Are you a geek, gamer, office employee? Do you spend days on the fly in front of PC screens, or maybe you read a lot and by the end of the day your eyes get tired of hard work? In this article I will talk about an accessory that I tested for a year that has become for me an indispensable and familiar attribute both in work and in regular life. I forgot a remedy like Vizin, a feeling of dryness and redness of the eyes. And the world around me has become an order of magnitude clearer, more contrast and warmer ...

To start a video from CES 2011



In the first part, some background information about the company and technology.
In the second part of the review I will talk about:
- How to choose such glasses for yourself not the name of the stores at hand,
- Reduce the cost of acquisition and delivery.
- I will conduct a detailed review of the glasses models that I and my friends have acquired, share my operational experience and impressions, as well as prepare photos and video materials for a more accurate presentation of this accessory and its effectiveness.

I already wrote last year about the continuous exposure to quanta of violet and blue radiation from monitors, telephones, and other household and lighting devices. For the eyes, the violet-blue region (shortwave) of the spectrum is the most harmful. A daily stay for many hours at the computer does not cause diseases that parents and doctors insist on, but the development of these very eye diseases, eye fatigue, headaches, and sleep disturbance (due to suppression of the level of melatonin in the body). In the article, I also mentioned glasses that help to deal with these kinds of problems. They will be discussed

How I discovered GUNNAR

I have been wearing glasses since childhood, and whoever talked about the influence of monitors and visual impairment, I never believed in this, I was not going to part with the profession and understood that my whole life would be connected with computers. Vision did not deteriorate, but the older I got and the more I worked, the less time I could spend in front of the monitor without experiencing discomfort, burning eyes and fatigue. Working behind different home / work / clients monitors, by the end of the day, my eyes began to make a real rebellion, began to close by themselves, and when I tried to fight them, they started to water from any light source. And a few years ago, the question arose about reducing eye strain.



The first thoughts were the need to do an operation a la Lasic in order to restore the standard 100% vision, but such an operation costs about 100 000 p. in both eyes + the likelihood of re-conducting. To collect such an amount you need time, you need to continue to work, which means again a day in front of the monitor, again fatigue, again drops and a limited working day. And then I started looking for a more affordable, cheap and practical solution. That decision turned out to be Gunnar Optiks glasses.

I stumbled upon them by a lucky chance, scouring the expanses of the foreign Internet for eye fatigue during prolonged use. The review was overly positive and I delved into the study, review by review, article by article, for the most part all the authors were positive about their acquisition and strongly recommended. They were more impressed with their design and the product’s focus on their native high-tech audience, which is described in the Digital Performance Eyewear description . I have been looking for stylish but simple frames for ordinary glasses for a long time, but there was nothing on our market that would catch on like GUNNARS with its wide range.

A curious moment was the fact that these glasses, in addition to gamers (the company actively promotes its products in almost all gaming competitions in the USA and Korea) and geeks, are actively used by racers, athletes and stars. Of the latter, 50 cents, the stars of the series Heroes, and Barney Stinson from HIMM were noticed.



Since the glasses are designed for all people of the digital age (the company focuses on gamers and computer people), and not just those who have vision problems. In their stock condition, the lenses of the glasses are ordinary (without diopters) made using special i-AMP technology, which gives the glasses all their value. And you can order diopter glasses, which have recently been produced by the world famous Carl Zeiss company with this technology, only in laboratories and at RX retailers located in America, Italy and Germany. Then I decided to order Gunnar glasses, and use them with contact lenses.

Manufacturer and Technology

GUNNAR Optiks is a technology company that seeks to increase the ability of the human visual system. GUNNAR glasses are specially designed in order to provide the person with optical and visual advantages in work, games and everyday life in the shortest possible time.

What functions do glasses perform?

• Increase visual resolution.
• Increase contrast.
• Increase sharpness and clarity of vision
• Neutralize bright and reflected light.
• Relieve eye fatigue
• Maintain a moist microclimate around the eyes.
• Neutralize the feeling of dry eyes
• Increase efficiency, productivity. and visual acuity.

Technology

i-AMP technology is the result of intensive research on the human optical system and its interaction with digital devices. According to the company, it improves the properties of the human eye. Lenses consist of a patented material, have an advanced geometry and are equipped with a special coating and shade.

The I-AMP technology includes:
1. Lens material - diAMIX
2. Lens geometry - fRACTYL : Designed using computer algorithms, creates a microclimate around the eyes while retaining moisture and prevents evaporation by air currents.

• Neoscopic fit for comfortable viewing at close range.
• Transcopic fit for comfortable viewing at any distance.

3. Multi-level i-FI lens coating : Filters transmitted light and protects lenses:

• Anti-glare reduces glare and distracting extraneous light.
• Hydrophobic reduces the amount of droplets falling on the lens from water to a minimum.
• Oleophobic protects against smearing and fingerprints.

Fixed all hard coating reduces wear and minimizes the number of scratches.

4. Shades of lenses - iONIC : GUNNAR Laboratory using spectrophotometry studied the visible and invisible parts of the light spectrum in different lighting conditions. And in order to balance the load on the eyes, a combination of iONik shades and i-FI coatings were used in the lenses. Which, depending on the wavelength, lighting conditions, enhance or weaken the amount of energy passing into the eyes of a person, while increasing their overall performance



In fact, if you look at the glasses in different conditions from the side, they visually manifest themselves in different ways, and in some cases they seem completely invisible (in the afternoon in sunlight, on the face, only darlings and nose bridge are visible, glasses are not visible at all), in others on the contrary, dark amber. Glare and reflections are also different, from the screens are usually purple, from the sky greenish. Reflection aesthetically looks very beautiful and varied.



The company has a large lineup of frames, there are strict, athletic, stylish, youth, and female form factors. In addition to computer, there are sunglasses and 3D glasses, but with them I had neither the experience nor the desire for knowledge, so we will not consider them.

Conventionally, the lineup is as follows:
* Ruler - Model

Sphere - Halogen
Catalyst - Edge , Bit Surfer, Shredder, Wi-Five , Groove
Metallic - Weezer, Rocket, Ombre, Marley, Sheadog
Attache - Phenom, Emissary, Pipeline, Metropole
eSPORT - PPK, Paralex, N Querry

Read on tomorrow.

UPD: The topic is not advertising, the author of the article, like his colleagues bought points for their own money. The company is not represented in the Russian Federation and the CIS. The reason for the positive recall is the lack of product analogues, and an exceptionally favorable experience in owning this accessory.



Finally, a few girls: