While I do wear contact lenses on the air ( the secret is out ), I prefer to wear glasses but I often find them hard to clean. Even if I do use that cloth, I will end up getting smudge marks on them from time to time.
I don’t think anything is perfect other than windex and wipes when it comes to cleaning glasses, I did find something that sounded interesting: a device which you fill with water and drop your glasses inside. Then, ultrasounds literally shakes the dirt off and dust off. The ultrasonic jewelry cleaner ( available at Brookstone ) is a variation on this device and say it not only works on jewelry, but also eyewear.
To give it a try, the man who has become one of Pittsburgh’s more prominent eyeglass wearers: Dan Bylsma, head coach of the Stanley Cup champion Penguins. He practices with the team wearing his glasses, which get all sorts of water and ice on them. Even on the bench, his eyewear gets covered in sweat, ice chips, etc.
Dan, as he prefers to be called, invited us into the Pens locker room during rookie orientation to give the Ultrasonic eyeglass cleaner a try. While he said there was no room on the tiny bench at Mellon Arena for the device, he said it would be perfect in the locker room … if it works … for the many players that wear glasses off-the-ice.
Watch Video Of Bylsma And Stockey Testing The Cleaner
The instructions were pretty simple. Plug it in, load it up with water, place the eyewear in and set the cleaning time. In this case, it was 90 seconds. Once done, Dan pulled the specs he had worn all season out and wiped them off. While they weren’t spotless, he says they were cleaner than before. He felt they did the trick and might even be good for cleaning off those Stanley Cup championship rings the team will soon be getting.
It retails for around $50, which might be too much for a simple eyeglass cleaner but factor in the jewelry cleaning and it makes as much sense as any other metals cleaning device out there. Brookstone tells me the device is one of their best-sellers and they have been selling them for years.
I can see why.