ICE-TECH
DEVELOPS NEW ARMOR LENS

ICE-TECH Advanced Polarized Sunglasses announces the new revolutionary Advanced Polarized ICE-TECH Armor Lens. This new ICE-TECH Armor Lens is the result of extensive development designed to produce a superior sunglass lens. ICE-TECH continues to lead the sunglass industry in the development of new polarized lens technologies.

The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens will replace polarized polycarbonate ICE-TECH lenses. ICE-TECH was the first sunglass company featuring an all polarized line of sunglasses to produce polarized polycarbonate lenses. ICE-TECH has used this material for their Advanced Polarized non-glass lenses since 1996. Now ICE-TECH has developed a superior lens. This new ICE-TECH Armor Lens offers many advantages over other lens materials.

The research and development team at ICE-TECH were given specific desired improvement parameters for the development of a new lens.

The development goals were as follows:

1- Better Optics: Optical properties that would significantly improve the vision for the wearer.

2- Excellent Scratch Resistance: Any new lens material must be able to significantly resist scratching better than our current polycarbonate lens.

3- Lighter Weight: If possible reduce the weight of the lens material, as consumers want the lightest weight lens possible.

4- Improve Lens Mirror Colors: Lens mirror colors should be improved for both durability and performance.

5- Exceed All FDA Lens Standards: Our final mission statement required any new lens development must exceed all FDA Lens Standards for optical quality sunglass lenses.

The ICE-TECH Research and Development Team accomplished all of the objectives.

1- Better Optics: Optical properties for the new ICE-TECH Armor Lens include better chromatic quality known as the ABBE value. The tendency of a material to separate light as the light passes through the material is called chromatic aberration and this chromatic aberration is measured by its Abbe value. The Abbe value of a material is inversely proportional to the chromatic aberration induced as light passes through it. In other words, the higher the abbe value, the lower the amount of chromatic aberration. The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens has an ABBE value of 52. This replaces our polycarbonate lens, which had an ABBE value of 30. All polycarbonate lenses will have an ABBE value of 30.

2- Excellent Scratch Resistance: The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens offers superior scratch resistance due the physical properties of the lens material. The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens is naturally a very hard material and impact resistant. Polycarbonate is also impact resistant, however polycarbonate is naturally a very soft material. For lens use polycarbonate cannot be sold without a hard coating applied to the base polycarbonate lens material. The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens can be used without any additional treatment and still offers excellent scratch resistance. Superior resistance to scratching is achieved with the new Armor Lens. Polycarbonate lenses (which includes the Oakley Plutonite* lens), are all hard coated. This is a thin hard coating bonded to the outer surface to provide scratch resistance, however with a thin hard material on top of a thin soft material, (such as polycarbonate), any impact the lens has with a hard object with a force great enough to cause the soft underlying material to be impacted will result in lens damage.

3- Lighter Weight: The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens is over 10% lighter weight.

4- Improve Lens Mirror Colors: The development of the new ICE-TECH Armor Lens offered an excellent opportunity for the ICE-TECH Research and Development Team to improve all colors of mirrored lenses. A special mirror bonding technology was developed. The proprietary application of the mirrored lens colors is encased with an exclusive nano technology process. This new mirror bonding process allows ICE-TECH to offer a superior extended lens warranty; as we now feature the ultimate in mirror lens technology with our exclusive cold plasma high vacuum process. Lens mirrors on the new ICE-TECH Armor Lens now offer the same resistance to scratching that non-mirrored lenses offer. Superior resistance to scratching is achieved with the new Armor Lens.

5- Exceed All FDA Lens Standards: The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens exceeds all FDA and ANSI standards for Class One Optical products. This includes impact resistance tests that are required of polycarbonate lenses.

The new ICE-TECH Armor Lens offers a revolutionary breakthrough in Advanced Polarized Optics. A lighter weight lens, with superior optics, superior mirrors and exceptional scratch resistance make the new ICE-TECH Armor Lens---- Clearly the BEST.

* Oakley and Plutonite are trademarks of Oakley, Inc.