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@Charlie: But if you switch off your powerful incandescents one hour before, it should be ok? As to the usual household 60W incandescents, I assume the blue light (or any light) from them is insignificant.
 
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jyb said:
@Charlie: But if you switch off your powerful incandescents one hour before, it should be ok? As to the usual household 60W incandescents, I assume the blue light (or any light) from them is insignificant.

I try to run as much light as possible right before bed to lower stress hormones.

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Charlie said:
I think you would have to do it manually.

I tried to do it on windows 8, couldn't find how to do it.

I think it would be on your external screen if you have one.
 

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They only ship to USA but interesting info nonetheless.

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We hope to begin offering filters for all devices including touchscreen computers, smartphones, tablets and large flatscreen televisions later this Spring. Please check back with us soon.
 

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Just wanted to say, I just thought of putting my deep yellow glasses on that I got for night driving, and suddenly my stress level dropped. I was feeling very wired before. Hey, maybe incandescent bulbs have changed in some way, because somehow the light with these glasses on makes me think of how the light looked at my grandparents house as a child in the evening. Warmer.
 

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jyb said:
If you use F.Lux on your computer, would you be getting much blue light anyway? What about a software that reduced blue light even more than F.Lux (I think you can go further)?

I have been using f.lux for sometime now and i noticed immediate improvement in sleep.
But only recently i found out that you can set both day and night time light to
Halogen light with 3400K. Previously my setting was 3400K for night and 6500 K daylight
for day. Do not know how that happened, probably that was default setting.
Once i changed both setting to 3400K there was an immediate and big improvement in sleep.
I believe its the day time setting that was causing sleep problem. I mostly use computer during day.
I found this chart on 3300K of halogen , and red and blue ratio looks quite good.
I think if there is more red than blue, then net affect on cells will be towards red.
Blue is trying to suppress respiration and red is trying to increase and red penetrates more
than blue. I am guessing graph of 3400 K will be not be very different than 3300 K.
If anyone is using f.lux it would be a good idea to check the setting for day and night
and set both day and night to Halogen 3400 K.That is the minimum setting.

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I use f.lux with the halogen all day setting. Can't tell whether my sleep improved, I think not.
 
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I just use an amber filter, I think it costs $19, and to me it's more comfortable than glasses.
 

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I chose a pair of T'aime blue light blocking glasses, I also checked that one you reminded. I wonder why the prices between them are so different. I don't know how yours work. But I really enjoy my glasses. Since I am near-sighted, I have to choose a clip-on and flip-up blue light glasses, which is on my prescription glasses. And it states to block 97% of blue light. Just in testing...
 

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Welcome Fish :welcome
Blocking 97% blue sounds good.
 

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I'm considering buying a pair of "Stimulight" glasses from Eagle Eyes
http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Eyes-StimuL ... WNJ18PFJ7T

They say they block out 99 % of "scattered blue light" but they seem much clearer than blue blocking sunglasses such as these:
http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewe ... s_ap_1_fbt or http://www.amazon.com/BluBlocker-Offici ... blublocker

I hope to improve circadian rhythm by putting them on a couple hours before bed and I believe these brighter ones would be much nicer than proper sun glasses, but I'm concerned they may not be as effective.

What do you think, should they work equally well for my purpose?
 

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pyttsan said:
I'm considering buying a pair of "Stimulight" glasses from Eagle Eyes
http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Eyes-StimuL ... WNJ18PFJ7T

They say they block out 99 % of "scattered blue light" but they seem much clearer than blue blocking sunglasses such as these:
http://www.amazon.com/Uvex-S1933X-Eyewe ... s_ap_1_fbt or http://www.amazon.com/BluBlocker-Offici ... blublocker

I hope to improve circadian rhythm by putting them on a couple hours before bed and I believe these brighter ones would be much nicer than proper sun glasses, but I'm concerned they may not be as effective.

What do you think, should they work equally well for my purpose?

I've never tried before, but some people claim that it's possible to test using any source of blue LEDs. Claiming that if it works, you're not supposed to perceive the blue tonality. I'm not sure if this is reliable though..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... -board.jpg
 

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Charlie said:
I see in the reviews that some people use them only at night, trying to help regulate the sleep cycle. Wondering if they should be used all the time, or only at night like those people do??

I know this is an old post but I'm wondering the same thing.
 
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I need lenses that fade to red based on a timer.
 
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Charlie said:
post 99898
Parsifal said:
post 99894 To test if your glasses work effectively at blocking blue light you have to see if the blue color (#0000FF) becomes dark when you look at it with your glasses: http://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/blue-color.htm

Good info!

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Thanks Charlie, I'm happy if I can give one or two things here from times to times because for now I almost have exclusively taken :mrgreen:.

I wonder if there are good books or websites talking more about the effects of each specific light frequency on the body/metabolism/hormones because I only know that infrared light is good for metabolism, that red light enervates bulls (is that even true?), that blue light raises cortisol/dopamine and destroys melatonin, that green light raises dopamine, that ultraviolet creates vitamin D and can be infammatory/bad for the skin, but I don't know which spectrum acts, for example for blue light is it the color #0000FF or other frequencies as well?
 
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People wanting to regulate their sleep cycles by blocking blue light at sunset should combine this with looking at a bright blue lights in the morning. Blue light inhibits melatonin, which makes you sleepy.

Also, the new LEDS light are great for saving energy, but put out more blue than fluorescent or incandescent lights.
 

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Such_Saturation said:
post 99897 I need lenses that fade to red based on a timer.

Time to use websites like Wikihow to learn how to do that. I will be a buyer of your product :robot
 
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