Beurer - Wake Up Light WL 50-3 Years Warranty

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In addition to RelaxBreath, this alarm also features both sunrise and sunset simulation, as well as a variety of nature sounds and ambient music. There’s also an FM radio, so if you prefer you can set your favourite station to play when the alarm goes off. Whatever sound you choose to play, it will increase gradually over time as the light does.

The flat top of the Beurer is touch-sensitive and lights up to your touch, meaning it doubles as a night light. Keep tapping and you’ll see it also switches to green, red and blue, as well as different brightnesses of the warm white light. The radio setting is accurate and clear, although the speakers aren’t brilliant. It’s just missing Bluetooth connectivity to play your own music through it, which would be nice for the price. Like the Groove-E above, this doesn’t claim to be an SAD light. It’s just a normal bedside light that dims and brightens to help you sleep and wake. The main reason to buy are the eight colour choices, from green and turquoise to red and violet, making it a fun night-light for a kid’s bedroom – although, obviously, none of these will work as a sunrise simulator (unless you live on Venus). It also has a ‘lullaby’ setting to go along with the gradually dimming sunset feature, which is a nice extra. Alarm function – Most lamps will have some kind of audible alarm, which is usually a choice of interesting sounds and/or radio.

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A feature that sets this alarm apart from a lot of others is RelaxBreath. RelaxBreath gives you a way to control your breathing by using varying rhythms or sound, so you’re able to get to sleep that much easier. The wake-up light is displayed prominently on the top half of the device and gets gradually brighter over 15-90 mins, after which time a sound of your choice will play to help wake you up. The brightness settings of the light can be easily adjusted, as can the duration. This alarm also has a DAB radio as well as functioning as a Bluetooth speaker, so you can use it to play music from any mobile device. The speakers are very high quality and the sound is surprisingly powerful for such a compact device. In a nice touch, a simple tap of the lamp sets its alarm into snooze mode. But the other controls, either dotted around the outer ring or the touch-sensitive ones on its front face, could be a bit fiddly, especially when programming different settings. You’ll want to keep the instruction manual handy for the first few days.

For comparison: In a well-lit office, the light intensity is just 500 lux. At the same time, electric light has an increased proportion of red light compared to daylight. Due to the low lux value and the increased red content, conventional electric lamps are therefore not sufficient to have a medical effect. The first thing that strikes you about this one is its resemblance to an old Apple Mac; it is fairly chunky, at 15cm deep and 20cm wide. The wake-up light begins red and over the course of 40 minutes turns bright yellow, rising through 20 levels of brightness (most sunrise alarms only have 10). At it’s brightest, it’s slightly less convincing as ‘daylight’ than the new version, but it did wake me up in a good mood.Melatonin is known as the sleep hormone and significantly influences the quality of our sleep. The pineal gland releases the hormone, especially in the dark. The longer it is dark, the more melatonin is produced. Serotonin is considered a happiness hormone, wakes us up and has a positive effect on our mood. However, the two hormones are by no means just counterparts, as they are closely interdependent.