No more need to focus on the front sight?

[longdayjake]

Here is a link to the story.

http://www.kpvi.com/global/story.asp?s=11906872

And here is the story itself. Gotta love Idaho!

Reporter: Johnny Archer

Governor Butch Otter was in Idaho Falls Friday evening, attending the Idaho National Laboratory's 14th Annual Honors Banquet recognizing some of the lab's new technologies.

The INL recognized a number of inventors from the lab who have developed and patented several new technologies in the past year, but there was one accomplishment that stood out among all.

The newly developed Gun Sight System uses a miniature optical fiber, allowing for a gunman to focus both long range and near items at the same time.

The inventor of the new system stood front and center at a press conference Friday night with mixed emotions explaining his two-year-long project.

David Crandall, inventor: "Mostly a pretty nervous thing that I have to do. But it also feels good to know that at least one idea is of interest and looks like it's going to be valuable to a good American company here, hopefully valuable for military personnel and sportsmen."

A value the Idaho National Laboratory can say came from their facilities.

John Grossenbacher, INL director: "We do research, we develop technologies, we demonstrate them, make sure they work to scale and you can actually deploy them across the country. So this is a success for us."

Now the Gun Sight System is licensed to Apollo Optical Systems, which will commercialize the system as the "MicroSight."

Governor Otter says new technologies that come out of Idaho, like the "MicroSight", will attract companies into the state, helping with Project 60 - the governor's campaign to boost Idaho's gross domestic product from $51 to $60 billion.

Governor Otter: "The more technology we can add to our base industries, plus the new technology that we can apply to the marketplace and make new products that they are demonstrating tonight, all is going to add to the $9 billion that we have to increase our economy."

The governor says he is confident Idaho will reach the $60 billion mark, especially when seeing products like the "MicroSight" come out of Idaho and hit the market

 

[RETG]

Here I thought MicroSight was already a trademark name of a focusing magnifier. Possibly the fact the grain focusing magnifier has a hypen between Micro and Sight allows it.

Interesting idea. Hope it works.