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Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
- jpm_sd 8y agoThis was a fun read. I don't really 'get' the product, though. Lots of smart lightbulbs already on the market, with wakeup timer features etc. This is one you can pick up and carry around? Is that actually better? Those pogo pins aren't going to last very long.
- lincolnq 8y agoI think something that characterizes a lot of stereotypical hacker news comments is reductionism of a product to its feature list. A classic one is on the Dropbox 2007 launch post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224). In retrospect, some product ideas are dumb. Others are good. But because we see this kind of comment so often (really not trying to pick on you!), I wanted to point out that it might be a good habit for lots of people to notice if they are trying to describe a product by its list of features, and maybe think if that is the best way to achieve their goals. Again, not trying to pick on you in particular, I think that habit is incredibly common for tech people in particular. And there's a lot positive to be said about that style of interaction.
- lm28469 8y agoThat's true in a lot of cases but comparing a gadget to a service is far from being intellectually honest. Best case scenario it becomes a hit as the philips hue, but at the end of the day it's a gadget, it's shiny, it's new, it's trendy, but it's still a gadget. Sure it fulfils some kind of weird pseudo-need but it's not going to revolutionise anything.
- Quinner 8y agoSo? Not everything needs to be a revolution. Casper already revolutionized the mattress industry. They're merely further monetizing that success by introducing a well-designed new product, since mattress sales cycles are so long.
- jpm_sd 8y agoAs a hardware engineer and sometimes product designer, I am interested in discussing the list of features with other people of a similar background. This isn't a review of the user experience (since I've never touched one of these lights), it's a response to a hardware teardown.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoI think it also explains why you see a lot of Apple hate in the tech community. It becomes a specification comparison by cost and the majority of people just don’t care about those things.
- morsch 8y agoNo wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
- ceejayoz 8y agoThere may never be a better example of "what's compelling to techies isn't necessarily what's compelling to the general public" than that one.
- icebraining 8y agoYes, but CmdrTaco never claimed to be stating anything more than his personal opinion of the product. Slashdot wasn't HN, people weren't always making product-market fit predictions and discussing the financial of startups.
- cmdrtaco 8y agorise to my defense! (Also always lost in the mythologizing of this quote is that the first version of the iPod was not good. Mechanical click wheel, mac only, it took them a revision to disprove my statement!)
- icebraining 8y agoIt would be fair to say that misapprehension grinds my gears a bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cmdrtaco+by:icebraining&type=comment&dateRange=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cmdrtaco+by:icebraining&type=c... :) Since I have your attention, thanks for all the good years of Slashdot! Hope you're doing well.
- coupdejarnac 8y agoI don't think the parallel with the classic Dropbox comment is fair. I have the tech skills necessary to make an IoT flashlight, too, but doing so would probably not occur to me. I don't think such a product would necessarily fail, but it seems a bit gimmicky in that it only superficially solves problems.
- jschwartzi 8y agoIt's really easy to use as a light. And the UI is completely unobtrusive. My girlfriend has some smart switches in her place that are provided by her alarm system company, and the amount of work she has to do to turn off one switch is a huge inconvenience. Not to mention how unreliable the cloud service is. It's wonderful to see a company building smart equipment that doesn't require a smartphone to operate.
- lm28469 8y ago$90 for a "smart" lamp, $2600 flip phones, ... Man if this isn't a symptom of gadget/tech bubble on the verge of bursting I don't know what it is.
- theNJR 8y agoFor some reason I save the boxes of most of my consumer tech gadgets. Looking in the closet where I keep them makes feel sort of sick. At myself. And yet I want this lamp. Technology addiction. As a caffeine addict, I've 'gone off' it before, and for three days it's terrible. There is a very physical withdrawal. With technology, the addiction manifests as a light, ever present anxiety. Both in the use and acquisition of such products. I don't know where this all goes.
- djsumdog 8y agoWhat really made me sick was living in an apartment building and seeing the piles of Amazon boxes in the basement/recycling area. General consumption is a problem far worse that CO2 emissions. Our e-waste is destroying water supplies in the African nations it's all shipped to, where kids dig through old products for any salvageable metals and components. Resist the urge to buy useless stuff.
- CamperBob2 8y agoWhat entitles you to proclaim that your neighbors are buying "useless stuff?" You'll see a lot of Amazon boxes in my recycling as well, but they all contained things I would have purchased anyway after driving to a store someplace.
- magduf 8y agoAre those Amazon boxes really that wasteful? The alternative is probably people driving to various brick-and-mortar stores to buy these things. How much carbon emission was avoided by having these people buy from Amazon and have it all delivered on one truck? Amazon doesn't just sell unnecessary trinkets, they sell everything, including everyday items you'd probably buy at Walmart/Target/the mall/etc.
- yeutterg 8y agoI bought one, as I sell a product with a similar use case [0]. My impressions: The overall concept is great. The UX is cool, but some of the UX choices are strange to me. For example, automatically dimming down when you turn the light on (you have to press the button to pause it) vs. the other way around. It works well as a wake-up light, although I would have preferred something higher-blue for the morning. There's really nothing "low-blue" about this light compared to other 2700K LED lights, other than the fact that it has a dimmer built in. The 2700K diodes they chose don't have better color quality than normal LED bulbs. It has "amber" (somewhere around 2000-2200K) LEDs at the very bottom end of the range that have great color quality, but they are too dim for anything but navigating to the bathroom at night. They are modulating the LEDs with PWM at a very high frequency, almost 8 kHz. That's better than most of today's smart lighting by far. There's still debate about 100% flicker actually being healthy, even at higher frequencies. For the lighting nerds, I captured photometric and flicker measurements, which you can review at [1]. Overall, I think Casper's lamp is a good effort. I hope future versions can improve the color quality, some of the interactions, and the overall healthiness of the light compared to regular lighting. [0] Bedtime Bulb: https://bedtimebulb.com/ https://bedtimebulb.com/ [1] Casper Glow Photometrics: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8n0way6xqwbqcd/Casper%20Glow%20Photometry.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8n0way6xqwbqcd/Casper%20Glow%20Ph...
- pags 8y agoI don't know anything about modulating LEDs, but could that high freq. have anything to do with the quiet but audible whine I hear when the light is on? Seems like it could be 8kish.
- Duhck 8y agoThat's likely a singing capacitor. Lots of electronics will "sing" like this FWIW. Could also be a transformer but since this isn't a high voltage product it's more likely some disk capacitor in the circuitry.
- samstave 8y agoIsnt it usually the ballasts that sing in most, if not all lights?
- rhexs 8y agoI couldn’t find it anywhere, and am assuming no, but does anyone know if this has HomeKit support?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI see this is controllable via an app. Does it communicate via the "cloud" or locally? (Bluetooth etc). If it is cloud-based, what happens when the service inevitably shuts down? Edit: Upon further reading it appears that this device has BLE. That's reassuring, at least.
- tmincey 8y agoIt uses BLE, doesn’t have WiFi hardware for direct connection but can piggyback off the phone for firmware updates etc
- djsumdog 8y agoI'd personally wait until they're $20 used on eBay, then attempt to reverse-enginner the protocol so it can be controlled by Python and a Linux box.
- Shakahs 8y agoThank you, because I assume the last step would be open sourcing it. People like you are what keep hardware going long after the original vendor abandons it or goes under. Also, I agree on waiting for eBay, this is a nice device but I can't justify $99 for it.
- dspig 8y ago> As a bedside object, I really appreciate the lack of branding and visual clutter on the device. Oh yes! Last thing before bed I wonder “why did I just have to see the name of the manufacturer of my bathroom taps?”. They are good taps but...
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoThis bugs me with just about everything. Manufacturers shouldn’t put visible branding on things unless that version is offered at a discount compared to the unbranded version.
- criddell 8y agoLouis Vuitton and Rolex say what?
- SllX 8y agoWell if money is speech their marketing departments are chatterboxes.
- codeulike 8y agoThey say 'haha people will pay loads to see our names on stuff even if there's no other discernible difference in quality! haha conspicuous consumption and class signalling are great! lol'
- jrockway 8y agoRolex makes some pretty high-quality watches.
- criddell 8y agoSure, but their price is entirely about what people are willing to pay and not at all connected to the cost of production. There are some Swiss watches that take an incredible amount of work by highly skilled craftsmen to make, but that's not Rolex. They're cranking out a million watches every year thanks to automation.
- Uhhrrr 8y agoIs this an ad?
- djsumdog 8y agoYea, pretty much. I wonder if the author was paid by Casper or they genuinely gave them free advertising. Knowing about Capser's advertising techniques, I'd guess it was the former.
- steve_adams_86 8y agoI suspected bolt invests in them, but I don't see them here: https://bolt.io/portfolio https://bolt.io/portfolio ...
- d-sc 8y agoBolt is a hardware VC, their blog is probably to support their marketing.
- donpdonp 8y agoThe review came off as genuine to me, as the author seems knowledgeable about electronics and manufacturing. It was good read. If anything, it doubles as promotion for Bolt VC.
- darkerside 8y agoIt seems like advertising... but I've gotta give it to them, it's some damn good advertising.
- tmincey 8y agoAuthor here! Not an ad at all (and Bolt isn't an investor). We just like to take apart new products and see what we can learn about them and the companies that build them.
- Uhhrrr 8y agoFair enough - the reasons for my suspicion were the absence of any negative comments, the exhaustive list of features, and the quotes from Caspar employees.
- kndjckt 8y agoHold on. Did they just put their prices up? https://casper.com/glow-light/buy/ https://casper.com/glow-light/buy/ . It was $89 a few minutes ago now it's $99. Demand must be surging!
- yeukhon 8y agoI don't trust this company after watching Adam Ruins Everything.
- dpflan 8y agoAre you referring to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlA9UxGvSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlA9UxGvSg
- yeukhon 8y agoYes
- MBCook 8y agoWhy?
- updateYourMind 8y agoI don't trust any expensive mattresses company. It's all very scammy.
- acjohnson55 8y agoThis looks really cool! If it becomes possible to integrate with SmartThings, I might even be interested in buying one.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoAnyone have any others they would recommend? I’ve set my bedroom lights to automatically turn on at sunrise, realizing how much I hate the sound of an alarm clock, but the light is just instantly way too bright. Would prefer something that gradually increases in brightness over fifteen minutes.
- cube2222 8y agoPhilips hue have this. You can set the fade-in to be 10-30 mins
- __david__ 8y agoThis is going to sound glib, but have you tried opening the blinds? Sunrise is nice and gradual.
- jschwartzi 8y agoSure, but in the winter sunrise is nice and gradual starting at 9:30 am. I have to be at work by 8.
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- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoUnfortunately my bedroom is on the other side of the building, so no direct sunlight.
- lucb1e 8y agoFor me, I don't need the sun on my face for it to be easier to get out of bed, outside light works just fine if there is any. I'm also not sure how many days it would take for my body to adjust to direct sunlight and sleep through it using blankets as blockers.
- burlesona 8y agoI’ve bought a lot of Philips Hue and love them. They have a wide range of bulb types and a really good app to control them. Highly programmable and fun to play with. Worth it IMO.
- knolan 8y agoI really like the idea of this product, if not the price. We’ve just bought a new home and I want to achieve a minimal bedside. We’ve also got two very young children and frequently have to get up during the night. Being able to carry this to their room and sit with them while they settle down seems lovely.
- odorousrex 8y agoDid anyone else notice the price has seem to have gone up $10 in the past hour? I could've sworn when I read this initially, it was $89! I had some stuff to do so kind of filed it away to look at later and now it is selling for $99. Also, this article seems like an advertisement/blogspam, plus with the sudden price change - I'm very suspicious. That said, it looks like a really neat product. My daughter has sleep issues (falling asleep - staying asleep) and we've tried all sorts of different lighting to help (she can't stand full darkness) and I'm wondering if a self dimming bedtime lamp like this might help her.
- avree 8y agohttps://i.imgur.com/NCr148L.png https://i.imgur.com/NCr148L.png You are not crazy, it was $89 this morning when I opened the page, versus the $99 it is now.
- odorousrex 8y agoThanks for the evidence. I understand companies need to change their prices (we do it all the time) but they could've been more circumspect. Do it in the middle of the night on a Tuesday when no one is watching. The product still seems very impressive - if a bit expensive.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago>Do it in the middle of the night // Lol, because computers don't archive/crawl webpages and everyone in the World is asleep at 2am CET (or whatever your/their timezone is). /amused
- traek 8y ago> Also, this article seems like an advertisement/blogspam It's written by Bolt, a hardware-focused VC which was founded by some pretty technical people and has a history of publishing teardowns (e.g. the Juicero one[0] which was popular here on HN a while back). [0] https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is-so-expensive-6add74594e50 https://medium.com/@BenEinstein/heres-why-juicero-s-press-is...
- schnevets 8y agoThose gifs are some damn-good marketing! A soft dimming like that always reminds me of building a "breathing light" with an Arduino. With something this unique, I'm certain there will be knock-offs available on Amazon by August. I wonder how Casper will take that into account.
- BubRoss 8y agoCasper is basically a marketing company anyway, so they will probably deal with it using more marketing as well as continuing to slander other companies that they see as competitors.
- everyone 8y agoyay, more crap! I'll put it next to my juicero! Yes, this is probably better designed then the juicero. But its still just more crap.
- updateYourMind 8y agoFrom one of these unecessary expensive mattress companies
- dpflan 8y agoI like the gesture-based interfaces/interactions, they seem natural and intuitive (no futzing around with buttons or an app). - the "twist" (to adjust brightness) - "wiggle" (for low light) What other smart home products exist that are innovating the manual UX for objects like this?
- iainmerrick 8y agoMore home gadgets should be like this. No real rocket science inside, just excellent design and good implementation. Optional smart Bluetooth stuff, completely usable just with minimal buttons and gestures. Doesn’t try to take over every household task, just tries to do one thing well. Anybody could make products like this if they just took enough time and care over it. Hardly anybody ever does. (IKEA comes to mind as another good example, and maybe Philips’ Hue lights.) [Edit to add: I have absolutely no connection with any products or companies I’ve mentioned, in case this comes across as marketing spam! I’m just constantly frustrated at crappy and/or invasive “smart home” devices, so it’s refreshing to see somebody take what seems to me exactly the correct approach, and apparently pull it off very well.]
- wmeredith 8y ago> Anybody could make products like this if they just took enough time and care Name a resource more precious than time and one more scarce than care. What you're talking about is HARD to do.
- iainmerrick 8y agoYeah, I guess it’s pretty much a “worse is better” thing. Worse products are faster to market and cheaper, so why waste time and money trying to do it “right”?
- lotsofpulp 8y agoIf your customer can't afford a product done "right", that is also an issue.
- deanalevitt 8y ago"Care" also requires a ton of imagination to implement beautifully. Rare indeed.
- resters 8y agoTrue, but we are also in a golden age for building things like that and accomplishing scale without a ton of money. It does take time and care, but it no longer takes a massive R&D budget.
- donpdonp 8y agoMaking the battery removable by the user seems like a minimum effort for reducing e-waste and the battery is a common form factor (18650). Someday the path will need to move from manufacturer -> consumer -> landfill to manufacturer -> consumer -> manufacturer -> landfill where part of the device cost covers the reprocessing of materials, especially toxic materials.
- intopieces 8y agoThat is, if the manufacturer is still in business when it's time to throw away the device. This is one reason why the 'leasing' model for complex gadgets (like phones) appeals to me in an environmental sense. When Apple/VZW/AT&T take back a device, at least they have the resources and incentive to do something better than toss it in a landfill.
- shaklee3 8y agoHuh? What phone manufacturer are you worried about going out of business?
- cr0sh 8y ago> What phone manufacturer are you worried about going out of business? Every single one of them could go out of business in the future. It happens all the time to companies you'd think were "too big to fail": MCI Sears Montgomery Wards Mervyn's Gemco Best Pioneer Chicken Radio Shack Sierra Online Pan Am Atari Commodore I haven't even mentioned the number of car companies that have bit the dust, that people never thought they'd go away. All of these can go away - and likely will go away. It's quite possible that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many others might go away. I'm honestly surprised that IBM is still around. Sun Microsystems is gone (more or less - they are part of Oracle now, mainly as a name - you might know about the language they developed called "Java"); so is Silicon Graphics... Apple of course still exists - but it wasn't that long ago that Microsoft had to pump some cash into them just to keep them going so that they wouldn't be accused of being a monopoly (or something of that nature). It's kinda funny, given where Apple is today - and where Microsoft is as well... Yeah - any and all of these companies can go away - and in fact are likely to. That's just the way the world is.
- snops 8y agoA quite high quality device by the looks of it, no wonder it is $90! Interesting to see that each LED is individually dimmable when the device is not a display (the 3 LED drivers are 16 channels each, and there are 48 LEDs total). Looking at the animations on the article, you should only need 8 channels or so to get the top to bottom effect, using a higher voltage boost to get the LEDs as series strings. It's a fairly expensive LED driver to have that many of them, but I guess designing it that way adds flexibility in future. (A "flickering candle" effect maybe?). The use of the discrete Nordic IC rather than a module definitely suggests a higher volume product to justify the cert costs, especially as the device is not pushed for space. Finally, the power management side is also quite premium, with a high current switching battery charger. Looking at another review[1], it appears to come with a mains adaptor permenantly wired to the base, rather than use Micro USB. As the pogo pins are quite small, the mains adaptor might provide a higher voltage e.g. 12V to reduce the current through the pins, and so a more expensive switching charger is used to step this voltage down for the battery. The battery wiring appears to be doubled up as well for a higher charge current by using more connector pins, so it can probably charge quickly in 2.5 hours or so (0.5C). Surprised they didn't just use a larger connector and wiring, again this isn't a small product. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/review/casper-glow-light/ https://www.macrumors.com/review/casper-glow-light/
- cco 8y ago>Interesting to see that each LED is individually dimmable when the device is not a display... This might be a feature they ship in the future, "breathing" modes, a sort of rotating lighting pattern etc could all be shipped later.
- gnicholas 8y agoWe used an iPad with Night Shift to accomplish a similar effect when traveling with our toddler. I wish there were a web app that let you do this in a more customizable way (starting color temp, ending color temp, starting brightness, ending brightness, fade time).
- Hasz 8y agoHahaha cost effective design. There's no way in hell that thing is even remotely cheap, or optimized. Chips from TI, Tons of hand assembly, custom aluminum extrusion, seamless, no mold mark shell... This thing was not cheap. They even splurged for an ENIG finish! That being said, it could be done for waaay less if you're willing to compromise on just a few features. Single LED COB array at the base. Gets rid of ~7 parts (6 pcb Led array, the custom aluminum extrusion, plus all the flax flexes, plus a fair amount of hand assembly. Everything on a single PCB. Can still do the twist dimming + everything else, the light will just have an orientation.
- core-questions 8y agoOr you could literally buy a bunch of the normal nightlights everyone else has, with a cheap photoelectric sensor, and move on with your life. I don't understand products like this one. Or IoT coloured lightbulbs, or Nest thermostats, or talking speaker pods. In fact, they make me a little angry - incredibly talented people spending tons of time, effort, and money on "solutions" for problems nobody has. Worse still, they all have disgusting privacy tradeoffs nobody should be making. Is there really nothing more pressing in the world that we need to suck up the talents of designers and developers to make a "better nightlight"? I'll admit that it looks like a nice enough product, but nobody needs this, and I sure hope nobody thinks they do.
- pault 8y agoI love those things because they're cool. That's all the reason I need. I do care about the privacy aspect and I won't use anything that requires WAN access to work.
- xadhominemx 8y ago>I don't understand products like this one. Or IoT coloured lightbulbs, or Nest thermostats, or talking speaker pods. have you tried those things? they are fun.
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- Waterluvian 8y agoI am captivated by how they nailed a need of mine: navigating Lego at night.
- tatoalo 8y agoI’ve seen that this is not available in the entire EU, I’ve bought a similar(under some features) product, the Xiaomi Yeelight bedside lamp but the power adapter does a pretty weird buzz sound once the lamp is turned off that I cannot stand. Does someone knows a similar product that’s available in the EU?
- exhilaration 8y agoCould you replace the AC Adapter with something from Amazon? I've bought universal AC Adapters (with various connectors) to replace bad adapters in the past.
- tatoalo 8y agoThe thing is that I purchased the “EU” model, I would have done what you’ve suggested if I had bought the Chinese version. I’ll try to find something on amazon though, it literally ruins my sleep, thanks!
- ethanpil 8y agoA great idea from a company trying and hopefully succeeding in not being a one trick pony, or stuck on their cash cow/core business. Their strategic thinking is top notch... From the article: "It is interesting to think about how this might work strategically for Casper’s business. People don’t buy mattresses very often, and the challenge for a company like Casper is that it spends a lot of money acquiring a customer. Once it has sold them a mattress, the relationship would be over if not for follow-on products (hence pillows, bedding, etc). By launching additional products, Casper can invite its customers to build a lasting relationship and spend more money. For Casper, it is imperative to extend the lifetime value (LTV) of its customers by continuing to expand its product line, but why the tech complexity? Perhaps to get people on a software platform? Casper’s Chief Product Officer Jeff Chapin realistically admits “There are some people who are never going to download the app and that’s fine.”
- jakobegger 8y agoIf you don't care about the smarts, I really want to recommend this lamp as an alternative: https://wap.taotronics.com/#/product/product_details?urlKey=ttdl2390fa2f22 https://wap.taotronics.com/#/product/product_details?urlKey=... It has no smart anything, it's just a battery powered dimmable lamp with beautiful light. Comparison with Casper light: - much cheaper - has a handle that lets you hang it somewhere - charges via micro USB - doesn't have auto-off (will shine all night)
- magduf 8y ago>doesn't have auto-off (will shine all night) Sounds like an anti-feature to me; the last thing I want is a light that stays on all night. What would be nice is a nightlight that can sense when I get out of bed in the middle of the night, and light up in red, so I can walk to the bathroom without running into things, and then turn off again when I get back into bed.
- jakobegger 8y agoYes, it's not the same target audience :) Are you looking for something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Aiprov-Fireproof-Induction-Battery-Powered-Nightlights/dp/B07HH719RL/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?keywords=motion+sensor+night+light+red&qid=1551477179&s=gateway&sr=8-8 https://www.amazon.com/Aiprov-Fireproof-Induction-Battery-Po...
- jweir 8y agoCan you throw this thing away? Will it degrade in the landfill without being toxic?
- icebraining 8y agoNo, please don't throw stuff with batteries into the landfill.
- cf 8y agoWould anyone be able to recommend the opposite of this in terms of a wakeup light? The problem with lots of these bulbs is they aren't very bright and these days I live in a place that doesn't really get lots of natural light.
- troxwalt 8y agoHUE lights on a wake-up timer. Easy to setup, and you'll quickly have an addiction to buying HUE lights.
- smt88 8y agoWemo has a mini plug that you can use with your existing lighting. If you have Android, you can set it up so that your lights turn on when you hit "dismiss" on your phone's alarm. Not sure about iOS.
- caconym_ 8y agoI recently bought the donut-shaped Phillips wake-up light and I really like it, though it is pretty expensive and not as slick as a "new tech" product like this Casper light.
- lucb1e 8y agoMy mom got me a Philips wakeup light about ten years ago. If you accidentally turn it on full when your eyes are adjusted to darkness, it's like being in the shade and suddenly getting a big mirror of sunlight beamed into your eyes. (Note that it's obviously not an issue during normal use; the brightness is the whole point and works as intended to simulate light levels of sunup in an otherwise unlit room.) I don't know any other light that gets that bright, so to sibling comments that recommend regular lights, that's definitely not what GP is asking ("lots of these bulbs is they aren't very bright" and that's already talking about wakeup lights, not just any lights). For me personally, it made it easier to get out of bed, but it didn't make me feel more awake. It lessened the struggle, but I (not a blind test or hard data) feel like it sometimes made me feel less awake all morning. This made me pay more attention to sleeping multiples of 1.5 hours instead of just any amount, which helped a bit, and which I still do today (conversely, I haven't used the light in years, though I was recently thinking about it again). Overall, I would recommend to try it, but it was pretty expensive so having 14 days (as one does when buying online in the EU) to return it and get your money back is recommendable as well. Edit: this looks like a second iteration of the model I had: https://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/1289910640.jpeg https://ic.tweakimg.net/ext/i/1289910640.jpeg
- danimal88 8y agoA friend of mine runs this company, similar but I think actually better for sleep/circadian rhythms: https://circadia.health/ https://circadia.health/
- decafbad 8y ago"The light has a lot of delightful, simple little details that belie the amount of engineering behind them." ... A battery. ...
- logfromblammo 8y agoI don't exactly understand the use case, here. What problem does this solve? Why should I want to buy this? Seems like Casper is stretching to find bed-related accessories, if this is what they came up with first. If anything, I'd want my sleep space to be darker when I want to sleep. As one might get with motorized blackout window shades, blinds, or curtains. As it is, I can reach the toilet perfectly fine on just starlight through windows. And what kind of fancy expensive night light doesn't have a red/orange mode so as to not screw up one's night vision?
- amelius 8y agoBy the way, who wants to sleep close to a strong inductive charging field?
- mixmastamyk 8y agoIs that a problem?
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- updateYourMind 8y agoThis looks like a normal lamp to me. What is that fuss about? Furthermore. All these expensive mattresses companies are scams right?