How Rare Earth Minerals in Sunglasses Let You See Plants Under LED Grow Lights

Indexed: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]The protection is paramount, especially with LEDs now. I mean, it's crazy the stuff that's coming out. I mean, just to backtrack a little on the company history in the HPS light. So, you're you're spot on it. It was about protecting.

[00:00:11]Jeff, you know, there again, the one of the original founders, he was a high photographer at High Times Magazine. So, his original kind of quest was like, "Can I get a good shot of an HPS grow room for High Times Magazine?" And that kind of set him out on his journey. He had knowledge of kind of glass blowing and the glass blowing glasses with neodymium praseodymium and some of these rare earth minerals could help kind of filter that flame. And he kind of brought that idea to the HPS lens technology and he developed it with the scientist over in Germany where they melted down these rare earth minerals into this molten glass. And as the HPS light passed through, it stripped away the reds, yellows, oranges, and it balanced the other colors. And all of a sudden, that's what gave you that like notch filtering we call it. That we weren't we're filtering out. We're notch filtering down certain spikes in the spectrum to be able to allow the user to see the other parts of the spectrum perfectly. And that same technology is in our what we call our FX lens. FX2 is the most current iteration of it. Same like principle technology. We we look for the spikes in those LED spectrums.

[00:01:18]That's what's causing those afterimages, the spots, and we pull those down and we just it makes an incredibly comfortable experience. That's why the our lenses don't have to be super dark. Some people say, "These aren't even that dark." It's like, "Well, they don't have to be super dark if you're pulling down the parts that are annoying. We can actually let the good light come crashing through, and now you have a really nice experience."

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