A secret agent needs to be descreet at all times. These night vision contact lenses look just like ordinary lenses but have a special luminent coating reactant to light which makes your surroundings look much clearer. The fact that you arnt carrying a huge pair of goggles dosent advertise the fact your working for the enemy. You could also try to make a pair of thermal imaging lenses.
-- BIG BAD PETE, Sep 17 2001

"Special luminent coating?" Blah. Magic.
-- jutta, Sep 17 2001


I suppose it could be feasible that the lenses act like those reactive glasses lenses - but by blocking out all light other than infra red - however since we don't see in that spectrum anyway they would just make the spy blind.
-- fridge duck, Jan 19 2005


What do you mean "special spy equipment", I'm just playing face ludo.
-- wagster, Jan 19 2005


// however since we don't see in that spectrum anyway they would just make the spy blind.//

Unless..... The electronic equipment usually utilised in the goggles to do all the technical jiggery pokery is minituarised and installed into the users head - they could then receive a signal from the contact lense, convert it and pump it straight into the brain...
-- RichieRich, Jan 19 2005



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