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Letter: The coolest shades

Published 31 March 2015

From Richard Epworth

David Hambling describes a weapon that disturbs vision by heating the eyeball with infrared radiation (7 March, p 44). This will, fortunately, be cheap and easy to nullify. I foresee that infrared blocking sunglasses will become the “cool” eyewear for the military and anyone planning to riot.
Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, UK

Issue no. 3015 published 4 April 2015

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