New technology may help prevent sun interference
June 10, 2011, 08:05 am
The air force has teamed up with inventor Chris Mullin to develop sunglasses with the ability to detect bright spots in a person's field of view, according to AVweb.com. These glasses, once perfected, will darken in the area in which the brightest spots are detected, hopefully reducing the incidents of sun induced accidents and limiting pilots life insurance claims.
The glasses will also allow the wearer's remaining view to be less affected by these bright spots, including the sun. The glasses use liquid crystal displays in the lenses, coupled with a pinhole camera sensor in the frame, the site reports. Combined with the programming that will also be inside these frames, the lenses will have the ability to identify glare. By allowing more sun filtering to the LCD in that area, the lenses can react.
When the light source is identified a dark spot hovers over the sun, or whatever else may be exceeding the threshold that the program will allow, according to the media outlet. The prototype currently uses batteries, but Mullin hopes to one day make them solar powered.
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