I know I’ve written about bias lighting before, but today I noticed this article.

Bias lighting is the best for-the-price change I’ve ever made to my computing experience. Incredibly cheap, and improves the experience of viewing a monitor, especially long-term, enormously. If you think you don’t care or it won’t improve your experience, you’re almost certainly wrong. Why? Physiologically, humans experience large brightness changes very similarly and because the differences are so large and humans eyes are nearly identical physiologically, eye strain will happen to everyone about the same.

In other words, bias lighting will benefit you and it’s incredibly cheap. Just get you some. (If your monitor is already against a bright background like a window, this won’t help you much — the only exception.)

For me, bias lighting improved the time I can read at my screen and greatly decreased my likelihood of getting a migraine from doing so. Best $25 I ever spent on computer-related stuff.