But the end is near, says Fortune magazine. The popularity of the “hipster” style – think beards, trucker hats, thick horn rims and Pabst Blue Ribbon...
Customer spent $28,000 on diamond-accented Bulgaris. Irish luxury department store Brown Thomas is claiming to have made the country’s biggest-ever sunglass sale on Christmas Eve. One...
He worries that he put a guide-dog out of business. Dr. Errol Rummel, who owns an eye-care center in Jackson, NJ, looks back over a long...
What’s in a name? Chinese retailers are finding that brands with Western-sounding names are a hit with upwardly mobile – and newly affluent – consumers. One...
Video traces fascinating history of an old axiom. A new video from the American Chemical Society gets into the fascinating history of the old axiom that...
Prize-winning dissertation finds several visual side-effects A graduate student at City University in London has taken top honors in an annual competition for optometry students for...
System will be introduced at CES next month. At the CES show in Las Vegas next month, Sony will introduce what it calls the Single-Lens Display...
Niagara Falls optical shop now owned by the teenager who used to sweep up. When Joseph George opened his Niagara Falls, NY optical shop in 1938,...
One tip: Hire from the outside. Paul Batson, OD, center director of VisionAmerica in Birmingham, AL tells his university interns that seeing patients is the easiest...
The price of his Christmas cookies is a donation to an eyecare nonprofit. By day, James Lender manages an optical shop in Uniontown, PA. By night,...
But ODs have powerful allies in state legislature. New Jersey optometrists are seeking to regain the right to prescribe hydrocodone, following new federal restrictions put into...
Gosling, Depp, Pitt are among the trendsetters. Glasses are officially the newest cool fashion accessory, says a UK newspaper in a survey of that country’s eyewear...
Rapunzel and Cinderella get high marks. A fashion blogger reports she has been won over by Disney Princess Eyeglasses from Japanese eyewear brand Zoff. Her favorite...
Doctors issue a warning to those fit few who can do them. A case study just released from Worthing Hospital in England tells of a 32-year-old...
Retina studies could lead to improved understanding of cancer. A group of eye surgeons at the University of Adelaide have discovered that the retina in human...
If they operate in a retail store, there must be a wall. A new rule approved by the Tennessee Board of Optometry is requiring optometrists that...
Contact lens risks far lower than CDC reported, they say. The Refractive Surgery Alliance has formally demanded that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Chain’s number of locations has nearly doubled this year. The Washington DC-based MyEyeDr. chain has acquired the 27-location Eye Care Associates of Raleigh, NC. MyEyeDr., which...
Non-drinkers twice as likely to develop eye problems. Good news for the holidays: A website for oenophiles reports that a team of researchers at the University...
At this San Francisco shop, glasses take multiple consultations. Customers do not visit San Francisco’s SomNoir Eyewear for a fast fit of whatever’s off the rack....
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