Gone are the days when wearing glasses was considered to be the ultimate in making you unfashionable. Remember the famous – “Guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses”? We had stereotypical figures in films, books, music vides, all conceivable places, that portrayed people wearing glasses as the ‘ultimate uncool’, the nerd!

Are you a health freak? Do you go for weekly and monthly checkups to your doctor? Do you ever get your eyes checked? If you don’t, this will help you understand how important eye exams are.

Eyes are the mirrors of the heart. However, more scientifically speaking, eyes are more like windows to our brains and as neuroscientists say, they can find out mental exertion by calculating the variations in pupil diameter.

Back in the old days generations ago, some people would say that wearing glasses was a sign of being a bookworm, and many eyeglass wearers have claimed that spectacles have made them look ugly.

If you think you know all about your sunglasses, think again! Here are some facts that might be of your interest. Origin of sunglasses can be dated back to ancient times in China and Rom.

Contact lenses are one of the breakthrough innovations in the field of eye care. For those who find wearing an eyeglass a bit troublesome or distracting, for instance, contact lens may be an ideal solution.

Good photography, whether it’s using digital or conventional film, relies on a number of basic things - a camera body, a lens and you! All three of these things can be top quality or just plain average.

When I was young, my eye doctor had given me a simple exercise to perform a few times during the day. I was asked to hold a pen at a distance from the eye…then count ten, bring it a few inches closer and count ten again.

Did you know that more than half of the entire populations are shortsighted? There is an ever increasing group of people who rely on reading glasses to see clearly. This isn’t really a serious short coming by any means.

Probably the beautiful Jackie O made sunglasses a craze! Or it could also be those cowboys in the Hollywood westerns, who’re seen flaunting those Ray-Ban sunglasses and looking like studs! Nevertheless, irrespective of who started the craze and when, it is undeniable that sunglasses are a fashion statement today.