Professional’s Ranking
Execs
- Engaging design
- Mild and transportable
- Exactly adjustable brightness
Cons
- Non-adjustable angle
- Costly
Our Verdict
The Sprint is a design-led SAD lamp that’s gentle and compact. You possibly can modify its brightness minutely, however sadly not the angle of the sunshine itself. When you may do this, it could be a kind of excellent system.
Worth When Reviewed
Not obtainable within the US
SAD lamps can assist victims of Seasonal Affective Dysfunction increase their vitality and temper over the winter months. When you expertise a downturn over the winter months, even should you haven’t been recognized with SAD, a SAD lamp or gentle field may assist.
That’s as a result of our physique clock is hardwired to observe the pure cycle of sunshine and darkish and most of our bodily processes – most clearly our sleep cycle, but in addition our intestine, lungs, liver and pancreas – have a circadian rhythm that’s disturbed by fewer hours of sunshine in winter, and fewer shiny gentle total.
A SAD lamp can assist to easy this disruption. However you gained’t get the identical impact from an abnormal lamp. SAD lamps mimic outdoors gentle and have a brightness of 10,000 lux.
On this overview, we’re wanting on the newest launch from specialist model Lumie: the Lumie Sprint.
You possibly can evaluate it to different Lumie fashions in our round-up of one of the best SAD lamps we’ve examined.
Design and Construct
- Compact construct
- Mild at simply 415g
- Two color choices
In earlier years, gentle packing containers had been chunky, unwieldy gadgets – arduous to seek out house for and much from design-led.
The Sprint is the antithesis of those previous fashions. It’s compact, across the similar measurement and form as a journey mirror or a desk tennis paddle. The sunshine itself is round 16cm in diameter, and it stands on a base of 8.5 x 6.5cm.
It has a really cute design. The Sprint wouldn’t look misplaced on a extremely curated social media feed.
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Emma Rowley / Foundry
Emma Rowley / Foundry
Its measurement and weight imply it’s transportable, packable, and straightforward to discover a spot for in your desk or on a desk. It weighs simply 415g, 50g lower than a tin of beans. Nonetheless, you will have to have it plugged in to be used.
The Sprint wouldn’t look misplaced on a extremely curated social media feed
The Sprint is available in two colors: pistachio white and terracotta pink, the latter of which we’re testing. You possibly can evaluate the color choices on the John Lewis web site.
Efficiency and Options
- Minutely adjustable brightness
- Angle of lamp not adjustable
- Contact panel operation
The Sprint is simple to arrange: it’s only a matter of plugging it in. Its controls are equally easy. There are extremely responsive contact panels constructed seamlessly into the bottom. Frivolously tapping or holding the – and + symbols will allow you to change it on, off and modify the brightness minutely.
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Emma Rowley / Foundry
Emma Rowley / Foundry
To make use of the Sprint, Lumie advises that you need to stand it in entrance of you, about an arm’s size away, in order that the sunshine can attain your eyes immediately.
You must attempt to use it for half an hour per day. The most effective time to make use of it’s within the morning, however it could additionally assist you to recuperate from the post-lunch hunch.
I haven’t been recognized with SAD, so I can’t communicate to the therapeutic results of this or every other SAD lamp. Nonetheless, I do expertise a downturn over the winter months and I’ve loved utilizing the Sprint.
The Sprint delivers 10,000 lux and has a CRI (color rendering index) score of 95+, which implies that it reveals colors extraordinarily precisely when in comparison with pure daylight. A CRI of over 90 is taken into account wonderful.
Nonetheless, it gained’t be as helpful because the equally featured Lumie Activity lamp (learn our overview) for drawing or crafting, as you may’t modify the angle of the Sprint, so that you gained’t be capable of level it at work in your desk.
The Sprint is fastened at an angle of round 65° from horizontal, so its face is pointing up in direction of you, which is right for letting its gentle hit your eyes wherever you stand it. However that does restrict its usefulness for different jobs.
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Emma Rowley / Foundry
Emma Rowley / Foundry
Nonetheless, it could possibly double as a light-weight to light up your face throughout video calls.
Worth and Availability
The Sprint shouldn’t be presently on the market within the US, though different Lumie fashions are. You possibly can browse the obtainable SAD lamps at Lumie.
Within the UK, the Sprint is priced at £179. It’s obtainable from John Lewis and from Lumie.
When you, or the individual you’re shopping for it for, has been recognized with Seasonal Affective Dysfunction and the Sprint is for private or home use, you may declare VAT reduction on the product.
On this case, the higher choice is to purchase direct from Lumie, the place you’ll see the VAT-free choice on the web page. Choose that, and the Sprint will solely value you £149.17.
Nonetheless, even with this low cost, there’s no denying that it’s a dear product. Lumie does have cheaper fashions: the Vitamin L and Zest amongst them. Yow will discover out extra about them in our round-up of one of the best Lumie SAD lights.
Must you purchase the Lumie Sprint?
The Sprint has a TikTok-worthy design, is small, gentle, transportable and its brightness is adjustable to a exact diploma. When you want a SAD lamp, it’s definitely one of the handy and enticing choices. However it is costly, particularly for a single-use system.