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2. Oakley, Inc. - Wikipedia

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   Oakley, Inc. is an American company headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California, which is an autonomous subsidiary of Luxottica.The company designs, develops and manufactures sports performance equipment and lifestyle pieces including sunglasses, safety glasses, eyeglasses, sports visors, ski/snowboard goggles, watches, apparel, backpacks, shoes, optical frames, and other accessories.

3. Sunglasses - Wikipedia

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   They can make eye contact impossible, which can be intimidating to those not wearing sunglasses; the avoided eye contact can also demonstrate the wearer's detachment, [citation needed] which is considered desirable (or "cool") in some circles. Eye contact can be avoided even more effectively by using mirrored sunglasses.

4. Oakley THUMP - Wikipedia

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   The Oakley Thump 2 offers UV and blue-light protection. The Thump 2 incorporates a flash-based player into the frame of a pair of sunglasses for cordless on-the-go listening. Picking up where the original THUMP left off, quadrupling the memory for the same price as the original, 1GB for $299.

5. Mirrored sunglasses - Wikipedia

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   Throughout history, progression of the sunglasses began to change to serve more as a fashion stable, than eye wear for sun protection. The term "Sunglasses" began being used around the 1900s. Before then, sunglasses were being used for more extreme weather conditions, like for polar explorers or for people visiting equatorial colonies. [1]

6. Optical rotation - Wikipedia

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   Optical rotation, also known as polarization rotation or circular birefringence, is the rotation of the orientation of the plane of polarization about the optical axis of linearly polarized light as it travels through certain materials.

7. Polarization (waves) - Wikipedia

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   Wearers of polarized sunglasses will occasionally observe inadvertent polarization effects such as color-dependent birefringent effects, for example in toughened glass (e.g., car windows) or items made from transparent plastics, in conjunction with natural polarization by reflection or scattering. The polarized light from LCD monitors (see ...