
Which to be honest would be rubbish and about the same as a Geiger counter.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:24,
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It might be pretty.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:25,
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unless the crystals release a photon in the same direction the original radiation was traveling in. If not, they'd just be opaque glasses that light up.
If you could put a layer of these crystals over the retina, that might work.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:29,
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If you could put a layer of these crystals over the retina, that might work.

If the crystal were thin enough, it should give you a little blob of light around the interaction, if there's not too much reflection.
But if they were that thin, the amount of radiation you'd see would be a fraction of the amount destroying your eyes.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:31,
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But if they were that thin, the amount of radiation you'd see would be a fraction of the amount destroying your eyes.

connected to some kind of screen on the back of the glasses.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:44,
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so you don't have to go near the radioactivity.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:51,
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And you'll have a handy device showing you how badly you're being irradiated.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:57,
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and run away from it or cosy up to it, according to taste. Might be handy in some kind of post-apocalyptic nightmare world.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 21:01,
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but I predict they'll make quite an impressive fashion statement.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 21:02,
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to absorb the photons which don't head straight to the eye after being produced in the crystal.
This kind of thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Collimator.jpg
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:36,
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This kind of thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Collimator.jpg

but the crystal would react to radiation coming from all angles, so it'd light up indiscriminately all over all the time.
...Needs a lens in front, possibly.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:46,
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...Needs a lens in front, possibly.

You'd need another collimator on the front, then.
I appreciate these glasses are becoming rather chunky and inefficient.
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Mon 19 May 2008, 20:49,
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I appreciate these glasses are becoming rather chunky and inefficient.