Philips Brings Light Therapy To The Computer Monitor
September 4th, 2008 6:01 PM | by Christen da Costa | 2 Comments
If you’ve lived in So Cal, Florida, or some southern region of the world, than you’ve probably never experienced seasonal depression. Yup, it exists, and when I lived in Boston the days grew rapidly short from September on, and so did my patience with people – hence the affects of limited sunlight. Philips is attempting to tackle this problem, or a small portion of it, by embedding a light in the circumference of an LCD monitor that provides a mild form of light therapy. Probably not economically justified for geos with just short days, but for those near the North Pole it could be a God send, or those that don’t leave their cubicle.
[Gizmag]
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Do you have any information on when will these light therapy monitors be coming out? I called Philips but they were useless and knew nothing of it.
Hey Philippa, I don’t have any additional info this time, but I’ll see what I can dig up.