The toilet, at night time, can be a dangerous place. Spills, falls and events dangerous to both health and the cleanliness of your bathroom all occur in low light scenarios. Nobody enjoys stumbling around dark bathrooms at night time, and the bright florescent bulbs used to light many toilets and bathrooms across the United States can be harsh on tired eyes during sleep cycles. The Illumibowl is the world’s first dedicated toilet night light, designed to alleviate the common problem of bumps, scrapes and spills that occur in dark bathrooms.
Featured on international television hit Shark’s Tank and picked up by popular news providers such as Forbes, Engadget, Maxim, Gizmodo, and Good Morning America, the Illumibowl is a motion activated, one size fits all, LED nightlight with nine color settings.
With origins in a highly successful 2014 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the Illumibowl is now available across the United States through a range of retail outlets.
What is the Illumibowl?
Essentially a colored night light that causes your toilet to glow every time you walk into the bathroom, the bathroom, the Illumibowl is a motion activated LED night light that sits inside the rim of your toilet bowl. The Patent pending design of the Illumibowl ensures users will never stumble in the dark on the way to the porcelain throne again, with set and forget technology that allows users to rest easy knowing that their Illumibowl will light the way.
The design of the Illumibowl is simple, small and clean. Consisting of a battery pack that sticks to the side of the outer toilet bowl with an in built motion sensor, and a LED array with nine different color settings, the Illumibowl emitters are guaranteed for life and will provide up to 100,000 hours of trusty night time toilet illumination. The Illumibowl is completely splash proof and fits any toilet, with a suction cup array that attaches it to the side of any toilet. Activating via motion detecting, the Illumibowl will light up and stay active for two minutes at a time, or for as long as the user is in the room.
The Illumibowl Story
From humble beginnings on Kickstarter in 2014, the Illumibowl founder team succeeded in crowdfunding their toilet night time dream with the support of over 3000 eager backers that collectively contributed almost $100,000 USD in support of the Illumibowl. From the initial success of their Kickstarter campaign, the Illumibowl team delivered thousands of Illumibowl units across the United States, until being picked up for season 7 of popular innovation show “Shark Tank”.
Succeeding in gaining a business deal with one of the resident celebrity “Shark” investors of the television program, the founders of Illumibowl succeeded in selling several hundred thousand units since the airing of the program featuring their product in early 2016. Now stocked by retailers such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Ace Hardware and True Value, the Illumibowl story has taken the founders on a rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurial glory and brought the delight of multicolored toilet bowls to tens of thousands of people worldwide.
Illumibowl offer a decidedly tongue in cheek approach to their online presence and sales process, delivering comprehensive bathroom tips, potty training tips and potty humour via their website and social media, in addition to supporting NFP charity Zuloo, promoting the UN World Toilet Day with the tagline “Because the World Needs to Poop”.
Illumibowl Pricing & Availability
The Illumibowl is available from a number of retailers across the United States, with the average price of an Illumibowl unit roughly $19.99. Also available from Amazon online for an average price of $16.99, the Illumibowl is a cheap, fun and effective way to ensure safety in the bathroom at night.
