Does anyone actually have any independent studies about this supposedly super harmful blue light that we've been using on our monitors for years and have been seeing our whole lives? Most of what I found on google talks about AOC releasing this guff or just more products to block them out. edit http://www.aao.org/publications/eyenet/201103/cataract.cfm

No cause to fear blue. He added that, in fact, “10 of the 12 major epidemiological studies show no link between environmental light exposure and AMD. Most AMD occurs in phakic adults over 60 years of age, despite senescent crystalline lens photoprotection far greater than that of blue-blocking IOLs.

http://www.cclvi.org/contributions/effects1.htm

After some yellowing, by the age of 20, the lens becomes a natural, though imperfect, absorber of wavelengths between 400 and 320nm. It helps protect the retina from damage by near UV radiation. The lens also provides partial but imperfect protection to the retina from blue light. In early studies it was thought that UV***8209;B was the only wavelength band responsible for cataracts.

^^ With these things the ONLY good study is a large and long running one, backed up by independent mechanistic discovery in a model organism or at least a decent in vitro study. Its simply too hard to narrow down causes with the amount of interference in human lives, genetic variation, environmental variation, etc, etc.

Blue Light My Ass. I love my perfect white light at home. Not yellow, but white. My monitor is calibrated to have white white. This very forum is blue. I want to see stuff blue if it is blue!

I love my screens with a cold blueish tint, seems unfair most studies telling us blue causes insomnia and now this, what really drives me mad is a ton of white backgrounds

It more just seems like they're driving to get more sales with a gimmick backed by a couple studies from a while back.

Warm redder light does seem more comfortable and less harsh than colder bluer light. I wouldn't want colder temp light in a living room or at a restaurant. It's nice having the really perfect white light in workspaces but that is it. So maybe filtering some of that out will be more relaxing at night.

Rather than buy a new monitor to filter out blue light you can download f.lux. It automatically changes the colour temperature based on when the sun comes up and goes down, I've found it does actually make a difference to how well I sleep! When I used to work at the local Ford plant we had filtered safety glasses to reduce the effect of the light put out by the strip lighting, it was way more comfortable with those on instead the unfiltered ones.