checka checka check it outttt! you can now go invisible. SIKE! these glasses give you super powers! actually it gives you an added 25 degrees of peripheral vision, goddam pretty cool. i need that for biking so i can not get hit by dumbasses while riding at high speeds.
"Nike Hindsight is, put simply, like giving bicyclists a pair of bifocals for their peripheral vision. By using Fresnel lenses on the sides of eye wear, riders can detect motion in a field of view beyond the normal human limit of 180º. To get technical, high power, diverging Fresnel zones aligned vertically distort into view an extra 25º of view on either side. In doing this, vision is radically distorted in the periphery, but as the eye detects only motion in that area, little clarity is lost in the process.
A rider’s clear benefit is in the early warning of approaching vehicles, but a less obvious advantage is reducing the necessary head rotation to check completely behind oneself. Moreover, while the project was directed towards bicycling for the sake of simplicity, there’s a myriad of sports and activities where a greater field of view becomes an advantage, so feel free to speculate.
On a final note, although only a concept, no element of Hindsight makes use of futuristic nano e-ink robots that will only be available come 2018. It is, at its core, a pair of sunglasses and a century old lens technology."
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