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GuiA on March 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight

> The UX is cool, but some of the UX choices are strange to me. For example, automatically dimming down when you turn the light on (you have to press the button to pause it) vs. the other way around

I own one. If the brightness is anything above the middle mark or so (which you’d want to light up a room), then the device consumes more power than the charger provides, and it dies after 2-3 hours. I believe that’s why the default behavior is to start dimming the moment it is turned on.

It bothers me a bit, but I do really like the product otherwise.

yeutterg on March 1, 2019 [–]

That's odd—I haven't left it on long enough to notice. So they really intended this light to be used for short time intervals.

trhway on March 1, 2019 | [–]

especially odd considering that those sub-$20 charging pads for phones are 10-15w which is more than plenty for a very light LED.

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