BUYER’S GUIDE

New and Now
A look at the latest in product launches

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SURFACING PLUS TWO

Schneider Optical Machines has augmented its all-in-one, in-house surfacing unit, the DSC Prolab, with a coater and environmentally friendly blocking system. CB Connect is a fully capable, highly accurate manual blocking solution that eliminates the need for complex alloy-based blocking. The EBC 400 is an AR coater designed for small labs or in-house labs. Both systems complement the DSC Prolab and together form a complete minilab.

INFO: schneider-om.com

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EASY FINISH

Santinelli International’s new all-in-one LE-700 Edging Station is the most compact and economical finishing system in the company’s history. The unit features tracer-free technology, measuring demo lenses and patterns (including front curve) within the processing chamber and obtaining 3D tracing data. An optional front-loading frame tracer that handles high wraps is available. The station features an intelligent blocker and “next-step” wizards on the touch screen that takes the operator through the entire tracing, blocking, edging, and grooving process.

INFO: 800-644-3343, santinelli.com

SANTINELLI LE-700

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LASH OUT!

MediNiche, Inc., has introduced Lash Advance, a non-Rx lash cosmeceutical that helps grow sparse lashes and thinning eyebrows. Lash Advance is formulated with a blend of natural ingredients that helps lashes recover from environmental, chemical, and physical damage by hydrating, improving flexibility, and minimizing breakage. It does not contain drugs, parabens, petroleum products, propylene glycol, fragrances, or colorants, and is suitable for sensitive eyes. With regular use, representatives note, lashes return to a health state in as little as two weeks.

INFO: mediniche.com

MEDINICHE Lash Advance

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IN THE OFFICE

From Carl Zeiss Vision, the Zeiss Officelens is a customized task-specific lens that allows patients to chose the amount of working distance they need, thereby solving prior “one-size-fits-all” workplace lens issues. Officelens has the intermediate vision in the top part of the lens, allowing a wide view of a digital screen with comfortable posture. Wearers have a choice of three working distances: Officelens Book provides a wide near field and an intermediate range of about three feet; Officelens Desk extends the intermediate range to about seven feet, for seeing the immediate workspace clearly; and Officelens Room provides intermediate to about 14 feet, enough for comfortable vision in meetings and moving around the office. The lens is ordered with the same information required for a standard progressive, and is available in a full range of materials.

INFO: vision.zeiss.com

THIN POLAR

Seiko Optical Products of America has introduced PolarThin, a semi-finished spherical 1.67 polarized sunlens. It features Precise Film Positioning, in which the film is located 0.4mm from the surface center to edge. The result is a lightweight lens that can be surfaced as thin as 1.3mm center thickness. It is available in 11 base curves, making it ideal for all free-form designs as well as conventional single vision. The gray and brown lenses are high-index MR-10 resin, and have a hard coat primer.

INFO: 800-235-5367, seikoeyewear.com

POP IN RX

Smith Optics introduces a prescription program for its ChromaPop polarized sunwear. ChromaPop lenses are engineered to optimize color and increase visual clarity. The lenses are available in four tints, Polarchromic Ignitor, Polar Brown, Polar Gray Green, and Polar Platinum. They are offered through the authentic Smith Prescription Sun solution and its Trivex Confined Tint Technology (CTT), which engineers the tint and photochromic dyes within 0.9mm of the front surface of the lens.

INFO: smithoptics.com