so have you ever bent your eyeglasses? whether you have stepped on them or slept in them or perhaps
you're just really rough with them in this video we're going to take our first look at eyeglasses
made of memory metal going over how they work as well as even if you were to completely bend
your glasses inside out like this these ones just snap right back into place .so a huge shout out to
Marchon and the makers of Flexon for sponsoring this video showcase and giving us an opportunity
to show off how durable their eyeglasses really are in today's Frame Friday let's take a look
so there are many different types of eyeglasses out there you can go with plastic ones or metal
ones you can go really big you can go small you can get high-end designer frames or you can get
something that's a little bit more affordable but it doesn't take somebody who's in the industry to
recognize that most glasses out there are made of the same basic stuff just simple acetate plastics
and basic metals but these glasses frames these are different Flexon glasses are made with a
titanium memory metal alloy you see if you've never heard of memory metal before it's a type of
metal alloy that is more durable more flexible and is more corrosive resistant than many other metals
you see for Flexon it all started back in the 1960s when NASA was testing out different metal
materials to use as part of missile heat shields and right they needed something that would be
lightweight that would be durable and survive really harsh environmental conditions and
this one they happen to find out that if they were even a smack with the hammer it would just
bounce right back into shape and at some point some genius designer thought hey you know how
expensive glasses are if you keep breaking them and things well what if we take that metal alloy
and just make cool glasses out of it and because of this memory metal it gives some really cool
features to the glasses such as with the temples here i can bend it almost all the way around
and it just rebounds back straight same thing with the nose bridge and i love this the most
because i can twist it almost all the way around and again it just rebounds back into shape
basically durability is an understatement here now from what i've seen in the clinic most people
who bring in their broken glasses or have bent them usually do it because they did step on them
or maybe they sat on them by accident or they did fall asleep with them and they woke up with bent
glasses in the morning or if you happen to be a parent some parents who have little kids will
the kids will grab their glasses and bend them all the way back like this i've never seen anyone
intentionally bend their glasses all the way back 180 degrees here but the fact that i can do that
and they just bounce right back again it's pretty awesome and i don't recommend anyone try this at
home but in Flexson's advertisements they even showed somebody with a mountain bike like running
over their glasses as well as them being crushed in like a construction site environment and that's
probably the way that i've personally broken or bent my glasses before was from dropping something
very heavy onto them when i didn't notice let me know in the comments if you've ever broken
your glasses and how you have done that but i do like that even after all the bending and stuff
i've put them through the the fact that they just kind of spring back into shape and they need just
little adjustment it's pretty awesome now something i should mention here is that the frames
that i've been kind of showcasing and bending the temples and the nose bridge that's because these
frames are full flex on memory metal all the way around there are flex on frames that don't have
this flexibility depending on what type of style or frame line you're picking from because Flexon
does have specialized designs such as the Flexon black line these ones are higher end more designer
type frames that have better mix of materials both the memory metal as well as other metals and even
some silicones and plastics and they even have the new flexon Ultim line which has more of a stylized
plastic frame but still has the memory metal in the temples these ones still have the insane
flexibility in the temples but they trade out the flexibility in the nose bridge for something a
little bit more stylized up front which means that not all flex on frames you'll be able to twist
like i was doing before so just something to pay attention to now because of their flexibility and
lightweight properties flex on glasses do work for almost anybody they do make them in both women's
and children's designs but i see them most often marketed toward men with very active lifestyles
such as somebody who works a construction job or maybe participates in a very rough or extreme
sport of some kind but they could also work for somebody who doesn't want to worry about buying
glasses frames all the time because chances are these are going to last a long time and that adds
a whole other sense of value to them i know at our clinic we've offered flex on frames for several
years and it's usually something that i'll mention to a patient especially if they have
a history of being rougher on their glasses or they tend to wear their glasses the same pair for
several years at the very least i am pretty impressed with the whole memory metal thing
i think it's just very cool and i'm excited to see where the technology will go hey i hope you
found value in this video i know i always love taking a look at cool new technology
otherwise thanks again to flexon keep an eye on it and we'll see in the next one