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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Drug Rehab
(05/14/07 4:17pm)
That’s good to know, but does it have any side effects and what are those? As it sounds it may not have, but you never know what might come out of it…
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(05/14/07 4:35pm)
That’s good to know, but does it have any side effects and what are those? As it sounds it may not have, but you never know what might come out of it…
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