Computer Glasses

I first got a pair of these about 5 years ago at my eye doctor's office. Because I have bifocals it's hard to read my computer screen without either sitting way back or sticking my nose in the screen. Plus I have cataracts that are not operable yet so my ability to see anything fluctuates. These make seeing my computer screen so much easier. There are a couple of drawbacks with the Peekers that folks need to be aware of. They're clear plastic. Great for seeing through, but not so great when one accidentally drops them or knocks them onto the floor and trying to find them before stepping on them. Broke my first pair when they fell onto the floor. Didn't see them until after I stepped on them and broke the bridge. Hadn't even had them 6 months. I tried marking them with a Sharpie permanent marker to make them more visible, but eventually it all rubbed off. With the second pair I was more careful. If they fell on the floor I looked for them BEFORE moving my feet. They lasted 4 1/2 years. They only broke because my dog stepped on them. More on that in a moment. Also because the Peekers are clear I would lose them on my desk. My fiance finally suggested I tie string or ribbon on them and wear them around my neck. So I got enough ribbon to go around my neck and over my head, then I tied the ribbon to either end of the Peekers. Now I just slip the ribbon over my head and they're always available when I need to see something on the computer. Only drawback with having them on the ribbon is that we have a very active Jack Russell Terrier who likes to climb on me. One day she did just after I had taken my Peekers off to play with her, and she stepped on the bridge..... snap. So when I ordered a new pair I a second pair... as a backup. Another thing. Because of where the Peekers are worn, between your regular glasses and your eyes, I suggest you get a microfiber lens cleaning cloth to get off any oils that can accumulate from your eyelids, lashes, and fingers onto the lenses. Because of my developing cataracts any extra fogginess is a problem, so I'm always cleaning my Peekers. Bottom line: if you take care of them and be aware of where they land on the floor, because you Will drop them at least once, they will last a long time and keep you seeing your computer screen for a long time.

My PC Peekers arrived in a timely fashion. I was surprised, however, to see them in a flimsy plastic bag outside of the packing material. Perhaps this was why there was a considerable scratch on the upper portion of one of the lenses. That said, these really are a very good product. They provide magnification for that intermediate zone and do so well. Like any glasses, there is an adjustment period but stay the course and you will be very satisfied. A final note, it was nice to have the vinyl cover provided but a little bit of soft lining, even poly flocking, would've been better than nothing. I sense an overall good idea being taken down by those who follow The Bottom Line. Too bad! These are a cool thing!

These work great for my use on the computer. The monitor is almost 1 yard away from my eyes. It sits on the back of my desk and the keyboard is on a slide out drawer, so my chair is that far back. With my bifocals, the monitor falls between the near distance and the far distance vision prescription. The PC Peekers sit on top of the temple pieces and rest inside my glasses, behind the far distance portion of the lens. With them, I have almost perfect vision of the monitor. They weigh almost nothing, so the really work well for me.

As a bifocal wearer, I get a sore neck when trying to view the monitor with the reading portion at the bottom of my glasses. Also, the reading portion is too powerful of a strength, by just a little, for computer work. These clarify the computer monitor for me perfectly, and I don't have to strain my neck or my eyes to look only through my bifocals. Worn as intended, they are easy to put on and remove, since they just sit on the glasses stems. I love the concept of these, but there should be an additional size/paddle placement customers could order. When worn as intended, these sit too high up on my glasses to be of much use. If I put them on my nose, underneath the stems, they seem to work fine. I'm not sure if this will affect whether or not my glasses stay in place to an annoying level.

I have used PC Peekers for several years now, and heartily recommend this product, especially for those with progressive lenses correcting for close in tasks, such as reading. As is the case with most progressive lenses chosen for constant wearing by far-sighted persons (i.e., needing correction mainly for viewing close in objects), my prescription lenses typically provide close-in focus for items at chest height or lower. This is well suited for reading a book, phone or computer in my lap, but not for my desktop monitors, which for spinal health, are best placed at eye level. Before PC Peekers, I found myself tilting my head back in order to see my desktop computer screen. With PC Peekers resting on the inside of my prescription glasses, I am able to see all of my wide and tall computer screen in clear focus. A very nice product. They come with adhesive pads to keep them from slipping, but I have found those pads unnecessary. I don't even notice them while at my computer, but sorely suffer when I misplace them.

These "glasses" sit between your eyes and your regular glasses. They rest on top of the temple struts. They touch my eyebrows, and when I blink my eyelashes touch them. So they're constantly annoying when I use them. Also, they only cover the top third of my glasses and are so narrow I constantly see the edges in my field of view. They do correct my vision for the computer screen, but are uncomfortable. They slide around if you move your head a little too quickly, and they don't sit in the center for long because there's nothing to center them, they don't sit on your nose. They come with double-sided sticky pads to keep them from sliding around. After putting them on the handle you're supposed to take the plastic off the second sticky side, but that's very difficult and I ruined a couple of them trying If you're successful in removing the plastic, you'll find the PC Peekers stick hard to your glasses and it's an effort to remove them. Also, everything else sticks to the pads, including dust, paper, or anything else you may have, and after a bit they're not very sticky any more. Moreover, the pads raise the Peekers up so you have even less of them to look through, and the bottom edge is moved even more into your line of sight Before I got these I would put a pair of cheap reading glasses over my regular glasses. It was comfortable and worked quite well. But it looked funny and these looked like a better system. Boy was I mistaken! You'll be much better off buying a cheap pair of reading glasses at the drug store and wearing them over your regular glasses, and you can try them out first! It's an expensive lesson -- I was stupid enough to buy two pair! Now they're heading for the recycle bin.

Where to begin.... Well, first, they arrive outside of their protective case, hanging down from the plastic package, as though someone forgot to put them inside of it prior to shipping them out. As a result, they are scratched. In comparing to colleagues', they are apparently always at least a little scratched and mine were "not that bad" according to two people who had to exchange their last pairs. Second, they make my neck hurt from having to lower my head so much. These are not made to fit all types of frames, only frames that sit lower on the face of shorter people and have lower temple pieces. If you are taller or your frames are large (sitting higher on your nose) you'll have to lean your head down AND pull your glasses down on your nose to get these to work properly and sit in front of the top half of your eye, where your computer is. They should make a large version that is one centimeter deeper in the lens, so people don't have to move them down on the nose to get them in front of the upper part of their eyes when their larger glasses have higher temples but also so that people with higher noses don't have to adjust and so that people who have larger lenses don't have to adjust, and so on and so forth. The list is too long to bother with but you get the point. Also, removing the need to tilt the head down would reduce neck strain. I had forgotten how much it hurts to tilt my head down for twenty minutes let alone two hours. The idea for these is sound and actually even kind of brilliant but the inability to package these correctly and size them for larger heads, larger frames, higher ears, larger noses, higher lenses, etc. is wasteful to say the least. This company could dominate the market if they made multiple sizes of this and packaged them correctly to prevent scratching. Sad, given how much environmental waste scratched, returned and tossed products generate. Maybe another company will come along and pick up the slack. Very disappointed, to say the least, but two stars for the concept and the fact that about half of the people I've talked to about it said that these fit their frames and eye position. Half is better than none so a D+ for the effort. Be warned, larger face, larger eared, higher eared, higher eyed, plastic frame wearing people, among others. These fit, according to my colleagues, metal frames with the temples at least a third of the way down the lens and faces that are delicate and or small. The people who have the most success seem to be women though we had one man with a smallish face who loves his. The man in my life couldn't even see out of them because the temples on his frames are so high (corner temples connecting to rectangular plastic frames). The Peekers basically began right where his computer screen ends (at the top) and moving his glasses down on his nose, in front of his eyes, still left them too high for his bi-focals line to be of any use. At least I had a chance to strain my neck and decide these aren't worth it. He couldn't even get a meaningful view. For the record, the usable portion of the lens, if you have higher temples, is just under one centimeter, top to bottom, the distance from below the tabs to the lowest part of the lens (which curves up at the sides and is actually even shorter in depth at most points along the bottom for that reason). Good luck making your choice and finding what you need. If we're lucky, they'll come out with a large option at some point in the future.

First, let me say the company's service is really nice. The first one of these that I ordered came without the actual lenses in the package. Not sure what went wrong, but thankfully they believed me and sent a replacement (and rather quickly). That service will pay off because I plan to purchase a second pair as a backup. These are truly great computer glasses. I'm in my 50s and have had glasses since 3rd grade. My prescription is in the minus 8 range, so I'm blind enough to have something credible to say about products of this kind. I've tried the clip-on magnifiers before, but they get heavy and clutsy, and the lens quality has never been particularly great. When I ran across these, I thought I'd give them a try. They are comfortable and fit well and, most of all, as others have said, they work. I've had prescription computer/reading glasses before, and I wish I'd known about these before spending hundreds of dollars on those. I like especially that these do not have the usual distortion that so many types of over-the-counter lenses have. I agree with others that I'd like to have more than a soft case, since travel could end up breaking these. But that's my only complaint. If you're looking for a way to enhance your computer vision without sacrificing quality and a ton of money, give these a try!