Israeli start-up Deep Optics has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to develop and promote its 32°N adaptive focus sunglasses concept, which allows a single pair of glasses to accommodate several prescriptions.
Mimicking human vision, 32°N was developed to provide a seamless technological solution to a problem facing many people with presbyopia, said Yariv Haddad, Deep Optics CEO and co-founder. “32°N allows users to switch seamlessly between reading mode for near vision and scenic mode for distances, without having to switch between sunglasses and reading glasses and without the difficult compromises of progressive lenses and bifocals.”
32°N sunglasses feature pixelated liquid crystal (LC) layers that are split into tiny pixels, capable of rotation at every point of the panel, explained Haddad. Swiping the temple, the user activates a tiny, embedded processor that processes the user’s data to form the desired lens prescription. “Millions of tiny pixels inside the lens change their electrical state according to the new data to form the lens and bring the close object into focus,” he said, adding the processing is silent and doesn’t add extra weight or moving parts.
Well-known Deep Optics investors include Essilor and Samsung Ventures.
