Brighter
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Brighter is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 01, 2023 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “A company called Brighter is trying to make 50,000 lumen lights”; “Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, a very bright lamp”. It most often appears alongside California, China, Twitter.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: December 01, 2023
- Last seen: February 27, 2025
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- NootropicsDepot (1 shared issues)
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- @fae_dreams (1 shared issues)
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- @ObhishekSaha (1 shared issues)
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- @xlr8harder (1 shared issues)
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- ABC testing (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham Davenport (1 shared issues)
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- Aella (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- AGI (1 shared issues)
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45: I’ve written before about how most light boxes for seasonal affective disorder are much dimmer than the sun and would probably work better if they were brighter. A company called Brighter is trying to make 50,000 lumen lights, about 5x better than existing light boxes. They report that they’re looking for funding to start a Kickstarter campaign (apparently you need funding to start Kickstarters now?); you can reach the founder here if you’re interested.
25: Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, a very bright lamp. Outdoors on a sunny day is 100,000 lux (a measure of brightness), indoors with an average lamp is only 50 lux. Some people think bringing the indoor number closer to the outdoor number should help with mood and energy, and there are preliminary good results for seasonal depression (even clinical seasonal depression lamps fall far short of outdoor brightness). The Brighter lamp is 50,000 lumen - lumens are a different measure from lux, of lamp power rather than brightness, but if you’re 5 feet away from the light then 50,000 lumen = 3,000 lux, which is getting a lot better. My only concern is that the light costs about $1,000; you should be able to do better with corn bulbs, but Brighter claims to have less eye strain, less glare, better color temperature, etc (I don’t know anything about these). People with treatment refractory SAD should be trying something like this, though it doesn’t have to be exactly this product - for details, see my writeup.
Inline links: Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, my writeup