Life is good.
With luck all those blue LEDs will fall out of fashion, hopefully sooner rather than later, like Sylvania TVs with Halo Light, sack dresses, chrome Automatic (some even in script) on the backs and sides of '50s cars, '60s flower-power typefaces, '70s leisure suits and disco music and 'the entire decade of the '80s (though 10 years was a helluva long time to wait).
Twenty years from now, gadgets with blue LEDs that scream Late Elizabethan Age will be worth a fortune.
I can’t wait until we get to this design aesthetic:
I just purchased a new air filter unit yesterday.
Plugged it in, and of course all these blue lights come on at the control panel.
But wait…there’s a little icon on the panel with a picture of a light bulb. I press it and unit goes dark while still continuing to run.
THANK YOU HONEYWELL. You get it.
some kind of galactic hyper-hearse.
Oh hell yes. I had a whole concert ruined for me by one of these once that blinked on and off in a completely random manner. I spent the whole show with my brain obsessed with determining the input-output relationship driving this mysterious light to trigger. Was it a stomp box? A volume gate? A stage scene setting? Every time I thought I may have had it, it would blink/not-blink my current theory into shreds.
The only conceivable possibility was that this equipment rack was busy calculating pi and transmitting each digit by Morse code to the aisle ushers. Or it was directly hooked up to the bathroom hand dryer button.
I’m always impressed by your ability to complain about marketing. Normally it’s a subject that will arouse my sympathies, but you do it so that I feel like I’d sympathize with that used car salesman who sold me a lemon in 1992 so long as he was complaining about you. The electric can opener has long been high on my list of stupid products for stupid people. It’s one spot lower today, though, because I had to make room for the electric corkscrew.
When you switch on my washing machine, it plays a little tune in ear-piercing electronic bleeps.
Yeah, thanks for waking up the neighbours for no reason…
I totally agree with this Pitting. I hate blinky lights when I’m trying to sleep.
It’s not having light in my field of view. I can sleep in daylight, if it’s dispersed. Hell, I managed to sleep on a plane staring out the window in sunlight.
But it’s having a bright spot in my field of view. Annoying as hell. One spot bright while the rest is dark.
Bad offender for me, a room heater. It has LED buttons for the settings, so you can see the status. It also has a remote, so you can adjust from across the room. Except I’m trying to sleep and the room glows green. I covered over it with a piece of plastic taped as a hinge. Because I have to have access to the buttons to turn it on and off. The sensor for the remote is also there. Not that I use the remote.
Hotel I stayed in this weekend had blue LED lights on the light switches. I guess to tell if the switches are on or off. WTF?
They’re there so that you can find the switches in the dark in an unfamiliar room.
I have a complaint about hard drive lights on computers. They are either too dim or don’t exist.
You can sleep with CPAP- but the blue LED keeps you up?
That’s like if Rambo turned out to be the Princess with the Pea. 
Meanwhile, LED grow lights are freakin’ awesome and getting awesomer daily.
Preach it, brother! Testify!
I whole heartedly support this rant. I have used every trick in here so far listed.
I know, it’s really weird. The sound AND positive pressure get me to sleep and yet those freakin’ lights !! Arrrgh. I have them beat back with a scrap of Duvateen but really, why are we fighting these lights? I see a great side-business here. "LED-Darkeners ". All manner of small black cloth with magnets, suction cups, etc to cover irritating lights up.
The road to hell is served by…Air Canada 
I can solve it even easier.
Turn the damned thing off until you need it.
This may be a slight hijack, but someone mentioned a Wii upthread. I hate that the Wii uses a yellow LED to indicate that it is in standby mode, and a green LED to indicate that it is on. Really? There weren’t two other colors you could have used, Nintendo? Maybe green and blue? Perhaps yellow and blue? The green and yellow is so close together in shade (to these old and tired eyes), that half the time I end up turning it off if it is on.
Yeah, first-world problem, I know.
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Four long, loud beeps. Five seconds apart.
Which will not stop repeating at 15-minute intervals until the door is opened.
This was driving me crazy with my new Bosch, too…then my daughter read the manual and there is a way to stop it.
Doesn’t solve the problem when the device has LED’s that light up when off. Or if it’s a device that doesn’t (and shouldn’t) ever shut off.
Like my new router. The blue LED’s on this thing are ridiculous, and even covering the front of the unit with black tape doesn’t help as the lights are so bright they shine back through the unit and cause the cooling vents to glow very bright blue as well. And taping up the cooling vents is a bad idea unless you want to kill the router.