Suncontacts to Replace Sunglasses?
MaxSight Red Contacts
MaxSight lenses are designed to function like sunglasses in a contact lens form.
That right . . . Nike and Bausch & Lomb have teamed up to develop MaxSight. Nike has been giving lenses to professional athletes (and some golfers) to start using MaxSight lenses during games.
Most athletes are wearing the red lenses, but there are yellow and amber lenses available, too. Golfers are apparently wearing "gray-green" lenses. There is a set for night use in development stages, too, but I'm curious about what they would help with. Ever seen anyone wearing their special "night-time" sunglasses?
FoxSports.com (link now dead) wrote up a nice little story about them. Obviously, the story revolves around sports, but apparently so do the lenses. They are, after all, co-developed by Nike.
Let's just hope that some day, these lenses are available to the masses. It will mark the first time that I'm willing to pay over $15 for a pair of sunglasses! For consumers, the lenses have some medical advantages, too:
There are medical advantages as well to wearing the lenses, which basically are soft contacts with a tint that has been scientifically developed. While light can leak through sunglasses, through the opening between the frame and the eyes, performance-enhancing contacts sit on the pupils and better protect them from the sun.
Still, the red contacts tend to make you look a bit creepy.
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May 15th, 2005 at 13:50
The purpose with the gray-green lense [for golfers] is to help differenciate the shades of green with the grass. The Amber version for baseball contrasts colors. For hitters it helps them pick up what pitch is being thrown. If a fastball is thrown the hitter will pick up a sharp white color as the ball. A changeup, the hitters se the white with the red seams going through the ball. A curveball different shade of color… you get the idea.
With outfeilders it helps them pick up the ball in the air, considering they have to turn and run taking their eyes off the ball when they turn to pick up the ball again they can easily find it even with glaring sun, if the balls in the lights, when normally it takes a while to find so you might not judge the ball correctly.
The new night-versions in the making are to be use during night(obviously) i heard it does basically the same thing just different tint to give the same effects during night.