Stellora 3D Crystal Night Light

The Stellora is a small rechargeable night light built around a faceted acrylic body that catches and splits the light coming through it. That faceting is the entire point: rather than glowing as a flat, even surface, the acrylic breaks the internal light into bright edges and sparkle, so the object reads as a small crystalline sculpture when lit rather than as a lamp with a decorative housing. Five shapes are available, in ball, star, square, moon and track forms, and the shape changes the effect considerably because each set of facets scatters light in its own pattern. Output is around one watt, which places it firmly in night light and ambient territory. It is designed to give a soft glow on a bedside table, a shelf, a windowsill or a child's room, not to light a space or serve as a reading lamp, and that expectation is worth setting clearly because a buyer hoping for a proper lamp will find it far too gentle. Bought as what it is, a quiet decorative glow for the last hour of the evening, it does the job neatly. It also works during the day as a purely decorative object, since the faceted acrylic catches ambient light and holds some sparkle even when switched off.

Brightness is controlled by touch, with stepless dimming rather than fixed steps, so a tap switches it and a long press runs the brightness smoothly up or down to whatever level suits the moment. That continuous control is more useful on a night light than on almost any other kind of lamp, because the level you want beside a bed at midnight is often very low indeed, and stepped lamps rarely offer a bottom setting dim enough. Three colour temperatures are included: warm, natural white and cool white. Warm is the sensible default for a bedroom, since warmer light interferes less with winding down in the evening. Natural white suits a shelf or a living room where the light sits alongside other lighting, and cool white gives the crispest, most sparkling read from the faceted acrylic if the decorative effect is what you are after. Being able to switch between the three means one object can serve a soft bedside role and a brighter decorative one, which is unusual at this size and makes it considerably more flexible than a single-temperature night light would be in the same spot. Most night lights commit you to one character of light and leave you living with it.

It charges over USB and runs wirelessly once charged, which is what makes it practical as a night light rather than merely decorative. There is no cord tethering it to a socket, so it can sit on a shelf across the room from the nearest outlet, move to a bedside table, be carried to another room, or go into a bag. For a child's room in particular, no trailing cable is a meaningful safety improvement over a plug-in night light, and it means the light can sit wherever it is actually wanted rather than wherever the socket happens to be. The body is acrylic with a metal base, so it has enough weight to sit stably without being heavy. Two practical notes: acrylic scratches more readily than glass, so clean it with a soft microfibre cloth and avoid solvent-based cleaners which can cloud the surface permanently. And like any lithium-powered device it prefers not to be left completely flat for months on end, so if it goes into a drawer for a while it is worth charging it first. Beyond that it needs no maintenance at all, and there are no bulbs to replace or batteries to buy over its life, which over several years quietly adds up to less hassle and less expense than a plug-in equivalent.

• Light: Approx. 1W - night light and ambient glow, not room lighting
• Colour temperatures: Warm, Natural White, Cool White
• Dimming: Touch control, stepless (tap to switch, long press to dim)
• Power: USB rechargeable - runs cordless once charged
• Materials: Acrylic with metal base
• Shapes: Ball, Star, Square, Moon, Track
• Care: Microfibre cloth only; avoid solvent cleaners on acrylic

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