This is the new helmet-mounted display system for the F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. The helmet is designed to provide pilots with binocular-wide field-of-view, give night vision abilities and scare enemy pilots at first sight. It was used for the first time last April, making the F-35 the first combat plane without a cockpit-mounted heads-up display in a very long time.
Beyond making the pilot look like a spooky insect (comic book nerd moment: the Morpheus helmet from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comes to mind), the F-35 HDMS is loaded with all kinds of amazing goodies, like extreme off-axis targeting and head tracking “providing the pilot with unprecedented situational awareness and tactical capability.” The helmet was developed by Vision Systems International, a company that has other quite weird designs that are already operational, like the DASH and the JHMCS. Technical specs and another image of the F-35 HMDS after the jump.
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This eye tracking gear on the Made in Germany stand was cool, if just to see this German guy hanging around wearing it. No getting away with checking out passing ladies, because the screen would give it away by showing exactly where his eyes were wandering. Thankfully he wasn’t too close to the spa girls.
Picture of the computer screen after the jump.
These Rohto V Arctic eye drops are supposed to “keep eyes cool under the strain of today’s techno lifestyles,” in particular the kind that results from staring at a monitor 20 hours a day, like we do at Giz. The “cool” part is supposed to be the menthol in the drops, which their rep said had her hooked on them.
I became suspicious when I read that I had to wait 15 minutes to put in my contacts after using the drops. Luckily for you guys, today I happened to be wearing glasses. I held the bottle over my eye and let two drops fall in.
Aftermath with picture after the jump.
Do you have trouble seeing the buttons on your 1987 VCR remote control? Well, you could always buy glasses, but why buy one item to make it easier to see everything when you can buy many items to make it easier to see specific things? That’s the idea behind the “Remote See”, which claims to fit on all remotes but clearly only fits on a few of them. Even at $12 you’ve gotta feel like you’re throwing your money away with this one. –Adam Frucci
Product Page [via Boook of Joe]
HELLO OLD PEOPLE. THIS WATCH HAS A MAGNIFYING GLASS BUILT IN SO YOU CAN SEE. HAVE YOUR CHILDREN BUY YOU ONE AND YOU WILL NEVER TIP 35% BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE THREE WAS AN EIGHT. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Firststreetonline via UberGizmo]
