Wearable light therapy device

Filed in archive Notes on April 29, 2006

Perfect stuff for the weekend. Engadget writes about a "very special" use of wearable technology. I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not? However, it still would be a good reason for a remake of Tron, would it?

When Philips was looking for medical applications for their flexible Ledfoil disks, they were probably hoping to find a market of more than 200 people, but luckily for sufferers of the rare Crigler-Najjar syndrome, they happened to come across Dutch student Philomeen Engels.

Engels, a recent graduate of the Delft University of Technology, had the idea of creating a wearable light therapy device using the Philips tech, which would free Crigler-Najjar patients -- whose bodies cannot break down the potentially lethal red blood cell by-product called bilirubine -- from the 12 hours they must spend inside converted sunbeds each day.

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