- Hi. It's Parris from Epic Review Guys,
and despite my youthful appearance,
I do, actually, use reading glasses.
Now, I have one pair.
I keep them in the drawer, in this desk,
so when I go out and I need to read something
on a menu, a label at the supermarket,
I take my cellphone, start up the camera,
zoom in, fight with the focus to try to get
the focus on something so close.
So, what's a better solution than that?
Well, there's a company called ThinOPTICS
that makes completely flat reading glasses.
They don't have any arms, they just fit right on your nose.
They fit in a little pouch that you can keep
on the back of your cellphone.
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- [Parris] I've seen a lot of TV commercials lately
for these ThinOPTICS Flat Reading Glasses.
I picked mine up for $25,
little pricey, I think, but we'll see how they work.
If you'd like to find out more about them online,
I'll put a link down below this video.
Now, this company was started online
with crowdsourced funding,
so people believed in this idea,
decided to invest their money to have these developed.
My wife uses reading glasses more regularly than I do.
She has a couple pairs she keeps in the house,
another pair at work, because she always wants
to have some with her, but invariably you end up
somewhere that you don't have your glasses,
and there's something that you need to read,
and that's where these come in handy.
I think because they don't have the arms on them
to rest on your ears, I don't know that you would
want to use these for a long period of time
because I would suspect, when you crinkle your nose
or anything, they tend to slide down.
But instead of having to ask someone,
Can you read this for me?
I think these would be nice to have,
and these are actually going to go to my wife.
And... this is them.
That's pretty thin.
They say, as thin as a credit card,
weighs less than a nickle, they also say.
I'll trust them on that.
It's very lightweight, they're just plastic.
Some sort of metal, I think it's a titanium
mixture, at least in the bridge here of the nose,
that let's them bounce back, and that's the idea
is you can cram them into this little case,
and keep them in your purse, keep them
on your cellphone, stuck in your wallet,
and they'll spring back to how they need to be
once you take them out.
Okay, let's give it a try.
Little bit rough, the nose grip, so it'll grip onto you.
I'm used to that being a smooth plastic piece,
but, they don't have the luxury of arms
to keep them on your face, okay.
Alright.
They come in 11 colors if you're going for stylish.
Now, let's see about reading something, something small.
Here we go, the fine print at the bottom of this package.
Copyright ThinOPTICS always with you, okay,
I can just make that out, and the phone number,
but the very last thing, like a UPS code or something,
I can't read, so I wanna try this.
U-P 11 by 18, one, five, oh, three, two, four.
Now, I do find if I move them down to the end of my nose
they still work perfectly fine,
so the distance to the eye doesn't seem to mater so much
because I still get just as good magnification
and clarity moving them up my nose,
but what that does is it makes a larger area
be magnified, so if I want to have an easier time
looking over them, I suspect I put them down on my nose
so I can see here, where I don't need to have the lenses.
They do remind me some of the glasses that Poirot wears,
the Agatha Christie character that they
turn into the TV show and movies,
and he wears them around his neck,
I think, or a little chain.
Anyway, he has the little spectacles
that are armless that he places
on his nose when he needs to look at a clue.
They say they're the same, front to back, so let's try that.
Turn them around.
Yeah, that's interesting, they are.
They work both ways, so you don't have
to worry about front and back to them.
Here's a close up look at these glasses, how thin they are.
Let's put something behind them for you to see.
There you go.
Now, these are 1.5 strength,
so they make this in 1.5, 2, and 2.5,
and this is supposed to be equivalent
to 1.25 to 1.75 for reading glasses.
I usually use the 1.25, these work fine for me.
Here's the other piece of what makes these
super portable flat glasses so easy to take with you.
This is the case, they slide in here at the top,
and there is an adhesive strip, I guess double-sided
tape on the bottom that you peel this off
and you can stick it to your smartphone, they mention
to your tablet, if that's something you always
have with you, and somebody very cleverly
mentioned, you can even put this onto
the back of your badge, that if you wear one of those
around your neck when you're at work, that way
you'll always have reading glasses with you at work.
Let's see about sliding these in.
Oh, it's not quite wide enough for them to be
in their natural position, it seems.
Well, maybe just.
Anyway, it's a good thing that
piece that connects them is flexible.
So, there you go. That's how thin that will be.
Now, again, I'm not going to put it onto my phone
permanently, because my wife is going to be using this.
She doesn't want it on her phone.
She's gonna keep it in her purse.
This is how it would work, with the adhesive strip.
I don't know, I just keep my phone in my pocket,
I'm not sure if putting it in and out,
it would tend to pull this off, if it would be an issue.
I did try a product, the Pocket Wallet,
something like that, I don't remember
the name right now, that was a little wallet
similar to this that you would adhere
to the back of your phone, and it had room
for a few credit cards and a little bit of paper money.
And it was surprisingly handy.
I was able to make due with that, and I had
no problem with that being on the back of my phone.
Now let's see about taking them out of this case.
I'm guessing you just pull on that.
Oh, that's pretty easy, and they
pop right back into position ready to go onto your nose.
I just took these ThinOPTICS glasses out to my wife,
and had her try them on,
since she's the one who will be using them.
She really liked them.
They fell off her nose the first time,
she caught them before they fell on the ground.
Supposedly, they don't break very easily,
and they're scratch resistant,
but don't want to find out the first ten minutes
after you open up the package.
So she had to find the right place on her nose for them.
She likes them further down and tilted
at an angle, and when I mentioned about
putting it on the work badge, she thought
that was a really good idea because
at work, she'll need to look at the big boards
that they have up on the wall and compare
that to what she has written down.
So, she has to do a lot of looking at the paper,
looking at the wall, so further down on the nose is good
for that because you can look right over them.
So, she thought it was a really good design
and she'll probably put it to good use.
ThinOPTICS Reading Glasses, a pretty clever design.
You can find out more about them
in that link down below this video.
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