I have long wanted a ‘good’ pair of binoculars. Thanks to 15 years of service to J&J and 1,400 “points” to spend in an online catalog, I now have a pair of Nikon 10x42 binoculars. Holy cow, they are really cool. I worked my way from window to window in the house, spying on unsuspecting trees. I couldn’t believe the clarity and detail of things now so close to me. I know there is nothing cool about a bird-watcher, but binoculars are cool. Invert them and they can be used as a crude microscope. Combined with my iphone, they can be a telephoto lens. And in a serious emergency, I can start a fire with one of the lenses.
Back in 2008, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford made an intriguing discovery; binoculars can also be used to reduce pain. Let’s say you’re out in the wild and you hurt your hand. If you look at your hand through inverted binoculars the smaller size of your injury tricks the mind into thinking the pain is less.
OK, I’m probably only ever going to use them to look at far away wildlife and that may not be cool to anyone but me. But I’m fine with that.
Back in 2008, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford made an intriguing discovery; binoculars can also be used to reduce pain. Let’s say you’re out in the wild and you hurt your hand. If you look at your hand through inverted binoculars the smaller size of your injury tricks the mind into thinking the pain is less.
OK, I’m probably only ever going to use them to look at far away wildlife and that may not be cool to anyone but me. But I’m fine with that.