Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Better Lighting For Your Computer

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow? Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun. This little software tool called “F.lux” is all you need to change it. It makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day. (more…)

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Vitamin D Deficiencies At Epidemic Levels

Friday, May 21st, 2010

A team of doctors from the McGill University Health Centre in Canada was surprised to find that about 59 percent of people evaluated were deficient in vitamin D and about 25 percent were severely deficient.

Published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, the study is allegedly the first to illustrate a definitive link between vitamin D deficiency and an accumulation of fat in muscle tissue.

Vitamin D is an amazing nutrient that protect the body from all sorts of diseases and problems. Researchers continually uncover new links between lack of vitamin D and disease, illustrating the fact that it is vital to good health. However recent studies have also found that most people are deficient in vitamin D.

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New Year Amaryllis – Happy And Alive!

Friday, January 1st, 2010

First of all we wish all our customers, homepage visitors and business partners a healthy and successful Happy New Year!

To celebrate this, we’d like to share a story with you from a client in the Netherlands: He is a specialist for rare plants and grows (among others) a special type of amaryllis from South Africa. Now after he was away for some travels and without proper lighting as usual, on his return the plant seemed to have died off and the leafs already showed an unhealthy yellow colour.

Even though he thought it was too late, he felt to give Viva-Lite a go and installed 2×80W Viva-Lite Full Spectrum tubes just to find that after only 3 days of being lit with Viva-Lite, his amaryllis came back to perfect condition adding “this result is absolutely amazing”:


Since then we had many enquiries and lot of feedback from people who use Viva-Lite for their plants and animals alike (e.g. fish, aquarium etc.), many with similar stories.

We thought of sharing this good news with you at the beginning of the New Year.

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Ingo Maurer’s Euro Condom

Friday, December 4th, 2009

As part of milan design week 09 the german designer Ingo Maurer unveiled ‘the euro condom’ created in response to new EU guidelines that will see frosted light bulbs banned.

The product consists of a thin, heat-resistant silicone cover that turns a clear bulb into a frosted one:

Bulb Condom

Bulb Condom 2

Bulb Condom 3

How ToBefore and After :)

The background of this idea is that many energy saving lamps look just like the new incandescend (bulb covered) condom lamp.

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Museum Lighted with Viva-Lite

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

The following photos were taken by our distributor EEBS in Austria before and after equipping one of his clients (a museum) with Viva-Lite Full Spectrum Lighting:

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Domus – Light To Live With.

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Domus Fixture
Viva-Lite is happy to announce a cooperation with Domus, a well known lighting design and fixture manufacturer from Germany. Domus’s motto “Light to live with“ gives a good description of their line of lamps, and has been an essential part of their corporate philosophy since the company was founded back in 1966.

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Life on a Leaf – a total work of art

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Have you ever wondered why among all these millions of box shaped buildings, you will never see a house shaped like a shoe, a flower or a leaf?

This is the question, which set out artist Jan-Erik Andersson on a long and adventurous journey to build his own leaf shaped house in the middle of Turku city in Finland. The house project, called Life on a Leaf, is also the art part of Andersson’s studies for a doctorate degree in visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

The light design in the house is inspired by the manager of AD LUX, Ilkka Pekanheimo’s ideas about using full spectrum light sources and indirect light. All lights, except from the installion in the dining room with 26 retro lamps from the 60:ties and 70:ties, are Viva-Lite full spectrum flourescent lights, many of them dimmable.

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A funny Colour and Reading Speed Test

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The following test is not only fun but also an eye opener to the way we study, read and so on. But let’s go right to it.

Instructions:

1) Name the following colours aloud from up to down. Say aloud, as if there is nobody else in your room. So start from “red”:

Test 1

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Sun helps to battle skin cancer?

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

SunA research team from the University of Leeds working with the US National Institutes of Health found a high level of vitamin D – suggestive of high sun exposure – protected patients with malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Those with the lowest levels of vitamin D in their blood at diagnosis were 30 per cent more likely to suffer a recurrence of the disease after treatment than those who had the highest levels. (more…)

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Whom to call first in an Emergency?

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Not a typical entry about light this time, but a hopefully helpful hint anyway: Rescue workers often don’t know whom to call in case of emergencies. Even though most people have a mobile phone, it usually has so many entries that it is difficult to decide, whom to call FIRST.

Therefore it is an international recommendation to use the short “ICE” (for: In Case of Emergency) and connect it with the phone number of the first person you wish to be called in an emergency. If you want more than one people to be contacted, you can save them under ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 and so on.

This is free and doesn’t cost anything. The more people do it, the better it will be recognized internationally. Therefore please pass this information on to your friends, family and collegues.

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