Highly Recommended Purchase: LED Desk Light with Qi Charging
I use an iPhone, and when I get home, I usually plug in the charging cable to charge it.
However, even if I'm not at a smartphone addiction level, I often pick up my phone frequently, and each time I would unplug the charging cable and plug it back in after I was done.
This is a trivial hassle, but I felt it was quite annoying.
Then, one time at an electronics retail store, I found an LED desk light where the base that sits on the desk acts as a charging pad, allowing you to charge your smartphone just by placing it on it.
At that time, I just thought, 'Oh, what a convenient thing,' and didn't check the price or anything.
Now, at my workplace, during lunch break, the room lights automatically turn off. This is partly for energy conservation and partly to ensure we take a proper break during lunch.
When lunch break starts, I slowly take out the bento my wife made and spread it out on my desk to eat, but because I use the diet app 'Asuken' to keep a record of my meals, I take a picture of the bento contents and use image recognition to determine its nutritional value.
*While image diagnosis isn't always perfectly accurate, it boasts decent precision.
The windows at my workplace are large, but even so, the desk is dark, and I thought that might be why the image diagnosis accuracy was dropping, so I realized, just like other members do, that I should put a desk light I brought from home on my desk.
Also, I'm quite impatient, so even during lunch break, after eating my bento and brushing my teeth, I often work on tasks in progress in the dark.
As a labor and social security attorney, I know the intent of the Labor Standards Act is to rest during break times, but I get bothered if there is work left unfinished.
Thinking it would be nice to have a desk light to illuminate my hands in addition to taking photos of my bento, I suddenly realized, I should just bring my desk light from home.
My home desk light is an LED light whose neck can be bent quite freely horizontally and vertically, and I realized that if I tilted the neck, I could nicely illuminate both my PC and keyboard.
So, once I realized that, things moved quickly. I opened the electronics store app and searched for an LED desk light with built-in Qi wireless charging for smartphones, and to my surprise, it was selling for around 3,000 yen (tax included)!! (Isn't that too cheap!)
It just so happened that I had accumulated points at the electronics store, so I ended up purchasing the following product within the range of my points.
*Since it was within the range of my points, it was effectively zero out-of-pocket cost♡.
● IRIS OHYAMA LED Desk Light Qi Charging Series Flat Type Dimmable Black LDL-QFD-B 3,150 yen (tax included)
・Qi charging compatible…Charge just by placing your smartphone on it
・Brightness adjustment function…5-level dimming
・Foldable…Can be folded compactly
It arrived, so I immediately set it up on my desk at home and am using it to charge my smartphone. It has a feature to prevent overcharging, so it's reassuring in that regard as well. By the way, to make the battery last longer, I have my iPhone set to charge up to 80%, and it stops charging properly at that point.
*This LED desk light cannot tilt the neck of the light part sideways to peer over and illuminate the PC.
And the LED desk light I had at home until then, which had a neck that could be tilted quite a bit, was brought to the workplace, and it now illuminates my desk and PC.
It's a small convenience, but it's quite nice.