Magnetic Reading Glasses Anyone?

[bobl]

So I've reached the age where my reading glasses are a permanent fixture (on my person, not my face) and being somewhat careless, I prefer to keep a few of the 100 baht throwaway (because they break/scratch so readily) type handy and usually have a spare pair or two for when the current 'favourite' pair falls apart.

I recently got a magnetic pair in Mae Sai, which one leg already snapped, but while they lasted they were great compared to normal specs and I kinda miss them.

Anyone seen them in CM? I've seen the cheap normal glasses all over the place but I don't recall seeing anyone with the magnetic ones...

[eyecatcher]

You just want some to stick on your fridge dont you?

[jbrain]

You have a bolt in your hip or somehwere where you stick them to ?

[Mestizo]

Magnetic? Do you have a metal plate in your head?

-Mestizo

[OldChinaHam]

I've seen them in banks. Maybe you could rob a bank.

Or, isn't the magnet just used to hold the glasses together?

So if you can't find an actual pair, then you could buy a regular design and break them in half.

And then you could reattach them with a hook when you wanted to use them.

That's what I do when I can't find something I need when I'm not near a major city.

[bobl]

Oh, ha ha. So many wits...

Photo, for the avoidance of doubt...

I don't like those string things you attach to regular glasses, hence the preference for these...

[OldChinaHam]

Yes, I knew what they looked like.

But does that pair come with magnets fabricated with Rare Earths from China?

[MESmith]

Cellotape a couple of small magnets to the frame. Or to be more stylish, use fabric plasters - for the "Jack Duckworth" look

[justcruisin]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

[hellodolly]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

OK I will be the dummy here. what is the advantage to them?

I use a 300 for reading but nothing for walking around.

What would they do for me that my regular ones don't do.

If you go to the shop justcruisin mentioned they are closed on Mondays.

[bobl]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

OK I will be the dummy here. what is the advantage to them?

I use a 300 for reading but nothing for walking around.

What would they do for me that my regular ones don't do.

If you go to the shop justcruisin mentioned they are closed on Mondays.

I also only use them for reading. Never needed glasses in my life until presbyopia set in and it got to the stage my arms were no longer long enough.

The advantage is the same advantage you get from wearing a string on regular glasses to wear them round your neck - to keep them at hand. I don't much like those strings, hence the magnetic ones. Other than that, it's a lifestyle thing I guess. I need mine very frequently, I'm rarely away from a smartphone or a computer so as an alternative to keeping glasses on top of my head, I find them very advantageous - you might not.

[hellodolly]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

OK I will be the dummy here. what is the advantage to them?

I use a 300 for reading but nothing for walking around.

What would they do for me that my regular ones don't do.

If you go to the shop justcruisin mentioned they are closed on Mondays.

I also only use them for reading. Never needed glasses in my life until presbyopia set in and it got to the stage my arms were no longer long enough.

The advantage is the same advantage you get from wearing a string on regular glasses to wear them round your neck - to keep them at hand. I don't much like those strings, hence the magnetic ones. Other than that, it's a lifestyle thing I guess. I need mine very frequently, I'm rarely away from a smartphone or a computer so as an alternative to keeping glasses on top of my head, I find them very advantageous - you might not.

Got it. I mainly use a PC computer so I just leave a pair with it and carry some in my pocket for the occasional use away from it have a pair of prescription by the bed and don't have a smart phone.

[OldChinaHam]

The shape of the eyeball changes with age, hence the change in vision as the days march inexorably by.

Why don't you just use your two fingers to keep pressure on your eyeballs until they get to the correct shape, and things come into focus, when you need to see, that is what I do.

[xen]

I have seen them in Pantip in BKK at the shop that sells all the other reading glasses so no doubt they will be available in other reading glasses stalls in CMX. I think about 300 baht as somebody mentioned but i loose my glasses regularly but always find another previously lost pair somewhere so it is bit of recycling.

[Mekong Bob]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

I believe you are referring to "Sun Kan Wen" (Vision Center), right?

[kilt]

I use the magnetic glasses. They are called "Clic Readers" and you can find them and buy them through the web.

Google "Clic Readers Thailand" and you will find a few sites, including a Facebook page for a dealer in Thailand.

In the USA I pay about $30bucks a pair. No idea what the cost is in Thailand. They're great, for all the doubters

[justcruisin]

They have them at the optometrist shop a few doors back before the UN Irish pub.Quite good actually, they are more expensive,if I recall 300Bht + but are well worth it, oh and they wont break like the Mai Sai ones!

I believe you are referring to "Sun Kan Wen" (Vision Center), right?

Yes that's the one. Thanks

[hellodolly]

The shape of the eyeball changes with age, hence the change in vision as the days march inexorably by.

Why don't you just use your two fingers to keep pressure on your eyeballs until they get to the correct shape, and things come into focus, when you need to see, that is what I do.

It's not that simple when most people get to the age of 40 the lens starts getting less elastic it begins to stiffen up and that is why so many people as they age either get reading glasses or they hold the book farther and farther away from their eyes,

That is not a hard and fact event but it does happen to most people in the 40 year old bracket.

Like a friend of mine we used to offer to hold the book on the other side of the room for him.

[Konini]

Cellotape a couple of small magnets to the frame. Or to be more stylish, use fabric plasters - for the "Jack Duckworth" look

My dad did that once with the plasters. I was calling him a name that won't come to me - the really grumpy old git on Brookside. He actually did look a bit like the actor, except he was never grumpy. He kept it up for well over a year until he got new ones. Never with clear tape, always Band Aid's. So embarrassing - at least I'd already left home by that stage so I didn't have school-mates giving it to me.