Being in the Excersize Science field and enjoying it... ALOT... there is alot of technology i should be able to write about... but really there isn't a whole lot of stuff athletes will do on the computer haha. But alright... this isn't really "electronic" but it is REALLY cool and technology did invent it! (or someone at Nike) but we wont get into it...
Alright so... it comes with a story! :) yay...
anyways... so the story begins on a bright sunny day sometime last spring... The Umaine softball team is oot and aboot, potentially somewhere in Hawaii :P haha yaaaa Hawaii was awesome thanks for asking.. but back the story... anyways.. So we're about to play some important game that we were potentially going to get demolished in.. cause we were probably playing the Longhorns... Ya .. you heard me... Texas Longhorns... anyways again..
I'm in the Outfield along with Alexis (ya that girl in our class) and we're taking flyballs... she goes first takes two balls, erin goes nest takes a ball and as Alexis returns to the line in center field she slaps hands with everyone in line.. and that's when i noticed them... It scared the crap out of me.. I did a double take... Red Eyes. ya... that's what I thought...
Fortunately Alexis was not possessed and The Red eyes are actually a new type of contact that nike came out with not too many years back to help those athletes who cannot use sunglasses (mostly due to discomfort, or the changes in levels that sunglasses sometimes bring) anyways I asked her about them and she told me they are from Nike and they are exactly like sunglasses except you put them in your eyes.
cool I thought so I looked them up on the internet later that night and this is what I came up with
The lenses come in amber for sports like baseball and tennis where the wearer must separate fast moving objects from the background, and grey-green for sports like golf, where the background environment is what’s visually important. Both colors filter out a significant amount of overall light, but they also sharpen and improve contrast, so they have a brightening effect, says Alan Reichow, who invented the lenses and is a sports vision consultant for Nike
And about the Colour - Those Red eyes...
"The amber lenses also turn the wearer's eye's an unsettling shade of red. But when Nike asked players if they'd like to create a version that created less of an evil eye, the answer was an overwhelming "no."
"They felt it gave them a more intimidating look," Reichow said, "and thus an edge over the competition"
(Damn right... I was intimidated by it... not that i wasn't intimidated by her before... :) haha)
here is the link to the website: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70154
And here is a picture :o
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