Lumie Dash review

SAD lamps can assist victims of Seasonal Affective Dysfunction enhance their vitality and temper over the winter months. Should you expertise a downturn over the winter months, even for those who haven’t been recognized with SAD, a SAD lamp or gentle field may assist.

That’s as a result of our physique clock is hardwired to observe the pure cycle of sunshine and darkish and most of our bodily processes – most clearly our sleep cycle, but additionally our intestine, lungs, liver and pancreas – have a circadian rhythm that’s disturbed by fewer hours of sunshine in winter, and fewer vivid gentle total.

A SAD lamp can assist to clean this disruption. However you received’t get the identical impact from an odd lamp. SAD lamps mimic outdoors gentle and have a brightness of 10,000 lux.

On this evaluate, we’re trying on the newest launch from specialist model Lumie: the Lumie Sprint.

You may evaluate it to different Lumie fashions in our round-up of one of the best SAD lamps we’ve examined.

Design and Construct

• Compact construct
• Gentle at simply 415g
• Two color choices

In earlier years, gentle bins have been chunky, unwieldy gadgets – laborious to seek out area for and much from design-led.

The Sprint is the antithesis of those outdated fashions. It’s compact, across the similar dimension and form as a journey mirror or a desk tennis paddle. The sunshine itself is round 16cm in diameter, and it stands on a base of 8.5 x 6.5cm.

It has a really cute design. The Sprint wouldn’t look misplaced on a extremely curated social media feed.

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Its dimension and weight imply it’s moveable, packable, and straightforward to discover a spot for in your desk or on a desk. It weighs simply 415g, 50g lower than a tin of beans. Nevertheless, you will have to have it plugged in to be used.

The Sprint is available in two colors: pistachio white and terracotta pink, the latter of which we’re testing. You may evaluate the color choices on the John Lewis website.

Efficiency and Options

• Minutely adjustable brightness
• Angle of lamp not adjustable
• Contact panel operation

The Sprint is straightforward to arrange: it’s only a matter of plugging it in. Its controls are equally easy. There are extremely responsive contact panels constructed seamlessly into the bottom. Evenly tapping or holding the – and + symbols will allow you to swap it on, off and alter the brightness minutely.

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Emma Rowley / Foundry

Emma Rowley / Foundry

To make use of the Sprint, Lumie advises that you need to stand it in entrance of you, about an arm’s size away, in order that the sunshine can attain your eyes immediately.

You must attempt to use it for half an hour per day. The perfect time to make use of it’s within the morning, however it might additionally enable you to to recuperate from the post-lunch hunch.

I haven’t been recognized with SAD, so I can’t converse to the therapeutic results of this or every other SAD lamp. Nonetheless, I do expertise a downturn over the winter months and I’ve loved utilizing the Sprint.

The Sprint delivers 10,000 lux and has a CRI (color rendering index) score of 95+, which signifies that it exhibits colors extraordinarily precisely when in comparison with pure daylight. A CRI of over 90 is taken into account wonderful.

Nevertheless, it received’t be as helpful because the equally featured Lumie Process lamp (learn our evaluate) for drawing or crafting, as you possibly can’t alter the angle of the Sprint, so that you received’t be capable of level it at work in your desk.

The Sprint is mounted at an angle of round 65° from horizontal, so its face is pointing up in the direction of you, which is good for letting its gentle hit your eyes wherever you stand it. However that does restrict its usefulness for different jobs.

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Emma Rowley / Foundry

Emma Rowley / Foundry

Nevertheless, it might double as a lightweight to light up your face throughout video calls.

Value and Availability

The Sprint just isn’t at present on the market within the US, though different Lumie fashions are. You may browse the obtainable SAD lamps at Lumie.

Within the UK, the Sprint is priced at £179. It’s obtainable from John Lewis and from Lumie.

Should you, or the individual you’re shopping for it for, has been recognized with Seasonal Affective Dysfunction and the Sprint is for private or home use, you possibly can declare VAT reduction on the product.

On this case, the higher possibility is to purchase direct from Lumie, the place you’ll see the VAT-free possibility on the web page. Choose that, and the Sprint will solely price you £149.17.

Nonetheless, even with this low cost, there’s no denying that it’s an expensive product. Lumie does have inexpensive fashions: the Vitamin L and Zest amongst them. Yow will discover out extra about them in our round-up of one of the best Lumie SAD lights.

Do you have to purchase the Lumie Sprint?

The Sprint has a TikTok-worthy design, is small, gentle, moveable and its brightness is adjustable to a exact diploma. Should you want a SAD lamp, it’s actually probably the most handy and enticing choices. Nevertheless it is costly, particularly for a single-use system.