Warby Parker proves you can ‘disrupt’ glasses with $37M in funding

September 10, 2012 6:44 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

Warby Parker, a New York City-based startup offering stylish-yet-inexpensive glasses, has raised $36.8 million in a new round of funding.

PixelOptics shows off electronic-focusing eyeglasses (video)

January 13, 2012 7:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

PixelOptics makes what it calls the world’s first and only electronic-focusing eyeware, dubbed emPower. It essentially creates the effect of bifocals without forcing you to look through two different lenses.

The Roanoke, Va.-based company showed off the technology at the …