{"id":843,"date":"2012-01-21T17:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/?p=843"},"modified":"2012-01-21T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:33:25","slug":"bendable-eyeglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/2012\/01\/21\/bendable-eyeglasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bendable Eyeglasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marchon\u00a0Eyewear\u00a0have developed a range of eyeglass frames featuring a revolutionary new material. The frames are made from a shape memory alloy of titanium under the trademark name, Flexon. Frames made from this alloy are\u00a0noticeably lighter and more flexible than other frames. The eyeglass frame can be bent, twisted and contorted in many ways but will always spring back to its original shape, as seen in the following video:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DdovGdJVQA4\"><em><strong>Flexon Bendy Glasses Frame<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nRegular eyeglasses will often become bent and not sit straight on their user&#8217;s face after daily use and it can prove very difficult to return them to their original shape. However, this is no longer a problem with frames made from Flexon as it is not possible to permanently distort their shape.<\/p>\n<p>Marchon Eyeglasses has designed glasses appealing to a range of men, women, and children whilst\u00a0expanding its designer portfolio to include such names as: Calvin Klein, Fendi, and Valentino.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bendable_glasses1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-853\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bendable_glasses1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bendable_glasses1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bendable_glasses1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bendable_glasses1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eyeglasses,however, are not the only useful utilization of shape memory alloys (SMA) of titanium, such as Flexon. Nitinol is a \u00a0SMA with similar properties to that of Flexon and can be used in the\u00a0underwire\u00a0of bras, golf clubs, and novelty products (magicians bending spoons). Some of its more beneficial uses are in medical situations in which it can be used to locate\/mark breast tumors, stents (a collapsed stent is inserted into a vein and then heated so it returns to its original shape and helps to improve blood flow), and also in\u00a0orthopedic\u00a0implants as it is highly\u00a0bio-compatible.<\/p>\n<p>As seen above, despite its value to daily life in the form of resilient glasses frames, this SMA also has many other worthy uses in medical situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marchon\u00a0Eyewear\u00a0have developed a range of eyeglass frames featuring a revolutionary new material. The frames are made from a shape memory alloy of titanium under the trademark name, Flexon. Frames made from this alloy are\u00a0noticeably lighter and more flexible than other frames. The eyeglass frame can be bent, twisted and contorted in many ways but will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}