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June 20, 2014

Strange But True!

Q. What's possibly the latest in eyewear technology to help train hockey players to see the puck amid all the muscled bodies and the pandemonium of an excited crowd?

A. Players can follow the tiny, wily puck by using the Nike SPARQ Vapor Strobe, whose lenses quickly switch between transparency and opaqueness, producing stroboscopic visual conditions that allow the wearer to see only snippets of action, says Sarina Tracy in Photonics Spectra magazine.


 
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