EX-Z55
ƒ/2.8
6.8 mm
1/30
She dreams of electric dinosaurs. Sculpture by Joe Andolina, made from Silicon Graphics computer boards.
The thinking cap is from Estonia, a speaker gift for the Visioonist business conference in Pärnu.
The hip glasses were the subject of puzzle 42.
They are an early prototype of user-adjustable eyeglasses from Adaptive Eyecare, a U.K. based company seeking to provide inexpensive vision correction for the billion people that need still it (according to World Health Organization estimates).
Using elastic mylar lenses filled with a highly refractive silicone oil, they created $5 glasses that the user can adjust for each eye, without an optometrist or expensive lens grinding infrastructure. One product fits all, and can even be shared.
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