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Low vision online catalogue

■ The Tech Optics International online professional catalogue, which is for healthcare professionals who specialize in or treat low vision patients, has expanded to include several new magnification, lighting, safety, digital camera and microscope products. The catalogue also offers hand and stand magnifiers (in all sizes, shapes and powers); loupes (head and hand); telescopic devices and binoculars; prismatic and high-plus spectacles; and filters, among other products. Download the catalogue, at www.techopticsinternational.com.

Tech Optics International
Web: www.techopticsinternational.com
Phone: (800) 678-4277.

Slit lamp

■ The SL-3G slit lamp, from Topcon Medical Systems, Inc., features a stereoscopic converging microscope (1X to 1.6X magnification), a 6V, 20W halogen bulb that enables narrow slit apertures for detailed observation; and a 20° slit beam inclination to facilitate gonioscopy and fundus observation. Additional features: four built-in filters (to simplify special exams), continuous slit aperture adjustment and an angular measurement scale to facilitate astigmatic contact lens fits.

The SL-3G slit lamp offers slit beam inclination to facilitate gonioscopy and fundus observation.

Topcon Medical Systems, Inc.
Web: www.topconmedical.com
Phone: (201) 599-5151

Specular miscroscope

■ The EM-3000 specular microscope, from Tomey, which employs an LED light source instead of a conventional xenon lamp, features an auto-alignment and auto-shot function (manual photography is possible) and captures a sequence of 15 images. It offers seven fixation points for a wide area of image acquisition — even on an irregular corneal surface — while simultaneously measuring corneal thickness, the company says. The device's color touch screen displays the most accurate photo.

The EM-3000 specular microscope offers seven fixation points for a wide area of image acquisition.

Tomey USA
Web: www.tomeyusa.com
Phone: (888) 449-4045

Ophthalmic lens

■ Crizal Avancé, from Essilor of America, is a new ophthalmic finished single vision (FSV) and prescription lens that offers the SR Booster Layer, which is twice as scratch resistant as Crizal Alizé, ensuring durability and visual acuity through time, the company says. Also, the lens provides Scotchgard Protector, which is an integrated multi-layer anti-reflective (AR) stack that includes anti-static properties and a super-hydrophobic topcoat.

The Crizal Avancé lens is twice as scratch resistant as Crizal Alizé, the company says.

Essilor of America
Web: http://essilorusa.com
Phone: (800) 843-3937

Lab software

■ The Digiform Plus software, from Briot, enables the company's Accura edgers (Silver, Silver Plus and CX) to perform shape modification (proportional, vertical and horizontal) for customized jobs. Further, it saves frame tracings as well as original and modified rimless shapes on your computer's hard drive This means that once you store the frame information, you no longer have to manually trace each job by removing demo lenses for a pattern and place them in the tracer. Computer requirements: (Pentium IV 1 GHz minimum; 256 Mb Ram; 1 USB port available; 1 RS232 port available).

Briot USA
Web: www.briot-usa.com
Phone: (800) 292-7468