Skin cancer is serious business and yet we take an incredibly haphazard approach to sun protection. Even when we think we’re covered, we’re not, but who can tell? Most of the sunblock we use is invisible anyway.
Sunscreenr, the sunblock detection gadget from Voxelight, aims to make the invisible visible and to save us from missing spots and potentially life-threatening skin damage, or at least a nasty sunburn.
It takes about 15 minutes for the sun’s ultra-violet rays to do their business on your unprotected skin. Sunblock is designed to either block or absorb those rays, keeping them from damaging your skin either way. (The Environmental Protection Agency reports that 1 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with skin cancer each year.) Read more…
