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- Originally the company
was founded in 1997.

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It started with an SBIR
contract through the Air Force,

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that developed auto-tinting
visors for the Air Force,

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for cockpit visors.

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When the pilots are flying
through clouds and the sun,

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the lighting conditions
change really fast,

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so the Air Force was
looking for a technology

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that was a lot quicker tinting,

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than them having to take
their hands off the controls

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to switch their visors out.

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So with our technology,
when the light hits it,

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it tints automatically,
so it's a lot faster

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and they're able to not take
their hands off the controls.

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It's called e-Tint, it's
a liquid crystal film.

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On this one it's an LCD film

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on a polycarbonate ballistic lens.

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So it's got two modes,
it's got manual mode there,

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so it's tinting when I'm
pushing this button here,

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it's also got an auto-mode.

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The electronics are
integrated into the frame

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and it's powered by a
lithium-ion rechargeable battery.

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The nice thing about these, this product,

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it has 75 hours of tinted use,

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and it's micro-USB rechargeable.

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So you get about,
probably, two weeks of tint

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before you have to charge it.

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It's only drawing power
when it's turned dark.

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It was specifically developed

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with military and police in mind.

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The feedback has been great.

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Warfighters like it
because it allows them,

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to keep their hands free

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when they're either
entering a house or a cave,

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when they're going in, when
they have their sunglasses,

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they either have to take
their sunglasses off

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or they have to swap out their lenses

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before they go clear a room,
or like I said into a cave.

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So when they do that, their
eyes are either exposed

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to shrapnel or things
flying into their eyes,

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or like I said, they have to take time

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to swap out those lens
which in a scary situation

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like the war fighters are
facing, that can be an issue.