Seeing Color in the Night

Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Things that show color in the night,' the Boston Globe reports that a company named Tenebraex is helping color blind people to travel. But it's also developing goggles to help soldiers and physicians to see all colors at night, and not only the green color of current night vision systems. These goggles, which should become available this summer, will be sold for about $6,000 to the Army. But as states one of the founders of the company, with monochrome night vision, 'blood is the same color as water.' So these expensive night vision devices might be more targeted to Army physicians than to regular soldiers."

Comments

The Night Is the Hunter

[Doc Ruby]

How about some of these color nightvision goggles fitted with the bat ears that allow human echolocation?

Those kinds of sense boosters could make night, with less distractions away from the target, the most effective time to purse targets.

Psshhh

[CasperIV]

The non-gun-toting people are not as interesting. Besides, I do not condone the voyeurism of animals.

It's that special military pricing

[Quiet_Desperation]

These goggles, which should become available this summer, will be sold for about $6,000 to the Army.

And sold to consumers at Best Buy for $49.99 ($45.99 at Amazon).

Re:not for physicians only!

[zcubed]

Paris Hilton should get one and then we wouldn't have to look at the green vids anymore.

This is way old news...

[CatsupBoy]

I mean, come on folks, this technology has been around for decades: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum b/1/14/High_power_torch.jpg/250px-High_power_torch .jpg

Voyeurism

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Once this technology drops to $500 or so, the major use will be for voyeurism. Porn drives the internet.

Re:Depth perception

[Scrameustache]

Actually, as an infantry officer, I prefer the monocular. Oh la di da, the officer likes his monocle!

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