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Gosh it's difficult to get a device without a blue or green or at the very least red LED that indicates activity. Last night we had a power failure, not an unheard of event here in Bali and I was reminded again how common these little things are. Because it was about 9pm we decided to just have an early night and I thought I would listen to a podcast I had saved on my iPhone with my Bluetooth JBL earbuds. About 5min in my wife nudged me and asked what was that flashing? I realised it was the little activity light on the earbud controller. A little blue light the size of a pinhead which was like a lighthouse in our pitch black bedroom. Needless to say I had to swap to my less convenient plugin earbuds but it is only one example. Power boards, chargers, electrical components in sleep mode, the list goes on and on and it strikes me that Apple is one of the few manufacturers that does not put activity lights on all of its devices. If they did my bedroom would look like a Christmas tree at night.
Obviously these little indicator lights are meant to be visible in daylight conditions but in a pitch black room they are incredibly bright. We also have a plugin wireless doorbell unit which we have in our upstairs bedroom, that also had a blue LED which we had to mask with black tape, a TV with a red activity light (have to live with that), an Indonesian power board with a blue LED (masked) and an air conditioner with a green and orange LED.
needless to say trying to keep our bedroom dark at night is impossible.
Obviously these things are very efficient, long lasting and cheap but do they have to stick them in everything?
Obviously these little indicator lights are meant to be visible in daylight conditions but in a pitch black room they are incredibly bright. We also have a plugin wireless doorbell unit which we have in our upstairs bedroom, that also had a blue LED which we had to mask with black tape, a TV with a red activity light (have to live with that), an Indonesian power board with a blue LED (masked) and an air conditioner with a green and orange LED.
needless to say trying to keep our bedroom dark at night is impossible.
Obviously these things are very efficient, long lasting and cheap but do they have to stick them in everything?