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have you ever been working late at night on a report because you'd spent the entire day screwing around and found the incessantly white background of your word processor in your web browser to be unbearable well indeed we're staying in front of our screens later and later into the night these days which is why today we were honoring our first unsung hero of tech dark mode often times it isn't obvious whether an app or a program features a dark mode and it's often a little unassuming option buried in a menu somewhere but for those of you who are night owls you'll know that it works by reversing the usual color scheme of your windows putting light colored text on a dark background but it isn't as simple as just inverting the colors on a webpage and calling it a day and you can see this if you have a browser extension that applies a dark mode as some elements on the page often don't look as nice while other ones such as images won't invert or dim properly so coding a good-looking dark mode that is specific to a certain website often requires a fair bit of finesse however this often ends up being worth it as dark mode ends up delivering quite a few benefits you see it's pretty common these days for phones and computers to have a built-in night mode to reduce blue light you can learn more about that up here but the basic idea is that blue light from your screens can affect your ability to properly fall asleep so night mode reduces blue light emissions by giving everything a yellowish or reddish tinge and this might not be a big deal if you're just trying to read text but it can result in nearly everything else looking noticeably discolored and that's where dark mode can be advantageous particularly on phones many smartphones these days use OLED screens which don't require a backlight like a standard TV or computer monitor would so any fully black areas of an app in dark mode would just have their pixels turned completely off so much less light ends up assaulting your eyes and although you won't get this effect if you're using a regular monitor as you'll still have its entire backlight omitting blue light dark mode can still make much easier to look at during the night if you don't have another way to reduce eyestrain such as bias lighting but it isn't just about making screens easier on the eyes on those phones with OLED screens that we just mentioned having fewer pixels illuminated means that dark mode can extend your battery life as having your brightness turned up is a notorious battery hog leading some people to run their apps in dark mode even during the daytime in fact Google claimed a few years ago that having a predominantly white screen can use up to six times as much battery as a predominantly black one on the original pixel so it might be worth switching to dark mode if you find yourself consistently fighting poor battery life Android currently offers options to enable dark mode on frequently used apps like phone and messages and iOS has a smart invert colors feature that switches Apple apps to a dark mode pretty elegantly and also works with third-party apps with varying degrees of success on the desktop side of things you can enable a dark theme in Windows 10 that can tone down the excessive white of the settings menu and File Explorer so although dark modes aren't universally present yet it's great to see developers putting some thought into saving our eyes and that's why it's the first unsung hero of tech and speaking of saving your eyes check out the invisible shield with eye safe you already know that bright screens that emit blue light can both strain your eyes and disrupt your sleep and we're spending 10 or even more hours a day staring at screens on average so why not protect your eyes they're glass plus vision guard with eye safe technology filters harmful blue light while maintaining the color performance of your display so the way it does this is that instead of blocking entire parts of the visible spectrum vision guard will only remove the most harmful high-energy blue light for superior color reproduction in fact it adheres to the TUV Rheinland standard for maintaining color quality glass plus vision guard is available for both iphone and ipad so love your eyes check it out at the link below so thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our other videos comment with the video Justin if you want to see your idea on a future fast as possible and don't forget to subscribe or you will miss it I mean you might not lots of people watch without subscribing but don't be one of those people or I mean do be one of those people if the alternative is not watching at all