How would you improve your S.A.D lamp

Hi I am a Loughborough University product design student, redesigning the SAD lamp using LED technology. I know in the past LEDs have had issues and not been bright enough but advances in technology have dramatically improved them. Any users using their SAD lamps, how would you like them improved??? A new shape? Slimmer? to be desk based or moveable? to be combined with a dawn stimulator as well as light box??

Any feedback would be brilliant.

First of all, please remember that not everyone is using these lightboxes for SAD. I use mine for sleep disorders.

I have a GoLite that's about four or so years old, so it's not quite like the current model. It's an LED lamp, as I'm sure you're aware. I generally love it, but the main problem is that LEDs have a tiny viewing angle and the lightbox needs to be at just the right angle. Unfortunately, it's not adjustable and the angle it's been made at is completely wrong for desk use. I have to prop it up to get it at the right angle. I also have a cheapie Lite-Pad for my other room and while that's not great in many ways (it's white light and it's very harsh on the eyes, I ended up putting a layer of blue filter over it), it is at least at the correct angle.

Movable is always useful. I use my main lightbox on a smallish overbed table next to my laptop, and my spare lightbox on my sewing desk. The one on the sewing desk gets moved about a bit depending on what I'm doing there.

I've read that the receptors in the eye that are most important to stimulate are the ones which receive light from the top of the eye, which makes sense as the sky is overhead. Lightboxes are designed to sit below eye level. I'd really like to see a lightbox that could be used above eye level, and then of course testing to find out whether it was more effective. Perhaps one on a stand where both the height and the angle could be adjusted? Something like the Lumie Desk Lamp in shape would be good, though you'd need to test out whether it made a reasonable desk lamp as it would end up being used for that and criticised if it didn't come up to scratch. A lower setting for use as a desk lamp would also be good, so that people didn't end up with too much bright light at the wrong time of day.

I've seen combi lightbox/dawn simulators and always wondered about them. Some have a very poor reputation. It sounds as if LEDs aren't the best to use for dawn simulation, even though they make smashing bright light boxes. My dawn simulator is by my bed and is also my bedside light (I have the Morning Sunrise one, the Lumie ones make lousy reading lights), and the light is indirect, facing the wall rather than my face. I wouldn't want to have to start moving the unit every morning when I wanted to start bright light therapy, and unless you're going for someone who reads in bed every single morning, this is going to be the case for most people.

I have just bought the Elite 300.
Although it has a seting for different day alarm times, I would like it if there were 2 per day. I am a shift worker and although I may well wake at the same time as my wife if she is up 1st, I then go back to sleep and vice versa. The second alarm would thus satisfy both parties. I know the tech is out there as the old clock radio has this feature.