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You’ve probably wondered why lenses mist up? And how to stop sunglasses fogging up? Fogging happens when water vapour (from exhaled breath and sweat from your forehead) cools down when it comes into contact with the lenses. The cold lenses cause a phase change as the warm vapor surrounds the lenses and turns the air into a liquid. Fogging also occurs when the lens is colder than the air surrounding the lens; this often happens if you move from outdoors to indoors. Or if you take your eyewear out …

We have just taken delivery of two new ranges made for our sister company Evolution Eyewear: Paradox and Connect X. The new Evolution Paradox is designed specifically for archers. Featuring Class 1 Optical Quality lenses, the Paradox archery model has a 10 base curve and no nose piece providing totally unobscured vison at the point of aim. Importantly, it’s lightweight with a contoured lens shape so that even without a nose piece it rests comfortably on the nose. Both sides of the lens have a h …

The trusty old sun visor in your car is virtually unchanged since it was first introduced around 100 years ago. Now German company Bosch have taken a quantum leap forward with something called a “Visual Visor”; a 21st century makeover based on artificial intelligence. The new Bosch ‘visor’ automatically detects when sunlight is shining on the driver’s eyes and blocks out the rays using a transparent liquid crystal display (LCD) which only applies to the area immediately around your eyes – very c …