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These Scratch-Proof Safety Goggles Have No Lenses, Just Steel Mesh

"Safe Eyes" are unfoggable to boot

By Rain Noe - November 17, 2016

in Hand Tools

Here's an interesting take on protective eyewear: New-Zealand-based Kiwi Ideas Company has developed Safe Eyes, a pair of safety goggles that don't have any lenses. Instead, your peepers are protected by a stainless steel mesh, in either fine (0.35mm) or standard (0.7mm) perforations.

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These might not keep you from blinking fine sawdust out of your eyes and will make your vision a bit grainier, but they're guaranteed not to fog, and will prevent your retina from being pierced by an itinerant splinter, chip or metal shaving. The company reckons the trade-off will be acceptable for folks involved in the following industries and activities:

* Arboriculture
* Building
* Chainsaw use
* Concrete cutting
* Construction
* Drill press work
* Fencing
* Horse harness racing
* Jewellery manufacturing
* Logging Masonry
* Metalwork
* Mining
* Overhead drilling
* Plastics cutting, grinding and shaping
* Portable sawmilling
* Quad biking
* Rural firefighting
* Silviculture - pruning and thinning
* Timber mills
* Vineyards
* Fire brigades
* General home use
* Hedge trimming
* Lawn mowing
* Paint scrapping
* Water blasting
* Weed eating / line trimming

I don't know if these are for me, but I like the outside-of-the-box thinking. They're for sale on Amazon for about $25 a pop.

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Bobtato Smith

8 years ago

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If a mesh is fine enough, it doesn't affect your vision any differently to tinted glass (and moiré FX in certain special cases). The holes act as little camera apertures - no part of the view is actually blocked.

I'm just wondering if very fine metal sparks can get through, since my main use for safety goggles is Dremeling metal parts inches from my face. Thinking about it, if these got magnetised that could also be an issue.

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David Frane

8 years ago

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Great idea! The face shield I use with outdoor power equipment is mesh; it doesn't fog and is way easier to keep clean than clear plastic.

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