Lumie Bodyclock Luxe combines the benefits of using light to help improve your sleep and waking with a high quality audio experience. At bedtime, the low-blue light feature promotes good quality sleep while the wake-up light is proven to help you feel positive and energised all day.
- Jonathan Cridland, CEO, Lumie
Key innovations for Lumie Bodyclock Luxe (RRP £170) include a low-blue light feature which makes the light non-alerting – standard lighting includes blue light that’s been shown to stimulate our system, the opposite of what is required at bedtime. Lumie’s low-blue light feature avoids this problem helping you to drift off to a good night’s sleep.
This top of the range model, which uses energy-saving LED technology, delivers a particularly high quality light experience with an extra smooth sunset and sunrise. This is complemented by a premium audio experience with Bluetooth® for music streaming and a USB port for music playback or charging your phone. You can select one of 20 sleep and wake-up sounds including white noise, set your desired sunrise light intensity and the length of your sunset and sunrise.
Studies¹ have shown that wake-up lights like Lumie Bodyclock, that provide a natural sunset and sunrise experience, improve your quality of sleep and awakening as well as your mood, energy and productivity during the day. At bedtime, the gradually reducing light enables the production of sleep hormones like melatonin so that you feel drift off naturally into a good night’s sleep. The low-blue light feature of Lumie Bodyclock Luxe complements that process. In the morning, the sunrise triggers production of hormones that help us to get up and go, like cortisol, while suppressing those that are associated with sleep.
Dr Victoria Revell, Circadian Rhythm Expert, University of Surrey, says:“We now know that lack of sleep has a range of behavioural (influencing your level of alertness and ability to perform physically and cognitively) and physiological effects, including your metabolism and your immune system. Therefore, it is very important to ensure you have good quality sleep of sufficient duration to promote good health and well-being. Maintaining a regular sleep pattern and modifying your morning and evening light exposure using Lumie Bodyclock Luxe will help you to have good sleep and also be alert and productive during the day.”
Lumie Bodyclock Luxe (RRP £170) is available now on pre-order from Lumie and will also sell through Amazon and John Lewis.
¹ Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1993 Jul; 88 (1):67-71.
Further research references on the beneficial effects of dawn simulation can be found here: http://www.lumie.com/blogs/research-papers/6226754-dawn-simulation-research
Main features:
- Set your desired sunrise light intensity
- Set your own sunrise and sunset duration
- Low-blue light feature to minimise alerting effect before bedtime
- Mimics the colours of a real sunrise and sunset
- High quality audio
- Bluetooth® for music streaming
- USB port for music playback or charging your phone
- More than 20 optional wake-up and sleep sounds
- White noise
- Fully dimmable light and display, daily/weekly alarms, snooze funciton
About Lumie:
Since 1991 Lumie has been researching and designing bright lights to treat seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and other conditions. Our first Bodyclock dawn simulator – an alarm that wakes you up with increasing levels of light – was the world’s first wake-up light and brought light therapy into the mainstream. We also designed and developed Lumie Clear, a unique hand held device that uses combined blue and red light therapy to treat acne.
Over the years Lumie has worked closely with the scientific community. All of our products – the broadest range in Europe – are based on published research and designed by us from our base in Cambridge. Lumie is in the EuRhythDia consortium investigating circadian rhythms and type 2 diabetes, and is working with Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moores University sports science department. We continue to research new applications for light therapy.
Lumie products are medical devices, certified to the Medical Devices Directive (93/42EEC) and supplied to the NHS on an occasional basis. Distance and brightness levels (lux) are independently verified and Lumie is registered with the government's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
The benefits of light therapy reach far beyond SAD. Our lights help you to sleep well and get up in the morning, beat the afternoon slump, conquer jetlag and look after your skin. They also optimise sports performance and we are proud to provide lights to some of Great Britain’s elite athletes as well as acting as official suppliers to British Swimming.
Two of our wake-up lights, Luxe and Active, provide white noise as an option. If you are trying to sleep in a noisy environment or during the day, white noise helps to muffle other sounds, like traffic or people talking.
In the UK our products are available through www.lumie.com as well as major retailers like John Lewis, Boots, amazon, Selfridges, Neal’s Yard and wiggle.co.uk and we have an expanding network of distributors across Europe and in North America. For consumers buying through www.lumie.com we provide a 45-day trial period on all products and a dedicated customer careline.
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Ruth Jackson
PR Manager, Lumie
pr@lumie.com
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