Product Review: GUNNAR Glasses
Not bad.
First, a little background, I wear contacts and stare at a screen at least 9 hours a day at work. Usually about four or so hours in, I start rubbing my eyes. About seven hours in I have problems focusing on the screen. Not pleasant. Especially when it gets to be 12-14 hour days.
I’d been thinking about getting a pair of GUNNAR glasses for a while, but hesitated. They’re expensive and I thought I’d look goofy. But when Woot! had them for half off, I decided to give them a try. I love them.
Let’s clear up the vanity first. I do not look too goofy in them. They aren’t going to win any fashion awards, but not bad. This model I bought is the “Wing” in mercury/red. They’re sized appropriately for a small face, and aren’t overly masculine.
On to the important part, these things actually work. I didn’t realize it when I ordered them, but they have a slight magnification to them. I’d say they bump the font size up half a size or so (definitely less than zooming in in Visual Studio). By increasing the font size, everything seems to be just a little sharper. It wasn’t something I knew I wanted (or even need) but it’s a nice feature.
The yellow tint is what I was really interested me about these glasses. As the day goes on I hate the brightness of my monitors. But I also don’t like turning it down, I feel it affects the contrast. And the yellow lens does cut that back without making me squint to see.
The only part I say didn’t work for me, was I didn’t feel like they made my eyes less dry. But, I have dry eyes anyway so maybe it’s just me.
Overall, they make my workday more pleasant. At the end of the day my eyes don’t feel tired. Plus, my eye makeup stays on all day now that I’m not rubbing my eyes all the time.
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Nicole is a Software Quality Engineer, music collector, and chronic project starter. In her free time she enjoys reading trashy romance novels, catching up on her game backlog, and bourbon.
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You look amazing in those glasses (not that you don’t without them, but they really compliment your hair color too! yowza!). I had thought to get some in the past, but I figure when VS starts making my eyes melt, I can just get up and stare at the ceiling tiles in my office 😉
A friend of mine bought a pair also. He ended up using them while playing pool, which he semi-professionally does. For the gaming aspect he was kinda in the “Meh” bracket on their use. I think that are simply hunting glass that gaming folks are getting bullshitted into buying. LOL.
Yeah, I don’t quite understand them for gaming. In the office it makes sense. So much blue light from fluorescent lighting and monitors, counteracting it seems like it should work.
Bingo… they are shooting range glasses. Which does help with glare outside, or lights in general. That being said, the marketing it selling them as helping with gaming. Which is BS, unless you are dying in games because the damn room is too bright are you are gaming outside in the sun. LOL.
I wondered why that color yellow looked so familiar. It’s the same as my shooting glasses. Duh. Also, Nicole: you can get a Q-tip wet with contact solution and run it along the rim of your eyelids to help keep your tear ducts clear. I do it every morning to cut down on dried-out eyes & contacts.