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What is my “visual load”, I wondered, as I slipped on a pair of Flowlife sports glasses. And how is my visual load affected through “spectral and geometric control”? I’ve no idea, nor am I fussed.
I deal with enough technology – laptop, phone, my Ferrari red Phillips coffee machine – to want more of it on my face. When I was asked to trial these, I anxiously thought of Google’s “smart glasses”, or, worse, Apple’s “vision pro”.
Thankfully, Flowlife specs aren’t about surreptitious filming or watching AI porn.
Coatings: Anti-water, anti-oil, anti-reflective
They’re for people who enjoy the outdoors, as I do. I’m fairly active, even if now it’s mostly about damage control. Flowlife glasses are built for real athletes, mind you.
People who ski on black runs rather than red (blue), and take on triathlons. The brand says they reduce eye strain from sunlight, filter blue light, protect from UV exposure and stop rain from smudging and blurring the lenses. Do they? I wouldn’t know.
A 30-minute run along the Thames isn’t going to put these bad boys to the test, really. But I can tell you that they weren’t messed up by my sweat and they didn’t teeter from my ears when I stumbled over a paving slab.
Any glare? Not as much as regular glasses. This visual load, though? It’s to do with light, glare, airflow and more, apparently. I’m none the wiser. But if I planned on sailing the Atlantic and had a spare £99, I’d probably buy a pair.
