Mostly, these night vision things are all just really cool gadgets, and who doesn’t love really cool gadgets? Several years ago a Santa Barbara tech company called FLIR sent me one of its portable ...

While some night vision goggles rely exclusively on enhancing ambient light to improve the user’s vision, this set by Nightfox Swift uses infrared (IR) light to create images, even when it’s pitch ...

Editor’s Note: October 23, 2025: As veteran Contributor Justin Park begins testing a new round of night vision and thermal imaging gear, we’ve updated this story with some early frontrunners based on ...

I spent a few nights with the Akaso Sight-300 and came away fairly impressed. My previous experiences with night vision have been with very high-end scopes, so I wasn't sure what to expect on ...

The Bushnell Equinox X650 Night Vision monocular packs a lot of features into a very competitively priced unit. The low price is reflected in the monocular's feel, construction and performance, which ...

Night vision goggles are one of those things that you’ve always wanted, but known that the novelty wasn’t worth the hundreds (or thousands) of dollars such fancy equipment obviously would cost. Well, ...

I’ve been building up some microcontroller based miniature spy cameras using readily available tiny camera modules. Since I know an add-on infrared illuminator makes it easy to have better night ...

Images of soldiers sweeping through a compound in the dead of the night have frequented national news for decades. American soldiers dominate the night thanks to night vision goggles — but that ...

Jamey Caldwell has spent thousands of hours working with night vision devices—in war and for hunting feral pigs. He spent 21 years in the US Army, with the first seven serving in the 75th Ranger ...

Whether you are looking for wildlife, making sure no one approaches your property, or just want to be able to know what’s out ahead of you in the night, reliable night vision monoculars can light up ...

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