If you’re reading this post zoomed waaaaaay up to 300%, you could seriously do with a stronger prescription this modern magnifying marvel to bring clarity to your off-line reading too. Called the Illuminating Wide View Magnifier, it features a large rectangular 8″ x 10″ acrylic lens that provides a 30% larger field of view than traditional circular lenses – letting you quickly scan entire pages of text with both eyes, at 3 times the actual size.
Helping to reduce eyestrain (and the headaches that follow long squinting sessions), the Illuminating Wide View Magnifier also includes 12 LEDs to cast expansive, bright light over your reading material to help the words pop from the page – and all without the glare common with household incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
With a distortion-free and scratch-resistant lens and a weighted, counterbalancing floor-standing base, the Illuminating Wide View Magnifier is available now from Hammacher Schlemmer for $79.95.
Just kidding about the prescription thing, btw. But I can get away with it, see…’cause my own vision’s shot! ISN’T IT, GUIDEY? Which, may or may not be a girlfriend with a keen sense of direction. Road sense on the other hand — not so much. I swear my days are numbered.
