Niawi, the smart glasses by Esferex from ecuador

Niawi
Origin of the name: In quechua language the meaning of Ñawi is eyes, and by applying an adaptation for legibility the resulting name is Niawi

DESCRIPTION.- Niawi is perfect auxiliary for big users of sun glasses and lenses, allowing instant change from dark to light and vice versa. Very useful when you change lighted place to dark place; for example, when you are driving day with bright sunshine on the road and suddenly entered a tunnel before the user had to remove his glasses to drive into the tunnel, now Niawi just with a simple click, you can change the intensity in our lenses.

It comes with two shades, black and brown, which handle 3 currents; transparent, 50% opacity and opaque. With biodegradable materials like Caña Guadua, Tagua and Chonta.

INVESTIGATION.- From an early age we have had visual fault which we have always seen the need to use bored lenses, unable to enjoy a good pair of sun glasses. A time opted for the photo chromatic lenses but takes longer to change color and can only get a tone opacity so the results wasn’t completely satisfy for us . Then We opted for the decision to charge again for boring lenses and a sunglasses, but being exchanged between lenses and sunglasses was very uncomfortable and time-being that arises then the idea Niawi.

In this case we consider as research subjects to our family, friends and ourselves, all large lens wearers, reaching translate the needs in this product.

ARTISTIC QUALITIES.- We are Latin Americans and we have noticed the little appreciation that has the local people by native materials of our country Ecuador, constituting the reason why our artistic vein centers on Tagua, Caña guadua and Chonta. In addition with two perpendicular lines and inclined to each side as an abstraction of lines are used as our ancestors painted face.
Following are brief concepts of materials inspirations are as follows:

Tagua: Scientifically taper as Microcarpus Phytelephas can replace the animal ivory because its appearance is very similar to it, with the advantage that vegetable. It is highly durable, easy to work, suitable for various types of finishes and being a plant that can be harvested, this is a renewable resource with low environmental impact.

Chonta: Known as Bactris gasipaes, it is a family of tropical palm plant. Among its most outstanding features is a dark reddish brown with streaks marked light beige color, its shape is cylindrical varying between 20 and 40 cm in diameter, with high hardness and strength which gives the possibility of giving this material different uses .

Caña Guadua: Scientifically taper as Microcarpus Phytelephas can replace the animal ivory because its appearance is very similar to it, with the advantage that vegetable. It is highly durable, easy to work, suitable for various types of finishes and being a plant that can be harvested, this is a renewable resource with low environmental impact.

TECHNOLOGICAL QUALITIES.- As designers of objects, we fancy the idea of merging two different branches into one, the technology with the use of ethnic materials taking into account the functionality based on user needs. Using an already established form style glasses, we put a feature that can increase the opacity or transparency in our lenses. This device is placed on the right side of the temple lenses, an easily accessible place and aesthetically attractive.

The mode of use is as follows, with one click we get an dark mode, with another click we get an half dark mode and for transparent mode we only do another click, if we need to return for opaque mode we only need to do two clicks.

This device has two lights to indicate the battery status of our sunglasses, green indicated when the battery is full charge and red indicating when the battery is drained.