{"id":115857,"date":"2020-11-14T10:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/japanese-robot-made-eyeglasses-combine-the-best-of-warby-parker-and-lenscrafters"},"modified":"2020-11-14T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T18:22:45","slug":"japanese-robot-made-eyeglasses-combine-the-best-of-warby-parker-and-lenscrafters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/japanese-robot-made-eyeglasses-combine-the-best-of-warby-parker-and-lenscrafters","title":{"rendered":"Japanese robot-made eyeglasses combine the best of Warby Parker and Lenscrafters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-robot-made-eyeglasses-combine-the-best-of-warby-parker-and-lenscrafters.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buying a pair of prescription glasses is cumbersome process. Retail stores often charge hundreds of dollars\u2014not including add-ons like UV coating\u2014and require customers to return days or weeks later to pick up their spectacles.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese eyewear maker JINS wants to change this. An unknown brand in the US, the Tokyo-based company is getting ready to expand outside of Asia and open its first US store this week. The outlet on San Francisco\u2019s Powell Street\u2014the heart of the city\u2019s shopping district\u2014will sell glasses ranging in price from $60 to $120 that take 30 minutes to make. (The price covers the frames, lenses, UV coating, and case; progressive, bifocal, colored, or polarized lenses will cost an additional $60 to $80.) <\/p>\n<p>JINS is hoping Americans will start seeing glasses as an impulse buy\u2014maybe something they might pick up to match an outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a pair of prescription glasses is cumbersome process. Retail stores often charge hundreds of dollars\u2014not including add-ons like UV coating\u2014and require customers to return days or weeks later to pick up their spectacles. Japanese eyewear maker JINS wants to change this. An unknown brand in the US, the Tokyo-based company is getting ready to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}