This adjustable MagSafe light puts 36,000 colors on the back of your iPhone

The Sol 5 Spectra tin beryllium purchased with optional lenses that make patterned lighting effects. | Image: Harlowe

Harlowe’s caller Sol 5 Spectra smartphone light volition amended the prime of your photos and selfies oregon assistance you acceptable a melodramatic mood. It features a akin extending and swiveling plan arsenic Harlowe’s archetypal Sol 5 light, but alternatively of conscionable basal brightness and colour somesthesia adjustments, the caller Spectra adds full-color LEDs truthful you tin prime 1 of 36,000 antithetic hues utilizing either a interaction sheet connected the backmost oregon a connected smartphone app.

The Sol 5 Spectra is launching contiguous successful Asia, Europe, and Australia for $199 — a important measurement up from the original’s $79 terms tag. However, arsenic a effect of Trump raising tariffs connected Chinese goods up to 145 percent, Harlowe is postponing the US motorboat of the Sol 5 Spectra. “As of today’s presumption with tariffs, we are optimistic that the airy volition merchandise successful the US this Spring,” Harlowe spokesperson Kiran Karnani told The Verge. “We are doing everything successful our powerfulness not to rise our prices arsenic a effect of the tariffs.”

Like the original, the Sol 5 Spectra attaches to the backmost of immoderate smartphones that has a Qi2-compatible magnetic mount, oregon has been upgraded with the magnetic adhesive rings that Harlowe includes. The institution compares its size to a compact constitution mirror, but astatine 1.26-inches heavy and weighing 154 grams, you’re decidedly going to announcement the Spectra hanging disconnected the backmost of your device.

The airy tin beryllium utilized portion folded level against the backmost of your device, providing other illumination erstwhile shooting with your phone’s main cameras. But it besides swivels and is attached to a abbreviated extending limb truthful the airy tin beryllium repositioned to look you, improving selfies.

The Spectra’s brightness, hue, and colour somesthesia (shifting betwixt warmer and cooler tints of achromatic light) tin beryllium adjusted utilizing a interaction sheet connected the back, but it’s not a screen. If you privation to beryllium capable to dial successful settings with much accuracy, the Spectra uses Bluetooth to link to Harlowe’s mobile app, which provides much precise adjustments utilizing colour wheels, sliders, and nonstop percentages.

Its 1,000mAh artillery is bully for up to 90 minutes of illumination astatine afloat brightness, which is 220 lumens of light. There’s besides a boost mode that temporarily doubles the brightness to 440 lumens for 30 seconds, but which volition trim the Spectra’s wide artillery life.

The Sol 5 Spectra Standard Kit includes a magnetically-attached frosted dome that diffuses and softens airy portion besides wholly removing bluish light, which the institution says “enhances the prime of airy for self-portraits.”

You tin besides opt for a much costly $339 Sol 5 Spectra Creator Kit, which includes the frosted dome arsenic good arsenic 2 interchangeable magnetic Magic Lenses and 5 Magic Plates that make further static lighting effects similar patterns and textures.