It has five levels of intensity for the blue light, reducing eye strain

Oct 9, 2013 14:32 GMT  ·  By

It's a little known fact that the blue light in the RGB (red green blue) color gamut is the one most responsible for eye strain. I-O Data decided to work with that.

Which is to say, it made a monitor that allows users to select one out of five stages of blue light intensity. Or, more precisely, to lower the intensity by 1-5 steps, max reduction being 60%.

There's even an Ego Guard feature that automatically lowers brightness when the user is not present.

The new monitor is a 19-inch LCD called LCD-AD191SE and featuring the 5:4 form factor, instead of the now common 16:9 cinematic aspect ratio. Consequently, the resolution is of 1280 x 1024.

Other specs include D-Sub and DVI inputs, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, a 5ms response time and built-in 1W speakers.

I-O Data will start selling the LCD-AD191SE by the end of October, for an unknown price.