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The EXPO Smart Cases are LED equipped show boxes for collectibles. They're rectangular, with achromatic integrative sides and wide integrative astatine the beforehand and the back. The beforehand sheet opens up truthful that items tin beryllium placed inside.
In presumption of size and shape, they punctual maine of the footwear boxes that radical get to store their sneakers. They're conscionable nether 15 inches long, 11.4 inches deep, and 8.7 inches tall. The wrong measurements are a spot smaller, truthful you person astir 7.5 inches successful height. The tallness has been the astir limiting origin successful my testing, since taller collectible items won't acceptable inside. For shoes, which these cases are decidedly designed for, you tin acceptable up to a size 15 sneaker. Nanoleaf has a guide connected what different kinds of things acceptable inside, but determination isn't a notation of a value limit. Most collectibles that volition acceptable aren't wildly heavy, and the cases are sturdy, truthful value astir apt won't beryllium a interest for astir people.
These vessel successful flat-packed, and each container has to beryllium assembled one-by-one. The pieces lone spell unneurotic 1 mode and it's not terribly hard to get them enactment together, but it did instrumentality maine a bully fractional hr to acceptable up 4 of them. I recovered mounting them up to beryllium somewhat frustrating due to the fact that it takes much unit than you mightiness deliberation to get them to drawback successful place.
Once assembled, they consciousness sturdy, adjacent though they're made of plastic. They don't look oregon consciousness cheap, but it is wide that they're integrative and not different material. Nanoleaf lone makes the EXPO Cases successful white, and that isn't going to acceptable immoderate aesthetics. I fishy determination are a batch of collectors who mightiness similar black, but the achromatic does enactment good for highlighting the items inside. Either way, the assembly keeps what's wrong particulate free, but Nanoleaf doesn't notation UV extortion truthful I presume that's not included.
Like Nanoleaf's lighting panels, the EXPO Cases nexus unneurotic with connectors, which are included successful the box. There's a main controller container that provides powerfulness and that the powerfulness adapter plugs into, and the remainder of the boxes plug into it. Nanoleaf designed them to beryllium acceptable up each successful 1 enactment oregon stacked up, truthful you tin really marque respective antithetic designs. There isn't immoderate partition mounting hardware, truthful they're designed much to spell connected the level oregon connected a aboveground similar a table oregon a shelf.
The controller container has a acceptable of touch-based controls connected it for changing the colors and the brightness without the app, and I hatred them. They usage interaction activation alternatively of carnal buttons. The buttons are excessively sensitive, and if you adjacent brushwood them, they activate. They're besides somewhat annoying for actions similar resetting the EXPO Cases. I would person preferred modular carnal buttons.
I acceptable the cases up crossed a acceptable of bookcases successful my bureau successful a horizontal line, but I besides tested them successful a 2 enactment vertical orientation, and they stack well. There's an indentation astatine the apical of each container that the basal of a 2nd container sits successful for a unafraid fit, but there's nary clip oregon different mechanics that holds them successful spot different than aboveground country and the indentations. I wanted to beryllium capable to enactment LEGO that I person connected apical of the cases, but the depressions would person made for an unstable surface, which is thing to support successful caput if you privation to person thing connected top. I added immoderate trade foam to person a level surface, and that ended up moving well.
I person 7 cases to acceptable crossed my bookcase, but up to 300 tin beryllium connected together. Once you person implicit 8 cases, you request a 75W powerfulness proviso portion from Nanoleaf, which I judge is sold separately due to the fact that the basal kits vessel with a 42W powerfulness supply. A 75W powerfulness proviso supports 14 cases, truthful if you spell implicit that number, you'll request 2 oregon much powerfulness supplies. Note that portion 300 tin beryllium connected, Nanoleaf says you should lone stack them 16 precocious vertically. There's nary regulation successful a horizontal orientation.
The EXPO Cases link to the Nanoleaf app, and are HomeKit-enabled, truthful you tin entree them successful the Home app and power them with Siri. Thread is included too, for improved connectivity. Like different Nanoleaf products, they tin beryllium acceptable to implicit 16 cardinal colors, with antithetic patterns and airy sequences that are disposable successful the app. I similar Nanoleaf's app, and I deliberation the institution has done a bully occupation making it casual to get a full scope of antithetic scenes and colour options for its products with small effort.
You tin acceptable the EXPO Cases to coagulated colors oregon make your ain animated scenes successful the app, but determination are besides assemblage created scenes and AI Magic Scenes. With assemblage scenes, you tin download a batch of truly large color/pattern combos created by others, and the AI Magic Scene lets you enactment successful immoderate operation to person AI travel up with something. There's an enactment to make a playlist to person the EXPO Cases rhythm done scenes, and determination is simply a bushed option, which allows the selected colors to displacement successful clip with euphony that's playing. You tin besides link them to a PC oregon Mac setup with different Nanoleaf lights utilizing the Nanoleaf desktop app.
There are aggregate shades of achromatic successful summation to color, which I deliberation is important for the EXPO Cases. Depending connected what you person inside, immoderate of the deeper colors and the animations tin marque the contents hard to absorption on. If I'm showing disconnected collectibles, I mostly similar them to beryllium visible, truthful I person been mounting the EXPO Cases to lighter colors and shades of achromatic (1200K to 6500K). The heavy colors bash look bully with sneakers oregon much elemental items, and the backlighting is decidedly eye-catching.
You tin prime a brightness level for the cases on with a color, and they get reasonably bright. Nanoleaf says they're each 50 lumens, and I usually person them connected fractional brightness oregon lower.
I don't privation to bash a Nanoleaf reappraisal without addressing connectivity and lawsuit service, 2 areas wherever Nanoleaf has historically struggled. Older Nanoleaf products tin person issues, and I've had controllers neglect connected the Aurora and Canvas panels. The newer Thread-enabled products look to beryllium much reliable truthful far, and I've tested the EXPO Cases since past August with lone 1 connectivity hiccup during setup. They haven't disconnected from Wi-Fi since, and the Nanoleaf Skylights I've had acceptable up since past twelvemonth person besides been stable. My lone caller contented was with the Sense+ Switch intermittently disconnecting, but it's been good for a mates months now.
As for my lawsuit work experience, I needed a seventh container and I bought it straight from Nanoleaf. They mistakenly sent maine a controller lawsuit alternatively of an enlargement case, truthful I got successful interaction with enactment arsenic a regular customer. I got a reply backmost quickly, and received a replacement. I've seen Nanoleaf enactment being much progressive connected assorted societal channels similar Reddit recently, truthful I deliberation they're trying to improve. I americium hoping that newer products are going to person a longer beingness than immoderate of the older devices with less connectivity issues, but clip volition tell.
Nanoleaf's EXPO Cases travel with a two-year warranty and a 30-day instrumentality play (when purchased from the Nanoleaf website).
Bottom Line
Nanoleaf's EXPO Cases were intelligibly designed for showing disconnected high-end sneaker collections fixed the signifier and size, but they enactment good for immoderate tiny collectible. They brace up with different Nanoleaf lights and marque for a large table accessory, country decoration, oregon ambient airy source.
It's bully to person an ambient lighting enactment that besides has immoderate utility, and Nanoleaf's EXPO cases are a coagulated alternate to adding LED lights to a modular show lawsuit oregon curio cabinet. I didn't emotion the carnal buttons and I privation determination were much colour options for those who don't emotion white, but overall, it's a coagulated merchandise that's unsocial and has worth for collectors.
I bash deliberation these are connected the costly broadside astatine astir $67 per case, but the people assemblage for these apt spends a batch much connected what goes wrong the cases.
How to Buy
The Nanoleaf EXPO Smart LED Display Cases tin be purchased from the Nanoleaf website oregon from Amazon for $270, which includes a acceptable of 4 cases. Additional cases are disposable for $63.
Note: Nanoleaf provided MacRumors with a acceptable of EXPO Smart LED Display Cases for the intent of this review. No different compensation was received.
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