The wake-up element of the light comes with three options – light and natural sound, just light or just natural sounds. To adjust the brightness you have to tap a certain spot at the back, which we found hard to find in the dead of night. You can use the Lexon as a regular light – it’s easy to switch on and off using a touch spot on the bottom.
The top of the display has a subtle marble effect, and that’s the kind of attention to detail we can get behind. The time is displayed on an LED behind a metal grey mesh, and the light is a dish on top. We liked the Eighties aesthetic of this alarm clock. All this is wrapped up in a smart little package – the grey tweedy fabric underneath is a nice touch, and it looks great on our bedside table. As the name suggests, there’s also an FM radio built into the shine 300, and you can set up to five presets. We found this handy, rather than having to keep cycling through the options.
It also displays not just the time but the day too, as well as what time your alarm is set to. The digital display lets you set the language, and then it’s fairly simple to set up the alarm, sunset and sound functions. Anyway, you’re sure to find a sound that floats your boat. There are also 15 wake-up and wind-down sounds to choose from, including, inexplicably, someone playing ping pong. This means it will fit in with most lifestyles, and we found it helped instil a better bedtime routine when we set it to a 90-minute sunset. However, you can also adjust the duration of the sunset and sunrise to anything between 15 and 90 minutes. A jump up from the glow 150 (listed below), the shine 300 has both sunset and sunrise functions.