Binoculars

Akaso's Seemor 200 night-vision scope uses AI to blur the dividing line between color day imaging and infrared black-and-white night imaging. We waited for sundown and put one through its paces. Here's what we found.

It's just not enough to merely gawp at what's in front of you these days, technologies now allow us to identify and learn about what we see. Unistellar brought such capabilities to telescopes, and is now doing the same for binoculars with the launch of Envision.

Last year, Duovox launched a successful Kickstarter for a full-color 1080p night-vision monocular. Now Yashica is live on the platform with a pair of night-vision binoculars that bring a touch of color to the darkness at up to 4K resolution.

Sports optics manufacturer Swarovski Optik has cooked Merlin Bird ID and Mammal ID smarts into a pair of high-end binoculars called the AX Visio to name birds and other critters at the touch of a button.

The Pentax VD 4x20 WP is an innovative multifunctional optical tool that looks like an unassuming pair of binoculars but splits apart to increase viewing versatility. Share with a friend or fasten the two scopes together to increase magnification.

Nikon has (almost) been around for 100 years, and it's pulling out all the stops to celebrate. Along with a set of commemorative trinkets, like neck straps and crystal cameras, the imaging and optics company has designed limited edition versions of its flagship cameras, lenses and binoculars.

The Snapzoom is a new product that lets you get telephoto snapshots of distant subjects, by holding your phone's camera lens in alignment with one lens of your binoculars. We recently got a chance to try the thing out for ourselves, and liked what it had to offer.

Carson Optical has released an adaptor that straps a pair of binoculars to your iPhone as a makeshift telephoto lens.

The Snapzoom lets you mount your smartphone to a pair of binoculars, so it can use them as a telephoto lens.

Sony's new DEV-50V electronic binoculars are 30 percent smaller than the preceding DEV-3 and DEV-5 units but offer increased magnification and OLED eyepieces.

Gizmag presents a list of seven of the best objects to be enjoyed using small telescopes and binoculars.

At CES 2013, Sony unveiled a prototype for a new model of 3D digital recording binoculars that appear to be almost a third smaller than its predecessor.