Lume Cube Edge Light Go Review (2026): Versatile, Portable Leave a comment

The bottom of the lamp has two slider buttons. One toggle adjusts the heat, from chilly white gentle all the way in which to purple. One adjusts the depth, from ultra-bright right down to a glareless glow. Arduous faucets on every button skip forward, whereas holding the toggle down on one aspect or one other adjusts the sunshine settings fairly slowly—slowly sufficient I at first generally query whether or not it is occurring.

The utmost brightness is 1,000 lumens—the approximate depth of a 75-watt incandescent bulb. At this brightness, the battery lasts about 5 hours. At a decrease depth, this could prolong to so long as a dozen hours.

Purple Shift

There’s an added function I’ve come to understand at evening, which is the red-light mode. There’s little proof that blue gentle out of your little smartphone is retaining you awake at evening. However quite a few research do present that blue gentle wavelengths can have an effect on melatonin ranges and thus your physique’s circadian rhythm, whereas purple gentle does not do that.

Purple gentle remedy is, after all, the province of TikTok as a lot as science—a discipline the place wild exaggerations reside alongside professional makes use of and advantages. For each sleep examine exhibiting that purple gentle is superior to blue gentle in terms of melatonin ranges, there’s one other exhibiting that purple gentle is related to “detrimental feelings” earlier than mattress.

So I can solely provide my very own expertise, which is that Edge Gentle Go’s purple studying gentle provides me a pleasing liminal area between awake time and sleepy time, one not provided by a primary nightstand lamp. It permits me to kind of delight in a darkroom area that also lets me see and skim, and drift off slightly simpler.

If I go to sleep, the sunshine has an automated 25-minute shut-off, which suggests I will not do what I far too typically do, which is drift off whereas studying after which get up, alarmed, to a room stuffed with shiny gentle in the course of the evening.

Caveats and Quirks

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This stated, for all of the virtues of portability, the Edge Gentle Go doesn’t boast a base that is heavy sufficient to cease the lamp from tipping over if I bend it ahead from its lowest hinge. This may be an annoyance when attempting to make use of the lamp as a studying gentle from a bedside desk or the arm of a sofa.