Tenebraex ColorPath: world’s first color night vision goggles
by DJ Neawedde | 28th March 2007
Tenebraex is about to unleash the first ever color seeing night vision goggle. According to Gizmodo, the “goggles can see down to quarter-moon night levels. For anything lower than that, users can switch to the standard monochromatic green vision.” These goggles will apparently be available this Summer for $6,000 - one customer already being the Army. Read More
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Your “World’s First” Headline is incorrect. CANVS Corporation delivered a very similiar device to Fort Benning under a 1998 ACT-II Contract.
The following text is an excerpt from the 1999 ACT II Accomplishments Booklet (Dismounted Battlespace Battle Laboratory = DBBL):
Canvs Corporation has demonstrated a series of approaches for producing color night vision devices based on existing technologies and Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components. These demonstrations dramatically illustrated the increased and new operational capabilities offered by color night vision systems. A robust, repeatable, meaningful color night vision system extends operational capabilities in ways heretofore unavailiable to the DBBL community. Color contrast, in conjunction with the traditionally exploited intensity contrast characteristics of night vision goggles, provides a real extension of the overall warfighting capability. Earlier positive target identification capabilities not only increase the soldier’s lethality but also enhance the safety aspects of dismounted operations by helping reduce the probability of fratricide. An obvious example of a safety-related issue is the ability to determina and distinguish between friendly and enemy uniform and vehicle markings. (99-DBBL-063)
CANVS Corporation has been delivering and demonstrating Color Night Vision systems, including goggles to U.S. Government Customers for the last ten years. Here is a link to a recent CANVS SOCOM Program: http://conference.brtrc.com/sbirconf05/SuccessStories/canvs.aspx
Here is link to a video from 1999:
http://www.canvs.com/CANVS-cigar.wmv
Unlike the Colorpath device, the CANVS Color Goggles have no moving parts.
JON
October 7th, 2007 at 9:16 pm