The other day, trying to sleep in yet another hotel room. There was a periodic blinking light in the smoke alarm… more like a small flashbulb. The front of the flatscreen TV (nice, they even had some HD content) had a steady red LED, and somewhere in the back there was an orange blinking LED which cast a periodic fan of light through slits in the enclosure onto the wall. My laptop has an LED around the power connector that lights up orange when it’s charging, green when it’s charged. A white LED in front periodically waxes and wanes while the computer is asleep, like it’s breathing. My phone has a small red LED while it charges, which turns green when it’s charged. The clock radio had a large, easy-to-read red LED display, and the snooze button lit up bright orange.
With all the flashing, blinking and breathing, and the plethora of colored lights in general, it was like trying to sleep in Times Square.
