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 Smith Optics was just recognized by Outside Magazine for their unmatched optics and impeccable sense of style for the Outdoor Customer with a Gear of the Year Award for the Mogul.  This Techlite Glass lensed product is second to none in fit, style, and optical clarity. Read more about this award here!press-release-smith-wins-outsides-gear-of-the-year.pdf 

Recently Smith Optics was named as one of the best places to draw a paycheck in the US.  With a host of companies from both inside and out of the outdoor industry vying for this prestigious award, Smith brought home the bacon!  Read more here!press-release-outside-names-smith-best-place-to-work.pdf 

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Smith Optics Polarchromic™ lens technology is the ultimate in eyewear innovation.  This lens technology, combines the benefits of glare obliterating polarization with the advantage of photochromic light sensitivity which allows your shades to automatically self-adjust their tint in response to ambient UV light conditions. We start with either our photochromic Techlite or Carbonic lens blanks which are actually each compromised of two thin lens wafers.  We then take the highest quality polarized film in the world which is exactingly pre-shaped to perfectly match the curvature of our lenses and sandwich this film between the two lens wafers protecting it from scratching and the elements, ensuring distortion free polarization.    So what about all of this Polarchromic stuff?  What is it and how does it work?  Smith Optics Polarchromic™ lenses use either a unique silver halide crystal structure which is combined with the silica in the manufacture of Techlite™ glass lenses or, in the case of Carbonic lenses, a proprietary dye is mixed with the Carbonic slurry in the injection process.  Silver halide crystals change shape and orientation when exposed to UV light which adjusts the tint of the lens.  The dye in the Carbonic lenses chemically reacts to UV light much in the same way and darkens or lightens depending on UV intensity.  Thes lenses retain their photochromic properties indefinitely, certainly outliving the life of the frame itself.  Smith Polarchromic™ lenses have anecdotally endured the harsh light conditions of the Caribbean for over 18 years of daily use by some of our guides!Spanning a range of approximately 10%-35% VLT (Visible Light Transmission) Polarchromic™ lenses need only 10-25 seconds to fully transform from dark to light or vice versa depending on UV light intensity.  The result is a lens tint which is perfect at every moment of the day from dawn to dusk particularly at hours when the benefits of polarized are vital but the lens tint has to be light enough to see.  Smith Polarchromic is not only the most perfect lens for every use, it’s the smartest as well.

Smith Optics’ Techlite™ Glass is the premium in sunglass technology:  ultra light weight, super durable, scratch and shatter resistant, and optically precise. What does this mean to the layman, aka “Joe Sixpack”?  Take the weight and fragility out of your glass lenses and you have the best sunglasses your eyes have had the pleasure of looking through. Using ultra thin glass wafers chemically treated for shatter resistance, Techlite™ surpasses ANSI Z80.3 impact testing standards while remaining the lightest weight glass lens product on the market.  Techlite™ offers bomber scratch resistance thanks to its hard silica compound making it the most durable glass lens on the market.  Known for its optical precision and clarity, Techlite™ glass utilizes Smith Optics’ TLT™ (Tapered Lens Technology) Optics.  TLT™ Optics is a precision lens shaping process which attunes lens thickness on the nanoscopic level to compensate for lens curvature, ensuring 100% distortion free optics. So why wear sunglasses at all?  The sun, though it might be our friend has some nasty habits.  One of which is damaging your peepers with its UV light leading several maladies including cataracts, glaucoma, and the like.  Techlite glass blocks 100% of UV A/B/C light protection your eyes from the sun’s damaging rays and make sure that even in old age you have the eyes of a hawk.