Feast your eyes on the TykeLight Buddy
Okay, I really love this thing and since I’m handling it on a daily basis I couldn’t resist a quick write up. Get this – it’s a night light, that’s cordless AND rechargeable! Every single night I remove it from its magical charging base in E’s room, and put it on the nightstand next to her bed. She’s now old enough to put it back on the base in the morning (but I often do it for her if she forgets). My older daughter uses hers as a reading light sometimes at night (not that I know she’s reading when she should be sleeping, but I digress..)
I bought one for each of my girls in yellow (they also come in white, pink and blue) a couple of years ago and A (who is 8 going on 15) still loves hers. The cool thing about them is they have about 8 hours of light after they’re fully charged (charging takes a full 8 hours). The product description claims 10 hours but I think we only got that much juice for like the first month.
This was my solution to making sure both kids had a night light even when we lost power. We’re in a rural-ish area of New York and it gets absolutely pitch black in the house when the power is out, causing much terror, shrieking and stubbage of toes. I’ve actually used this light in a power outage more than once to navigate safely to the flashlight (which is never where it should be) and/or candles.
My one complaint is that E’s light went a bit wonky after a year and would flash wildly on the base. It still held a charge and we used it for another year after the flashing started, though we had to throw a towel over it while it was charging because it was highly annoying. Now it won’t seem to hold a charge, but A’s night light is still going strong. I don’t know if E dropped hers or what.
I’m delighted to see they’re still selling this on Amazon for about $20 – $25 (same price as I paid). Here’s that link again…
Mobi TykeLight Portable GloMate
Makes a splendiferous gift too!
Comment By: Andrea
January 4th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Thank you for the fabulous review on our tykelight. We just wanted to let you know that the image you used is the TykeLight Buddy which was the original TykeLight. If you would like an image of hte GloMate I would be happy to send one to you!
Comment By: toymaven
January 4th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Thank you, Andrea. I updated the post to reflect the correct name. I just realized I’m linking to the wrong product too (the GloMate). Since you were kind enough to comment on my post, I even took off the reference to someone else’s product (sorry about that).