Anyone with connections at Nike try these yet? Sounds interesting.
This from:
http://www.paularadcliffe.com/diary/015.php
I also was able to meet up again with the shoe designers and chat to the vision guys about new glasses and their exciting new Max Sight contact lenses project. This is really going to help sports such as football, tennis and golf where it is difficult to wear sunglasses and I'm having fun trying them out while running.
And this:
http://www.kmov.com/health/asseenonnews4/stories/kmov_health_050505_lmacontacts.2468f23e9.html
Performance enhancing contact lenses
06:07 PM CDT on Thursday, May 5, 2005
Lisa Manzo, News 4
(KMOV) -- There's been a lot of controversy about steroids and performance enhancing drugs in professional sports, but have you heard about performance enhancing contact lenses?
Lisa Manzo reports this cutting edge technology is being tested by the pros will be available to everyone in just a few months.
The Nike Max Sight contact lenses look like part a Halloween costume, but for pro athletes like Cardinals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek they are no joke.
Grudzielanek says he has tested out the performance enhancing lenses a few times during warm up but isn't comfortable enough yet to wear them in a game.
"It's like wearing sunglasses. It blocks everything and this way there's no light seeping in at all. It's like wearing those orange kind of glasses out there. It really cuts the glare," he says.
Teammate Reggie Sanders says he would consider using the contact lenses in the future. But for now he's not willing to be a guinea pig.
“I saw Grudzielanek had a pair and Ken Griffey, Jr. and their eyes were red. I thought what in the world is going on?" said Sanders.
The contacts are supposed to act like filters, blocking out blue light, making certain colors like the red laces on a baseball more vibrant.
Cardinals team physician Dr. George Paletta says the contacts carry no more risks than other lenses, and while there's no data to back up the claims that they're performance enhancing he's getting good feedback from athletes.
"It potentially offers them a little bit of an advantage because they may be able to visualize the ball better. Pick up a pitch coming sooner. Big dividends for that elite player," says Paletta.
There are also gray-green lenses for golfers to help them see each blade of grass.
We're told the lenses will cost about the same price as regular contacts when they hit the market in June. You can get them with a prescription.
They need to be replaced about every three to six weeks, just like regular contact lenses.