Design

Epiphany Eyewear is designed with a modern take on the classic thick-framed style. The updated design is both current and timeless. Capture interest and turn heads when you walk by wearing the most clean-lined, advanced pair of smart-glasses on the market. The power of technology finally meets the refinement of stylish design with Epiphany Eyewear.

These unique glasses are an original design by master designer David Meisenholder, whose portfolio includes work for celebrities such as Lady Gaga, for whom he designed the GL-20 video glasses. David and the Epiphany team have brought the same painstaking attention to detail to your video-sharing glasses, poring over every contour for the best possible fit, precision, and shape. Every inch of the clean, sleek aesthetic of Epiphany Eyewear's design marries form with incredibly advanced function.

Operation is elegantly simple. Slide your right finger across the smooth soft-touch side until you feel the tactile Epiphany Eyewear button, and gently press against your temple to turn the computer on. To instantly activate the tinting of your "electric-powered" sunglasses, simply push the front-left-frame button. Capture your experience and the world around you in HD video -- and do it in style.

Trends come and go, but good design lasts forever. Feel empowered wearing Epiphany Eyewear - you are sporting the world's most advanced glasses, designed in an iconic classic style. Epiphany Eyewear is destined not only to outlast trends, but to redefine them.

Frames

Epiphany Eyewear’s frames are built using a new, incredibly high-quality and versatile state-ofthe-art "shape-memory" nylon material that is often referred to as "plastic titanium" in the eyewear industry. This beautiful organic material is a thermoplastic that is both soft yet strong; it is resistant to breaking, keeps its shape under extreme conditions, doesn't fade from sun exposure and yet is still incredibly comfortable and light-weight, being up to 20% lighter than other eyewear materials. Plastic titanium is so new on the market, most other eyeglass manufacturers have not yet discovered its potential. Epiphany Eyewear’s incredibly light weight and flexibility make for a perfect pair of glasses you will wear every day without worrying about durability. The frames’ superior material is high-temperature resistant, to retain its shape, and its resistance to fading from UV exposure ensures a long-lasting color and finish.

Your frames also feature the highest quality spring-loaded hinges, to fit comfortably on the vast majority of various face shapes and sizes. The spring-loaded hinges add a level of worry-free security, comfortably hugging your face with a soft contour above your ears to always fit well and stay with you even through life's most adventurous moments.

Slide your right finger across the smooth soft-touch side until you feel the tactile Epiphany Eyewear button, and gently press against your temple to turn the computer on. Gently push the front-left-frame button to instantly activate the tinting of your "electric-powered" sunglasses. Capture your experience in HD video, knowing that you're wearing one of the highest quality designer frames in the world.

Optics

The Epiphany Eyewear layered lenses and optics are an impressive feat of technology all by themselves. These special lens optics are made of layered “active smart lenses” and are equipped with thin layers of conductive technology to produce the transcendent “electrically activated” sunglasses. With a quick press of the sunglass button, the glasses instantly send a signal to the lenses, transitioning between light and dark tint in the blink of an eye! Instantly turn your sunglass lenses “on” and show everyone around you that these glasses are much more than meets the eye.

Epiphany Eyewear’s on-board HD camera features advanced optics technology with an unprecedented quality and wide-angle field of view -- wider than any smartphone camera on the market. These unique optics are able to record and stream video of your world as you actually experience it. When people watch the first-person point-of-view videos from the Epiphany glasses, they feel “as if they were there” – thanks to the superior lens optics contained in the HD camera inside of the glasses.

Epiphany Eyewear’s eyeglass optics are also designed to protect your eyes better than any other pair of sunglasses on the market. They contain multiple layers of clarity-enhancing protective coatings to block glare and harmful rays, allowing only safe wavelengths of light into your eyes for the clearest possible vision. The lenses’ shatter resistance and remarkably light weight let you take your pair with you on the go. Your eyes are protected from all wavelengths of harmful UV rays, and your lenses’ multiple layers of AR (anti-reflective) coatings reduce unwanted reflections. Vertical polarizers protect from harmful bounced light in the form of glare, such as road glare, snow glare, and water glare, to increase safety and clarity of vision for car drivers, snowboarders, sailors, and all other real-life action heroes wearing Epiphany Eyewear.

A lens-fitting groove on the inside of the glasses lets your optometrist install prescription lenses, and meets the lens-mounting standards used in the eyewear industry by professional lens-cutting labs. Epiphany supports a base 2 curve prescription lens up to (+) 2 and (-) infinity (in diopters). With it video-sharing technology, “electronically-powered sunglass” feature, and option to fit prescription lenses, Epiphany Eyewear is designed to be the only pair of glasses you’ll ever need.

In total, the Epiphany Eyewear optics system contains over eleven (11) advanced distinct and surprisingly thin layers that all protect your eyes from harm. Fours layers of AR anti-reflective coating complement another four layers of UV protection and the two layers of polarizers sandwich around a layer of conductive film and optically transparent liquid crystal; combined together these surprisingly thin and powerful (11) eleven layers provide a higher quality, tighter control, enhanced clarity and better protection for your eyes than any other sunglasses in the world.

Technology

Epiphany Eyewear’s glasses are “smart” because inside of each is a powerful mobile computer, plus a sophisticated HD digital video camera with simple and intuitive one-button tactile video recording control. Only a few years ago, fitting this much computing power in such a compact form was unimaginable. Epiphany Eyewear contains technology that in the past would have required three separate devices: a clunky digital camcorder, a laptop computer and an external hard drive. Our glasses contain all of this, while integrating nicely with the web and software for the mobile smartphone ecosystem.

The lens technology allows you to instantly control the darkness of the sunglasses, turning them to light or dark tinting. Just tap the accented button found on the front left corner of the eyewear frames to instantly flip on the high-tech shades. Press the button again and return to the light tinting of polarized lenses.

To start recording a point-of-view video, simply press the “easy-feel” tactile-touch Epiphany Eyewear logo that is on the right temple. The computer inside the glasses turns on and boots up. A tiny blue indicator light will blink in your peripheral vision, letting you know the glasses are on and are currently recording. To finish recording, simply press the button once more, and the indicator light will disappear.

It may seem incredible that so much computing technology can fit inside of the temple of Epiphany Eyewear’s stylish frames -- but this is just the beginning. The glasses can record and stream HD video and audio, and can be configured to contain an impressive amount of onboard storage (up to 32GB). The glasses also contain a powerful and long-lasting rechargeable lithium ion battery similar in structure to the batteries used in modern electric vehicles. To recharge your glasses, and to transfer data, simply plug in using the special tiny built in micro-USB plug found on the bottom of the right side of the glasses temple.

Plug your glasses into your laptop, desktop or a compatible Epiphany-qualified phone or tablet to view and share the videos from the YouGen.TV application, while charging the glasses at faster than real time.

With a compatible device or tablet running the YouGen.TV app, you can stream your experience directly onto the web -- even as a “live-stream” video post directly onto your Facebook wall. YouGen.TV is the only application in the world that lets you live-stream your point-of-view onto Facebook, so your friends can hang out with you even when they aren't there!

As Mark Zuckerberg recently stated, “The very definition of what a computer is, and what our relationship with it should be, hasn't been set for the majority of the world… and when it is, I think a lot of that definition is going to be around people first. So we're about to see the most empowered generation of people in history.” Epiphany Eyewear is proud to be part of that empowerment.

Social

Your pair of Epiphany Eyewear glasses is the perfect complement to any social occasion. With the simple press of a button, your Epiphany Eyewear lets you record and save your unique experience from your own point of view, and easily share it with your friends and loved ones on your social network. Now you can capture your experiences without having to hold a camera or worrying about “missing the moment”!

In fact, sharing your own point of view has never been easier. During a break at school or a day at the beach, perhaps after that epic snowboarding run or during a hike with your friends -- just connect your Epiphany Eyewear to your supported smartphone, tablet, or to your computer, link your Facebook account, and press “Share”. If you like, you can enter a quick description of your experience - perfect for tagging your friends!

Beyond simply sharing recent events, your Epiphany Eyewear lets you share your experience live online. Connect your Epiphany Eyewear to our apps, press the stream button, and let your friends see what your eyes see. You can even share your live stream to Facebook and let your friends see your live perspective in their News feeds! Besides being a great pair of glasses, we see Epiphany Eyewear as a new type of computer -- a social computer -- and much, much more.

Apps

Through our app platform called YouGen.TV, your glasses can integrate with the social ecosystem through apps for your glasses -- apps that take advantage of the power of open sharing such as Facebook and Twitter.

The YouGen Editor lets you quickly and intuitively cut together various separate clips of your life to tell one cohesive story, while the YouGen+Soundcloud app lets you add vibrant and exciting soundtracks to your life. There are apps for the YouGen website, and apps that can run locally to access data and video on the glasses as it is being recorded.

Apps must be authorized by the user, and can then access recorded videos, post new edits of videos, receive live frames from a livestream, or display a time-synced embedded UI fragment on the YouGen.TV player page. These powerful capabilities of the YouGen.TV platform, together with developers’ creativity, create bold possibilities for new interactions and experiences using social POV video.

Anyone can now become an app developer for Epiphany Eyewear by emailing us at dev@yougen.tv today. We're still accepting more applications for app developers that want to try out writing apps for our glasses using Epiphany Eyewear and one of the qualified mobile devices.