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Driver's sun visor in the up position below the Pierre Cardin headliner in a 1972 AMC Javelin Passenger's sun visor in down position with a lighted vanity mirror in a 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee. A sun visor is a component of an automobile located on the interior just above the windshield (also known as the shield). They are designed with a hinged ...
A magnetic mirror, also known as a magnetic trap or sometimes as a pyrotron, is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields. The mirror was one of the earliest major approaches to fusion power, along with the stellarator and z-pinch machines.
A pair of CrystalEyes shutter glasses Functional principle of active shutter 3D systems. An active shutter 3D system (a.k.a. alternate frame sequencing, alternate image, AI, alternating field, field sequential or eclipse method) is a technique for displaying stereoscopic 3D images.
A face shield is a device used to protect wearer's entire face (or part of it) from hazards such as impact, splash, heat, or glare. With face shields, as with welding helmets and hand shields, the user is continually lifting and lowering the visor. To protect the eyes when the visor is lifted, spectacles should be worn underneath.
A sports visor, also called a sun visor or visor cap, is a type of headgear that consists of a bill that covers the eyes, attached to a headband used to secure it to the head. Some visors have a very large bill that can shade most of the entire face, while others have a bill similar to that of a baseball cap.
Special shaded visors were once allowed in American football; Jim McMahon, quarterback for the Chicago Bears and San Diego Chargers, famously used a sun visor during his professional football career due to a childhood eye injury and almost always wears dark sunglasses when not wearing a football helmet. Darkened visors now require a doctor's ...
A visor (also spelled vizor) is a surface that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects. Nowadays many visors are transparent, but before strong transparent substances such as polycarbonate were invented, visors were opaque like a mask .
The eye wear can also be injection-molded, which gives curvature and allows the lenses to reflect glare and enable the players to have increased visibility in most weather conditions. But most eyeshields are made out of polycarbonate. [7] All visors are made curved in order to cover the entire eye area, shielding it from injury and light.