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Zawya
14-07-2025
- Business
- Zawya
Titan Eye+ to offer free eye-screenings to students at 10 GEMS Education schools
33 percent of students screened found in need of vision correction and consultations Initiative now being expanded to benefit even more GEMS students and their families Dubai, UAE: Titan Eye+, a leading eyewear and vision care brand by TATA group, is expanding its collaboration with GEMS Rewards, the rewards programme of GEMS Education, the UAE's largest private school network. The initiative aims to promote the importance of eye health and encourage a culture of regular eye check-ups within school communities. Building on the success of a recent pilot programme that involved a seven-day free eye-screening camp at two GEMS schools, Titan Eye+ is now growing the initiative to benefit a total of 10 schools. The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of preventive eye check-ups, while highlighting the crucial role healthy vision plays in academic success, daily life, and long-term health. It underscores the long-standing commitment of Titan Eye+ to community well-being and to providing accessible eye care and promoting the importance of preventive vision health. Emphasising on the need for early intervention, Mr. Kuruvilla Markose, CEO of International Business at Titan Company, mentioned, 'During the pilot programme, our screenings revealed that around 33 percent of students required vision correction or consultation. These students showed changes in their vision without even realising the need for corrective action. Many reported symptoms of eye fatigue caused by prolonged screen time, and some were found to have complex vision issues. We were able to address these issues through our campaign where each student received a personalised consultation, and tailored vision solutions to ensure they got the care and clarity they deserve. For us, that was the real impact; making a tangible difference in how we approach preventive eye care.' 'Our collaboration with GEMS Rewards stems from a shared commitment to community well-being through awareness. By integrating eye health education into the school environment, we are fostering a culture of care that extends well beyond the classroom. Through this ongoing collaboration, Titan Eye+ aims to make vision care an accessible and essential part of daily life, not just for students but for the wider community of teachers and parents alike.' Mr. Vinod Murali, Operations Manager – GEMS Rewards, commented, 'We are delighted to collaborate with Titan Eye+ to offer free eye-screenings to our students. GEMS Rewards aims to bring added value for our GEMS community, and by expanding this worthwhile initiative, we hope to do just that.' The second phase of the collaboration will offer comprehensive eye-screening and personalised consultations to the students and faculties of 10 GEMS schools. To make this initiative meaningful for students, Titan Eye+ has designed interactive activities and engaging formats that turn a routine eye check-up into an educational experience. From gamified screenings to hands-on learning about eye health, the programme encourages students to take vision care seriously and understand its importance in daily life, both inside and outside the classroom. For parents, the campaign offers valuable take-home eye care kits, which include simplified prescriptions, educational resources on children's eye health, and tips for reducing digital eye strain, helping families make informed choices about their child's eye health. The expanded programme will continue to offer interactive and educational eye care experiences within the schools, aiming to instil the importance of eye health from a young age. Titan Eye+ aims to foster a strong, informed community that not only values eye health but also empowers individuals to prioritise regular vision care for improved academic performance, overall well-being, and a lifelong commitment to health. About Titan Eye+ Titan Eye+ is a leading optical chain in India under the esteemed TATA group and has recently entered the UAE market in 2023 with store operations across Dubai and Sharjah. Titan Eye+ aims to make quality eye care affordable and accessible to all. With this vision, we have forayed into the UAE region with differentiated expert eyecare solutions such as a 20-step 0-error free eye test, award-winning innovations in lenses, and high-quality eyewear products available for all eyecare needs, budgets, and occasions. Extending the TATA legacy of offering unparalleled care and comfort to its consumers, we are dedicated to making a difference for the people of the UAE and helping them experience superior optometry services.
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far
They look like an ordinary pair of glasses – but these are tech-packed specs. On a Zoom call, Niko Eiden, chief executive and co-founder of Finnish eyewear firm IXI, holds up the frames with lenses containing liquid crystals, meaning their vision-correcting properties can change on the fly. This one pair could correct the vision of someone who normally uses totally different pairs of glasses for seeing near or far. "These liquid crystals… we can rotate them with an electrical field," explains Mr Eiden. "It's totally, freely tuneable." The position of those crystals affects the passage of light through the lenses. A built-in eye-tracker allows the glasses to respond to whatever correction the wearer needs at a given moment. However, tech-laden eyewear has a troubled history – take Google's ill-fated "Glass" smart glasses. Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear." The market for eyewear tech is likely to grow. Presbyopia, an age-related condition that makes it harder to focus on things close to you, is projected to become more common over time as the world's population ages. And myopia, or short-sightedness, is also on the rise. Spectacles have remained largely the same for decades. Bifocal lenses – in which a lens is split into two regions, usually for either near- or far-sightedness – require the wearer to direct their vision through the relevant region, depending on what they want to look at, in order to see clearly. Varifocals do a similar job but the transitions are much smoother. In contrast, auto-focus lenses promise to adjust part or all of the lens spontaneously, and even accommodate the wearer's changing eyesight over time. "The first lenses that we produced were horrible," admits Mr Eiden, candidly. Those early prototypes were "hazy", he says, and with the lens quality noticeably poor at its edges. But newer versions have proved promising in tests, says Mr Eiden. Participants in the company's trials have been asked, for example, to read something on a page, then look at an object in the distance, to see whether the glasses respond smoothly to the transition. Mr Eiden says that the eye tracking device within the spectacles cannot determine exactly what a wearer is looking at, though certain activities such as reading are in principle detectable because of the nature of eye movements associated with them. Since such glasses respond so closely to the wearer's eye behaviour, it's important the frames fit well, says Emilia Helin, product director. IXI's frames are adjustable but not to a great degree, given the delicate electronics inside, she explains: "We have some flexibility but not full flexibility." That's why IXI hopes to ensure that the small range of frames it has designed would suit a wide variety of faces. The small battery secreted inside IXI's autofocus frames should last for two days, says Mr Eiden, adding that it's possible to recharge the specs overnight while the wearer is asleep. But he won't be drawn on a launch date, which he intends to reveal later this year. As for cost, I ask whether £1,000 might be the sort of price tag he has in mind. He merely says, "I'm smiling when you say it but I won't confirm." Autofocus lenses could help people who struggle with varifocals or bifocals, says Paramdeep Bilkhu, clinical adviser at the College of Optometrists. However, he adds, "There is insufficient evidence to state whether they perform as well as traditional options and whether they can be used for safety critical tasks such as driving." Chi-Ho To, an optometry researcher, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has a similar concern – what if the vision correction went wrong or was delayed slightly while he was, say, performing surgery on someone? "But I think in terms of general use having something that allows autofocusing is a good idea," he adds. Mr Eiden notes that the first version of his company's lenses will not alter the entire lens area. "One can always glance over the dynamic area," he says. If wholly self-adjusting lenses emerge then safety will become "a much more serious business", he adds. In 2013, UK firm Adlens released glasses that allowed wearers to manually change the optical power of the lenses via a small dial on the frames. These lenses contained a fluid-filled membrane, which when compressed in response to dial adjustments would alter its curvature. Adlens' current chief executive Rob Stevens says the specs sold for $1,250 (£920) in the US and were "well received by consumers" but not so much by opticians, which he says "strangled sales". Since then, technology has moved on and the concept of lenses that refocus themselves automatically, without manual interventions, has emerged. Like IXI and other companies, Adlens is working on glasses that do this. However, Mr Stevens declines to confirm a launch date. Joshua Silver, an Oxford University physicist, founded Adlens but no longer works for the company. He came up with the idea of fluid-filled adjustable lenses back in 1985 and developed glasses that could be tuned to the wearer's needs and then permanently set to that prescription. Such lenses have enabled roughly 100,000 people in 20 countries to access vision correcting technology. Prof Silver is currently seeking investment for a venture called Vision, which would further rollout these glasses. As for more expensive, electronics-filled auto-focus specs, he questions whether they will have broad appeal: "Wouldn't [people] just go and buy reading glasses, which would more or less do the same thing for them?" Other specs tech is even slowing down the progression of eye conditions such as myopia, beyond just correcting for them. Prof To has developed glasses lenses that have a honeycomb-like ring in them. Light passing through the centre of the ring, focused as normal, reaches the wearer's retina and allows them to see clearly. However, light passing through the ring itself is defocused slightly meaning that the peripheral retina gets a slightly blurred image. This appears to slow improper eyeball growth in children, which Prof To says cuts the rate of short-sightedness progression by 60%. Glasses with this technology are now in use in more than 30 countries, he adds. British firm SightGlass has a slightly different approach – glasses that gently reduce the contrast of someone's vision to similarly affect eye growth and myopia progression. While autofocus glasses and other high-tech solutions may have promise, Prof To has an even bigger goal: glasses that don't just slow down myopia but actually reverse it slightly – a tantalising prospect that could improve the vision of potentially billions of people. "There is growing evidence that you can do it," teases Prof To. The bridge changing lives and boosting business Should we be letting flies eat our food waste? Why Ukraine is one of the world's most digital countries
Yahoo
11-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far
They look like an ordinary pair of glasses – but these are tech-packed specs. On a Zoom call, Niko Eiden, chief executive and co-founder of Finnish eyewear firm IXI, holds up the frames with lenses containing liquid crystals, meaning their vision-correcting properties can change on the fly. This one pair could correct the vision of someone who normally uses totally different pairs of glasses for seeing near or far. "These liquid crystals… we can rotate them with an electrical field," explains Mr Eiden. "It's totally, freely tuneable." The position of those crystals affects the passage of light through the lenses. A built-in eye-tracker allows the glasses to respond to whatever correction the wearer needs at a given moment. However, tech-laden eyewear has a troubled history – take Google's ill-fated "Glass" smart glasses. Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear." The market for eyewear tech is likely to grow. Presbyopia, an age-related condition that makes it harder to focus on things close to you, is projected to become more common over time as the world's population ages. And myopia, or short-sightedness, is also on the rise. Spectacles have remained largely the same for decades. Bifocal lenses – in which a lens is split into two regions, usually for either near- or far-sightedness – require the wearer to direct their vision through the relevant region, depending on what they want to look at, in order to see clearly. Varifocals do a similar job but the transitions are much smoother. In contrast, auto-focus lenses promise to adjust part or all of the lens spontaneously, and even accommodate the wearer's changing eyesight over time. "The first lenses that we produced were horrible," admits Mr Eiden, candidly. Those early prototypes were "hazy", he says, and with the lens quality noticeably poor at its edges. But newer versions have proved promising in tests, says Mr Eiden. Participants in the company's trials have been asked, for example, to read something on a page, then look at an object in the distance, to see whether the glasses respond smoothly to the transition. Mr Eiden says that the eye tracking device within the spectacles cannot determine exactly what a wearer is looking at, though certain activities such as reading are in principle detectable because of the nature of eye movements associated with them. Since such glasses respond so closely to the wearer's eye behaviour, it's important the frames fit well, says Emilia Helin, product director. IXI's frames are adjustable but not to a great degree, given the delicate electronics inside, she explains: "We have some flexibility but not full flexibility." That's why IXI hopes to ensure that the small range of frames it has designed would suit a wide variety of faces. The small battery secreted inside IXI's autofocus frames should last for two days, says Mr Eiden, adding that it's possible to recharge the specs overnight while the wearer is asleep. But he won't be drawn on a launch date, which he intends to reveal later this year. As for cost, I ask whether £1,000 might be the sort of price tag he has in mind. He merely says, "I'm smiling when you say it but I won't confirm." Autofocus lenses could help people who struggle with varifocals or bifocals, says Paramdeep Bilkhu, clinical adviser at the College of Optometrists. However, he adds, "There is insufficient evidence to state whether they perform as well as traditional options and whether they can be used for safety critical tasks such as driving." Chi-Ho To, an optometry researcher, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has a similar concern – what if the vision correction went wrong or was delayed slightly while he was, say, performing surgery on someone? "But I think in terms of general use having something that allows autofocusing is a good idea," he adds. Mr Eiden notes that the first version of his company's lenses will not alter the entire lens area. "One can always glance over the dynamic area," he says. If wholly self-adjusting lenses emerge then safety will become "a much more serious business", he adds. In 2013, UK firm Adlens released glasses that allowed wearers to manually change the optical power of the lenses via a small dial on the frames. These lenses contained a fluid-filled membrane, which when compressed in response to dial adjustments would alter its curvature. Adlens' current chief executive Rob Stevens says the specs sold for $1,250 (£920) in the US and were "well received by consumers" but not so much by opticians, which he says "strangled sales". Since then, technology has moved on and the concept of lenses that refocus themselves automatically, without manual interventions, has emerged. Like IXI and other companies, Adlens is working on glasses that do this. However, Mr Stevens declines to confirm a launch date. Joshua Silver, an Oxford University physicist, founded Adlens but no longer works for the company. He came up with the idea of fluid-filled adjustable lenses back in 1985 and developed glasses that could be tuned to the wearer's needs and then permanently set to that prescription. Such lenses have enabled roughly 100,000 people in 20 countries to access vision correcting technology. Prof Silver is currently seeking investment for a venture called Vision, which would further rollout these glasses. As for more expensive, electronics-filled auto-focus specs, he questions whether they will have broad appeal: "Wouldn't [people] just go and buy reading glasses, which would more or less do the same thing for them?" Other specs tech is even slowing down the progression of eye conditions such as myopia, beyond just correcting for them. Prof To has developed glasses lenses that have a honeycomb-like ring in them. Light passing through the centre of the ring, focused as normal, reaches the wearer's retina and allows them to see clearly. However, light passing through the ring itself is defocused slightly meaning that the peripheral retina gets a slightly blurred image. This appears to slow improper eyeball growth in children, which Prof To says cuts the rate of short-sightedness progression by 60%. Glasses with this technology are now in use in more than 30 countries, he adds. British firm SightGlass has a slightly different approach – glasses that gently reduce the contrast of someone's vision to similarly affect eye growth and myopia progression. While autofocus glasses and other high-tech solutions may have promise, Prof To has an even bigger goal: glasses that don't just slow down myopia but actually reverse it slightly – a tantalising prospect that could improve the vision of potentially billions of people. "There is growing evidence that you can do it," teases Prof To. The bridge changing lives and boosting business Should we be letting flies eat our food waste? Why Ukraine is one of the world's most digital countries
BBC News
10-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far
They look like an ordinary pair of glasses – but these are tech-packed a Zoom call, Niko Eiden, chief executive and co-founder of Finnish eyewear firm IXI, holds up the frames with lenses containing liquid crystals, meaning their vision-correcting properties can change on the one pair could correct the vision of someone who normally uses totally different pairs of glasses for seeing near or far."These liquid crystals… we can rotate them with an electrical field," explains Mr Eiden."It's totally, freely tuneable." The position of those crystals affects the passage of light through the lenses. A built-in eye-tracker allows the glasses to respond to whatever correction the wearer needs at a given tech-laden eyewear has a troubled history – take Google's ill-fated "Glass" smart acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear." The market for eyewear tech is likely to grow. Presbyopia, an age-related condition that makes it harder to focus on things close to you, is projected to become more common over time as the world's population ages. And myopia, or short-sightedness, is also on the have remained largely the same for decades. Bifocal lenses – in which a lens is split into two regions, usually for either near- or far-sightedness – require the wearer to direct their vision through the relevant region, depending on what they want to look at, in order to see do a similar job but the transitions are much contrast, auto-focus lenses promise to adjust part or all of the lens spontaneously, and even accommodate the wearer's changing eyesight over time."The first lenses that we produced were horrible," admits Mr Eiden, early prototypes were "hazy", he says, and with the lens quality noticeably poor at its newer versions have proved promising in tests, says Mr Eiden. Participants in the company's trials have been asked, for example, to read something on a page, then look at an object in the distance, to see whether the glasses respond smoothly to the Eiden says that the eye tracking device within the spectacles cannot determine exactly what a wearer is looking at, though certain activities such as reading are in principle detectable because of the nature of eye movements associated with such glasses respond so closely to the wearer's eye behaviour, it's important the frames fit well, says Emilia Helin, product frames are adjustable but not to a great degree, given the delicate electronics inside, she explains: "We have some flexibility but not full flexibility." That's why IXI hopes to ensure that the small range of frames it has designed would suit a wide variety of small battery secreted inside IXI's autofocus frames should last for two days, says Mr Eiden, adding that it's possible to recharge the specs overnight while the wearer is he won't be drawn on a launch date, which he intends to reveal later this year. As for cost, I ask whether £1,000 might be the sort of price tag he has in mind. He merely says, "I'm smiling when you say it but I won't confirm." Autofocus lenses could help people who struggle with varifocals or bifocals, says Paramdeep Bilkhu, clinical adviser at the College of he adds, "There is insufficient evidence to state whether they perform as well as traditional options and whether they can be used for safety critical tasks such as driving."Chi-Ho To, an optometry researcher, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has a similar concern – what if the vision correction went wrong or was delayed slightly while he was, say, performing surgery on someone?"But I think in terms of general use having something that allows autofocusing is a good idea," he Eiden notes that the first version of his company's lenses will not alter the entire lens area. "One can always glance over the dynamic area," he says. If wholly self-adjusting lenses emerge then safety will become "a much more serious business", he adds. In 2013, UK firm Adlens released glasses that allowed wearers to manually change the optical power of the lenses via a small dial on the frames. These lenses contained a fluid-filled membrane, which when compressed in response to dial adjustments would alter its current chief executive Rob Stevens says the specs sold for $1,250 (£920) in the US and were "well received by consumers" but not so much by opticians, which he says "strangled sales".Since then, technology has moved on and the concept of lenses that refocus themselves automatically, without manual interventions, has IXI and other companies, Adlens is working on glasses that do this. However, Mr Stevens declines to confirm a launch Silver, an Oxford University physicist, founded Adlens but no longer works for the came up with the idea of fluid-filled adjustable lenses back in 1985 and developed glasses that could be tuned to the wearer's needs and then permanently set to that lenses have enabled roughly 100,000 people in 20 countries to access vision correcting technology. Prof Silver is currently seeking investment for a venture called Vision, which would further rollout these for more expensive, electronics-filled auto-focus specs, he questions whether they will have broad appeal: "Wouldn't [people] just go and buy reading glasses, which would more or less do the same thing for them?" Other specs tech is even slowing down the progression of eye conditions such as myopia, beyond just correcting for To has developed glasses lenses that have a honeycomb-like ring in them. Light passing through the centre of the ring, focused as normal, reaches the wearer's retina and allows them to see light passing through the ring itself is defocused slightly meaning that the peripheral retina gets a slightly blurred appears to slow improper eyeball growth in children, which Prof To says cuts the rate of short-sightedness progression by 60%. Glasses with this technology are now in use in more than 30 countries, he firm SightGlass has a slightly different approach – glasses that gently reduce the contrast of someone's vision to similarly affect eye growth and myopia autofocus glasses and other high-tech solutions may have promise, Prof To has an even bigger goal: glasses that don't just slow down myopia but actually reverse it slightly – a tantalising prospect that could improve the vision of potentially billions of people."There is growing evidence that you can do it," teases Prof To.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Johnson & Johnson rolls out TECNIS Odyssey IOL in selected regions
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has introduced the TECNIS Odyssey IOL in the Middle East, Canada, and Europe, expanding its range of presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses (PC-IOLs). This new lens is designed to provide patients with quality, continuous vision across all distances, significantly reducing the dependency on glasses. The TECNIS Odyssey IOL is built upon the TECNIS platform, which combines optics and materials to deliver clear, high-contrast vision. According to the company, it is designed to enhance visual freedom for patients, providing accurate vision for activities ranging from reading to driving. Individuals who have received the IOL reported they are satisfied with their overall vision without glasses. The IOL's freeform diffractive surface is engineered to provide seamless vision at near, intermediate, and far distances, with 96% of people satisfied with their ability to read on tablets or smartphones, and 97% with their distance vision. Additionally, the TECNIS Odyssey IOL is designed to reduce night vision disturbances such as glare and halos, offering improved image quality than PanOptix both day and night. It was observed that 92% of individuals expressed satisfaction with their ability to see steps and read street signs at night. The company's portfolio in the Middle East, Europe, Japan and Canada now includes both the TECNIS Odyssey IOL and the TECNIS PureSee IOL. While the TECNIS Odyssey is also available in Japan, the US, and Puerto Rico, the TECNIS PureSee is offered across Latin America and Asia-Pacific but has not yet received PMA approval in the US. J&J Vision Company Group chairman Peter Menziuso said: 'TECNIS Odyssey IOL is the fastest growing PC-IOL in the US, and we are excited to be making it available to more patients around the world. It addresses a significant unmet need for cataract patients seeking greater spectacle independence.' In recent news, J&J MedTech introduced the ETHICON 4000 Stapler, a surgical device designed to manage tissue complexities and ensure staple line integrity during surgeries. "Johnson & Johnson rolls out TECNIS Odyssey IOL in selected regions" was originally created and published by Medical Device Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
