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MaxSight: Visualizing Every Advantage
Competitive athletes, their coaches, and the athletes' parents will try everything possible to get an edge: customized diets, personalized performance training, and the best gear. Things have just been jacked-up another notch. Get ready for contact lenses that claim to enhance the athlete's view and optimize what the wearer sees.
MaxSight is a high-performance contact lens jointly marketed by Bausch & Lomb and Nike. These are prescription tinted contact lenses that come in two different styles: Grey contact lenses are for bright light situations and the Amber lenses are for cloudy, variable situations. In theory, use of these sports contact lenses will reduce glare, eliminate aberrations and improve visual performance. These contacts can be ordered with or without refractive correction for nearsightedness/farsightedness.
Golfer Michelle Wie and baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. wear MaxSight lenses, but I doubt they had to pay for them!
MaxSight lenses will distort color perception somewhat, so they are not for everyday use; they are supplemental lenses only worn during athletic activity.
For years sports eyewear has utilized various tints and filters to achieve this same effect. One beneficial advantage of wraparound polycarbonate sports eyewear is eye injury protection.
There are other ways to help athletes keep their eye on the prize. Tennis and golfballs are made bright yellow for a specific reason. The retina is most sensitive to the wavelength of visible light represented as that funky yellow-green color. Skeptics say at 95mph the color of the ball doesn't make much difference! I'll be eager to learn how MaxSight contact lenses affect real world athletes' perception of these colored balls.
Related Topics: (WebMD Video) Kids' Sports: 7 Questions Can Prevent Injuries, Keeping Kids Playing Injury-Free
Technorati Tags: contacts, maxsight, sports safety
MaxSight is a high-performance contact lens jointly marketed by Bausch & Lomb and Nike. These are prescription tinted contact lenses that come in two different styles: Grey contact lenses are for bright light situations and the Amber lenses are for cloudy, variable situations. In theory, use of these sports contact lenses will reduce glare, eliminate aberrations and improve visual performance. These contacts can be ordered with or without refractive correction for nearsightedness/farsightedness.
Golfer Michelle Wie and baseball player Ken Griffey Jr. wear MaxSight lenses, but I doubt they had to pay for them!
MaxSight lenses will distort color perception somewhat, so they are not for everyday use; they are supplemental lenses only worn during athletic activity.
For years sports eyewear has utilized various tints and filters to achieve this same effect. One beneficial advantage of wraparound polycarbonate sports eyewear is eye injury protection.
There are other ways to help athletes keep their eye on the prize. Tennis and golfballs are made bright yellow for a specific reason. The retina is most sensitive to the wavelength of visible light represented as that funky yellow-green color. Skeptics say at 95mph the color of the ball doesn't make much difference! I'll be eager to learn how MaxSight contact lenses affect real world athletes' perception of these colored balls.
Related Topics: (WebMD Video) Kids' Sports: 7 Questions Can Prevent Injuries, Keeping Kids Playing Injury-Free
Technorati Tags: contacts, maxsight, sports safety
