Enhance your vision with these Amazing Vuzix glasses >> GadgetGrid

May 27 2009

Enhance your vision with these Amazing Vuzix glasses

Posted by: technogeek in Father's Day, Personal Care, Security/Safety

When I was young, we used to have advertisements on the back of the comic books or in the bubble gum wrappers. One of the ads were for X-ray glasses which was supposed to give you amazing vision.

Vuzix has designed a pair of high tech glasses that can help people with “with inoperable visual impairments improve their visual acuity and quality of life”. A compact, lightweight video magnifier, the SightMate™ LV920™ is a combination of edge detection (contrast enhancement), color blindness compensation and a zoom capability of 20x, that will enahance the reading and distance acuity of individuals and will also assist people who have “suffered a gradual loss over the entire vision field.”

Specifications

Snap and pan function, which allows you to take a snapshot and have it displayed at 5x magnification
Freeze mode, which captures an image and freezes it in the display
Standard color blindness compensation and edge detection values pre-programmed
Automatically switches to external video source when cable is connected to video input
2 mega-pixel camera sensor and 20x zoom capability
Twin high-resolution 640×480 (920,000 pixels) LCD displays
AccuTilt™ view pivots up to 15 degrees for comfortable viewing angles
Edge/contrast detection for viewing distant objects and signs
Color blindness compensation
Controller designed to connect to almost all NTSC audio/video devices with video out capabilities
15 user control buttons for feature/function selections
Visor weighs four ounces; controller weighs less than 12 ounces with batteries
System power requirements: 5 volts@ 550 ma.
Battery life: approximately four hours