If you hate the eye doctor, you're going to love Warby Parker's futuristic vision test app

Going to the eye doctor is one of those yearly errands I always dread. I like my eye doctor well enough and, no, I don't have some eye-related phobia — I just really, really, dislike the whole process.

Getting an appointment can take weeks, or even months. Inevitably, I'll have to go in the middle of a workday, and appointments always take far longer than they're supposed to. That's partly because, before I can even see my doctor, I have to listen to a series of aggressive pitches on the relative merits of a handful of additional tests and procedures I don't really need but are, conveniently, both expensive and not covered by my insurance.  Read more...