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When I first saw this, it (and the other stuff they do) looked like a great sci-art concept - are they actually going into production?
Posted by: Mark Eichin at October 31, 2004 10:40 PM
I don't know, but I wish they would! I suspect the duvet would cost, like, two grand or something, though.
Posted by: Clive at October 31, 2004 11:07 PM
Where can I learn about the cryptographers who figured out what had been blacked out in the Bush administration documents?
Posted by: Jeff at October 31, 2004 11:24 PM
When I first saw this, it (and the other stuff they do) looked like a great sci-art concept - are they actually going into production?
Posted by: Mark Eichin at October 31, 2004 11:57 PM
Pshh, yeah, like I need another $2,000 duvet.
Posted by: Robin at November 1, 2004 1:42 AM
Posted by: Clive at November 1, 2004 1:58 AM
"suprachaismatic nucleus" is my new imaginary punk band name.
Posted by: june at November 1, 2004 1:30 PM
Be weary Clive!
Any company that purports to use scientific research to hock a product is suspect. They have something to gain from reporting bad or bogus research, right?
Although the superchiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the biological clock, and light certainly 'entrains' sleep-wake cycles via the SCN, some of the research on the effects of light are controversial and dubious at best. A talk I attended by one expert in the field said "millions" of dollars were spent trying to replicate a study that claimed shining light on the back of a person's knees could counteract jetlag. It still hasn't been done.
Maybe this thing will work...I really don't know. But I would be careful offering legitimacy to companies using science to hock a product. This is how the populus becomes mis-informed...
Sorry to be a pedant and a critic. My humblest respect to you and your work.
Posted by: Steve at November 1, 2004 11:50 PM
No, you're not being pedantic at all. Indeed, you're quite correct to be skeptical of anyone citing scientific jargon at great length in service of selling you something; in the last hundred years, we haven't come terribly far from Victorian "magic elixirs", as was documented in a superb piece on the rise of the herbal-diet-supplement industry in the New Yorker a few months back.
I also remember reading about that back-of-the-knee light-shining experiment, and I too remember thinking it sounded like complete horseshit. However, if I'm not misremembering this, there have been some less-dubious experiments where subjects were exposed to bright, full-room lights, and it was able to knock their internal clocks into a new rhythm. I don't know if that stuff ever went anywhere, but it made more sense then that crazy knee stuff.
Posted by: Clive at November 2, 2004 12:30 AM
Benefits of exposure to "full-spectrum light" are popping up all over. Recently there's been a correlation between Multiple Sclerosis and distance from the Equator. The (unproven) idea is that sunlight and/or vitamin D may well play a key role in preventing the ailment. My mom is from Winnipeg, Manitoba (if you yanks don't know where it is, you probably wouldn't want to) and the rate of MS affliction there is particularily high.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/IMSJan04-Sunlight.asp
Posted by: brian at November 2, 2004 1:28 PM
Yeah, my mom grew up in Winnipeg, too. It can be very pretty in the summer, but in the winter it's like the surface of the moon.
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When I first saw this, it (and the other stuff they do) looked like a great sci-art concept - are they actually going into production?
Posted by: Mark Eichin at October 31, 2004 10:40 PM
I don't know, but I wish they would! I suspect the duvet would cost, like, two grand or something, though.
Posted by: Clive at October 31, 2004 11:07 PM
Where can I learn about the cryptographers who figured out what had been blacked out in the Bush administration documents?
Posted by: Jeff at October 31, 2004 11:24 PM
When I first saw this, it (and the other stuff they do) looked like a great sci-art concept - are they actually going into production?
Posted by: Mark Eichin at October 31, 2004 11:57 PM
Pshh, yeah, like I need another $2,000 duvet.
Posted by: Robin at November 1, 2004 1:42 AM
Heh.
Posted by: Clive at November 1, 2004 1:58 AM
"suprachaismatic nucleus" is my new imaginary punk band name.
Posted by: june at November 1, 2004 1:30 PM
Be weary Clive!
Any company that purports to use scientific research to hock a product is suspect. They have something to gain from reporting bad or bogus research, right?
Although the superchiasmatic nucleus (SCN) is the biological clock, and light certainly 'entrains' sleep-wake cycles via the SCN, some of the research on the effects of light are controversial and dubious at best. A talk I attended by one expert in the field said "millions" of dollars were spent trying to replicate a study that claimed shining light on the back of a person's knees could counteract jetlag. It still hasn't been done.
Maybe this thing will work...I really don't know. But I would be careful offering legitimacy to companies using science to hock a product. This is how the populus becomes mis-informed...
Sorry to be a pedant and a critic. My humblest respect to you and your work.
Posted by: Steve at November 1, 2004 11:50 PM
No, you're not being pedantic at all. Indeed, you're quite correct to be skeptical of anyone citing scientific jargon at great length in service of selling you something; in the last hundred years, we haven't come terribly far from Victorian "magic elixirs", as was documented in a superb piece on the rise of the herbal-diet-supplement industry in the New Yorker a few months back.
I also remember reading about that back-of-the-knee light-shining experiment, and I too remember thinking it sounded like complete horseshit. However, if I'm not misremembering this, there have been some less-dubious experiments where subjects were exposed to bright, full-room lights, and it was able to knock their internal clocks into a new rhythm. I don't know if that stuff ever went anywhere, but it made more sense then that crazy knee stuff.
Posted by: Clive at November 2, 2004 12:30 AM
Benefits of exposure to "full-spectrum light" are popping up all over. Recently there's been a correlation between Multiple Sclerosis and distance from the Equator. The (unproven) idea is that sunlight and/or vitamin D may well play a key role in preventing the ailment. My mom is from Winnipeg, Manitoba (if you yanks don't know where it is, you probably wouldn't want to) and the rate of MS affliction there is particularily high.
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/IMSJan04-Sunlight.asp
Posted by: brian at November 2, 2004 1:28 PM
Yeah, my mom grew up in Winnipeg, too. It can be very pretty in the summer, but in the winter it's like the surface of the moon.
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