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Active shutter glasses designed for photosensitive epilepsy users. They react instantly to sudden lighting changes, helping reduce visual triggers while keeping vision clear.
About Our Device
We created glasses for photosensitive epilepsy patients.
These glasses use specialized LCD Shutter panels to adjust to sudden changes in lighting.
Around 1 in 4,000 people have photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) according to the Epilepsy Foundation, a condition triggered by sudden changes in light such as bright flashes or strobe effects. These sudden changes can cause individuals with PSE to experience extreme headaches, nausea, dizziness, and often incapacitating seizures. While there are many medications available, we wanted to create a practical solution that works in conjunction with medication to prevent dangerous triggers.
Glasses that filter out specific wavelengths of light exist, but they do not address dynamic, unpredictable changes. Epillux bridges this gap by introducing active, real-time protection. Instead of using static lenses that are unfit for certain indoor environments, our shutter lenses provide a barrier that only activates when a threat is detected. This allows our users to participate in new experiences without the cumbersome sight-restriction of polarized lenses or the potential unreliability of medication.
These are two of our design iterations for the product.
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