Lumie Bodyclock Shine 300

The Shine 300 tackles a different part of the winter problem: waking in the dark. Rather than a bright daytime therapy dose, it simulates a sunrise over 15 to 90 minutes, brightening from warm red-orange to full light so you surface gently instead of to a jarring alarm. It adds 15 wake and sleep sounds, an FM radio, tap-control snooze and a fully dimmable bedside light bright enough to read by, while the light-sensitive display auto-dims so it won't disturb sleep. It is a Class I medical device. Treat it as a complement to a therapy lamp rather than a replacement, since its job is your body clock, not a clinical lux dose, but for easier dark-morning waking it is our pick, and the pairing of the two is what many long-term SAD sufferers actually use.