Topic: smart lighting
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Govee's AI-Powered Smart Ceiling Light Projects Art Overhead
Govee introduced two smart ceiling lights at CES 2026: the Sky Ceiling Light for a daylight-like skylight effect and the Ceiling Light Ultra, which projects detailed images and animations using 616 LEDs. The advanced Ceiling Light Ultra features generative AI for custom imagery and functions as a...
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Illuminate Your Home with Smart Lighting This Fall
Smart lighting enhances home convenience and ambiance through voice control and automation, with increasingly affordable and compatible products like Matter-standard devices. Key features include adjusting color temperature to mimic natural daylight for better mood and using gradual light for gen...
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Govee smart lamps with color-changing lights are 30% off
Govee's smart table lamps are currently discounted by 30% during spring sales, with the Table Lamp 2 Pro at an all-time low of $134.99 and the compact Table Lamp 2 for $55.99. Both lamp models offer millions of colors, preset scenes, and smart home integration via Matter, Alexa, and Google Home f...
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Philips Hue Lights: Bigger, Brighter, and More Affordable Now
Philips Hue has launched a major product expansion, including a new central hub, budget-friendly lighting range, and enhanced light strips and outdoor options. The Hue Bridge Pro hub offers improved performance, Wi-Fi connectivity, and supports up to 150 lights, while the Essential line provides ...
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Govee portable smart lamp hits one of its best prices yet
Govee's rechargeable Table Lamp Classic is currently $59 on Amazon, $21 off, marking its second-best price ever, just $4 above its Prime Day all-time low. The cordless, 4,800mAh battery-powered lamp can be moved room-to-room for up to 30 hours on colored light or five hours on bright white, but i...
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Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is 50% off
The Nanoleaf Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is now available for $99.99, a 50% discount and an all-time low price, making it a standout back-to-school purchase. This kit combines customizable, edge-lit smart panels with a sturdy shelf and pegboard (supporting up to 6.6 and 3.3 pounds) for organizing...
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Philips Hue Essential Starter Kit Drops to Its Lowest Price
The Philips Hue Essential Starter Kit, including four color bulbs and a Hue Bridge, has dropped to an all-time low price of $79.99 at Amazon, a $40 discount that effectively gives two bulbs free compared to the two-bulb kit. The kit offers millions of colors and tunable white light (2200K-6500K),...
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Govee’s ceiling light functions as a low-res display
Govee has launched the Ceiling Light Ultra ($249.99), its largest and most advanced overhead fixture at 21 inches with 5,000 lumens, featuring a dense array of 616 individually controllable LEDs that can function as a low-resolution screen to display custom images and patterns. The light offers 1...
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Govee Smart Bulbs: 4-Pack for $27
Govee's Smart A19 LED bulbs are on sale for $26.99 for a four-pack on March 31st, matching a near all-time low price as part of the Amazon Big Spring Sale. The bulbs offer over 16 million colors, adjustable color temperature, and features like preset scenes and a music sync mode for dynamic light...
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You're Probably Using Your Hue Lights Wrong
Philips Hue has introduced SpatialAware technology, which uses smartphone scanning to create a 3D room map, allowing lights to understand their physical placement for more cohesive scenes. The system intelligently distributes colors and intensities based on each light's position, creating dynamic...
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Ikea Adds Matter Support to Two Stylish Lamps
Ikea is adding Matter support to its Varmblixt donut and pendant lamps, enabling seamless integration with a wider range of smart home platforms and devices beyond its own ecosystem. The updated donut lamp features a new matte finish to better showcase its color-changing LEDs, offering twelve cur...
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LIFX Unveils Smart Mirror and $30 Dimmer for Smart Bulbs
LIFX announced a major expansion of its smart lighting ecosystem, including a Matter-enabled smart mirror, its first US in-wall dimmer, and a new affordable Everyday line of bulbs and light strips. The new products, like the SuperColor mirror and Smart Dimmer, feature Matter support for broad pla...
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Nanoleaf Floor Lamp Review: Simple, Affordable, But App Needs Work
The Nanoleaf Smart Multicolor Floor Lamp offers advanced features like music-reactive lighting, screen mirroring, and extensive color customization at an affordable price, making it a compelling choice for smart home enthusiasts. Despite its impressive performance and smooth color transitions, th...
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Philips Hue: Your Lights Will Soon Be Motion Sensors
Philips Hue introduces MotionAware, a feature that uses existing bulbs to create a motion-sensing network via Zigbee signal disruptions, requiring no extra hardware and compatible with most bulbs made after 2014. Activation requires the new Hue Bridge Pro, at least three mains-powered devices per...
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Philips Hue and more smart lights now over 20% off
Woot's one-day sale offers an extra 20% off already reduced prices on tech gadgets using code SAVETWENTY, with standout deals including the Philips Hue Bridge Gen 2 for $25.60 and the Play HDMI Sync Box 8K for $212. Beyond lighting, the sale includes refurbished first-gen Amazon Kindle Scribe mod...
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Govee's Rechargeable Lamp Costs Less Than Half of Hue's
Govee's new Table Lamp Classic is a budget-friendly, portable smart lamp priced at $79.99, less than half the cost of the Philips Hue Go, which launched at $175.99. The Govee lamp is brighter (500 lumens) but has a shorter battery life than the Hue Go, and it is designed for indoor use only, lack...
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IKEA's color-changing Sabine Marcelis lamps debut at CES
IKEA debuted a smart, color-updated version of its popular Varmblixt "doughnut lamp" at CES, featuring a matte white finish and a bulb that creates a soft internal glow instead of external reflections. The new lamp allows users to cycle through twelve preset colors via remote, with smooth transit...
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Hue wired modules bring old lights into smart ecosystem
Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules, which install behind standard switches to retrofit non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem, alongside more affordable Play lamps and upgraded E14 candle bulbs with Matter-over-Thread. The new Play lamps and candle bulbs are rolling out global...
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Nanoleaf pivots to robots, red light therapy, and AI
Nanoleaf has been quiet in the smart lighting market for two years, but this is due to a major "brand evolution" focused on wellness, robotics, and artificial intelligence. CEO Gimmy Chu describes the smart home market as "boring" and is pivoting the company beyond smart lighting into embodied AI...
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SwitchBot's AI Desk Light Mimics a Pixel Art Snow Globe
The SwitchBot Obboto is an AI-powered RGB desk lamp, unveiled at CES, that functions as a dynamic pixel art display for personalized animations and lighting. It features over 2,900 RGB LEDs, a motion sensor, and smart functions like music visualization, AI mood animations, and dedicated modes for...
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