Is It Possible To Make Our Screens "Healthier"? The New Blue-Light, Flicker-Free Technology That May Change the Face Of Computing Forever, With Daylight Computer's Anjan Katta

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Anjan suffered from eye strain and disrupted sleep cycles, as well as worsening of ADHD symptoms from using modern computers.

Resolving to do something about this, Anjan committed to reading only from paper which meant he had to print everything he wanted to read from a computer screen. He soon missed the convenience of computers. He became more enthralled with e-ink, buying and testing every e-ink device on the market. Finding these products were too slow to function as helpful, productive tools, Anjan hacked e-ink devices. Yet, they were too slow and ineffective to serve more practical computing needs.

This journey led to Anjan innovating screen technology specifically suited for eye health and circadian rhythm preservation. Additionally, Anjan developed a vision for an entire operating system that prioritizes holistic health. After developing his first prototype, Anjan navigated the challenges of bringing the device to production.

Through the long journey and the successful launch of Daylight’s first product, Anjan has received overwhelming feedback of the life-changing effect of his product and vision. Thousands resonate with Anjan’s belief in the potential for technology to enhance rather than detract from people’s well-being. Daylight’s goal is to offer alternative technology solutions that support your health, attention, freedom, and quest to live a more balanced life.

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield life podcast.
0:04.0	Most other displays when they light, they have something called Flicker or Pulse
0:08.7	With Modulation.
0:10.6	And the basic idea there is the way they change brightness is they turn the light on and off at ridiculous amount of times per second.
0:19.3	And the idea is it's too fast for your eye to be able to see it. There's a bell curve to people's sensitivity to flicker.
0:26.5	And for a lot of folks, it's subacutely causing them to have some cognitive load and some stress and some sympathetic
0:35.4	arousal. This is the best evidence for its impact is people who have had
0:39.8	concussions or traumatic brain injuries, one of the core things that's painful in the time after
0:45.0	the TBI or a concussion is screen time.
0:48.2	And the core culprit of the screen time is the flicker of the backlight.
0:51.7	And so when they use a reflective display,
0:53.5	like a Kindle or a daylight,
0:55.8	they don't have the same migraines and headaches
0:58.6	from screen time and ice strain.
1:00.5	And so I think that is a really good clue.
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