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If you’re an SAS premium passenger, the Philips-equipped “daylight booster” offers a wall of jolting Kelvin to wake you up. Or sample the relaxing Hue lights for rest.
There is probably no form of human circadian disruption more familiar to most of us than jet lag, that dreadful feeling of tiredness and discombobulation that comes after leaping across multiple time zones on a long flight.
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So if, as LEDs Magazine has written many times, tunable LED lighting can help keep peoples’ circadian clocks in check, why not enlist LEDs in the war against jet lag? Many efforts are underway. A number of groups are developing LED-equipped eyewear to do so. The glasses that Osram supplied to the BMW Motorsport team to help offset tiredness at the 24-hour Nürburgring race earlier this year have equal potential for weary air travelers, for instance.
Without diving into the science, blue frequencies can stimulate, and ambers can relax — it’s a pattern established long ago by the Sun and one that gates our bodies’ vital circadian rhythms. (There are many debatable aspects; see our most recent human-centric lighting feature and follow its links below for more in-depth explanations).
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