Imagine a world where your glasses stop betraying you the moment you switch from reading a menu to spotting a friend across the restaurant. No more awkward head-tilting like a confused pigeon just to find the sweet spot on your progressives. Finnish startup IXI has apparently cracked it: glasses with liquid-crystal lenses that detect where you’re looking, instantly reshape themselves, and make bifocals look like stone-age tech. The only downside? They need charging, so now your nightstand officially has more gadgets than a Best Buy shelf—and if the battery dies, you’re back to squinting like it’s 1999.
Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At