When the TykeLight ($25) came into our office, we thought it was cute and smart — but we were skeptical that little kids would want to be its best friend, as implied by the package. Babble editor Ada took it home and we were totally proven wrong. Here's her review:
"The baby just spent an hour playing in his crib after I put him down," my mother announced when I picked him up one night after an evening out. "It's that light. It makes everything look magical." While we would have credited the baby's good nature, it's true — the Tykelight is a minor miracle. It casts a beautiful glow, is lightweight and stores hours of charge from single plug-in. The perfect traveling night light, we throw it in our bag for every evening at the grandparents' and for every weekend trip. And because it's not as bright and hot as our old night light (a mini-exit-sign someone gave us), now we use it even at home. Sometimes during the day, my son carries it around like a My Buddy, only occasionally dropping it with a plastic thwack on the tile floor. After a few weeks of such treatment, the light seems to have come apart on the inside, because it makes a little rattling noise now when you shake it, but the shell hasn't broken and it still lights up, and the bright-dim-timer-off settings still work. Any plastic-electric contraption that costs $25 and still works after such abuse is magical to us.
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