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leebase · 01-16-2020, 01:14 AM

This post springs from the Hisense video of the first color eInk phone. The Hisense executive was touting the health benefits of eInk.

Health Benefits of eInk.

Come on folks. There are something like 4 billion smartphone users in the world spending HOURS AND HOURS a day looking at their phones. Throw in another billion or so tablet users...and the decades we have had of PC/laptop users staring hours a day at their screens...another billion.

How many billion watch tv?

Now mind you. I'm not commenting on those who say they don't find reading on an "non-reflective" device comfortable. You know who you are and you know it it feels to you.

But come on. If there were truly "health dangers" to looking at screens for hours and hours a day....we'd have had an epidemic of blindness already. Long long long ago.

01-16-2020, 01:14 AM	#1
leebase Karma Kameleon Posts: 2,973 Karma: 26738313 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: iPad Mini, iPhone X, Kindle Fire Tab HD 8, Walmart Onn	Where are all the blind people? This post springs from the Hisense video of the first color eInk phone. The Hisense executive was touting the health benefits of eInk. Health Benefits of eInk. Come on folks. There are something like 4 billion smartphone users in the world spending HOURS AND HOURS a day looking at their phones. Throw in another billion or so tablet users...and the decades we have had of PC/laptop users staring hours a day at their screens...another billion. How many billion watch tv? Now mind you. I'm not commenting on those who say they don't find reading on an "non-reflective" device comfortable. You know who you are and you know it it feels to you. But come on. If there were truly "health dangers" to looking at screens for hours and hours a day....we'd have had an epidemic of blindness already. Long long long ago.