Lili, how does it work?
Lili for Life’s technology is based on award-winning scientific research carried out by two researchers in Rennes. It uses flashes of light that are imperceptible to the naked eye to improve the way many dyslexics perceive the written word.
Thanks to this innovation, reading becomes smoother, faster and much less tiring, making it easier to grasp the meaning of the text.
Reading with dyslexia and the Lili lamp
Through a stroboscopic effect of the light, invisible to the naked eye, the lamp creates a temporal shift in perception between each eye.
The images are no longer processed simultaneously by the brain and the ‘mirror’ image effect is erased.
The person can read the word ‘parade’ without difficulty.
The image is not superimposed.
Practical and suitable for all dyslexics: discover Lili
Portable and compact
Take lili everywhere with you
Designed and made in France, Lili has been designed to be as compact as possible.
Easy to fold, it slips into its protective cover and goes everywhere with you, whether you’re at school, at the office or on the move.
100% customisable for your comfort
Adjust your reading experience with ease
Thanks to the Lili For Life mobile app (available on iOS and Android), Lili is fully customisable. Change the light settings directly from your smartphone to adapt it to your preferences and ensure optimum reading comfort.
Autonomous so you can go anywhere
Up to 7.5 hours of autonomy
Lili is equipped with a rechargeable battery offering up to 7.5 hours of operation. So you can enjoy comfortable reading wherever you are, without worrying about the battery.
For the more scientific-minded
Thanks to the creation of a foveascope for their research on the eye, Albert Le Floch and Guy Ropars, researchers in Rennes, have studied blue cones more closely at Maxwell’s centroids (in the foveas, the retinal area at the centre of the macula) and have found a difference between normal readers and dyslexics.
In normal readers, the directing eye has a ‘round’ centroid formed by blue cones, whereas the non-directing eye has a more ovoid centroid. Thanks to this differentiation, the image perceived by the dominant eye is transmitted more quickly to brain processing (occipital visual areas and/or Visual Word Form Area – VWFA).
In dyslexics, the blue cones in both eyes form a ‘round’ centroid. The arrangement of these photoreceptors is therefore identical from one eye to the other. The 2 images perceived will be transmitted simultaneously to the visual information processing area. The occipital visual areas and the Visual Word Form Area will then have to process a very delicate superimposition of images.
Unlike non-dyslexics, dyslexics have two dominant eyes (they have no directing eye), which creates mirror images or superimposed images that interfere with reading.
For a text, this might look like this:
