The emPower lenses have arrived at Casella Eye Cen­ter!!! These new elec­tronic mul­ti­fo­cal lenses will arrive in our opti­cal in early fall, and they are poised to change how we think about using glasses to focus. The cre­ators of the emPower Lens real­ize that today’s soci­ety, with its ever-evolving tech­no­log­i­cal advances, man­dates a full and dynamic range of clear vision. The advent of the pro­gres­sive lens brought about a whole new par­a­digm for the visual cor­rec­tion of patients with pres­by­opia (a uni­ver­sal con­di­tion caus­ing a dimin­ished focus­ing abil­ity that usu­ally comes on in one’s early 40’s). Now, a new tech­nol­ogy has given way to another fun­da­men­tal shift in how we view lens optics: instant manip­u­la­tion of lens power by means of an elec­tric current.

Here’s how it works: A trans­par­ent layer of liq­uid crys­tals within the emPower Lens under­goes a change in its index of refrac­tion (or focus­ing power) with an auto­matic cur­rent of elec­tric­ity from a micro-battery within the frame. The process seems sim­ple enough, but the notion of accom­plish­ing this in eye­wear that looks and feels and weighs the same as a con­ven­tional pair of glasses is quite a com­plex and mul­ti­fac­to­r­ial achieve­ment. We have per­son­ally tried these lenses, and they are truly supe­rior for those with lifestyles demand­ing a dynamic range of clear vision. Whether work­ing on a com­puter, read­ing, see­ing a golf ball, or any­thing in between, these lenses can accom­plish vir­tu­ally any visual demand through use of the absolute newest opti­cal tech­nol­ogy avail­able. Come get emPow­ered today!