Akaso has unveiled its latest innovation in outdoor imaging – the Sight-300, an ultra-light digital monocular that offers true-to-life color night vision, even in conditions as dark as starlight.

Some newspapers at the time compared King Albert I and his troops to King Leonidas who, with his 300 Spartan warriors, stood up to the vast Persian army in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. But ...