A new thermal-vision device will augment night-vision goggles, letting soliders see in "Predator" vision.
When hunting for terrorists, seeing them before they see you is a must.
Regular night-vision goggles are good, but not good enough. Sure, they let a soldier see at night as well as he would by day -- but they don't let him see any better. That just changed.
A new device developed over seven years by Optics1 gives warfighters "Predator"-style vision to better tag those terrorists and other threats. Only recently made available, the COTI (Clip On Thermal Imager) adds the ability to see thermal signals to to existing night-vision devices.
The human eye sees light with a wavelength between 400 and 700 nanometers, while a night-vision device may see up to around 900, closing in on the infrared range. The COTI amps the warfighter's vision into a whole different spectrum -- giving the soldier souped up, super vision.
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