Blue Light Protection and Filters:

Computer and globally Technologi(es) evolved a lot with new “Flat LED” Screens. The Side effect of LED Technology is the increase of the Blue Light perceived by the eyes.

All Colours have always been visible on TV in the past but LED screen have a different Spectre and Light Frequency increasing the Blue Light perceaved by the Eyes increasing Sleep Pattern issue. It’s a problem of Technology on all LED Screen : Tablet, Mobile, Computer, TV.

With Increase of Flat screen everywhere we are then mathematically more exposed to the Blue Light.

The Difference of Blue Ligh influence can also be visible on the same type of Brand. Sometimes some model generate more Blue Light than other type of products.

High Tech Constructor Started more and more to released New Technology product with new Norme to help reduce it without impacting too much the colors shown on the screen.

In the last few years appeared new standard as : The German Certification : “TÜV Rheinland” but also “Eyes Safe Protection” Product Type for the screens reducing the Blue lights :

“About TÜV Rheinland:”

• “TÜV Rheinland is a global leader in independent inspection services, founded 147 years ago. The group maintains a worldwide presence of more than 20,000 people; annual turnover is nearly EUR 2 billion. Its independent experts are committed to ensuring quality and safety for people, technology, and the environment in nearly all aspects of life. TÜV Rheinland inspects technical equipment, products, and services, oversees projects, and helps to shape processes and information security for companies. Its experts train people in a wide range of careers and industries. To this end, TÜV Rheinland employs a global network of approved labs and centers for testing and education. Since 2006, TÜV Rheinland has been a member of the United Nations Global Compact to promote sustainability and combat corruption. Website:  www.tuv.com“

“Eyes Safe Technology” labels for Screen and Laptops developped by LG or Lenovo :

• “Eyesafe, the company formerly known as Health, is a worldwide supplier of Eyesafe^® standards, Eyesafe^® technology and Eyesafe^® display, a suite of pioneering products and services that are shaping the consumer electronics industry’s understanding of device usage, screen time, and the impacts of blue light-emitting devices. Eyesafe^® technology and the associated intellectual property portfolio was developed by a world-class team of eye doctors, engineers and scientists with decades of experience in electronics, display materials, and light management. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Eyesafe^® works to develop technologies and standards in conjunction with leaders in healthcare.”

New Material are Released :

LG Announced released of the First Official TV with reduced “Blue Light” by default. It’s Still Very New and Expensive.

Some Workaround and Accessory also exist in a way to reduce Blue light :

Anti Blue Light Glasses:

It’s basically Plastic Glasses helping to reduce amount of Blue Light perceaved by the Eyes.
You can also ask your optician if they have blue light filter possibility on the Glasses they are selling.

Anti Blue Light Screen Filter on the Screen Directly:

It’s possible to buy Blue Light filter ourself and add manually a plastic layer directly on Screens or Laptops, Mobiles or TVs. Personally I think it’s a better solution than the glasses.

You can find here some brand proposing Blue Light filters :

Application Theme and Web Browser turn to Black and White Background Color:

On Firefox there is a Plugin that is helping to Switch Color WebBrowser Windows name “Dark Reader“

Some default application as Microsoft is offering Theme Black color possibility by default now :

You can change the colors for your Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Teams And Outlook to have all the color turn to Black and White that permit better rest for the eyes.

When Flat Led Screen are showing Black Colours the light is showing less Blue light colors. A led turn to black is consuming less energy and generate less blue light than turn to white.

The white colors is containing all colors of the light spectre with Blue Light but the Black Color contain no light spectre with less Blue Light.

If you look at the first computer it was all in black and white. If you try you will see the your eyes will feel less tired.

Turning the Display Colour of the Screen to Warmer Colours :

It’s also possible to use application for exemple on Linux a default application “Night Light Colour” by default include in some distribution permit in the menu to automatically turn the Screen Colours Spectre to a Color Spectre Warmer.

Your Screen will then have a “Orange Warm Color” aspect but will then also Help to reduce “Blue Light” generated.

DISCLAIMER :

All this modification are Workarounds and not so much official.

The best is to avoid workaround as much as possible for everyone. Some Brand start to look more and more some way to improve technologies..

I would like also to mention please keep in mind, It is recommended to visit ( Optician ) every 2 years at least or Every Years and not hesitate to discuss about this subject with them, they might have some advices also regarding Screens and Blue Lights. ( Try to keep visiting your doctors as you can see on “Link” )

We can also mention the recommendation from Optician is to do some Breaks every 2 hours to make resting the eyes.

Finally should we trust New High Tech product or not ?

We can have some doubts about the interest of bying new technology and material after this articles. But keep in mind the following :

• The first aspect is to remember the importance of Conciousness in Science. “Science without couciousness is unconscious” as we say sometimes ( Rapper: Mc Solaar – La concubine de l’hémoglobine ) The Conciousness in Science cannot be done without you. “We construct the world in which we would like to live”.
• The Second aspect is if we compare New Technologies Invention as a simple “Light Bulb” Invention. When the “Light Bulb” was invented it was something very new and as every “New Technologies” new product are never perfect straight away. The First Light Bulb created by Thomas Eddison was consuming much more Energy than the Current Light Bulb it was also more dangerous, it evolved a lot and continue to evolved today Led light Bulb have different sort released.

These technologies are evolving very quick. it’s sometimes difficult to invest in new material but you can allways sell your material retrieve money and invest in Second Hand Product more recent material containing better features.

It’s all depend of the possibilities but don’t be afraid about Technologies Evolution because finally it can get resume without irony as a simple “Light Bulb” Evolution.

The result and expectation are improving constantly we should keep patience and try to keep sustainability. Keeping also to give feedback if a material generate a wrong behaviours.

We can hear sometimes Global Warming is the Biggest Challenge of our new century (A century is 100 years we have 80 years challenges still to go.. and it’s one of the biggest humanity challenge. Time is running quickly for it).

Computer will be very important regarding Global Warming helping us in lot of domain. As we say sometimes in “I.T” (Information Technology and Computing Science) :

“Computing is not an end, but a means”

“L’informatique n’est pas une fin, mais un moyen”