| Basically, Jakks EyeClops Night Vision Goggles let you | | | | go running around in infrared mode - you'll smash into |
| see in total darkness, for 90% less cost than traditional | | | | stuff. |
| night vision goggles. Typically you'd pay $500 and up, | | | | It's funny, I learned from reading about pirates on |
| and here you have Jakks offering them for $80. At | | | | Mythbusters that the reason they wore a patch over |
| first, I couldn't believe that they would work. Anyway, I | | | | one eye was because if they were in a sword fight |
| ended up buying them for my 10 year old, Aiden. He is | | | | and had to go below deck where it's dark, they could |
| having a blast playing with them, and so am I. | | | | take the patch off their patched eye and that eye |
| Honestly, at first I was disappointed with how they | | | | would be ready to see in darkness and they wouldn't |
| worked, until I asked about traditional night vision | | | | be night blinded. Same premise with the eyeclops night |
| goggles and realized that night vision has its limitations, | | | | vision goggles - since you're only seeing in the dark |
| no matter how much you spend. | | | | with 1 eye, the other eye is ready to see in normal light |
| For one thing, it's kind of weird that your vision comes | | | | anytime. |
| from the center eyepiece mounted on yourforehead | | | | On these glasses, there's 2 night vision modes - one is |
| like a third eye. What I mean to say is that normally | | | | 100% stealth (no one can see you) and the other one |
| you see things through your eyes, but the eyeclops | | | | gives you better viewing but throws off a faint infrared |
| "sees" through it's 3rd eye that's mounted about 4 | | | | light from the goggles themselves, so you're not 100% |
| inches up and to the left of your right eye. This is a bit | | | | invisible. |
| disorienting when you first use the device, but my son | | | | The EyeClops night vision goggles DO work very well, |
| got used to it pretty quickly. | | | | and for the price, they're amazing. When I tried them, I |
| Another thing is that the field of vision is much smaller | | | | walked around our house in the darkness and could |
| than your normal, 180 degree field of vision, but I | | | | easily see my way around, so they DO work. |
| learned that that's just one of the limitations of night | | | | If you have kids (especially boys) and if you have any |
| vision itself, no matter what device you're using. | | | | mischief in your heart, I think you'll really like this toy. |
| A final difficulty is that since you have a smaller field of | | | | They're definitely worth it, and you can see lots of |
| vision, and you're only seeing in infrared through one | | | | stuff you've never seen before. I heartily recommend |
| eye (the right eye) (and yes, this IS typical in expensive | | | | them as a Christmas 2008 gift (since we're close to |
| night vision goggles as well), you lose a bunch of depth | | | | Christmas). |
| perception. The moral here is that you don't want to | | | | |