Top British Designer Alexander McQueen is Found Dead

The fashion industry was in shock yesterday at the tragic news of the death of one of Britain’s top fashion designers Alexander McQueen who was found dead at his home in London on Thursday 11th February 2010.  Lee Alexander McQueen’s death comes just 9 days after the death of his mother which he announced via his own twitter page on 3rd February.  It has been suggested that Mr McQueen was found hanged, but police are not yet treating his death as suspicious.  Alexander McQueen had previously won the British Designer of…

Electrifying Vision - Lenses with Artificial Intelligence from PixelOptics

Electronic Eyewear

Following ten years in development PixelOptics, a US lens company based in Roanoke, Virginia are on the threshold of releasing the first dynamic electronic spectacle lens commercially.

President and chief executive officer of PixelOptics Ronald Blum said, ‘Electronic eyewear has intelligence built into them’, it allows the lens to know where your looking, auto-focusing faster than the blink of an eye using chemistry, electricity and other components for the correction of presbyopia and other visual disorders and does so without moving parts.

This pioneering development in ophthalmic lenses has no dividing lines…

Sunglasses from Marvel’s Iron Man 2, staring Robert Downey Jr.

Last year, the summer blockbuster that we were really looking forward to seeing had to be Transformers: Revenge of the fallen, not only for the curves of Megan Fox but also for the explosive action director Michael “I like to blow sh*t up” Bay tends to produce.  This year, we at SelectSpecs.com are really looking forward to seeing the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster, Iron Man 2, staring Robert Downey Jr. as billionaire weapons inventor Tony Stark / Iron Man, Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts, and Mickey Rourke as arch enemy Whiplash.

For those…

Matt Damon in Oakley Sunglasses - Green Zone

If like us you enjoyed the Bourne Trilogy you will no doubt be looking forward to the up coming military movie Green Zone which see’s director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Supremacy, Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) team up once again with Matt Damon for another action thriller which bears remarkable similarities to the Bourne series of films (that’s not such a bad thing!).

In the film, Matt Damon stars as Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war…

Sunglasses from The Hurt Locker - staring Jeremy Renner

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker staring Jeremy Renner, Guy Pearce, Evangeline Lilly and Brian Geraghty, has become one of the most acclaimed films of 2009, earning awards and honors from numerous organizations, festivals and groups, and expected to do well at this years Oscars.  The Hurt Locker follows 3 members of the Army’s elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) as they battle insurgents and one another as they search for and disarm a wave of roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad in order to try and make the city a safe…

Lady Gaga Sunglasses - Fashion Icon or Fashion Fail?

In a bid to give you an idea of all the latest and supposedly “fashionable” eye wear I’ve endured countless hours of aural & visual pain and discomfort while studying videos (and images) of 2010 Brit Nominee Lady Gaga, also known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta born March 28 1986. As you can probably tell, I’m not really a big fan of her manufactured pop-tastic music and find her slightly irritating as an artist - perhaps due to her appearance on Jonathan Ross in 2009 and her futuristic if not wild/crazy dress…

Eye make-up worn by Cleopatra boosts immune system

Research carried out by the CNRS research institute and scientists from the Louvre Museum indicate that the heavy eye make-up used by ancient Egyptians such as Cleopatra may have helped to fight off bacteria which can cause eye infections.

The make-up used could take up to a month to formulate as the chemicals did not occur naturally, the black and green powders which were applied thickly around the eyes contained doses of lead salts, which at low levels produce nitric oxide.  Research found that these small amounts of lead could actually have a…