Dimpsy One
- Height · 41 cm
- Output · 480 lm
- Warmfall · 3,000–1,800 K
- Colour rendering · 97 CRI
- Flicker · 0 Hz
- Beam angle · 38°
- Mounting · Weighted base
Dimpsy Tall
- Height · 148 cm
- Output · 620 lm
- Warmfall · 3,000–1,800 K
- Colour rendering · 97 CRI
- Flicker · 0 Hz
- Beam angle · 38°
- Mounting · Weighted base
Dimpsy Halo
- Height · 12 cm on 200 cm cable
- Output · 540 lm
- Warmfall · 3,000–1,800 K
- Colour rendering · 97 CRI
- Flicker · 0 Hz
- Beam angle · 44°
- Mounting · Ceiling rose
What all three share
One head, three bodies.
Warmfall is the dimming curve
Output and colour fall together, from 3,000 Kelvin at full down to 1,800 — roughly candlelight — on a curve that warms slowly at the top of the range and quickly at the bottom. Every other lamp gets dimmer and stays exactly as blue as it was at midday.
Steadystate is how the dimming is done
Most dimmers switch the light off and on faster than you can consciously see and call the average a level; a proportion of people perceive that as a vague unease they blame on being tired. This one lowers the current instead, so there is nothing switching at any setting.
Spillguard is a plate inside the head
It stops the beam before it reaches the wall behind your desk. What you get is a pool of light with an edge on it, instead of a general warming of the room and a bright patch floating above the work.
Dimpsy One
Sits on a desk with the head at about the height of your own when you are seated. It lights the surface you are working at and roughly a metre around it at full output, and a good deal less than that by the time you have taken it to the bottom of the range.
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Dimpsy Tall
Stands on the floor with the head above and behind a seated shoulder, which is where a reading light has wanted to be since before there was electricity to put in one. It lights whoever is in the chair, the page they are holding, and very little else.
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Dimpsy Halo
Hangs over a table — a ceiling light from a company with a manifesto against ceiling lights. A dining table is the one surface where the thing being lit is the surface, so it lights the table and the people at its edge and leaves the walls dark.
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Dimpsy for iPhone
The lamps run their curve on their own. The app is for the part a schedule cannot know: it reads your sleep from Apple Health, compares it with what the lights actually did, and moves the curve toward what your own eyes turn out to need. Apple Home and voice control come with it.
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