Eagle Eyes Advanced Optic Technology Sunglasses

An Amrican Bald Eagle diving for dinner and about to grab a pair of Eagle Eyes Freedom Non-Polarized sunglasses with a gold frame and EE15 Green lenses.

I am pleased to announce that we are now offering a new line of sunglasses on our website called Eagle Eyes® Optics. One of the main features of these sunglasses is the incredible lenses they offer to protect your eyes whether you have problems driving at night, working on your computer, coping with bright or low light conditions, gaming or just enjoying the outdoors.

This brand has been around since 1986, and was originally created during the early days of space exploration with the Apollo program. As the United States exploring space NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) began looking at ways to protect astronaut's eyes from the harmful effects of solar radiation light.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was tasked with creating lens technology specific to protecting astronaut's eyes from intense, harmful radiation. As they worked on this issue they began to look in nature to find the best way to protect the eyes of the astronauts.

Their search led them to look at the American eagle. You might wonder why the eagle. Click on the video below to see why the JPL scientists were interested in the American Bald Eagle:

A bald eagle in flight searching for dinner by flying over water and looking for a fish to catch.

NASA scientists studied eagles and birds of prey, and they found that eagles possess special oil droplets that protect and enhance vision. Eagles fly at extremely high altitudes to search for their prey and really need precise vision.

They discovered that these birds’ eyes were not affected by ultraviolet or blue light or any of the other vision distracting light, so they replicated this drop stuff that is in the eagle’s eyes to create a very special lens called TriLenium^®. This all started for a very specific reason: NASAs JPL and CalTech were charged with finding out the harmful properties of light because astronauts were going to be working in space.

The scientists knew that radiational light was harmful to the human eye and because there was little ozone to mitigate the strength of radiational light they knew that they had to come up with a way to protect the astronaut’s eyes. Once they solved the problem it opened up a new opportunity for working in space. The scientists worked on this problem from the late 1970s to the 1980s.

A big part of this project was to help develop the International Space Station (ISS) so that as it was built scientists could keep each other in sight when working on the exterior of the ISS.

If you click anywhere on the image below it will take you to information about the International Space Station:

A photo of the International Space Station with the curve of our Earth in the background.

In 1986, Alan Mittelman  acquired this unique intellectual property for lenses adapted from an innovation originally developed by physicists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and used by astronauts while building the International Space Station (ISS). The technology both protects vision and enhances sight by selectively blocking ultraviolet light and blue light radiation.

This became the foundation of SunTiger, and after utilizing SunTiger’s U.S. and Japanese patents to refine the technology, Mittelman negotiated a manufacturing/distribution relationship with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical of Japan. Within two years, his wholly owned company in Japan became the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of polarized polycarbonate lenses to the sunglasses industry. Their product was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2010.

Today, the Eagle Eyes product line is comprised of a number of models for every style preference, and almost every light condition, including bright sunlight, night driving, low-light conditions, computer screen viewing, gaming, office wear, travel, and occupational safety glasses.

Over time we will be adding more and more of the Eagle Eyes product line, but for the time being visit the Eagle Eyes Collection today to see some of these sunglasses. You won't be disappointed!

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Until next time, keep your eyes safe and focused on what's ahead of you, Hersch!