Thread: Reflective displays vs Emissive displays
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Old 10-21-2019, 06:19 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
...Well...further in the article...

"The UCM team tested the effects of LED exposure on rats, placing six tablets emitting white LED light around the animals’ cages. Tablets were turned on for 16 hours, then turned off for eight. After three months of this pattern, the exposed rats showed 23 percent more retina cell death than the control group. Gene expression that promotes cell death was also heightened in the tablet group."

>>Lee commentary: WTF? This was a study on some rats? Rats they put in constant 16 hour exposure to light (and you know it had to be max light)...for three months. Um....anybody hear reading their tablets for a constant 16 hours a day for months on end? Anybody? Well, if you are a rat...I suggest you don't do this.

But wait....there is MORE...

"Researchers did find that rats looking at tablets equipped with an LED-blocking filter called Reticare (which was developed by a team from UCM) did not experience greater eye cell death."

>>Lee commentary: Well....looky here. the same university has ANOTHER team that's developed a "LED-blocking filter" they are selling. And just coinky-dinky, here's a "scientific study" letting you know you REALLY need to buy their product!

FUD FUD FUD FUD

Update: I forgot to tacke the "23% more retina death". 23% more than what? The control group. Is that bad? Is that a level of "retina death" that one would ever notice? Who knows...it's never defined.
Furthermore, rats are nocturnal or otherwise keep to the dark with eye physiology to suit that environment. I would think it a reasonable assumption that if the rats were exposed to natural light if caged outside under the sky for 16 hours a day with no cover (well, lets say just 12 hours a day as the sun is pretty weak in high latitudes where one can easily get 16 hours) they would likely suffer retina and other eye damage very much more quickly than if there were to be any if exposed to LCD displays. I would not be surprised if they also displayed behavioural problems too. I wonder if any study has been done .
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