Crizal® has become the industry standard term for a high quality lens coating. Made by Essilor, the world’s largest lens company, Crizal® sets the standard for durability and scratch resistance for eyeglass lens coatings. Essilor originally introduced Crizal® , but later that technology was superceded by Crizal® Alize®, and then Crizal® Avance™. Crizal® is not used much anymore, and it is almost always dispensed as Crizal® Alize® or Crizal® Avance™.
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Over 80% of the information we receive through our senses is provided by our eyesight? As the only link between that information and your eyes, eyeglass lenses play an essential role. The greater their transparency, the more information they transmit.
Smudges, dust and reflections make lenses less transparent and consequently their optical performance is less effective. Your lenses are constantly exposed to these three enemies that can impair contrast perception, and as a result, lens performance.
Crizal lenses by Essilor provide longer lasting transparency.
Essilor of America, Inc. has teamed with 3M Company to debut a state-of-the-art lens, Crizal Avance with Scotchgard Protector, the Anti-Reflective lens that’s made to stay clean. This exciting new generation of Crizal® lenses offers customers an unprecedented level of lens performance, cleanability and clarity.
Leading-edge technology makes these reflection free eyeglass lenses resistant to scratches, dust and smudges. They are easier to clean than ever! Plus, their exceptional clarity ensures optimal quality of vision.
Crizal® Alize and Crizal® Avance™
Crizal® Alize® is less expensive than Crizal® Avance™. Crizal® Alize® offers double-sided integrated hardcoat, integrated multi-layer anti-reflective stack, super hydrophobic topcoat, and a pad control system. Crizal® Avance™ offers all of these, plus the anti-static technology of Scotchguard®. Crizal® Alize® offers superior scratch resistance, and also helps with glare and reflections during the day or at night. Crizal® Alize® is easy to clean and comfortable to wear.
A clinical study shows that a Crizal lens improves contrast perception by 20%*, versus an ordinary lens with no anti-reflective coating. This translates to greater visual comfort, especially for the wearer who works on a computer, or under fluorescent lighting.
Crizal is shown to improve eyeglass wearers’ perceived contrast threshold up to five times* in a simulated night driving situation combining dim light and bright glare from oncoming headlights.
More than 260 million Crizal-treated lenses have been sold worldwide since the product was launched in 1992. In fact, the satisfaction rate of the latest generation of Crizal lenses was above 90%*. (* International study – 689 Eyecare professionals – August 2009)
Crizal lenses perfect transparency allows you to enjoy the world with no limitations.
Do you want your Halloween costume to stand out in the crowd? Changing the look of your eyes and finishing off your Halloween costume with a great set of Halloween contact lenses will make your day.
Halloween contact lenses are a great way to complete your Halloween costumes. Weird colored contact lenses definitely supply your costume that bit extra that can make your costume totally unforgettable. A lot of people are using special effect or costume lenses simply for enjoyment, not only for costume parties.
Halloween contact lenses are a new “must have accessory” for the best tripped out costume ever. These lenses however, are not to be used for replacing your eyeglasses, but just for special occasions.
There are a lot of things that people do to try to top off there Halloween costume. Some of the things that people try to do to stick out from all the others are adding props and little detail touches on costumes. Some go all out and buy the most expensive cool looking costumes out there, others work extra hard on their make up.
These are all great ideas to set your self apart from all the other vampires, cats, goblins, and skeletons, however there is one that could really impress everyone. This is special effects contacts, where you can black or white out your eyes, have the narrow pupil like a cat, have your eyes glow in the dark, or just be crazy looking with multiple colors. You can get basically any color and design you could think of, there are so many different types of Halloween contact lens it’s unbelievable.
A great way to refresh your look, whether it is for a special occasion or simply to vary clothing and make-up possibilities is to wear Circle Contact Lenses. Unlike traditional colored contact lenses, which cover only the iris of the eye, circle lenses extend to cover part of the whites as well, which make the wearer’s eyes look huge.
Circle contact lenses have become quite a fashion trend these last months, especially after Lady Gaga used them for her Bad Romance video clip. Aside from the Lady Gaga allure, many young women claim that they wear them to make their eyes look bigger.
Circle lenses were available before the Gaga explosion, and in fact their popularity originated in Japan, Singapore and South Korea where many young women wear them to accentuate their eyes to resemble Japanese anime characters. The decorative contact lenses come in a variety of colors and give the wearer a doe-eyed, “manga charachter” appearance.
Circle Contact Lenses are special extra-wide cosmetic contact lenses which make the eye appear larger, because the circle contact lenses are bigger in diameter and these lens even cover the whitish area around the iris thus making eyes look bigger than normal.
Since 2005, it has been illegal in the United States to sell any type of contact lenses — corrective or cosmetic — without a prescription, which is why no major manufacturer in the United States sells these contacts. Most young women end up getting them through online sellers that they have found out about through message boards and YouTube videos.
Is popular singer Lady Gaga wearing circle contact lenses designed to enlarge the iris of her eye in her video “Bad Romance?”
Lady Gaga’s “doll-like”, cartoonishly large eyes were most likely generated by a computer, but teens and young women across the country have been copying them with special big eye contact lenses called “circle contact lenses” imported from Asia. Known as circle lenses, these are colored contacts — sometimes in weird shades like violet and pink and with special effects — that make the eyes appear much larger because they cover not only the iris, like ordinary lenses do, but also part of the whites.
Check out Lady Gaga’s enormous, manga-like eyes on her pop video, “Bad Romance.”
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed the sweeping health care reform legislation that was passed by the House of Representatives on Sunday night.
The legislation will massively revamp the nation’s health care delivery and financing system. By far, the biggest changes would be expanding Medicaid and establishing federal health insurance premium subsidies to the lower and middle-income uninsured. Congressional budget analysts estimate those changes could result in as many as 32 million uninsured gaining coverage.
Eyes are most precious organ of our body. Eyes adds vision to our life. About 80 % of what we perceive comes through the eyes. Our memories are made 80 % by images. The eye comes with information about the depth, distance, shape, color and movement of the objects.
Today many people have blindly accepted many vision related myths without thinking much on it. Following article tries to debunk Top 15 most common vision or eyesight related myths which are still prevalent in our society.
“The vein of the iris can show a person’s health”. Similarly to the fingerprints, the veins of the iris are very personal and cannot display the health of the owner.
Eyes are most precious organ of our body. Eyes adds vision to our life. About 80 % of what we perceive comes through the eyes. Our memories are made 80 % by images. The eye comes with information about the depth, distance, shape, color and movement of the objects.
In our generation many people have blindly accepted many vision related myths without thinking much on it. Following article tries to debunk Top 20 most common vision or eyesight related myths which some people are still believe in.
Contact lenses are better than Wearing Glasses. Wearing glasses is far safer option than using contact lenses. Glasses are not only cheaper but also easy to maintain than contact lenses. Glasses don’t stick on your eyes the way contact lenses do. Wearing and removing contact lenses is also a tedious and time consuming job.
Reading in the dark is bad for your vision. Although reading in dim light can cause tiredness to your eyes, but no harm can be caused.
Some exercises for eyes can improve your vision. Eye exercise do relax your eye but can’t improve vision. Any other efforts is a needless waste of time and does not bring any benefit. It is recommended to live a physically active life and have a balanced diet for keeping your eyes healthy.
In Tokyo’s Waseda University created the world’s thinnest band-aid, a nanometers-thick adhesive bandage sheet designed for surgical use. With nano band-aid you can pull off a wound, even on internal organs. Scientists have successfully used it healing a wound in the lungs of a dog. One week after attaching the plaster, scientists found the dog’s wound had healed.
Named “Nano Bansoko” (nano band-aid), the new bandage is between from several tens of nanometers to 1,500 nanometers thick (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). It is more than 1,000 times thinner than a plastic wrap. One side of nano band-aid is highly adhesive and can stick to tissues around wounds, while the other side shows very little tissue adhesion. The bandage, which breaks down naturally after healing, is made from chitosan (a substance derived from chitin found in crab shells) and alginate sodium (produced in kelp slime).
“We will now conduct a detailed safety evaluation in order to put the bandage into practical use in three years,” said professor Shinji Takeoka, who also announced plans to study the use of the bandage on other organs like intestines, as well as in scar prevention on sutured wounds after breast cancer surgery.
People who repeatedly recover from ordinary seasonal flu or a few times vaccinated, perhaps, to some extent are protected from the swine flu A virus H1N1, researchers from the United States reported.
They found evidence that the human immune system can partially recognize A virus H1N1 virus, which is something still similar to seasonal influenza viruses.
“Swine influenza is a bit like an ordinary flu, which may suggest that humans already have a partial immunity against it. Perhaps this can make the disease less severe among the general population than previously estimated,” – said Alessandro Sette, Ph.D. Head and Member CenterforInfectious Disease in California.
The study also may help explain why many older people are not so hard to carry the disease, said Ellison Dekhat Augustine from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “We adults may be a partial immunity against A virus H1N1,” – she said.
Swine flu has swept through about 22 million Americans from April to October, killing an estimated 3,900 people, including 540 children.
“We’ve been tracking influenza for decades,” says Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “What we are seeing in 2009 is unprecedented.”
Study Group of the Wake Forest University have successfully grown a rabbit’s penis, based on collagen and cells of rabbits. With artificial penis rabbits regained not only erectile function but also the reproduction ability, a medical conference in the U.S. has been told.
The research was led by the team of Dr. Anthony Atala, who said that the novel experiments raise hope that tissue engineering can one day be used to help men with severe impotence, or needing penile reconstruction, to regain their full sexual function.
The concept is that cells from a reduced organ are sprayed onto a collagen matrix, then bathed with compounds that stimulate cell growth and left in kept in an environment that duplicates the temperature and chemical makeup of living tissue.
New research being presented at an obesity conference this week found that the cereals that are most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to American children as young as 2 were also the least healthy.
The study, reported in The Cereal Food Advertising to Children and Teens ScoreReport, was part funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was conducted by researchers from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. It is being presented at Obesity 2009, the 27th annual scientific meeting of The Obesity Society, in Washington on 27 October.
Researchers find that cereals for children have 85% more sugar, 65% less fiber and 60% more sodium than cereals marketed to adults. In addition, companies are spending more than $156 million a year to market these cereals directly to kids.
