Portfolio Company Update - Innovative Eyewear
Tekcapital plc announces that its portfolio company, Innovative Eyewear, Inc., has launched the Lucyd Aero™ smart eyewear collection. This new line features lightweight frames, weighing between 1.0 and 1.2 oz, and a discreet design with no visible buttons, aiming to normalize smart eyewear. The glasses offer privacy-first features, are camera-free, and do not constantly listen, with activation via concealed touchpads. They connect to the Lucyd app for AI functionality, including access to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, along with Walkie features, custom Newscasts, and translation services, all priced at an accessible MSRP of US$149. Tekcapital currently holds approximately 5% of Innovative Eyewear's share capital.
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Tekcapital Plc (AIM: TEK), the UK intellectual property investment group, notes that its portfolio company Innovative Eyewear, Inc. (“Innovative Eyewear”) (NASDAQ: LUCY; LUCYW), the developer and manufacturer of smart eyewear under the Lucyd®, Lucyd Armor®, Reebok®, Eddie Bauer® and Nautica® brands, has announced the launch of the Lucyd Aero™ smart eyewear collection. Lucyd Aero delivers the fashion-forward design, weight and cost of traditional eyeglasses while providing a full suite of AI and communication features.
Model wearing the Lucyd Aero Saucer style.
Image courtesy Innovative Eyewear, Inc.
Lucyd Aero is a new collection of smartglasses under Innovative Eyewear’s Lucyd brand. Innovative Eyewear believes the following features make it its most disruptive collection to date:
All frames in the collection weigh between 1.0 and 1.2 oz (approximately 28–34 g), making it one of the lightest smartglass collections currently available from a US provider. The Aero Lark style is the lightest at 1.0 oz (28 g), lighter than most other smartglasses on the US market and on par with many traditional frames. As weight is a proxy for comfort in eyewear, Innovative Eyewear believes this is also its most comfortable collection to date and well suited to all-day wear.
Lucyd Aero is the first Lucyd collection with no visible buttons, switches or exterior lights on the frame, so the glasses look like conventional eyewear. Two responsive, concealed touchpads control the frame. Innovative Eyewear views this discreet appearance as an important step toward normalising smart eyewear in optical channels and daily use.
The glasses are camera-free, are not “always listening”, and are activated only via the touchpads, providing a privacy-first experience.
Connection to the Lucyd app provides free, private multi-AI functionality, with hands-free access to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini; public and private Walkie features; custom Newscasts; and Translation features, both in person and over calls.
The frames launch at an MSRP of US$149, a price point accessible to almost all eyeglass wearers.
Harrison Gross, CEO of Innovative Eyewear, said: “Mass market adoption of smartglasses is at hand with our Lucyd Aero collection. For the first time ever, the Lucyd team has completely eliminated all costs of switching from traditional eyewear to smart. Lucyd Aero is truly an extraordinary frame because it looks ordinary; we don’t believe any smartglasses before it have come this close to matching the look and feel of traditional eyewear, while providing extensive smart features such as calls, on-demand news, and instant AI access. We believe the future of eyewear is smart, and now I can say the future of smart eyewear is here: we have smart frames that are a genuine end-to-end upgrade over traditional glasses, without compromising style, comfort, price, or privacy. There is no good reason to buy a traditional pair of glasses anymore; now that Lucyd Aero is available, it simply does more in the same package.”
Dibby Bartlett, a director of Innovative Eyewear and former President of the Opticians Association of America, said: “Fit and comfort determine whether a patient actually wears their glasses all day. With Lucyd Aero, Innovative Eyewear has delivered smart frames that rival traditional eyewear in weight and appearance, which I believe removes one of the biggest barriers opticians face when introducing smart eyewear to patients. This is the kind of collection the optical industry has been waiting for.”
The Lucyd Aero collection.
Image courtesy Innovative Eyewear, Inc.
The Lucyd Aero collection is available now, exclusively at www.lucyd.co.
About Innovative Eyewear Inc.
Innovative Eyewear is a developer and manufacturer of AI-enabled smart eyewear under the Lucyd®, Lucyd Armor®, Nautica®, Eddie Bauer® and Reebok® brands. True to its mission to Upgrade Your Eyewear®, its Bluetooth audio glasses allow users to stay safely and ergonomically connected to their digital lives and are offered in hundreds of frame and lens combinations to meet the needs of the optical, sunglass, sporting goods and safety eyewear markets. To learn more and explore its continuously evolving collection of smart eyewear, please visit www.lucyd.co.
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