Ikea’s colorful donut-shaped smart lamp is $20 off

With its playful design, versatility, and comparatively affordable price, the Ikea Varmblixt rapidly became 1 of my workfellow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy’s caller favourite astute airy products when she tested it successful April. Now, the donut-shaped lamp is connected merchantability for $79.99 ($20 off) done November 11th astatine Ikea.

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Don’t fto america archer you wherever you tin oregon cannot enactment your Varmblixt. But it’s meant to beryllium connected a array oregon beryllium mounted connected a partition (it tin bent from a drilled-in screw, thing fancy). At conscionable 180 lumens, it isn’t peculiarly bright, truthful it’s amended suited for usage arsenic a bedside lamp oregon for temper lighting than being tasked to illuminate a room. The newer exemplary lets you rhythm done 12 preset colors, including shades of pink, blue, green, and white, arsenic opposed to conscionable orangish with the predecessor. The included wireless distant lets you power betwixt colors, set the brightness, and crook the lamp connected oregon disconnected without needing an app oregon a abstracted hub (there’s a powerfulness fastener connected the lamp itself) . You tin besides usage the distant to power different compatible Ikea lights.

For those who privation to embed the Varmblixt into their astute location setup, the lamp supports Matter, allowing it to enactment with compatible astute location platforms including Apple Home, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa. In summation to letting you power the lights with your voice, this gives you entree to hundreds much colors, lets you acceptable lighting schedules and slumber oregon wake-up routines, and allows you to link the lamp with question sensors and different astute lights you whitethorn have. You tin unlock those features with Ikea’s Dirigera hub, arsenic well, which besides offers a diagnostic done its Home Smart app that gradually adjusts the shadiness of achromatic passim the time akin to earthy daylight.

Read our Ikea Varmblixt review.