Lumie Task review

Now that winter is forward, a few of us are already worrying about our happiness and productiveness within the months to come back, as we deal with fewer hours of daylight and gray skies throughout the day. If this sounds such as you, you might have Seasonal Affective Dysfunction.

Seasonal Affective Dysfunction (SAD) is a sort of melancholy that’s linked to an absence of daylight over winter. When you undergo from SAD, one of many beneficial methods of managing it’s mild remedy.

A lightweight remedy field or lamp recreates the consequences of the missed daylight and can provide these affected a lift in temper and power ranges.

For the lamp to be efficient, it must ship at the least 10,000 lux of sunshine and also you’ll want to make use of it for round half an hour per day.

Lumie is a widely known mild remedy model, specialising in SAD lamps and light-weight alarms (which make it simpler to get up and get going when it’s nonetheless darkish outdoors).

We’re reviewing Lumie’s newest lamp, a process mild that doubles as a SAD lamp.

Earlier than we go additional, I ought to say that I’ve not been identified with SAD, so I can’t communicate to the therapeutic results of this or every other SAD lamp – though I do expertise a downturn over the winter months. What I can do is to explain the lamp and what it’s like to make use of.

Design and construct

• 5 color choices
• Mounted top however adjustable angle

SAD lamps aren’t at all times significantly design-led, which makes Lumie’s Job Lamp much more of a standout. It’s merely and stylishly designed, with a lamp head that mirrors the form and dimension of its base.

It stands steadily and is definitely very troublesome to knock over. When you give it an unintended swipe, you’ll most likely solely change the angle of the lamp.

It is available in 5 genuinely interesting color choices: golden yellow, sage inexperienced, metal blue, white mist and charcoal blue – which is the color of the mannequin we’re reviewing. For a peek on the relaxation, John Lewis has all the color choices in inventory.

It stands somewhat beneath 43cm tall, with a base that’s 17cm x 17cm (approx). The stem of the lamp, which is barely canted, can’t be bent – so you’ll be able to’t change its distance from the floor of your desk as you’ll be able to with an Anglepoise lamp.

What you are able to do is rotate the neck of the lamp by 180° and angle the lamp head by the identical, in order that it illuminates both the desk in entrance of you or your face to be used as a SAD mild.

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Its versatility and slender construct make it a lovely choice for individuals who need a mild remedy lamp however don’t have area for a devoted mild field.

Efficiency and options

• Dimmable
• CRI 95+
• 10,000 lux

The Lumie Job has a dimmable, cool white mild. The sunshine supply is round 17cm in diameter and the whole space is illuminated, with none seen bulbs.  

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You turn the lamp on and decide its brightness by operating a finger over the emblem on the base. A faucet to the facet of the emblem will swap it off once more. It’s a clear and chic answer that obviates the necessity for buttons or dials.

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It’s simple to regulate the sunshine to your wants – about half to two-thirds of its potential brightness is right for engaged on a pc throughout the day.

Within the night, or when doing detailed work or crafting, you’ll be able to flip it up. The duty mild has a CRI (color rendering index) of 95+. CRI measures how precisely colors seem beneath electrical mild, when in comparison with pure daylight. A CRI of over 90 is taken into account glorious.

Which means it’s supreme for drawing, portray or needlecraft, the place it’s not only a matter of with the ability to see element however to render color or shade precisely.

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To make use of it as a light-weight remedy machine, you’ll want to show it as much as its most brightness of 10,000 lux and angle it in direction of your face. Though you shouldn’t stare at it, it must be near your face (round 50cm away) and its mild wants to succeed in your eyes immediately.

Lumie doesn’t specify how lengthy it is best to use it for mild remedy but it surely’s usually agreed that SAD lights needs to be used for round 20-Half-hour per day.

Worth and availability

On the time of writing, the Lumie Job is obtainable within the UK from John Lewis and direct from Lumie.

In case you have SAD, there could possibly be a bonus in shopping for direct from Lumie. When you – or the individual you’re shopping for for – suffers from Seasonal Affective Dysfunction and also you’re shopping for it for home and private use, you’ll be able to declare VAT reduction, so it’ll solely price you £207.50.    

Verdict

The Lumie Job is an exquisite and helpful lamp. Its solely limitation in use is that you may’t regulate the peak of the lamp. I didn’t discover that to be an issue when testing it, but it surely’s price figuring out when you’re contemplating shopping for one.

It’s additionally an costly product. You could possibly purchase a SAD lamp and a process mild and nonetheless get change from the worth of this one. Nevertheless it’s exhausting to argue that its intelligent design and high-quality construct isn’t price it.

But when this isn’t the correct mild remedy machine for you, take a look at our round-up of one of the best SAD lamps we’ve examined. And when you battle at the hours of darkness winter mornings, see our round-up of one of the best mild alarms for a bit of additional assist waking up.