Sliding Into Perfection: The Open Task Light

A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position. [Steven Bennett] saw that lamp and wanted …. Sliding Into Perfection: The Open Task Light.

From this passion, the Open Task Light was born. We covered the prototype of the Open Task Light back in 2023, and the project is a superb example of iteration. In his 15-part video series on the lamp, you can watch him take on each new aspect of the light, improving the mechanisms, electronics, and production.

All those small changes add up to this beautifully finished product. The first thing you’ll notice about the lamp is how little there is to notice: just a pair of extruded aluminum rails with a lamp head on one end and some rollers in the middle. Look a little closer at the rail and you’ll find a PCB running its length, feeding the lamp through pogo pins and leaving no exposed wires.