Nike Creates Sensory Sunglasses

Nike, in an effort to attract more athletes to its brand has developed the very first sensory sunglasses called Strobe-Light. What do these new sunglasses do exactly? Well they work with a persons vision to limit their peripheral as well as frontal vision. The reason for this is that our reactions depend a lot on what we can see both in front of us and around us. If your vision is decreased then you move your eyes faster to see around you quicker as you also are forced to turn your head and focus more with your limited vision to complete task. Catching a football may seem simple enough, but when you limit a person's vision they have to rely more on their ability to catch it and their ability to react and focus on the football.

While this could in fact increase reaction as well as eye focus I have my concerns about the negative effects that it could have on your overall peripheral vision. After all when we start driving it takes some practice to gain better peripheral vision because we are used to the freedom of constantly turning to gather information with our eyes rather then our peripheral vision to see our side mirrors. If the technology works just like its demonstrated there could be many new uses for the technology field in an effort to help to strengthen the focus of the eyes of patients who have otherwise lost the ability or had a weakening of their eye muscles.