Night vison eyedrops!

Night vision eyedrops a fantesy? Not any more! But, PLESE READ THE FOLLOWING: Do NOT put this in you'r eye, this instructable is bacicly a documentry! Putting unknown things in your eye in NOT SAFE! But we (there is a science fair coming up so my friends and I have a team) DID test it and it worked! (there needed to be more clorphill in the ratio) So it wasent a very powerful inhansment but oh well it works! Once I told my mom she told us NOT to test it anymore...

If you are stuped enough to actually put it in you'r eye then DON'T BLAME ME!!!!

P.s, I got the awared for "Unlimeted Capabilities" so yay for me!

Step 1 Matirials

You will need:
Pine nettles
Butter knife
Some sort of water container (cups)
Test tube with cork (Or a cup with plastic wrap rubberbanded on top of it)
(OPTIONAL):
Magnifind glass
Tweesers
Funnel

Comments

[jduffy54]

A) I doubt it, unless these just dialate your pupils. The easy way to do this is to close one eye, or use an eyepatch, for about 15 minutes, then go into the dark. Your spelling could REALLY use some help too. Enter the whole thing into microsoft word, use spellcheck, and then copy and past into instructables.

[3rd realm creations]

could you use any green plant or pine needles that are not green?
is  this were you got your info?

[3rd realm creations]

crapy link it didnt work for me here http://discovermagazine.com/2009/sep/04-forget-goggles-chlorophyll-eye-drops-give-night-vision

[3rd realm creations]

could you use grass or other plants what about the pine needles when they aren't green?
did you use this info

[sokamiwohali]

SOOOO...is there any STERILE way to harvest chlorophyl and make these eye drops? if so, how would one go about doing it?

[mike876763]

So if we don't have contacts can we put it in our eye?

[popscott3]

Yes, your eyes would just wash out the bactiria, with contacts your eyes dont know that it is there untill your eye has a hole in it. Ouch. But I dont reccomend putting anything in your eye regardless of anything.

[mike876763]

Also wouldn't it be healthier using spring-water instead of tap?

[popscott3]

No not really. Bactiria are everywere if you look at the tip of your finger, do that now. That has over 100,000,000 bactiria cells! The secont that spring water hits air/ rocks millions of bactiria cling on to it! So no it would not nessessarily be healthyer. BUT if you buy eyedrops that should be less harmfull!

[mike876763]

Can i buy eyedrops and put the cloriphyll in it?

[popscott3]

Absolutly but do it in your own risk. Do not blame me for any injury that it may cause.

[Arc Trooper 5555]

Instead of water straight from the tap, boil the water before use. It will kill all the bacteria and make it safe to use. (That's the water they use for real eye drops.)

[shabaki]

im assuming this acts in the same way the drops the eye doctor uses in the way that it dilates your puils therefore allowing more ambient light to enter your eyes making it easier to see in the dark ( eye doctors use it becuase it dilates your pupils large enough they can look into the back of your eye with their instraments) however, it dilate your pupils...alot.....so one might mistake you of using drugs which also dilate the pupils...alot.............that and TRSUT me it STILL makes things that are ALREADY bright ALOT brighter.............aka dont stare at the sun

[popscott3]

Well acutually this is how it works: The pigment absorbs hues of red light that are normally invisible in dim conditions. That information is then transmitted to the brain, allowing enhanced vision. So therefore it doesnot diolate puples, chlorophyll is a pigment found in plants.

[lofty]

If it was to absorb red light then it would actually reduce the total intensity of the light entering the eye.

How is it (you think) the information is transmitted to the brain?

[popscott3]

No, see, really there is invisible red light that we can't see. It is everywere. And the chlorophyll picks up that red light. So I assume that you will only see in red. But you can still see in the dark.

[lofty]

In another comment you said that your friend said he saw "everything is rather whitish"
So is it red or white?

Invisible red light?
Red light isn't invisible.
What wavelengths of light does this affect and what wavelength is this "invisible red light" ?

You still haven't answered my previous question of how the information is transmitted to the brain.

What chemical reactions are happening ?

[popscott3]

The information is transmitted through the retina to the brain. The chlorophyll is a pigment, so there is no chemical reacton. Instead, the light filters through the chlorophyll revealing the red light. I don't know what wave langth the red is though, sorry.

[shabaki]

just reread this convo and i tthink you are refering to infrared light, which :
-is not in the visible range of humans
- isnt "everywhere" but is MOST of "everywhere"

[popscott3]

Yah after some more reasurch I descoverd that too.

[kelseymh]

No, I'm afraid not. Adding pigments to the outside of your eye doesn't make any difference to the live light-collecting cells that are inside your eye (the retina).

[yoshi1]

If you kept it in your bottle or something see through and looked through it at night would it work?

[popscott3]

Sadly, no. It has to be directly connected to you'r retna. Now if there is a thin coat over your eye, the light will be filtered out exept the ultraviolet.

[yoshi1]

Thanks, cool instructable.

For some reason i can't subscribe?!

[popscott3]

You have. My E-mail gave me a mesage that you did!

[yoshi1]

yeah i have now i don't know what i did before.

[NATIVEBOY]

well how safe is it with no contacts?

[popscott3]

Fine. The only problem with contacts is if some bacteria gets under your contact then it will litteraly eat a hole in your eye. This bacteria is in nomal tap water, you drink it. Withought having contacts on, the bactirea cant get stuck and so your tears will wash it out!

[BytePilot]

Alas the poor reporting of scientific discoveries has oncemore bitten us on the collective behind.

PopScott3 is just doing as the articles suggest.

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/sep/04-forget-goggles-chlorophyll-eye-drops-give-night-vision

It's "Science" jim, but not as we know it, ie they've made up a great sounding headline to go with a discovery that's rather different.

[Ghost Wolf]

Have at all tried to put it in a pair of glasses?

[Ghost Wolf]

like fill that stuff between the lenses?

[popscott3]

Well that would work. I actually think we should have done night vision contacts...

[VadimS]

Pine needle are vary acidic so this would probably be painful, not strong enough to cause damage so feel free to try. This depends on the amount of water you add.

The mane reason humans can't see as well in the dark as other animals is because we have a lot of cone cells, they allow us to see color but don't work in low light.

The human eye can dilate vary quickly so drops to do that won't make any real difference. Doctors use it to keep them open so they can have a look.

Rod cells take a while to adjust to low light.

[popscott3]

Well my pyromaniac frend (he relly isent a piromaniac, he just doesent think ahead.) Put the eyedrops in his eye against orders to test and he sead it dident hurt at all.

[PKM]

As far as extracting chlorophyll goes, this looks ok, but I don't think it's going to help you see in the dark.

Saying "it has to be injected into the eye but we didn't want to make it permanent so used eye drops" is like saying "I didn't want to implant this pacemaker permanently so I duct taped it to my chest" or "I didn't want to take my vitamins so I rubbed them into my skin".

It sounds like the fish have chlorophyll in their retinas, where it could conceivably absorb light and transmit it to the brain, but putting it on the outside of your eyes won't work that way.

[popscott3]

True true. But if it is on your eye then wouldent the light filter through that and have the same effect?

[Revolt Lab]

I can't get myself to believe you are for real. This seems impossible and blinding. If you put together a presentation for the science fair you should post it on this instructable. I would be very much interested in looking at it.

[kelseymh]

It's certainly not real. It may or may not be dangerous (as I don't know what physiological effect chlorophyll has on the eye).

[popscott3]

Oh it is real alright. My friend (he actually doesent really think ahead) just randomly put it in his eye. As he put it in his eye my other friend and I told him not to (he does not follow derections very well) So we then rushed him into a darkend room to see if it does work. He told us: "everything is rather whitish but I can see the outline of the obgects in very low light." Now, he COULD be lyeing but I am not for sure. His eye that he put it in is fine to this day.

[kelseymh]

Whether "your friend" actually saw better in the dark or not isn't entirely relevant, and a plausible reason has already been addressed (forced dilation of the pupil, as is used during certain kinds of opthamological testing). Your claim that chlorophyll can affect retinal activity is utter nonsense.