I portieri della nazionale di calcio della Svizzera hanno un segreto smart per i loro allenamenti: sono gli Strobe Glasses per migliorare vista e riflessi
Veronica Nicosia Giornalista scientifico
Laureata in astrofisica, giornalista scientifico e content editor SEO, scrive di tecnologia per magazine online e carta stampata. Nel 2020 approda a Libero Tecnologia
Il match tra Svizzera e Francia di Euro 2020 si è chiuso con un appassionante scontro ai rigori. Here, Switzerland’s goalkeeper, showed all his skills: a save that marked the victory and the passage to the quarter-finals, which will see the Swiss national team face Spain.
The skilled goalkeeper of Switzerland, however, shares with his teammates a smart secret. Already before the match were circulating photos in which Yann Sommer, goalkeeper of the transalpine national team, was training with special sunglasses. A photo that aroused a lot of curiosity among fans and thus revealed the secret weapon of the Swiss goalkeeper’s training: special smart glasses from a Japanese company to improve vision and reflexes. And the results of the Strobe Glasses against France have been seen, with the super save of Sommer at the fifth decisive penalty kicked by the French Mbappé.
Euro 2020, the secret of Switzerland: the Strobe Glasses
In the last days before the France-Switzerland match of Euro 2020 on June 28, some photos of the Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer wearing the special sunglasses appeared. A photo that had intrigued the fans: you hardly ever see a soccer goalkeeper training wearing them.
Sommer appeared intent on saving balls with dark lenses, obviously arousing curiosity. What not everyone knows is that for several years now the Swiss national team has been training using this unusual method. In fact, these aren’t normal sunglasses, but smart glasses made by a Japanese company that train reflexes and vision, called Strobe Glasses.
Strobe Glasses: how smart glasses work
The Strobe Glasses worn by Sommer in training perform a very important function: they provide a series of stimuli that allow athletes to develop their reflexes and vision, to perform better and better on the field. Wearing them stimulates the eyeball and eye muscles, and also prevents corneal degeneration.
In particular, the smart glasses emit flashing lights from the lenses, which temporarily blind the wearer to stimulate the eyeball and speed up movement. There are also lights that reproduce the slow-motion effect, so as to train the athlete’s ability to react.
To see a 10 percent increase in visual acuity, according to the manufacturer’s data, just wear them for at least 15 minutes a day every 2 or 3 days. The effects in Sommer were obvious: an extraordinary save during the last penalty kicked by Frenchman Mbappé at the end of a high-adrenaline game that took Switzerland straight to the quarterfinals of Euro 2020.