Lumiy Lightblade 1500S (Series 2) LED Desk Lamp with Best in Class Brightness at 1500 lux and Color Rendering at 93 CRI, Pivoting Head, Captive Touch Controls for Brightness Color Temperature

The Lightblade 1500S provides adequate lighting at max brightness for a localized desk lamp, with full adjustability (color and brightness) for different moods and tasks. It goes from bright daylight to warm yellow, with separate brightness memory for each mode. A must feature allows the light bar to rotate on its long axis away from my eyes.The shiny black plastic shows every spec of dust and fingerprint I put on it, and as of this writing apparent price gouging has the white model at $500 on Amazon.Measuring brightness at max settings with a DT-1309 light meter in a dark room with the light bar at 16” horizontal from a brown desktop yielded the following results:..........Read...Study...Relax...BedLux......860.....970.......426.....217Fc.........80.......90.........37.......20(Fc = Foot Candles)At the lowest brightness setting in Bedtime mode, the results were: 42 lux and 3.9 Fc.The results changed significantly when the probe was moved just an inch around from the maximum measurement location, and when placed right up against the LED bar, registered greater than 10,000 lux.Although not a fair comparison, the Lightblade gives off way more light than my Z-Bar from Koncept purchased in 2007. Today they’re selling in the $300 range on Amazon. Are you kidding me?!I chose this one over the “Softech - Natural Light Smart LED Lamp with Tilting Head -White” because I wanted to turn the light on from either side of a desk in a dark room, and the lighted “on” button panel lays flat on this model vs facing one way for the Softech. It’s not as easy as I thought to poke a little red light in the dark on a touch pad, especially when the timer button is right next to the “on” button.Overall a good lamp and highly recommended, although I wish it ate more watts for a higher brightness setting and let me decide to lower the light level.

We are concerned about the emerging evidence of "school myopia" (short sightedness developing through childhood) related to limited outdoor light intensity exposure. The one factor we could easily alter is the quality (particularly intensity) of the light our kids used when working at their desks. This is where the light blade meets our requirements beautifully, with excellent light intensity and the ability to alter the light quality to provide more comfort or greater intensity as demanded by the task.The controls are simple and about right in being able to be adjusted but not by too much or being too fiddly with too much adjustment available. I can see that a lot of thought has been put into the settings to get it with the right balance of being able to be tailored without defeating the point of using a strong light.The overall design is balanced, easy to adjust with one hand and gets light where you want it to be. It's asthestically modern and sleek, perhaps slightly more curves would've been nicer to the eye and to the touch but that's simply my opinion.The light is well constructed and I feel will last a long time even with our younger kids use. This is particularly satisfying to find a product in todays throw away world that won't break and is of sufficient quality to last our kids until they move out!We would happily recommend this to anyone who's looking for a modern quality work light.An after note, the shipping was faster from the US to Australia than it is within Australia.

As a grad student working late nights on my desktop at home, this lamp is exactly what I needed. It has four different lighting modes (reading, study, relaxation, bedtime), each with 5 levels of brightness, and a timer shutoff function (30 and 60 min), all controlled using the simple touch-sensor "buttons" at the base. It boasts at least 40,000 hours of life with a 1 year warranty. The lamp is also quite flexible with multiple points of pivot/rotation. At the base, the arm bends down/forward 90 degrees and rotates side-to-side 65 degrees in each direction. At the top, the head bends up 50 degrees, down 90 degrees, and even rotates side-to-side 45 degrees in each direction (viewing the lamp from the side as in the stock photo, the head tilts so that the light shines towards or away from you). It also has a USB charging port which I use to charge my cell phone.I did a lot of research before purchasing this lamp and found something interesting. The Lightblade 1500S by Lumiy is actually a rebranding of the DL-65TH made by a Korean company called Diasonic. Furthermore, the more popular Satechi Smart LED is almost identical to the previous Lightblade 1500 (without the 'S') model, which doesn't have the rotating head. So if you were thinking of purchasing the Satechi, you should definitely get this Lightblade 1500S instead since it is an upgraded version at essentially the same price (at the time of this review).All in all, I was seriously considering a variety of similar but cheaper options on Amazon, but ultimately the Lightblade 1500S seemed to have the highest quality with the best features. I'm definitely glad I shelled out a bit more for this awesome lamp!

Great little lamp, looks great on my desk and the many modes it has are great for different conditions. The only thing I can't speak to is how long the bulbs last, as they don't look replaceable. Some other items on my wishlist: for the base of the lamp to be a QI enabled charging pad and for this product to be sold on Amazon.ca - although shipping it to Canada wasn't to expensive :)