RAY Lighting, a UK start-up, has invented the first Circadian friendly lighting range, inspired by the science of nature to create the world’s ‘healthiest’ electric light source.
This month RAY Lighting launches a dual range of lighting solutions combining multiple technologies, unique RAY innovations, beautiful design, and nature’s influence. The SunRAY Calm and Dynamic ranges can be ordered starting at RRP £19.95. The RAY Lighting website went live 1st October, taking a new approach to the way lighting is explained to the end-user.
The Problem
Until now, all LEDs have been powered by a chip that is blue at the source – the colour of the light it emits is then altered using a layer of phosphor to create the white or yellow we usually see. This means, that although we are not consciously seeing blue light, it is all around us, and our bodies respond to it in a multitude of ways – primarily biologically and psychologically. Other companies (just a few) are starting to solve this, but no one yet has also addressed flicker at the same time.
The History
LEDs were initially designed this way to save energy, since blue has the capacity to produce more lumen per watt (light output vs. energy consumed) efficiently superseding halogen and fluorescent lights. Their popularity skyrocketed, changing satellite images of countries at night from a soft yellow to a clean white glow and increasing light pollution in the past decade to unprecedented levels. It has taken several years to even begin to understand the side effects of the sharp spike in blue light exposure on our physical and mental wellbeing.
The solution
The most significant difference with SunRAY is the BlueBalance (™ pending), combined with the Flicker Free Bridging Technology. The internal chip or light source within the lightbulbs harness new technologies that avoid the dangerous blue spikes that occur from standard LED lamps, bringing levels of blue into alignment with those occurring naturally in sunlight, rather than the excess levels that overstimulate our systems.
The benefits are instant for our Circadian sleep/wake rhythms and associated rejuvenating sleep, moods and physical responses.
RAY Lighting has also reduced flicker significantly – in most products, to zero. All bulbs flicker, and LEDs typically flicker at 100% but are so fast that it’s virtually imperceptible to our eyes. Nevertheless, our brain processes it and generates stress hormones in response. Scientists are now associating this with everything from malaise, to anxiety and ADHD.
RAY’s uniquely engineered lamps use Flicker Free Bridging Technology to achieve a flicker percentage rating as low as zero – the lowest flicker factor ever achieved.Combining these revolutionary light sources with a uniquely blended Full Spectrum phosphor overlay and a specialist engineered lens, means the emitted light is both gentle and beautiful.
Both ranges eliminate all concerns about spikes of blue light exposure, are Flicker Free and offer Full Spectrum lighting solutions, achieving Colour Rendering Index ratings of 97+ (sunlight is 100).
Head to the RAY Lighting website to view the full range of RAY Lighting products.
