Forvia has been granted a patent for a process to manufacture optical lenses from glass. The method involves tempering a glass blank, press-molding it between molds to form the lens, and using an ...

Dutch company LuxExcel has developed a 3-D printing process that can produce reading glasses, and is working toward being able to create prescription spectacles with custom frames. The 3-D print ...

There are some types of projects that we see quite often here on Hackaday; 3D Printers, Development Boards and Video Game Hardware to name a few. Once in a while we see an optics-based project but ...