of marijuana buds from his sweatshirt pocket, he rolled a joint on the table.
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