Anyone have any experience with these? I get sore eyes from staring at the screen for too long and am open to a solution. 

http://www.gunnars.com/

I don't see how they can do anything that couldn't be done by adjusting the contrast and brightness of your screen. Most monitors are set to blindingly bright and that's what kills my eyes. After adjusting the contrast and brightness I don't have a problem anymore unless I way overdo my screen time, special glasses can't remedy that.

You get eye fatigue because you focus intently on the screen at the same distance for long periods, causing your eyes to keep the same focus and never relaxing, that's why you get headaches for example, glasses won't do anything about that.

Lot's of claims with no scientific studies from creditable sources, only anecdotal evidence, hype and hearsay.

They reduce dry eyes? How? Is there like a mister built in that moistens your eyes?

Sounds like snakeoil to me.

Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

I don't use them but I have a couple of colleagues who do and they swear by them. I've tried them on and they seem ok. But not sure what they'll do unless you are really troubled by staring at a computer display for a while.

The best thing I found for eyestrain is stretching and getting off my butt away from the computer sometimes...

Every 20-30 minutes, sometimes more, sometimes less.....

ProjectM


I don't use them but I have a couple of colleagues who do and they swear by them. I've tried them on and they seem ok. But not sure what they'll do unless you are really troubled by staring at a computer display for a while.

They help when reading the FSF...

Times have changed folks.

If you don't think they can do some great things
when it comes to your vision comfort, needs and choices.....well....they work with eyes not brains.

Try them Sharke....it's not like you're selling your soul to the devil. You don't like 'em...get
your money back and then you'll know the facts and tell folks instead of trusting others opinions. By what I've read you could miss out on a good thing.

I wear progressive glasses and spend a lot of time in front of a computer. I have a
pair that was made for that.
Now just consider something...they can stick a lens up in space and take photos of
whatever it is that is so far away that you can't even imagine the distance....and you
question them being able to help with something a few feet away?...and trying to stay
in business running that specific and limited task...so....what was your question?

Oh...no, I haven't tried that brand/company but I don't see why there would be a problem.
I don't know about that particular one but I know about what Oakley can do.
Good glasses combined with trimph1 sound advice is a good thing for those that may
have to spend many hours looking at one.
Adjusting the monitor I would consider common knowledge.
 

Have you tried to calibrate your monitor Sharke?

It really helped my eyes a lot.

You can get High Definition color test patterns on Youtube. If you use a download manager you can save them to your PC.

I think a lot of the complaining upstairs about X1/2 looking so ugly is because folk's don't have their monitors set up right. After I did mine X2 looked a lot better.

I threw the test patterns on a USB stick and plugged in to my TV and calibrated it and holy guacamole what a difference it made! The hardest part about doing it is setting up the color white and making it look natural. The lighting around your PC monitor and TV greatly effects how white looks, so if you try this, make sure you do it in a light setting that you will be in the majority of the time.

The test patterns don't come with instructions ... they're just 1080P patterns. If you've never done it before ... make sure you turn Edge Enhancement off, Sharpness all the way down, Digital Noise Reduction off, anything along those lines that digitally alter the picture to make it clearer. Make sure you set your black adjustments to where you like them, this is mostly on TV's but some higher end monitors have it as well. Then set all your color and white controls to the middle. I started adjusting white first, then moved on to colors. I also found that it's a lot like mixing/mastering in that I had to take breaks or my eyes got all funky and I really messed the white scale up.

When I did it to my TV it looked like a completely different set. I was amazed at what a difference just balancing the colors and white scale could make.

Once you set all that stuff, you'll find that you hardly have to adjust Sharpness, and I never turned Edge Enhancement back on ... didn't need to.

Good luck, I think it's fun tinkering with this calibration stuff.

The best thing I found for eyestrain is stretching and getting off my butt away from the computer sometimes... Every 20-30 minutes, sometimes more, sometimes less.....

Yep... and it's good for tendinitis/RSI as well.   

Yeah maybe I need to calibrate my monitor. Actually I did read about some Windows app that tones down your colors into something more night-friendly and relaxing...the problem being that many of us use our computers until we go to bed, and the bright white light makes it harder for us to wind down and fall asleep. Warming the colors on your monitor makes for better sleep apparently. 

I'd get a set of the Gunnars to test only I'd need a prescription set and God knows how much that would set me back.