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Trigger-Preventing Glasses

Sat, 11/25/2017 - 11:21
Hi all, I'm trying trying to gauge interest for a possible start-up venture. We believe we can create a special pair of glasses that can filter out the types of visual triggers that can cause seizures like flashing lights and brightly contrasting colors and patterns. Before we go ahead and build a prototype, would there be interest in a device like this? Are there any features you would like to see implemented, or suggestions to improve the concept? If you are interested in the idea, how much would you be willing to pay for the product? Thank you for reading, and for any feedback you may have.

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so I don’t mean to be

Submitted by Amy Jo on Sat, 2017-11-25 - 22:28
so I don’t mean to be negative but is this really addressing a problem where there’s money to sustain such an effort? what kinds of problems will you address that aren’t addressed by the polarized blue sunglasses already out there? around 3% of people with epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy and I was under the impression that a majority of those could be helped with blue sunglasses. would your product be cheap enough to take a significant market share or do they solve some other problem?

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