The Technology  

Originally developed under a contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by Quantum Devices, Inc, the pioneers of the NASA LED technology, the WARP 10® was originally designed to assist armed forces personnel on the front lines with immediate first aid and care for minor injuries and pain, thereby improving endurance in combat.

In addition to the benefit of providing localized pain relief, biologists have discovered that cells exposed to near-IR light from LEDs grow 150% to 200% faster with the intensity of light only provided by the WARP 10® HEALS® (High Emissivity Aluminiferous Light-emitting Substrate) technology. A single daily dose of this intensity of light is thought to stimulate the basic energy process of the mitochondria (the energy compartment) of each cell to support the healing process.

The hand-held WARP 10® produces 50 mW/cm2 of photon flux (power) in the near-IR portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (650-950nm), which is defined as the wellness spectrum. The figure above illustrates that the WARP 10® will produce 80 times more photon energy than a 250 Watt heat lamp or 6.4 times more photon energy than the Solar “Air Mass 1.5 Standard,” as compared to the same spectral bandwidth of the WARP 10®. The HEALS® technology advantage reduces the time required for each therapeutic dose and provides for faster multi-dose exposures without the harmful affects of UV (Ultra-Violet) solar radiation.