The goal is to make our product available sometime in second quarter of 2024. We are selling a smart band for Apple Watch. So, a person who has an Apple Watch would take off their band and add this giving the band what we call ŪV Vision. I would love your feedback so you are on the list. The goal with alerting people so early ( i.e 0.1 MED) is because there is literature suggesting that the aging process on the skin can be close to eliminated by keeping your UV exposure that low. It’s definitely focuses on the beauty component vs the health component. Our smart band is both a beauty device and a health device in one. Yes, the onboarding process will have consumers put in their skin type ( 1-6) and their SPF. We will calibrate the sensors based on a golden unit in production and based on a gold standard unit as well. I am really excited to help people track this as it’s a huge health burden for the population.
If it can log data, it could be very useful as a research tool (like the UV dosimeter babes we used in our studies a few years back on the relationship between personal uv exposure and vitamin-d).
Thanks so much for the follow up. I think that sun damage occurs earlier than 1 MED. We have chatted before, briefly, about the wearable product I am bringing to market (eclipseRx.com) and we are asking people to be aware of .10 MED or .50MED vs just 1 MED. My passion is to get people to not live at the guardrails and to be more proactive, earlier. I am grateful for ALL of the science you have put into this field. Thanks so much for your passion and persistence in this field. You are a gem!
Interesting web site. When will the devices be available to the public? It's not clear to me whether you will selling a watch and strap, or just the strap that connects to an existing watch. I'd be happy to play with one if you have spare ... :). I'm not sure if people will want to bothered with alerts for doses as small as 0.1 MED. I presume they will be entering their skin type at first use? Calibration?
Glad to help. Of course l, if you’re VERY UNLUCKY, even the very first photon that hits you might be the one that damages a DNA molecule and initiates a path to cancer. But hopefully your defence mechanisms will notice it and be able to fight that one off ….
Yes. But remember that 1 MED is defined as “just perceptible reddening”. So in reality, 1MED is not a very high dose. It’s equivalent to about 15 minutes exposure for fair skin in summer noon sunlight
It is important to note that the UV dose our skin experiences cannot be calculated from the UVI by a simple formula because UVI does not represent the intensity of radiation on the skin. It represents the intensity of radiation on a flat horizontal surface which is not the same as the radiation directly impinging on the skin. For example, when UVI is only slightly more than zero at sunrise or sunset the actual ultraviolet radiation intensity UVA + UVB on the skin can be as much as 4 W/cm2 on a clear day, not near zero. Actual ultraviolet intensity radiating the face or exposed parts of the body can be as much as 4 W/cm2 when standing in direct sunlight at sunrise or sunset and around 20% to 30% more when the sun reflects off water onto our skin.
Interesting points, but quite aa bad as you might think. I made some relevant measurements to clarify this a few years back. I’ll talk about them in a followup post.
The goal is to make our product available sometime in second quarter of 2024. We are selling a smart band for Apple Watch. So, a person who has an Apple Watch would take off their band and add this giving the band what we call ŪV Vision. I would love your feedback so you are on the list. The goal with alerting people so early ( i.e 0.1 MED) is because there is literature suggesting that the aging process on the skin can be close to eliminated by keeping your UV exposure that low. It’s definitely focuses on the beauty component vs the health component. Our smart band is both a beauty device and a health device in one. Yes, the onboarding process will have consumers put in their skin type ( 1-6) and their SPF. We will calibrate the sensors based on a golden unit in production and based on a gold standard unit as well. I am really excited to help people track this as it’s a huge health burden for the population.
If it can log data, it could be very useful as a research tool (like the UV dosimeter babes we used in our studies a few years back on the relationship between personal uv exposure and vitamin-d).
Agree. Hopefully, we are not that unlucky!
Thanks so much for the follow up. I think that sun damage occurs earlier than 1 MED. We have chatted before, briefly, about the wearable product I am bringing to market (eclipseRx.com) and we are asking people to be aware of .10 MED or .50MED vs just 1 MED. My passion is to get people to not live at the guardrails and to be more proactive, earlier. I am grateful for ALL of the science you have put into this field. Thanks so much for your passion and persistence in this field. You are a gem!
Interesting web site. When will the devices be available to the public? It's not clear to me whether you will selling a watch and strap, or just the strap that connects to an existing watch. I'd be happy to play with one if you have spare ... :). I'm not sure if people will want to bothered with alerts for doses as small as 0.1 MED. I presume they will be entering their skin type at first use? Calibration?
Glad to help. Of course l, if you’re VERY UNLUCKY, even the very first photon that hits you might be the one that damages a DNA molecule and initiates a path to cancer. But hopefully your defence mechanisms will notice it and be able to fight that one off ….
When you say “perceptible skin damage” are talking about 100% of MED?
Yes. But remember that 1 MED is defined as “just perceptible reddening”. So in reality, 1MED is not a very high dose. It’s equivalent to about 15 minutes exposure for fair skin in summer noon sunlight
It is important to note that the UV dose our skin experiences cannot be calculated from the UVI by a simple formula because UVI does not represent the intensity of radiation on the skin. It represents the intensity of radiation on a flat horizontal surface which is not the same as the radiation directly impinging on the skin. For example, when UVI is only slightly more than zero at sunrise or sunset the actual ultraviolet radiation intensity UVA + UVB on the skin can be as much as 4 W/cm2 on a clear day, not near zero. Actual ultraviolet intensity radiating the face or exposed parts of the body can be as much as 4 W/cm2 when standing in direct sunlight at sunrise or sunset and around 20% to 30% more when the sun reflects off water onto our skin.
Interesting points, but quite aa bad as you might think. I made some relevant measurements to clarify this a few years back. I’ll talk about them in a followup post.