While some night vision goggles rely exclusively on enhancing ambient light to improve the user’s vision, this set by Nightfox Swift uses infrared (IR) light to create images, even when it’s pitch ...

People who tested a new type of designer contact lens could see flashing infrared signals from a light source. Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision ...

Infrared goggles are out, replaced by contact lenses that turn wavelengths too long for our eyes into those we can see, while letting through ordinary light at the same time. Remarkably, there’s no ...

Infrared goggles and an array of vibrating pads can give people who are blind an intuitive way to navigate while also retaining full use of their hands and ears, unlike many devices on the market.

This might not actually be a good idea, but somebody has a put up a DIY guide to making your own pair of infrared goggles for under ten dollars. Before you get too excited, they can’t be used for ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new fabrication process that allows infrared (IR) glass to be combined with another glass and formed into complex miniature shapes. The technique can be ...

My love affair with the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope is no secret. I seek shapes in glowing nebula, and never pass up amultispectral composite image with an infrared layer. But what benefit does ...

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