OTT-LITE Technology

Don’t Just Read It, Experience It

Remember how easy and enjoyable reading was – before time and heredity took its toll on your eyes? We do, which is why we’ve spent decades developing the amazing OTT-LITE VisionSaver Plus® line. This extraordinary line of lighting products is specifically created to enhance your reading and writing environments using high-contrast illumination. Text pops off the page with remarkable clarity and ordinary pictures become vibrant works of art. Isn’t it time you read like you did years ago?

Read Between the Lines

High-contrast illumination
Reduced glare formula
Proven to be 50% better than standard bulbs
Simulates natural light, the best light to read by

Testimonials

“My wife and I are both visually impaired. Before the OTT-LITE®s (VisionSaver™ lamps), she couldn’t see what she was doing when she was writing checks, even with the brightest bulb, and I had great difficulty reading. I can’t tell you how grateful and delighted we both are that we found the OTT-LITEs (VisionSaver products), because now we can finally see what we’re reading and writing. There’s no glare to distort images or print. Reading and writing are a pleasure now. We’d really be lost without them because someone else would have to do our checks and letters. Thank God for OTT-LITEs (VisionSavers)!”
Mr. and Mrs. John M.


“In 30 years of medical practice, I’ve always looked for a light source that would meet the needs of my patients – something that would provide appropriate lighting and contrast and appropriate brightness. Finally we came across an OTT-LITE® VisionSaver™ lamp and this particular lamp does all of the things we need it to do. It provides a comfortable visual experience that makes life much easier for my patients and much easier for them to meet their regular daily tasks and work needs and demands. It’s the only light that I use, that my family uses, and it’s the only light that I recommend to my patients. The OTT-LITE® VisionSaver™ lamp is a perfect light source. We eliminate the stress and fatigues and strains (of my patients) by recommending OTT-LITE® VisionSaver™ lamps.”
Dr. Marc Gannon, Low Vision Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Color Your World

For centuries, painters mixed mediums and put color to canvas by the illumination of the North light because it is even and natural. Now they use OTT-LITE® TrueColor™ lamps – picture perfect reproductions of natural sunlight. Created with true color rendering, our lighting is famous for reducing glare, illustrating vivid colors of all shades and shedding the ideal light on your masterpiece. Making the OTT-LITE TrueColor lamps every artist’s favorite tool.

The Full Spectrum

Won’t distort the actual color of paints
Enhanced clarity of details
Low heat illumination won’t dry paints prematurely
Simulates the North light, the best light to create by
Testimonials

“The OTT-LITE® (TrueColor™ bulb) is the first bulb which allows me to see colors accurately at night. I just can’t believe how it simulates natural daylight. It truly is a cool 'north' light.”
Elaine McCardel, Artist


“Like many artists, I work at night, or on cloudy days when the light coming through the windows is drab and gray. If you’re working with standard fluorescent or incandescent light, you simply can’t judge the colors in your work accurately. It’s a significant problem, and I finally found the solution. I have OTT-LITE lamps and bulbs everywhere I work. They give me the ability to see colors exactly as they are. It actually improves the way I paint.”
Michael Ringer – Host of PBS TV Show The Artists World
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OTT-LITE Technology’s parent company, Environmental Lighting Concepts (ELC), was founded in 1989 as a collaboration between Dr. John Ott, a pioneer in light research, and Fred Mendelsohn, who with physicians at Johns Hopkins University Hospital helped develop one of the first light therapy units to treat SAD or “winter blues”. Dr. Ott discovered through 40 years of scientific research the remarkable effects specific wavelengths of natural light had on plants, animals and humans. As a cinematographer for Walt Disney, Dr. Ott developed the first OTT-LITE® product while experimenting with time-lapse photography on the Academy Award®-winning “The Secrets of Life” series. Dr. Ott again worked with Disney to create the magical growth of a royal carriage from a pumpkin seed in the film “Cinderella”. It seemed simple enough. But as Dr. Ott found out, pumpkins don’t grow indoors, let alone under artificial light. By harnessing the power of natural sunlight indoors, Dr. Ott met the Disney challenge.
Today, all OTT-LITE products are scientifically formulated with this original idea in mind, but by continuing Dr. Ott’s groundbreaking research, we have since learned to refine and differentiate formulations to satisfy various viewing and lifestyle requirements. Now consumers have a choice. With OTT-LITE lighting systems it is possible to see with superior clarity without the intense heat, excessive glare and harsh distortion of standard lighting.

It is our goal to continue creating high quality products that enhance the lives of our customers, and make the things they do easier and more enjoyable.

On a rainy day it’s hard to get out of bed. But, when it’s clear out with sunlight streaming through your window you’re ready to face the day. There’s more science behind the cause and effect of natural lighting on our mood and attitude than most people realize.
Because our eyes contain 70 percent of our body’s sense receptors, visual cues are unquestionably the primary way we see the world. Light plays a big part in how our eyes work. Unquestionably, natural daylight is the best light source for reading, viewing fine details with true color rendering, and the next best thing to natural daylight is OTT-LITE lighting.

Picture Perfect
Think of how a camera works the same as how your eye does. In order to create the perfect picture, you need two key ingredients – the proper lighting for a balanced exposure and a clearly focused image. OTT-LITE lighting creates the best conditions for your eye to take the perfect picture. Here’s how:
The eye is a light sensing system with a photoreceptive medium like the film. The camera aperture for light is like the pupil. The lens in focus is like the retina. OTT-LITE lighting provides just the right amount and the proper quality of light to allow your eye to see clearly in its most comfortable position.

Improve your indoor environment with the ultimate in natural lighting by OTT-LITE Technology®. It’s the next best thing to natural daylight so you can see as clearly indoors as you do outside. Whatever you do from reading to crafting there’s a lamp designed for you.

Standard lighting uses harsh, intense bright light, which causes the eye to squint resulting in an “overexposed, distorted” view. This harsh brightness can lead to eyestrain and associated headaches. Proof that brighter is not always better.

In fact, there is no amount of ordinary light than can replace the clarity or benefits you can get from natural light. The next best thing is simulated natural light by OTT-LITE Technology.

Through 40 years of scientific research, OTT-LITE Technology has developed specific lighting blends that use a unique balance of light wavelengths to allow the eye to see more accurately and comfortably without the harsh brightness or heat from standard lighting.

The result – reduced glare, low heat, soothing illumination creating a comfortable environment to read, work on the computer, and enjoy crafts and hobbies. Specially formulated blends work better for either reading and computing like our OTT-LITE VisionSaver line with high contrast definition or our TrueColor line for hobbies and crafts that require superior detail enhancement and true color rendering. Check out our Healthy Living line for beauty, pets and plants.

Color Your World!

"… It’s (OTT-LITE® TrueColor™ lamps) so easy on the eyes and allows you to see the real colors of your fabrics. … What a difference and improvement this makes in all your projects.”
— Kaye Wood, Internationally Known Quilt Artist, Author and TV Show Host

"… The colors of the yarn "pop," and the details I design into my knitted pieces stand out as never before. My (OTT-LITE® TrueColor™) lamp has become an invaluable tool for my designing and knitting."
— Nicky Epstein, Award-winning, Nationally-acclaimed Knitting Designer, Educator and Author

“No matter what the weather, time of day or room conditions, the OTT-LITE® (TrueColor™) lamps allow me to see the actual colors of my paints and the details of my brush strokes and designs.”
— Priscilla Hauser, Founder of the Society of Decorative Painters

“… with my OTT-LITE® (TrueColor™) lamp, I see colors the way they really are. I see no glare or distortion, so my eyes feel terrific, even though I sometimes work long hours on tiny details.”
— Dee Gruenig, Renowned Designer, Author and Teacher of Rubberstamping and Scrapbooking

VisionSaver Plus -- Seeing is Believing

"It (OTT-LITE® VisionSaver Plus™ lamps) provides a comfortable visual experience that makes life much easier for my patients and much easier for them to meet their regular daily tasks and work needs and demands. It’s the only light that I use, that my family uses, and it’s the only light that I recommend to my patients.”
— Dr. Marc Gannon, Low Vision Institute, Ft. Lauderdale Florida

“I like what OTT-LITE® (VisionSaver Plus™) lighting does for people. It gets rid of harsh, yellow light and helps you read and see better. There’s no eyestrain with an OTT-LITE® (VisionSaver Plus Plus™) lamp.”
— Roddy, Hamilton, Optician, Midland, Texas

Natural Light Supplement -- You can fool Mother Nature

“We have been using OTT-LITE® (lamps) in our plant growth laboratory for nearly 10 years now … OTT-LITE® (lamps) are a must for healthy growth of all indoor plants!”
— Gary D. Campbell, Laboratory Manager, AgriEnergy Resources

“Within two weeks of using the plant grow lamp it was obvious that even with one tube tied behind its back, the OTT-LITE® (lighting) clobbered the competition by growing nearly twice the size in the same time under the same overall conditions.”
— Peter Benjamin of The Nursery News