Pyeongchang, South Korea, is 14 hours ahead of Toronto. So an engineer in Canada’s largest city created a solution to help the country’s Olympic athletes avert the tiring effects of jet lag.
The engineer, Amol Rao, founded startup company Somnitude and developed a pair of glasses designed to filter out blue light and aptly called Blue Block Glasses, Toronto’s Metro News reported. Jet lag from the over 13-hour flight can wear the athletes down when the most need sleep — ahead of competing in their events.
“Our main goal is to help people sleep, something that is especially important for elite athletes,” Rao told the University of Toronto Engineering.