DO adjust your specs: Ingenious £70 reading glasses allow users to focus with binoculars-style dial

 

• Many of us struggle to focus on close-up objects such as newsprint
• Now a company based in Oxford has come up with an ingenious solution
• Has produced spectacles where the focus can be altered like binocolars

It's a problem familiar to many as they enter middle age – the struggle to focus on close-up objects such as newsprint or embroidery.

And some people even face the added frustration of having to carry spectacles of varying strengths to allow them to carry out different tasks.

But now a British company has come up with an ingenious solution to get around the problem – spectacles where the focus can be altered in the same way as on a pair of binoculars.

A British company has come up with an ingenious solution to get around the problem of struggling to see nearby-by objects – spectacles where the focus can be altered

A tiny dial on the arms of each pair of the Eyejusters glasses enables the wearer to bring whatever they want to look at into sharp focus.

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Creator Owen Reading explained: ‘Lots of people need reading glasses but they need glasses with lots of different strengths.

‘They might have a pair with +1 prescription-strength lenses for the computer, +2s for reading, and +3s for really close-up stuff.