The Desk Lamp
It is usually used to illuminate a workspace. Often it can be fitted with several types of light sources, such as LED, incandescent, fluorescent and halogen bulbs. In the dorms we are not supposed to use incandescent bulbs, I guess because they can be a fire hazard. Many people use fluorescent bulbs in their lamps, however there is a problem. The light from these can be unsuitable at times. Being too bright or not bright enough or too harsh a light, depending on the conditions. Perhaps if a single lamp could be fitted with multiple types of bulbs an automatically switch between them this user experience problem could be solved as the different bulbs have different characteristics that could be useful under different conditions
I like your solution! Sometimes I wish my lamp had softer lighting. For example right now it's extremely bright, but how else am I supposed to work? However would it be easier and less expensive to just stick with one light source? Wouldn't the extra bulbs be super bulky? How large would the lamp shade to cover them have to be? I know that LEDs can be made really small so that is certainly a possibility. I believe most other light sources however would be larger and awkward to fit in a lamp.
ReplyDeleteWould your proposed new lamp use more energy? How else could you make it more efficient? Would it work better to just have different sources of light in the areas where you do the activities that require the light? For example the kitchen verses the bathroom verses a workspace area. Maybe a dimmer for the type of activity would be more useful, so depending on the activity you could dim or brighten the light. I know they offer these in household lighting, but a dimmer switch for a lamp would help for different activities.
Anant,
ReplyDeleteYou have chosen a very nice engineering design which is an essential part of almost every college student’s life. I really like your idea because finding a lamp that has just the right intensity and color to suit your needs can be quite a problem. You have quite a remarkable business idea here.
I would suggest a few changes to your design though-
Instead of having several types of lights, a mechanism that can change the intensity and colour of the light would be more effective. LED’s can change their colour depending upon the intensity of the current and the intensity of the light can probably be changed by varying the resistance in the circuit. This would reduce the complexity of the whole system and also make it a lot cheaper and probably energy efficient too.
Otherwise, I like your idea and also the fact that your post was so concise and innovative.
Shivam Kundan
Hey Anant,
ReplyDeleteNice. Your blog was short and straight to the point. I like it. I completely agree with your point, right now I am sitting in darkness under my loft because my lamp is just TOO bright. Your idea about the different bulbs is cool. Unfortunately I think Stephanie and Shivam already pointed out all the questions I had. A dimmer would also be really useful, or perhaps a bulb that could change its intensity. But otherwise, very good post. Like I said, it was short and sweet and you got your point across very clearly.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN/FRIDAY!
-Amanda
Good job!Desk lamp also troubles me!I don't love it is light!It is whether so strong or so weak!
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you about the making a switch and feel the environmental light.I hope we can change the light of the buble to make it in a suitable light,not too strong,not too weak but intermediate. Also,if you have ever used Mac,you may found that Mac cab automatically change the backlight of your monitor.I wish my desklamp can do that too!
My problem is how can it switch the light while making people didn't feel the light is changing?Because isn't that weird that your light suddently super light,suddenly super weak light?
I think there are more problems for desk lamp like Energy and Safety.
It produces so much heat and may cause fire hazard since it produces so much heat
My solution would be use LED instead of buble(However,right now LED light is still so expensive!)
Great job!Look forwarding to see your next blog!