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Flying High On Recycled Eyewear Made From Airplanes

Here is some stats you may not know and thanks to Green Eco Services. A lot of airplanes go to waste and Airborn Eyewear has come up with a way to recycle airplane parts and create some Ace spex. This is what they say on their site.

Feb 20, 2012

Eyewear Design Awards: Titanflex Wins iF Material Award

TITANflex was the only brand to win the 2012 iF Material Award for TITANflex 820578, a men’s frame in the striking and minimalist design typical of the brand. The iF material award was created as a platform for important new developments from the world o

Feb 20, 2012

L’Amy America Signs Sperry Top-Sider License

L’Amy America has announced it has entered into a multi-year license agreement with Sperry Top-Sider to market and distribute sunglasses and ophthalmic frames for both men and women under the Sperry Top-Sider brand name in the U.S. and Canada.

Feb 17, 2012

GeoMetrics Database Launched by Jobson Optical Research

A new database product called GeoMetrics offers users a look at the total revenues and the number of locations to size the market of all optical locations dispensing eyeglasses. Launched by Jobson Optical Research, GeoMetrics is an add-on tool to its stan

Feb 16, 2012

National Association of Vision Care Plans to Host Joint Health Summit With NASHO

The National Association of Vision Care Plans (NAVCP) will host its first joint event with The National Association of Specialty Health Organizations (NASHO) since the two organizations merged one year ago.

Feb 15, 2012

New devices to make life easier for visually impaired

New types of devices may offer hope to the millions of people around the world who are visually impaired, in a bid to make their daily lives easier.

Feb 15, 2012

Orange 21 Announces Corporate Name Change to SPY Inc., Changes Stock Symbol

Orange 21 Inc. (OTCBB: ORNG) has announced that it has changed its corporate name to SPY Inc. effective Feb. 15, 2012 and has received preliminary approval to change its stock symbol to "XSPY" (OTCBB: XSPY) effective that same date.

Feb 14, 2012

Share Your Favorite Crazy Eyewear With iGlasses

Another fun eyewear app from iGlasses. This one allows you to try on funky eyewear and share.

Feb 14, 2012

New Prescription Eyewear Website Brings Value to the world

Idooptical.com is a world class provider of high quality online prescription glasses and eyeglasses frames with a mission to provide quality material and services to everyone coming across them.

Feb 14, 2012

Celebrity Eyewear Comes to Town

They all feature glasses that are sold at Voyage, a new eyewear store that opened last week in Calabasas.

Feb 14, 2012

One Optician will be Awarded Grant to Fund Mission Trip with Sight Ministries

Eyes of Faith Optical, along with the Fellowship of Christian Optometrists and Sight Ministries, is offering a $3000 grant for an optician to join the Sight Ministries team on a mission trip to Kenya in October 2012.

Feb 13, 2012

Transitions Optical Becomes the Official Sponsor of Sightseeing™

Complementing its new global communication initiative – Life Well Lit™ – Transitions Optical, Inc. announced the Official Sponsor of Sightseeing™ (OSS) campaign to educate consumers about the importance of proper eyecare and eyewear to help them “see the

Feb 13, 2012

Conqueror protective eyewear now UL certified

Conqueror Safety Eyewear—one of Gateway Safety’s newest products—has recently been certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to meet the ANSI Z87.1+ high impact standard.

Feb 13, 2012

VSP Launches Third Year of Eye on Diabetes Campaign

VSP Vision Care is launching its third annual VSP Eye on Diabetes campaign, which provides low-income, uninsured and underinsured residents across America with free health services, including comprehensive eye exams and health risk assessments for diabete

Feb 10, 2012

The Vision Connection: Integrating Vision into State Health Programs

For years, Prevent Blindness America, with the support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), has worked closely with its affiliates to advance state vision integration ef

Feb 10, 2012

AOA, Insurance Commissioner Send Letters Opposing Stand-Alone Vision Plans

As states around the country start to decide whether to include stand-alone vision plans in their health insurance exchanges being created in the wake of health care reform, including California this weekend, both the American Optometric Association (AOA)

Feb 10, 2012

Importance of contact lens hygiene "cannot be overstated"

Although millions of people across the planet benefit from wearing contact lenses and the comfortable and effective vision correction that the products provide, some people are failing to follow the correct hygiene procedures, it has been claimed.

Feb 09, 2012

Eyewear benefit scheme to end

The program that aims to provide responsive, efficient and cost effective delivery of quality visual aids to those in need will cease supplying benefits from February 29.

Feb 09, 2012

Initial Speakers Announced For VM’s 2012 Global Leadership Summit, ‘Innovation Everywhere’

Vision Monday is announcing its initial roster of speakers, from outside and within the vision care field, for the upcoming, daylong VM 2012 Global Leadership Summit, to be held here March 21.

Feb 08, 2012

Associations Go Public With Support for Stand-Alone Vision Plans for the Affordable Care Act

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Essential Health Benefits Bulletin of Dec. 16, 2011 proposed to give each state its own say in how it would implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (see HHS Gives States More Flexibility t

Feb 08, 2012