Glowora Rechargeable Table Lamp

The Glowora is a cordless table lamp, and that single fact shapes everything else about it. A built-in 1800mAh lithium battery runs the lamp for eight to ten hours on a charge and refills over USB in about four, which means the lamp is not tethered to a socket and does not need one nearby. In practice that changes where a lamp can live. It can sit on a bedside table on the far side of a room from the nearest outlet, move to a desk for an evening, go out to a balcony table, or come off the shelf during a power cut. Anyone who has arranged furniture around the location of a plug socket, or run an extension lead across a floor for the sake of one lamp, will recognise the problem this solves. The form is deliberately slim, a narrow upright column measuring 33 by 5 centimetres, so it occupies almost no surface area on a crowded bedside table or desk. That slimness is part of why it works as a portable light at all: a lamp you have to clear space for is a lamp that stays where it was put, while this one slots in wherever there is a gap. It is light enough to move one-handed alongside a book or a cup.

Brightness is controlled by touch rather than a switch, and the dimming is continuous rather than stepped, so you set the level you actually want instead of choosing between an overly bright setting and an uselessly dim one. At 3 watts this is an accent and ambient light rather than a task lamp: it is well suited to a bedside glow you can dial down to almost nothing before sleep, to soft light on a desk beside a screen, or to a warm pool of light on a shelf. It is not intended to light a whole room or to serve as your main reading light for long sessions. The light colour is changeable, so the lamp can shift character between a warm relaxed tone and something cooler and more alert depending on what the moment calls for. The body is PC, a tough moulded plastic, which keeps the weight low enough that carrying it from room to room is genuinely effortless rather than merely possible. PC also tolerates the occasional knock better than glass or ceramic would, which matters for an object designed to be picked up and carried around rather than set down once and left alone for years.

Six body colours are offered, in white, orange, black, grey, red and brown, which is a wider spread than most minimalist lamps bother with and makes it easier to match a lamp to a room rather than defaulting to white because that was all that existed. A few practical notes on living with a rechargeable lamp. Battery life is quoted at the lower brightness settings, as it is with every rechargeable light, so running it at full brightness all evening will draw the eight-to-ten-hour figure down. Lithium batteries also prefer not to be stored fully flat for months, so if the lamp goes into a drawer for a season it is worth topping it up first. Charging is over a standard USB connection, meaning any phone charger, laptop port or power bank will do the job and there is no proprietary adapter to lose or replace at an inflated price later on. Treated as the portable ambient light it is rather than as a substitute for a proper reading lamp, it is genuinely useful, and it tends to end up being used far more than a corded lamp would, precisely because moving it costs nothing. That is the quiet advantage of cordless lighting: convenience changes behaviour.

• Power: Built-in 1800mAh lithium battery, USB rechargeable
• Battery life: 8-10 hours per charge; approx. 4 hours to charge
• Output: 3W - ambient and accent light, not a task lamp
• Dimming: Touch-sensitive, continuously adjustable
• Light colour: Changeable
• Size: 33 x 5 cm | Material: PC
• Colours: White, Orange, Black, Grey, Red, Brown

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