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I'm not sure 'contacts' are a good match with 'soldier'. Gear for soldiers needs to be rugged, idiot proof, and easy to work with. Inserting contacts to gear-
by bdunbar 15y ago
I'm not sure 'contacts' are a good match with 'soldier'.
Gear for soldiers needs to be rugged, idiot proof, and easy to work with. Inserting contacts to gear-up for a patrol would seem to be none of those.
I'm not adverse to the idea .. I would have liked to use this myself, back in the day .. but we need to keep in mind that information overload is a very real problem for these guys.
" A screaming red display flashes up on the goggles informing him that the millimeter-wave radar has noticed a stream of bullets headed in his direction and would you like to know where they came from, sir?
He turns off all of the techno-sh in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. Time to get immersed in Reality, like all the people around him."
~Snow Crash
- eblume 15y agoI wonder if something like this could be surgically implanted behind the cornea, and then removed at the end of service? Just a thought.
- gaius 15y agoI expect the first troops to get it will be the ones who already use HUDs.
- Synthetase 15y agoContacts are a horrendous ideas. In fact soldiers are specifically not to wear contacts into a combat zone because the heat of an IED explosion can fuse it to the cornea.
- bdunbar 15y agoI _knew_ wearing Birth Control Goggles were a good idea. Best glasses I've ever owned - sturdy and difficult to break. Pity that on me they made me look mildly retarded.