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Blue Lighting Wakes Schoolkids Up

Posted November 29, 2010 8:40 AM

From Gizmodo:

I tell you what, I could do with some of this "blue lighting" each morning when I start work at 7.30. Being tested in a British school, Philips' blue-tinted light wakes kids up and makes them perform better.

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11/30/2010 6:03 AM

A clip round the back of the head used to work on me.
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11/30/2010 6:25 AM

Probably would still work!!

I'll have to ask your better half one day.......

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11/30/2010 6:35 AM

Nah, she has a 'hard stare' which can cut through concrete and a deafening silence which she occasionally deploys to good effect
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