WAKE-UP LIGHTS
It’s easier (and less harsh) to wake up with a faux sunrise.
These bedside lamps mix a light alarm with some extra features
1 Lumie Bodyclock Shine 300
£125, lumie.comThe Bodyclock Shine 300 is Lumie’s newest bedside model,
designed with a decent range of features to help you sleep and
rise easier. These include: a cheery, gradually increasing sunrise
(don’t schedule it to come on at the maximum light setting – it’s
blinding!); a cosy, red glowing sunset; and an optional nightlight
for nervous sleepers. You can also soundtrack those sunrises/
sunsets with FM radio or soothing sounds (Crickets is relaxing,
White Noise is heinous). The light isn’t app-controlled, so we had
to fiddle with the tiny built-in buttons, and navigating around the
Shine 300 to program either daily or weekly alarms took some
getting used to. Overall this is a very good wake-up light, but
app-control would make it great.2 Casper Glow
£89, casper.comThis attractive bedside light can gradually dim itself to help you
doze off, before doing the same thing in reverse in the morning,
to wake you gently. The Glow has no audible alarm, and in a room
that wasn’t totally blacked out, we found Glow’s brightness no
more useful as a means of waking up than the rising of the actual
sun. Paired with the alarm on your phone as backup, and/or used
in a very dark room, it’s more effective, but we’d expect it to have
an alarm built in for this kind of price. When in bedside light
mode, you can turn light intensity up and down by rotating Glow
manually. If woken in the night you can give it a shake to set the
light to its very lowest setting, giving a light source just bright
enough to help you find the bathroom.86 |^ |^ May 2019
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