The future of night is...??

[BenBhoy]

Infrared contact lenses allow people to see in the dark, even with their eyes closed

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact lenses, described in the journal Cell, do not require a power source—and...

phys.org

 

[VSS]

Wow!

 

[Will the chippy]

Bet Ian Blackwood will be selling these.
It beats eating bags full of carrots…

 

[HonestJohn]

Enhances night vision (to a small degree) but does not ‘create’ night vision. Absolute bollocks and overstatement news wise. Having worked in the industry for years, I can guarantee there is no way if creating night vision without sensors and processors and large lenses and firmware.

Nice story thought

 

[mealiejimmy]

Load of bollocks - nobody is gong to see well enough in the dark to shoot anything that they can't already shoot better with existing NV

Cheers


Bruce

 

[Tim.243]

Enhances night vision (to a small degree) but does not ‘create’ night vision. Absolute bollocks and overstatement news wise. Having worked in the industry for years, I can guarantee there is no way if creating night vision without sensors and processors and large lenses and firmware.

Nice story thought

Bump lol

 

[Tim.243]

Load of bollocks - nobody is gong to see well enough in the dark to shoot anything that they can't already shoot better with existing NV

Cheers


Bruce

And still EV cars are ****

 

[mealiejimmy]

Not all EV cars are s***e
Like everything else, you need the right tool for the job
There are an increasing number of situations where an EV is the right choice for the job

Cheers

Bruce

 

[JockStalk]

Not all EV cars are s***e
Like everything else, you need the right tool for the job
There are an increasing number of situations where an EV is the right choice for the job

Cheers

Bruce

Urban bonfire maybe?

 

[shakey jake]

Urban bonfire maybe?

Milk float

 

[mealiejimmy]

Think before you utter complete BS
You clearly have never thought about the potential advantages of an EV used in the correct circumstances

Cheers

Bruce

 

[takbok]

IMO you need to be either a toonser, a politician, or be minted to see the advantages of owning an EV.

Just my opinion!

 

[Tim.243]

Not all EV cars are s***e
Like everything else, you need the right tool for the job
There are an increasing number of situations where an EV is the right choice for the job

Cheers

Bruce

A local lad with 2 jobs bit of courier work and gardening feeds his family using a petrol 5k van as that is what he saved up.
Find me a 5k EV van for him please.... Oh wait you can't

 

[TringSaint]

A local lad with 2 jobs bit of courier work and gardening feeds his family using a petrol 5k van as that is what he saved up.
Find me a 5k EV van for him please.... Oh wait you can't

I was reading about the all new Volvo electric xc90 that is coming out.
Now I have had 2x diesel xc90’s and I love them - great bits of kit, but I haven’t paid over £30k for either of them (both 2 year old with c20k miles on the clock when I got them) , but my current one is the exec model which in 2011 retailed at c£48k.
That’s a lot of money for a car, but the new electric one is ‘starting’ at £100k!!

For a family car.
Not a Porsche or an Aston or a Ferrari, but a Volvo with 7 seats!

On that’s basis I think I will go and buy a reconditioned xc90 engine and gearbox and have it stored somewhere so that when my current one gives up then I can simply swap it over, as I could never sanction paying that much money for an every day car and if that is the price to get an equivalent piece of kit then I think I will just keep the old one going!

 

[BenBhoy]

I might be missing something (not the first time) but unless all your pension fund is tied up in diesel, I never understand why people get so angry about EV....

 

[jall55]

A local lad with 2 jobs bit of courier work and gardening feeds his family using a petrol 5k van as that is what he saved up.
Find me a 5k EV van for him please.... Oh wait you can't

Oh you can !

 

[Tim.243]

Oh you can !

As a subscriber or trade member

 

[JockStalk]

I might be missing something (not the first time) but unless all your pension fund is tied up in diesel, I never understand why people get so angry about EV....

one reason could be the government forcing technology on people that they would prefer a choice over, as they did between VHS and Betamax. Market forces or government forcing you. One is rather more palatable than the other.
Oh, and the sanctimonious-virtue-signalling cork soakers who splash their cash on an EV then look down their noses on everyone else. Or at least they did until good old Elon joined the republicans.

 

[JockStalk]

Think before you utter complete BS
You clearly have never thought about the potential advantages of an EV used in the correct circumstances

Cheers

Bruce

Oh but I have Bruce. They make a bonny bonfire

 

[bowji john]

X-ray glasses anyone?