You know, it's kind of amazing to me that we need a law that says "HEY STUPID, DON'T DO THAT." You know, with anything though – toasters in the bath tub, hair dryers out in the yard in the sprinkler, and eating rat poison. These things typically lead to instant death and destruction. But WHY [...]
Read More bad decision, law, tanning beds, ultraviolet light, UVThat sounds like an excellent psychedelic kung-fu film, doesn't it? I've been doing my normal duties of researching and digging around for articles lately, and in my search I've found several items pertaining to using ultraviolet light as a disinfectant in the home. Some of these products look pretty interesting, and some of them look [...]
Read More disinfectant, Photon, Purelight, toothbrush, ultraviolet, ultraviolet light, UV, UV Onion, UV-C, VIOLightWe know our pal Ultraviolet Light and the ninja germ killing abilities it possesses – and now a company called VeriLux has created the Cleanwave UV sanitizing wand. It's like a UV light saber to smack germs in the mouth. Verilux says, about the CleanWave: Originally developed for sanitizing hospitals and clean rooms, UV-C light [...]
Read More cleanwave, medical, sanitary, sanitizer, ultraviolet light, UV-CThis has to fall under the What? category, even though I have a beagle, and she is the cutest of the cute. Scientists in South Korea have developed the world's first transgenic dog – a dog that produces genes from a different species, in this case, genes from sea anemones. These puppies make a fluorescent [...]
Read More beagle, puppy, red, ruppy, South Korea, ultraviolet lightMy good friend Carla just emailed me to tell me about some of her trip to India. I think in total she spent about three weeks there, and during the whole time she said she never bought a bottle of water, and drank water from the tap in a bottle she got there. For a [...]
Read More camping, emergency travel, military, SteriPen, ultraviolet light, water purifierI feel like there has been a ton of info on ultraviolet light lately as a germicidal method. I just ran across an article giving a review on this little mini-UV class C light that sanitizes surfaces: Okay, now is it me, or is that lady way too happy to be using her mini-wand on [...]
Read More medical, Medical Light, sanitization, ultraviolet, ultraviolet light, UVCSomething tells me that this new innovation isn't going to fix the big ol' scrapemark in our car from the battle of my wife vs. the parking garage column, but nevertheless… Scientists have created a polyurethane topcoat-like material for automobile paint (and other stuff, I assume?) that heals itself for the most part under ultraviolet [...]
Read More chitosan, self healing paint, ultraviolet light, UVI am starting to see ultraviolet wavelengths of light as the ninja of the world of medical light. Just recently we've discovered (we as in the royal we, humanity – har har) that UV light kills the MSRA Stapholococcus bacteria, and that it kills members of the Coliform family of bacteria on keyboards in hospitals. [...]
Read More tuberculosis, ultraviolet light, UVThere's an article about to be published in a medical journal about the Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MSRA) germ – apparently blue light is the bacteria's kryptonite. Scientists and researchers have found that ultraviolet light permanently damages the bacteria about 90% of the time – enough to make a breakthrough. From the article: In a study [...]
Read More medical, MSRA, staphylococcus, ultraviolet, ultraviolet lightCheck out this old video from the 1950's about the "invisible black magic of light!"
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