Touch Nightlight and NFC Code Touch - a very brief critique

[tkn]

So we picked up some of the Touch Nightlights and finally installed one of our NFC Touch Keypads.

The Nightlights are great - with a couple of key issues:

1. Why is the BBQ thermometer black and the Nightlight white? Better to have darker colors in the bedroom IMO.

2. The display is crazy bright. I basically keep it at 1% brightness. White is a terrible color for an LED - old school red segmented LEDs with a far dimmer setting would be useful

3.The regular clock functionality is really nice - I like that I can set an alarm right at the clock.

I may take one apart and see about replacing the display. I don't really want to buy a BBQ thermometer thing necessarily to switch cases, but I'll admit to being tempted.

The NFC Code Touch?

Whoever laid this thing out needs to reconsider their design career. Maybe I could have handled not having the "0" be at the bottom in the standard position every single other keypad would put it. But then to put an active button with a circle that looks an awful lot like a "0" right near where it should be? Yeah - not at all intelligently thought out is the nicest thing I can say about it. I'd like better haptic feedback as well.

[Will Bish]

Looking for some real world experience of the Touch Nightlight. Is the 'ambient light source' sufficient for reading?

[Simon Still]

White is a terrible color for an LED - old school red segmented LEDs with a far dimmer setting would be useful

Blame Ridley Scott - they wanted Blade Runner to look really dystopian so all the 'led' light sources were blue/white and harsh.  

All of the learning that society had about red/orange lighting being most comfortable for reading/definition/mental health in low light etc (think https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/submarines.html) went out of the window and pretty much since then futuristic has meant blue or white, despite it being really unpleasant. 

I had a red segmented plug in alarm clock when I was a kid. Everything I've had since has been worse - I had to disable the backlight on my Tivoli DAB radio I use as an alarm (blue, far too bright). I bought a Braun LED clock that has a 'kindle' like LED on it but that's only visible if light is shining at it - useless in low light or off centre. And that has a bright white backlight when you press the button as well. 

On Monday, 3 June 2019 at 03:51:34 UTC+1 tarun wrote: