My desk doesn’t deserve the $600 Dyson Lightcycle lamp

My desk doesn’t deserve the $600 Dyson Lightcycle lamp

By Matt Burns

Like many of you, I’m assuming, my desk was purchased at Ikea and is the center of my life. Such as it is, the desk is littered with bits of crackers, memory cards, branded Moleskin notebooks and countless coffee cups. I’m not a slob. I just live here. The desk is clean enough.

Then Dyson sent me its new task light to try out. My desk suddenly felt dirty. After assembling the light, I looked around and took inventory of my life and choices. If I was going to have something as lovely as this on my desk, I would have to have a cleaner space. I cleaned up my desk.

Review

The Dyson Lightcycle is, well, a light. It makes the room brighter. And because it’s made by Dyson, it’s over-engineered and expensive. The Lightcycle is $600 and I’m not going to attempt to justify it’s price. I can’t. This is a product that costs countless times over its utility.

First the good.

The light works. Hit a button on the top and it turns on. Slide your finger across the top and the light’s brightness and color temperature changes.

The light is constructed with an insane attention to …read more

Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

Peak Design’s Travel Tripod Previous post Peak Design’s Travel Tripod Panic’s Playmate is a pint-sized gaming machine with a ‘season’ of 12 intriguing titles Next post Panic’s Playmate is a pint-sized gaming machine with a ‘season’ of 12 intriguing titles