Meridian $1,100

Innerbloom · Home Office

Meridian

A circadian desk lamp machined from aluminium on a river stone base. Shifts your room from 6500K morning light to 1800K dusk — automatically, every day.

$1,100

No deposit at this stage. Full price on allocation confirmation.


No payment collected. We'll email you when validation data is published and your allocation window opens.

No payment until production confirmed Ships in order of allocation Full refund if timeline changes

FormAsymmetric arc · 380 mm span · 32 mm wall
BaseRiver stone disc · 260 mm diameter · Dark basalt
MaterialCNC-machined 6061 aluminium · Starlight anodize
Spectrum1800–6500K · Automatic solar-seeded schedule
mEDI target≥ 250 daytime · ≤ 10 evening at 1.0 m
CRI target≥ 97 · Violet-pump phosphor architecture
Flicker target< 0.08 index · IEEE 1789 · All dim levels
PWM frequency≥ 2 kHz at all brightness levels
DiffuserOpal borosilicate glass · Full inner arc surface
Light directionToward user · Concave aperture faces seated position
ThermalArc body is heatsink · No separate thermal component
Moving partsNone · One solid object · No hinges or joints
ControlSingle recessed button · Innerbloom app · BLE
CableSingle braided cable · Routes through stone base
FastenersNone visible · No seams · No welds
View all specifications +

How it works

Light that faces you.
The room responds.

APERTURE FACES USER EYE LEVEL LIGHT FIELD 1.0 M
1
The aperture faces you directly

Meridian's concave inner wall — the light-emitting surface — opens toward the seated user. The light field it produces fills the space in front of you, delivering the spectrum to your eyes, your peripheral retina, and your ipRGC receptors at the distances where the biological signal matters.

2
A wide field, not a point source

The entire inner arc surface glows as a single continuous emitter. No visible LED. No hot spot. The light enters your visual field the way an overcast sky does — diffuse, even, sourceless. Your eye doesn't fight it. Your biology reads it.

3
You set the schedule once

Meridian seeds its arc from your location's sunrise and sunset times. Dawn, Zenith, Evening, Sleep Prep — the schedule runs automatically. No dial. No remembering. It changes the way sunlight does.

4
Violet-pump architecture removes the evening spike

Blue-pump LEDs produce a 445–465 nm spike that suppresses melatonin even at warm colour temperatures. Meridian's 395–415 nm violet-pump avoids this band entirely. Safe evening light isn't a setting — it's the physics of the light engine.


Four modes · One schedule

Every mode is a
different sky.

06:00 → 09:00
Dawn
2200K · Amber-orange

Saturated warm orange. Cortisol onset. The biological start of day — before coffee, before screens. The light your body expects to see through a window at sunrise.

09:00 → 15:00
Zenith
5500–6500K · Near-white, cool blue lean

Full-spectrum daylight. Peak melanopsin activation. Maximum alertness window. The light your biology is calibrated to work hardest under.

15:00 → 20:00
Evening
2700–3500K · Golden hour

Cortisol ramp-down. The shift from output to recovery. Warmer, lower, slower — the room signals that the day is ending before you consciously decide it has.

20:00 → sleep
Sleep Prep
1800K · Deep amber

Near-zero melanopsin activation. 440–490 nm band architecturally suppressed. Melatonin window open. The lamp knows to get out of the way of sleep.


Why Meridian

Not a smarter lamp.
Circadian infrastructure.

01
Automatic by design

Every other circadian lighting product requires you to remember to use it. Chroma has a manual dial. SAD lamps need deliberate 30-minute sessions. Hue needs a scene trigger. Meridian runs the arc whether you think about it or not. The value is in not having to remember.

02
Architecture, not adjustment

Blue-pump LEDs produce a spike at 445–465 nm — precisely the melanopsin peak. Warming the colour temperature doesn't eliminate it. Meridian's violet-pump at 395–415 nm bypasses this band entirely. Safe evening light isn't a setting. It's the physics of the light engine.

03
The room, not the bulb

A desk lamp aimed at your face is a task light. Meridian fills the upper half of your room with indirect light. Your peripheral retina, ipRGC receptors, and the non-visual pathway receive the signal from the whole space — which is how sunlight actually works.


Design targets

Purpose-built for
our biology.

These are the performance targets Meridian is engineered to meet. Photometric validation against IES protocol, IEEE 1789, and CIE S026 is underway. We'll publish the full measured data — raw SPD files included — before the first unit ships.

If the numbers don't hold, we'll say so and fix the architecture before taking payments. That commitment is the point of publishing the validation method in advance.

≥ 250
mEDI target · Daytime · 1.0 m
Melanopic EDI at seated eye level — the metric circadian scientists use.
≥ 97
CRI target · Ra
Violet-pump phosphor. R9–R15 individually specified, not blended average.
< 0.08
Flicker index · All dim levels
IEEE 1789 low-risk threshold at 5%, 10%, 20%, 50%, 100% brightness.
≤ 10
mEDI target · Evening · 1.0 m
Near-zero melanopsin activation. Achieved by spectrum architecture, not dimming.
All figures are engineering targets. Validation data will be published to r/Lighting before any payment is collected. Instrument list, calibration certificate references, and raw SPD files will be public.

Materials

Invoking
elemental wisdom.

01
Machined Aluminium

6061 aluminium billet, CNC-machined. No seams, no welds, no visible fasteners. The arc body is the thermal system — the LED strip bonds to the concave inner wall and conducts heat through the full 32 mm cross-section to the outer convex surface. Starlight anodize: warm silver-beige satin, micro-grain brush.

02
Diffuser Glass

Opal borosilicate glass lining the full inner arc surface. Milky-translucent, smooth — no texture, no visible LED grid behind it. The entire concave wall is a single continuous emitting surface. What enters the room is the spectrum that was designed, not an approximation of it.

03
River Stone Base

Dark basalt disc, 260 mm diameter. Smooth water-worn surface, sand-blasted flat on top, irregular natural edge — not geometrically perfect. The arc rests on the stone by gravity only. No hardware, no adhesive. To reposition, lift the object and turn it. The stone moves freely.