Dyson’s $600 task lamp is the closest you’ll get to natural light indoors

Research has shown that your body clock and your circadian rhythm, which help regulate your sleep, are tied to the cycles of natural light. But these days, people spend 90% of their time indoors.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, until you start to factor in the adverse affects of spending so much time under artificial lights. Natural light starts soft and warm in the mornings, turns cooler and brighter as the sun peaks in the sky, then becomes warm and dim again as the sun sets. Artificial light, on the other hand, is always the same–and at night, it can throw off your sleep hormone levels if you get too much blue light (a problem since so many of us go to bed with our phones).

Today, the Singapore-based technology company Dyson is releasing a task lamp that aims to bring more natural light into your life by closely mimicking the temperature, intensity, and quality of light that you get from the sun. The lamp, called LightCycle, is powered by an algorithm that mixes three cool LED lights and three warm LED lights to replicate the natural light of any GPS location on the planet during a specific time of day and year. The algorithm understands your precise location through the accompanying app. That means that using the same lamp in Iceland in winter at noon will yield a dramatically different color and type of light than in New York City on the same day and at the same time.