Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I had high hopes for this lamp. I've been using light therapy lamps for about a decade. My first lamp was the huge Happy light Delux, which I used for years. Since the recent proliferation of LEDs, I've been trying varous other brands while waiting for Verilux to put out an LED lamp. While this lamp is beautifully designed, it is simply not bright enough. Though this lamp is advertised as 10,000 lux (the amount of light studies have found to be effective in treating S.A.D.), you have to use the lamp SIX INCHES from your eyes to get that brightness. This is NOT clearly indicated by Verilux in their promotional material. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the various photos of this lamp on table tops and countertops is intentionally misleading (I don't know how you could work on your MacBook, for example, while using this light six inches from your face). If you want a lamp that is in the same price range as the Happy light Lucent, but brighter and better designed, I'd reccomend the Circadian Optics Lumos 2.0 (ASIN B01D893GJG). I have the Circadian Optics Lumos 1.0 (the thin lamp in the photos) and, aparantly, the Lumos 2.0 is 3X brighter than the Lumos 1.0. For a lamp that's actually bright enough to use as advertised (ie, on a table, etc.), I'd reccomend the Alaska Northern Lights Aurora LightPad (ASIN B00ZQ30YOS).