BenQ unveils ScreenBar and ScreenBar Max to protect the eyes of iMac and multi-monitor users

For office workers, software engineers, financial analysts and content creators, daily life often unfolds in front of bright screens. BenQ is positioning its latest products as a response to the strain that comes with that routine.

The company unveiled the e-Reading ScreenBar and ScreenBar Max for iMac users and people working with multiple monitors. BenQ says its products aim to improve the visual experience of modern screen users by optimizing the light around a display and reducing pressure on the eyes.

The concern is not simply the quality of the screen itself. Displays have advanced with higher resolutions, faster refresh rates and wider color gamuts, while prolonged viewing continues to bring problems such as dry eyes, pain, eye fatigue, blurred vision and headaches.

A 2024 meta-analysis by a research team at Iran’s Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences found that 69% of people who use digital screens for long periods experience computer vision syndrome. The study’s findings frame the condition as a common occupational symptom of modern screen-based work.