[Prestidigitweeze]

To follow up on kranu's question:

Recently, I picked up a graphite eLuminator Touch at BestBuy while snagging my PRS-350. Here's what I think after using the Touch for a week:

Sadly, I prefer the eLuminator2 to this intended upgrade.

The Touch is smaller and more convenient than its predecessor but is essentially a tap lamp. This means you can turn the light on and off by accidentally touching the depressed center of the back of the ball shade. Perfectly acceptable in a lamp for one's home; not so in a portable lamp.

I'm getting used to the issue, but it still feels like a design mistake.

The basic idea seems good until you realize that anyone's main use of a portable light involves its being jostled and touched in passing. Isn't someone at M-Edge supposed to notice problems like that?

A physical switch is better on a simple device like this unless there's a convenient way to lock the touch setting. That's why smartphones and tablets have locked screens, and why the eLuminator Touch needs a physical lock somewhere on the device to keep one's setting in place whether off or on.

An M-Edge customer with Tourette's is in danger of turning the Touch on and off every few seconds. We can't have that.

Personally, I'd pick up an eLuminator2 in graphite instead.