In 2008: my son got glasses, broke glasses, and lost glasses more times than I care to count.
Read about our eyeglass adventures here. My faithful readers will know that I have spent many a blog post crying out for an eyeglass locator device of some kind. Finally, my prayers were answered when the kind folks at Eyewhere, Inc contacted me to let me know that such a product does indeed exist. EyeWhere is a 2 piece system that consists of a small device you clip onto the temple bar of your glasses, and a remote.
Of course, as my luck would have it the day that we received Eyewhere in the mail, my son had broken his glasses at school. I then went online and ordered him 2 new pair from Zenni Optical while he wore a pair of his spares that were partially broken already. Finally when the spares were bent beyond repair I caved and took him to the local optical place and bought him a new pair on the spot. Of course this meant that the replacements that I'd ordered from Zenni would arrive the next day - and they did. Oh well, so now we are up to 3 pairs of glasses. One I have put away in a safe place and the other 2 pair are floating around the house.
I knew we had to try out the EyeWhere system because Alex is famous for just taking off his glasses and leaving them wherever. My husband set it up so we could try it out and my first observation is that it fits better on glasses like mine where the temple bar is wider. My son wears metal frame (the titanium kind) glasses that have a very thin temples. The Eyewhere apparatus slides onto your frames and is held in place by elastic bands - so on my son's glasses it is a bit too wobbly for my liking. Also, obviously because his glasses are smaller the device is quite obvious when clipped to the side of his frames. This is not so much of a big deal for home use, but for going out in public - not as good. Again, if I were to use this on my glasses it probably wouldn't be any issue since the device would like to be hidden under my hair.
When you lose your glasses, simply click the remote and listen for the beep - look for the flashing light. The beep is very high pitched and not real loud. It runs on 2 watch-sized batteries. I was expecting the alarm to be a bit louder and hope that the makers of Eyewhere would consider making the beep less high pitched and upping the volume!
If you lose your glasses a lot or have a child, like mine, who has autism and is not real good about keeping his glasses on his head... the Eyewhere may just be your answer. Of course, that is only until you lose the remote!
To see the commercial and view the products check out this youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYNcQqjGpYc
EyeWhere costs $44.99 and is sold through the EyeWhere Website
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