#china #eyeglases #photobiomodulation - China's New Invention That Could Make the Glasses Obsolete

12 August 2026

Chinese researchers may have found a way to reverse childhood myopia using nothing but red light, and the clinical results are already reshaping how the world thinks about corrective lenses.

This video breaks down Repeated Low-Level Red Light therapy (RLRL), a three-minute daily treatment developed at the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center in Guangzhou that reduced eyeball elongation by nearly 70 percent in a randomized clinical trial, with some children's eyes actually shortening. We explain the science of photobiomodulation, how red light boosts blood flow to the sclera to stop the eye from stretching, and why myopia rates have exploded to over 80 percent among Chinese high schoolers.

You'll learn about the Eyerising device now approved in the UK, EU, Japan, and Australia, why it still isn't FDA-approved in the US, the safety concerns that led China to reclassify these devices, and how low-dose atropine eye drops are emerging as a second major treatment. We also cover why the global eyewear industry has little incentive to fund a cure for the condition it profits from. If you or your child wears glasses, this is the future of myopia treatment you need to understand.

#uk #autos - 8 Cars Nobody Wants — But UK Mechanics Say BUY THEM NOW: Roy Stroud and 3 more

13 August 2026

If you're buying a used car in Britain this year, the best value on any forecourt is the stuff nobody will touch. Cars that cost forty-five grand new, sitting there at seven grand — and not because they're broken. They're cheap because the badge is boring, or the shape went out of fashion, or somebody told you diesel was banned. I'm Roy Stroud: forty-five, twenty-two years in independent workshops in the Midlands, never worked for a dealership in my life. Nobody pays me to defend a design decision, and nobody's paying me to talk any of these cars up either. In this video: eight cars nobody wants — and number one cost SEVENTY GRAND when it was new. None of this is opinion. It's DVSA and MOT failure data, What Car? reliability figures, and what comes through the door of an independent workshop every single week.

#Engines #ReliableCars #CarMaintenance - 10 Engines That REFUSE to Die — And Why They Stopped Making Them: The Sleeper List

15 August 2026

Ten engines that refuse to die, and the real reason they stopped making them. Not one of these engines could be built and sold as a new car in Britain today. Not because they are unsafe, but because none of them would pass modern type approval. That, more than cost or fashion, is why they are gone.

In this video we count down ten engines that were built with margin, and the ones on this list were designed by engineers who assumed the person who bought the car might want to keep it. The Vauxhall Family Two that taught half the country to drive. The Ford Pinto that lived under the bonnet of every Cortina, Capri, Sierra and Transit. The Peugeot and Citroen X U D diesel that farmers and taxi drivers ran into the hundreds of thousands of miles with no electronics involved at all. The Volkswagen one point nine turbo diesel. The Volvo Redblock that routinely passed three hundred thousand miles on its original internals. The B M W M fifty straight six. The Toyota twenty two R that made the Hilux famous. The Ford Zetec. The Mercedes O M six one seven, the million mile engine. And at number one, an engine you could have bought new within the last twenty years.

We also cover what replaced them, and why so many modern engines are being scrapped rather than repaired. Over eight hundred thousand wet belt EcoBoost engines were fitted in the U K alone, more than any other country in Europe, with repair bills running to four and five figures on cars often worth less than the repair.

And we give the other side of the argument a proper hearing. These old engines are dirtier. Air quality in British cities has measurably improved over the same period all this complexity arrived. Modern engines make more power on less fuel. And nostalgia edits out the failures, because for every Redblock at three hundred thousand miles there was a British engine of the same era that was a disaster.

There is practical advice at the end too. How to find out whether the car you are looking at has a belt running in oil, what to listen for from cold, what actually matters in a service history, and where the clean air zone thresholds fall for petrol and diesel.

Sources and status are stated on air at the end of the video: what is confirmed, what is reported but not settled, and what is still developing.

So tell us in the comments. What is under your bonnet, how many miles has it done, and how long have you had it.

#Engines #ReliableCars #CarMaintenance #BritishCars #WetBelt #EcoBoost #ClassicCars #CarAdvice #UKCars #Mechanic

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