We ’ll give you a hint : They were developed by NASA .
They ’re distance heart - wash goggles .
The ESAexplains :
Imagine you are an cosmonaut on the International Space Station and a fleck of dust gets in your center or you accidentally slosh chilli sauce or something even worse in there . Where do you get the water from and how do you rinse your eye ? There are no flowing - water system taps and even if there were cupping water supply in your handwriting is impossible in zero - sombreness .
And think of cleaning up afterwards – weewee floating around electric equipment in quad is not a good approximation .
Engineers come up with the musical theme see in this motion picture . ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is drill the space version of “ moisten extravagantly under running water ” at NASA ’s Johnson Space Center in Houston , USA . The goggles are link up to an collyrium answer that is pump around the eyes and then forth .
Apparently it does n’t pain or feel weird . The goggles will company Gerst on the Blue Dot mission set about May 28th aboard the ISS .
credit entry : NASA viaESA .
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