Well this is awkward. A company is about to launch a product that they claim will turn your phone's camera flash into a germicidal lamp by virtue of a little filter that slides out in front of it.
Their marketing material suggests that they filter out the unwanted wavelengths and only let the 222nm wavelength through.
That's not possible, as your phone's flash does not put out any light in the 222nm wavelength or even any significant ultraviolet at all.
If they tried to imply that their filter converted the wavelengths of your white flash to 222nm that would be an outstanding scientific breakthrough that would open up many new exciting technologies. But it's very unlikely.
They imply that they are a Google certified company, with a link to a google maps factory location, which means nothing.
My opinion of this is that it's a scam. And I'd be very wary of downloading the matching app.
It's no great surprise that the Daily Mail has published what is in effect an advert for this. They have very low editorial standards.
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Their marketing material suggests that they filter out the unwanted wavelengths and only let the 222nm wavelength through.
That's not possible, as your phone's flash does not put out any light in the 222nm wavelength or even any significant ultraviolet at all.
If they tried to imply that their filter converted the wavelengths of your white flash to 222nm that would be an outstanding scientific breakthrough that would open up many new exciting technologies. But it's very unlikely.
They imply that they are a Google certified company, with a link to a google maps factory location, which means nothing.
My opinion of this is that it's a scam. And I'd be very wary of downloading the matching app.
It's no great surprise that the Daily Mail has published what is in effect an advert for this. They have very low editorial standards.
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Or, you could go Dollar Tree and pick up an actual battery operated UVC light… no app required for around $1.
The channel Krazy Ken's Tech Talk debunked this already.
He paid the money, they never sent him the product and even blocked his phone number.
Waited for 9 months.
One of his viewers from South Korea was able to acquire one and sent it to him.
He made several germicidal tests & even used a UV-C detector test card that worked under a UV-C lamp, but not with UVLEN.
It is a scam.
Here’s some interesting info about genuine UVC LEDs. This is a copy/paste of a conversation I had with some fellow electronics/photonics nerds regarding this technology. A lot of us hobbyists and professionals online, in places like the laser pointer forum LPF and budget light forum BLF, and others.
Clive, I think a cheap Spectrometer would be a cool DIY build. Like the one shown on “les’s lab YouTube channel” Not really necessary, but it would be a fun build, and I’ve seen several instances where you’ve wanted to measure the wavelength of light. Once you have a spectrometer…,you can’t imagine all of the incredible uses!
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Here is the copied info…Maybe it’ll help some folks….. and it’s just interesting stuff regardless!
All genuine UVC LEDs have a quartz/sapphire glass window and/or ceramic Gold plated body. This is necessary because UVC easily damages Plastics and other materials used in UVB and all other LEDs. Therefore if the window wasn’t quartz, it would quickly degrade and discolor.
I’ve Bought and tested close to 100 different UV LEDs over the past few years… Including deep UV (UVC) i’ve tested everything from the dirt cheap Chinese knock off‘s, to the highest end chips costing $100 or more from Nichia and other quality manufacturers. (usually as a sample or with a big discount because I can’t afford $100 for a single LED 😂)
I’m not a professional optics engineer, but I have an industrial electronics servicing business and lab… so already had the equipment. I was interested in this stuff for my own hobby and professional uses. And it was fun as hell!! UV photonics technology is super interesting, even to regular folks Who aren’t nerds.
I’ve always dabbled in optics and lasers. I spent several years putting together a professional optical “breadboard” and test bench. All dirt cheap from government and Academic auctions. It really is the golden age of science and electronics! Over $20,000 worth of optical equipment, and decommissioned military/medical/industrial lasers. Photonics and laser stuff is about the most expensive hobby there is. Besides burning money 😁 A simple mirror, lens, or optical mount can be hundreds of dollars new. no way I could’ve afforded it. But I paid pennies on the dollar! Or less. Government auctions are awesome.
There are genuine deep UV LEDs being made in China that are pretty darn cheap. $1-$2 each! Pretty low power but decent quality.
But UVC LED technology is still so new, that the output powers are exceptionally low when compared to UVB. So you need an array of about 25 LEDs to approach timely “sanitizing“ power. Which is not going to be cheap, especially if you get Nichia or other high end chips. For a 25 LED array of decent power UVC nichia LEDs… You’d be looking at over $1000 easy. And if you went with their most powerful chip, a array of 25 would be about $2500 😂
But power density will increase slowly just like it did with 365nm UV LEDs. Cost per milliwatt of “radiant flux” will go down with time.
Currently, decent cheap quality UVC LEDs average 5-15mw (Milliwatt) of optical output power. So when they sell UVC LEDs labeled as “1 watt“…. that means 1 watt of input power. You have to look closer to find the optical output power rating.
If you got 1 watt of REAL UVC optical output… That shit could fry your skin and eyeballs really fast. Even worse is that real UVC leds can be almost invisible. Which is Dangerous shit!!😂
thankfully many chips include a visible LED inside the same package. Usually 365 nm or higher UVB. As an indication light, so people don’t accidentally leave it on without knowing it… Easily burning their eyes. Or the board it’s eventually mounted on….in a finished product…. has a tiny colored LED next to the UVC led. To indicate when it’s on.
Although 100 mV is pretty much the limit for current UVC led technology…… its possible to get 1000MW (1 watt) of optical power out of 365nm UVB leds… or even more. It will be incredible if UVC LEDs reach this level of radiant flux in the next few years.
Sorry to ramble on. Hope this helps someone or you find it interesting.
Daily mail is garbage. They're the ones who made that crappy "One burger a month" article like a year ago then Republicans used that article as proof that Biden was trying to take away our hamburgers to lower the US carbon emissions by 2030. Both are full jokes.
So basically just find a USB powered UV lamp? 😂
Age restricted? What the hell?
I watched trough the whole video
Thats just a blue filter bro it cant convert regular visible light from your phone to UV that is impossible even in the deepest corners of the universe it will never happen
or a wavelength changing crystal lens. special variation is used to convert IR to red or green light… but visible light to UVC lenses haven't been created yet…
If it was ever released I'd bet money that the app would've been a Bitcoin mining bot.
I got a C grade in science from college and even I can tell you that blocking certain waveforms with a filter doesn't amplify the ones it lets through.
Real UV light is not something to mess around with unless you know what you are doing. I guessed from the start it was another scam blue filter gimmick.
(first phone:)Hey, you've got my phone there!!! Moto G5!… getting a bit old now, but a great phone at the price.
There's a lot of "UV sanitising bags" out there, designed to sanitise "things" (my travelling hairdresser used one to "sanitise" her combs / scissors) – I wonder if THEY are actually legit?
All the magic is in the app.
Wow…….. It's that dangerous !!? A video pointing out that something is fake and trying to protect people is punished by someone who probably hasn't actually sat and watched it?
Bad video…… Naughty video……