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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
To follow up on kranu's question:
Recently, I picked up an eLuminator Touch at BestBuy. Here's what I think:
Sadly, I prefer the eLuminator2 to this supposed upgrade. The Touch is smaller and more convenient but is essentially a tap lamp. This means you can turn on the light and off by accidentally touching the depressed center of the back of the ball shade. I'm getting used to that but it still feels like a design mistake.
The idea seems good until you realize that anyone's main use of a portable light involves its being jostled and touched in passing. I thought someone at M-Edge was paid to notice problems like that.
Personally, I'd pick up an eLumator2 in graphite instead. A switch is better on a simple device like this unless you can lock your setting. That's why smartphones and tablets have locked screens.
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I think the people at M-Edge were like...
MightyBright had such a good idea! They don't have any switches, just a simple button. Even worse, a lot of users dislike the placement of the low/off/high on our switch. If we rearranged our switches so that the left-most or right-most was actually the off position, we would probably appease some uses but get some more angry users. Let's do something like MightyBright, but do it even better. Any ideas? ... I know! Let's make it touch sensitive. Brilliant idea! Touch sensitivity is all the hype in these times.
That's my imagination. Perhaps a little too dramatized, but that's most likely how it went down.