Pinhole Glasses: A Non-prescription Solution To Your Eye Problems

By Author: Alan Irel
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Pinhole glasses are the latest in non-prescription vision enhancement. These glasses are similar to your regular prescription glasses except, instead of using specific glass lenses, several holes are drilled in the plastic lenses to block out excess light.

Pinhole glasses are typically made out of plastic or similar materials that will retain their frame when having several small holes drilled through them. The lenses are hard plastic that through the manufacturing process have tiny holes drilled in them to block out light from hitting your pupil. The technology behind these glasses comes from native Alaska. Natives in the area used to create glasses by using a very basic form of this technology. They would drill holes in bones so that they would still be able to see properly but it wouldn't allow excess light to enter their eyes through snow reflection. Before the glasses, native had the problem of snow blindness, whenever they would spend excess time outside looking around the landscape and the snow the light coming from the sun would reflect ...
... like a mirror right into their eyes, thus damaging their vision.

From native beginnings, we now have pinhole glasses that can be disguised to look like modern day sunglasses. Whenever you wear the glasses outside and are exposed to the sun, only a slight amount of light is allowed to enter the pupil. No matter how wide open your pupil is, there is still only a fraction of the sun's light entering it increasing your focus. While these glasses increase your focus, they may have the tendency of decreasing your peripheral vision, but it is a small price to pay for near perfect vision without having to visit an optometrist.

Overall if you are interested in pinhole glasses and what they can do for your vision, talk to your local optometrist or check out what is available online. Once you start wearing the glasses you will find it hard to go back to conventional forms of vision correction.


Alan Irel has been writing and publishing vision-related articles, including pinhole glasses, for almost a decade. The rising popularity and claims on the efficacy of pinhole glasses in improving eyesight has aroused his curiosity to delve into this age-old technique for eyesight correction.