New Oakley model for soldiers, police gets a column on FOX News

[rinselberg]

Meet the SI Ballistic Det Cord … Oakley’s new shades for aggressive environments.

Eyewear specialist Oakley revealed the shades to international militaries from around the world at last month’s DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition) event in London.

If you need to protect your eyes from bright light AND things flying around in combat – while looking cool doing it - then these could be the shades for you.

A great choice for low profile missions and covert protection, this new eyewear is designed with the military and law enforcement in mind. Ballistic Det Cord is engineered for folks who need to be ready for any situation and need excellent clarity to support precise shooting. . . .

Want it all? Get it all..!
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/10/...ntcmp=obinsite

[Chris Ryser]

The lenses are built with Oakley’s Prizm technology. They block 100 percent of UVA and UVB. And they also protect against harmful blue light up to 400nm wavelength.

Wow ...............

Oakley's new "Prizm technology" has been used in the optical field since the early 1980s.

That was the time when the first original UV 400 solutions sold for $ XXX.00 a bottle and you could treat close to a hundred pairs of lenses in the hot solution.

When an optician could get a pair of CR39 lenses and treat them in his backroom lab in 30 minutes, then tint them in his own dye pot, put a scratch resistant top coat on the lenses by dipping them into the solution for a few seconds.

The then newly, by several companies invented and heavily advertised UV 400 lenses soon disappeared from the market because opticians chose to treat the lenses themselves at a fraction of the cost.

Nassau lens in New York and Bill Noblitt in Nashville used to order over 500 bottles a month of these products.

I just had to write this little piece of optical history because I believe that the optical retail these days prefers to sell heavily advertised novelty products that are overpriced, even if they are repeated old hat, instead of going back to do what they have done before, do as much as you can do yourself.

There is not that much new technology, but let the consumer believe it is to make money with old facts.

[Barry Santini]

Prizm s completely separate technology from the UV block.

B

[Chris Ryser]

Prizm s completely separate technology from the UV block.

B

Related: Falcon Shield launches electronic attacks to take control of drones
The ballistic shades are made by Oakley Standard Issue, a division of the company that focuses on the military and law enforcement.
Fit for the nation’s top warriors, the Det Cord is listed on the Special Operations Eyewear Program.
These shades are fully loaded. They meet the impact fragmentation military standard of MIL-PRF-32432 – that’s a hefty amount of impact resistance.
The lenses are built with Oakley’s Prizm technology. They block 100 percent of UVA and UVB. And they also protect against harmful blue light up to 400nm wavelength.

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/10/...-warriors.html


That is exactly a repeat of my old UV 400 treatments the graphs look exactly the same on my spectrometer, as they did in 1984, with full UV absorption from 280 to 405 nm . Visibly a slightly yellowish lens.

I could correct myself that the highlighted part is nothing new. Anything else might be different.

[leeopt]

Your on the wrong path, didydium is the prizm tree you should be barking up. Been in welding helmets way before the 1980's.

[MikeAurelius]

Your on the wrong path, didydium is the prizm tree you should be barking up. Been in welding helmets way before the 1980's.

Actually, no it hasn't. Didymium has never been used in welding filters, and there is no reason it should, it does nothing to block any of the UV/VIS/NIR radiation that welding emits.

[leeopt]

589nm...nothing?

[MikeAurelius]

It's negated by the overall filtration of the welding filter. Believe me, looking through a shade 8 filter, you don't see carp.

Welding filter is basically nothing but clear float glass with a hefty dose of iron oxide as the colorant/filter material.

[Barry Santini]

Prizm is also a color - ENHANCING technology, so it is probably different than just UV/blue light filtering.

B

[Chris Ryser]

Prizm is also a color - ENHANCING technology, so it is probably different than just UV/blue light filtering.

B

Same landscape picture results as as our Blue-Blocker we came out with in 1984, and after that we produced + sold tons of glasses with those lenses for Dentist's to protect them from the curing UV lights which were the latest real innovation.

We also have been dying them over into very similar colors already 30 years ago. What is much newer is tinting many times faster with high temperature dyes in the MicroWave oven, and that is getting to be 20 years.

There is not much new stuff, as there is high tech propaganda, and the funds to do it.

FLIGHT DECK

with Prizm™ Torch Iridium

[Lelarep]

Its too bad they're ugly as well...