Bed Prism Spectacles

by Skywill Far East Industries

Product Features

• Imagine being able to enjoy your favorite magazine, book or TV program while lying in bed. Don't let the unusual look of these glasses hide their true value.
• The lenses on these lightweight glasses are prisms that change the normal line of sight without any distortion.
• You can be flat on your back and still enjoy reading and TV as though the image was straight ahead.
• They work well over prescription glasses too (we even tested them with bifocals!)
• No more neck strain, just easy viewing.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0006ZZCJI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,571 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
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• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

Product Description

Enjoy Reading in Bed or Watching TV While Reclining -- Read a book without eye fatigue or physical strain or watch TV in horizontal comfort. Precisely aligned glass prisms show half a page of an average hard-cover book. Bed specs are lightweight - you will hardly know you are wearing them! -- Ideal for traveling or patients in bed. --

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I had the same issue, March 29, 2008

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Keith Nelson "Geet" (St. Cloud, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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I had the same issue as the one reviewer. When the glasses arrived they were a little bent, but I just heated them with a lighter and allowed them to cool, and now they're great. They have stayed that way for a while now, so I believe the one reviewer needs to use heat and he shouldn't have to keep adjusting his/hers. I wear glasses as well and have quite a large head and they work great. You just have to let your prescription glasses ride low and put the prism glasses higher on your face. My only issue, and the reason I don't give a five star, is that the bows are a little rigid, and I have a wide face so they are tight, and after a while of wearing them, the pressure causes some discomfort.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Arrived bent, heavy, yet does what it says (after fixing)., April 9, 2008

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balyash (South Wales, NY) - See all my reviews

The glasses came and the prisms were not perfectly parallel, resulting in a double image. I took them to a local optomitrist and they bent them straight for me (for free - thanks EA optical!). They said that I could have used a hair dryer to warm them up and bend them straight and recommended to not to try and bend them when cool (too brittle).

The glasses are a bit heavy, but ok because I use them when laying down anyways, so they don't slide down the bridge of my nose. Watching TV or reading a book is fine. It takes some time to get adjusted to turning pages or writing with them on.

All in all, they do what they are intended for. I like watching TV with them and I don't have to prop my head up and crank my neck. It's funny to be able to see your lips, too! I don't require corrective glasses, so I don't know if they really work over regular glasses. However, being a physics teacher, it is a good demonstration for reflection and refraction.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Them!, March 15, 2009

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PhoenixRising - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bed Prism Spectacles (Toy)

I bought these for my husband and he loves them! He uses them to read, so can't comment on using them for TV. They arrived in perfect alignment, and are well made. He uses reading glasses, so to avoid the need to wear both the bed specs and reading glasses we came up with a solution others might want to use. We bought "stick ons" that change any pair of glasses into bi-focal reading glasses. They fill the lenses/prisms and work great; you can always remove them if someone else will be using them and doesn't need magnification.

At the time I bought them, Scientific's Online had the best price and quality for this item on Amazon. I see that someone else now has a better price by about $2.00, but don't know if it is worth the risk. I can say I had a perfect experience as far as price, quality, and service from S.O./Edmund's.