ABOUT Glow Trigger
Rethinking the Night Light
The Origin Story
It started with a hallway, not a lab.
Our house has one long hallway between the bedrooms and the kitchen, and for years it was pitch black after dark. Every trip for a glass of water turned into a slow shuffle with one hand on the wall, feeling for the corner before I walked into it. Flipping on the hallway light fixed the visibility problem and created a new one — it was bright enough to wake up everyone else in the house.
Once we had a baby in the house, that same hallway became a nightly obstacle course. Carrying him from room to room in the dark, trying not to step on a stray toy, one arm full and the other hand out ahead like a cane — it was the same problem, just with higher stakes. What I wanted was almost embarrassingly simple: a light that noticed me walking by and turned itself on, then turned itself back off once I’d passed. No switch. No searching.