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Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-can-sleep-when-you-are-dead dept.

holy_calamity writes "Researchers at RPI are testing the effects of putting blue LEDs inside cars to keep drivers alert. People driving through the night are much more likely to cause accidents because our circadian rhythms just want to sleep — blue light at around 450nm wavelength can fool them into thinking it's morning and keep them awake."

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  1. Re:Another good alternative by pandrijeczko · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I didn't think a fifteen year-old acned teenage boy with no girlfriend, a very large Warhammer 40K orc army and a penchant for dressing in black would be allowed to drive a car.

    Or are you an atypical death-metal critique who is something of a connoisseur of bloke singers sounding like they're vomiting nails into a dustbin while the backing musicians are either racing to see who can get to the end of the song first or using slow, low frequency power chords to see who's bowels open up first?

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  2. Re:Please place all * light jokes in this thread. by powerlord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why I for one welcome our new "Blue light shining", Sleep depravation interrogation, overlords. :)

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  3. Re:Does this mean that ... by springbox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of sleep.. I usually wake up after 8 hours of sleep really tired because my alarm keeps interrupting me when I'm in REM. I know there was a special REM monitoring watch on Amazon, but cheap suggestions would be appreciated.