‘Improve your brain and systemic wellness’ while looking like a giant dork
Vielight’s light therapy devices might make your gaming reactions faster, but what it’ll do to your dignity is another matter.
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Who knew that blasting your nasal capillaries with light could make you a better gamer? At least, this is what Vielight appears to be claiming in its marketing material. The transcranial-intranasal photobiomodulation (PBM) device comes in a few different forms, but essentially it’s a light therapy kit you’re meant to stick up your nose. For reasons.
The goal is to increase nitric oxide (NO) levels in your tissues and improve oxygenation through better blood flow. Better blood flow can theoretically lead to better reactions in games, but it’s not just gamers the company is aiming it at.
“Systemic photobiomodulation can support your immunity,” theVielight site says, as well as “enhance oxygenation and improve energy levels through increased adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels, perfect for anyone who wants to improve their wellness and health.”
TheVielight research page cites published studiesthat suggest it could help people with Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons, and even traumatic brain injuries.
That’s pretty cool. Still, these press images are hilarious. How are these people sitting so nonchalantly, getting on with their lives with these light modules intimately clipped to their orifices. They hold themselves like they’re getting so much benefit from this device they don’t even care what they look like.
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“Yeah, there’s a light inside my nose, and what? Youdon’tdo light therapy?”
That nonplussed expression is just priceless. But when the actualpriceof these brain-invading devices range from$769 to $2,399, you’d expect the company to have at least come up with a design that looked vaguely sci-fi, or at least a little more sleek.
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Then you could pretend you’re rocking a badass Cyberpunk body mod while doing light therapy, rather than looking like you tripped and fell on a Christmas tree.
Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been rambling about games, tech and science—rather sarcastically—for four years since. She can be found admiring technological advancements, scrambling for scintillating Raspberry Pi projects, preaching cybersecurity awareness, sighing over semiconductors, and gawping at the latest GPU upgrades. Right now she’s waiting patiently for her chance to upload her consciousness into the cloud.
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