If you hope to plug this in to an outlet controlled by a wall switch (the way many people operate a floor lamp), you can forget it. You can certainly turn it off from your wall switch (once it's already on), but you can't turn it on that way. Apparently that's because the switch on the lamp is a digital touch switch — it doesn't close a circuit that remains closed. No, once you turn off the switch at the wall, the switch on the lamp will "forget" that you had it turned on. So turning it back on is a two-step process: turn the power back on at the wall and then touch the switch on the lamp to turn it back on. Ridiculous!