Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Newsletter About
Tech & Science

The Govee smart lamp brightened up my room, and then my life

I knew things were not quite right when I had to throw a towel over a broken Ikea lamp to block out its light. How did I get here? I cover fancy and capable tech for a living, and yet,…

This article was originally published by The Verge and is republished here under license.

I knew things were not quite right when I had to throw a towel over a broken Ikea lamp to block out its light. How did I get here? I cover fancy and capable tech for a living, and yet, it took me two years to get rid of a pair of old, broken Ikea lamps in my bedroom. Then I got some floor lamps from Govee that changed everything.

Those Ikea lamps were around for two years after I moved from Orange County to Los Angeles. Soon after that move, my mom’s Parkinson’s disease – a neurodegenerative condition with no cure – progressed quickly, my mental health took a hit, and most of my own to-do list quietly slid to the back burner as she lost mob …

Read the full story at The Verge.

More in Tech & Science

View All →

Leave a Reply

Discover more from The Meridian Review

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading