The Cordless Table Lamp

The Cordless Table Lamp is a rechargeable, battery operated table lamp that runs without a plug, so it goes wherever you want a small pool of warm light. Long press the top and it dims steadily from full brightness down to a low glow, and a tap moves it between three colour temperatures: 3000K warm white for the evening, 4500K neutral, and 6500K cool white when you actually need to see something. It stands 38cm tall with an 11cm shade, which is bedside lamp height rather than something that takes over a table, and it comes in matte black or white. A 5W LED and a 1200mAh rechargeable battery mean you charge it, unplug it, and leave it untethered on a nightstand, a desk, a bar cart or a dinner table. How long it lasts depends on how bright you run it, so a low warm setting will carry you through an evening and full brightness will not.

This is the portable table lamp restaurants set out at dusk, which is exactly why it works at home for late dinners, a reading corner, or the last hour before bed, and a cordless bedside lamp with no cable trailing off the nightstand turns out to be easier to live with than it sounds. Two things worth being straight about. The shade and the light guide are moulded plastic, not metal, so it is light enough to carry between rooms with one hand but it does not have the weight of a solid metal lamp, and the price reflects that. And while it is happy outside on a covered porch on a warm evening, it carries no waterproof rating, so it comes back indoors before the weather turns. In the box you get the lamp and its charging cable.