{"id":644,"date":"2018-08-22T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkstokeep.com\/blog\/?p=644"},"modified":"2019-09-20T08:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:52:54","slug":"my-bedroom-looks-like-a-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkstokeep.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/my-bedroom-looks-like-a-spaceship\/","title":{"rendered":"My bedroom looks like a spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blinkenlights…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

I sometimes feel like I\\’m sleeping under a Christmas tree.
It seems every device we get these days, has some little LED status indicator.
The on\/off switch on an extension lead. The charging light on a charger. The on\/off indicator on…well… pretty much anything you plug in these days.
And that\\’s usually fine — until you turn the light off to go to sleep.<\/p>\n\n

Suddenly, it\\’s\u00a0not<\/em> so fine.<\/p>\n\n

My bedroom looks like a spaceship in the dark.<\/span><\/h3>\n

There are lights everywhere. Bright, multicolored, often blinking…lights.
My own fault, I guess. \\”Oh, I\\’ll be able to see that in the dark.\\”
Yeah. I will. But when there are 20 things blinking and glowing in the dark, it gets a bit overwhelming.<\/p>\n

So what to do about it?<\/span><\/h3>\n

First off, I taped stickers over just about every light. I turn off stuff I don\\’t need glowing in the dark — after I sticker over the lights on it, just in case.
Not very pretty, not always effective, but better.
I have an alarm clock that is — even dimmed — so bright, it lights up the entire room. Even DIMMED. (Whoever thought of what that thing emits as\u00a0dimmed<\/em>, is a little.. dim.)
Not kidding.
I turn it face down. Not quite what the designer had in mind, but there you have it. I was actually quite shocked at just\u00a0how<\/em> bright it is.
Actually, it\\’s back in its box at the moment, because I\\’m so fed up with it.
There is also a plug extender which is extremely bright. So bright in fact, even with stickers over the LED there is still some light. It got so annoying, I don\\’t use it anymore — even though it\\’s a great device.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Argh. Seriously.<\/span><\/h3>\n