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EyeClops Night Vision Goggles let you see in the dark, even the pitch black. Traditional night vision infrared goggles cost hundreds of dollars and more, while Jakks Eyeclops night vision goggles are only $85. When you think about that price difference, you say to yourself, how could they work? After buying them for my son, I can tell you that he’s having a great time playing with the goggles.

I’m sure you remember growing up and thinking how cool it would be to sneak around in the dark and be invisible. I actually researched night vision equipment, but there wasn’t any around when I was a kid – it was all military stuff. Furthermore, even if you could get your hands on night vision goggles, there were like $1,000 or more.

For one thing, it’s kind of weird that your vision comes from the center eyepiece mounted on your forehead like a third eye. What I mean to say is that normally you see things through your eyes, but the eyeclops “sees” through it’s 3rd eye that’s mounted about 4 inches up and to the left of your right eye. This is a bit disorienting when you first use the device, but my son got used to it pretty quickly.

Guess what – they work really well. I was shocked that I could put them on and see pretty far in the darkness. Yes, I did let my kids play with them, I know what you’re thinking. By the way, my wife did tease me about the fact that it seems like I bought them for myself and not for her.

A final difficulty is that since you have a smaller field of vision, and you’re only seeing in night vision through one eye (the right eye) (and yes, this IS typical in expensive night vision goggles as well), you lose a bunch of depth perception. The moral here is that you don’t want to go running around in night vision mode – you’ll smash into stuff.

We haven’t had any trouble with the goggles, but because the depth perception is a bit difficult when they’re being used, I made sure to supervise my kids when they wanted to wear them outside.

Now on this point, I’m unsure, but the Eyeclops Night Vision Glasses have 2 modes of night vision – a stealth mode and a regular infrared night vision mode. From what I’ve seen, the stealth mode doesn’t seem to use any type of lights to illuminate the darkness, making the wearer completely invisible to others. In regular mode, the eyeclops night vision uses red lights mounted in a circle around the 3rd eye as well as the right eye to illuminate the darkness somewhat, improving your night vision, but obviously giving away your position to others.

All in all, I’m very pleased with Jakks Eyeclops Night Vision Infrared Stealth Goggles, and I think they’ll make a fantastic and fun gift for your kids for Christmas 2008. Check them out, and be confident that your kids will love them and they’ll learn a lot by having them.

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