Why your office lighting is draining your energy. 💡

What I really wanted to emphasize with my lights is that the light needs to come into your eye. A lot of human-centric lighting applications are done from ceiling level, so either you need to really increase the amount of light from the ceiling, or you need to get your light from somewhere else — from a window, for example.

What we really wanted to do is have the lights coming from in front of you. But that means you have to watch out for glare, and that's where a lot of our research has been focused: what is the right amount of light, and how big do your diffuser panels need to be in order to create a good light environment for your eyes — without making people tire out, or blink too much, or blink too little?

You can see it with my camera as well — I have the light on now, but if I turn it off, you can see it becomes pretty stark.