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Nanoleaf does smart outdoor lights now
Nanoleaf, the company best known for its modular wall lighting tiles, is now moving on to the outside of your house.
Nanoleaf's Sense+ Control lighting line can automate itself
Nanoleaf's new Sense+ Control light switches connect to a Thread Border Router that features an assistant that can automate your lights.
Nanoleaf LED shapes and light bars now sync with Corsair gaming products
Nanoleaf, known for its modular wall lighting tiles, has teamed up with gaming company Corsair to make gaming setups more immersive and colorful.
Samsung starts verifying Matter-compatible smart home devices
Samsung has started verifying some of the first smart home devices to support the new Matter standard.
Nanoleaf has stopped selling its original wall tiles
Nanoleaf is retiring the product that made it into a household name.
Nanoleaf Lines are customizable smart light bars
Lines will let you draw stick images over your wall and light them as you wish.
The best Labor Day tech sales we could find
The best Labor Day 2021 tech sales include $150 off Apple's MacBook Air M1, $60 off AirPods Pro and $20 off Google's Nest Audio smart speaker.
Nanoleaf takes on Hue with its first bulb and lightstrip
Nanoleaf is taking on smart lighting giants like Hue with its first bulb and lightstrip.
Nanoleaf adds Triangles to its colorful Shapes light panels
Nanoleaf has unveiled the latest light panels in its Shapes series, this time in the form of a triangle. Like the previous hexagon models, you can put them together in different patterns and mirror your TV, sync to music or control them with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple HomeKit.
Nanoleaf’s next light panels will apparently learn and adapt to you (updated)
Nanoleaf is known for its colorful, modular wall lighting tiles which sync with your music and gaming controls. At CES last year, it showed off its smart home control unit, an illuminated dodecahedron. Now, for CES this year, it has announced an integrated learning lighting system.
Nanoleaf's colorful wall tiles now act as Razer gaming controls
Nanoleaf and Razer teamed up last year to making gaming an even more immersive experience. Thanks to integrations between Nanoleaf's modular lights and Razer's Synapse IoT platform, gamers could enjoy everything from event-based flashes and explosions to instant notifications when a spell is ready to fire, all in glorious technicolor across their gaming space. Now the partnership has expanded to bring game controls to the illuminated touch-tiles, too.
Nanoleaf's modular light squares can be turned into smart buttons
Nanoleaf is launching an upgrade to its Canvas Smarter Kit lights that will let you turn them into buttons to control Apple Homekit devices, all with simply a touch -- and without your smartphone. The new feature, which is dubbed Touch Actions, is going to give you the ability to map Nanoleaf's funky, modular light squares to become smart buttons for your home, letting you do things like tap one square to turn off all the lights or another tap to turn down the temperature in your thermostat. The only caveat is this will only work with your Apple HomeKit setup, but for owners of the Nanoleaf Canvas Smarter kit, they'll now have quite a clever way to control their smart home.
Nanoleaf delivers music syncing for its Aurora smart lights
Nanoleaf's WiFi-connected Aurora smart lights are notable for their modular, customizable design plus the ability to program colorful displays via an app or control them with Apple HomeKit, Android and Amazon Alexa. Now, it's nearly ready to ship a couple of add-ons that should make the panels even more impressive for your guests. The Aurora Rhythm module plugs into the light and picks up on sounds in the room to automatically create matching light shows. You can also create animated "scenes" to play along with certain types of music, and share them with others through its app.
Target and Indiegogo team up to get crowd-funded wares to retail
When you back a project on Indiegogo, Kickstarter or any other crowd-funding site, chances are you've never seen the product you're putting your faith (and cash) in the flesh. Target and Indiegogo want to change that. The two companies announced that select devices from Indiegogo campaigns would show up in the retailer's Open House connected-home experiment in San Francisco. It's a small step towards giving the folks that can actually deliver their device a chance to show the world, they actually made something that's worth buying.
Artificial trees could function as solar-wind harvester
SolarBotanic is a company which researches and specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry -- which seeks to mimic nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems. SolarBotanic is focusing on energy production, and, to that end, they've developed what they call Energy Harvesting Trees. The trees aren't "real," (they're just modeled on real ones); these are composed of Nanoleafs, which use nanotechnology designed to capture the "sun's energy in photovoltaic and thermovoltaic cells, then convert the radiation into electricity." They also have stems and twigs which house nano-piezovoltaic material which act as generators producing electricity from movement or kinetic energy caused by wind or rain. The company has several patents on the technology already, and are currently seeking partners for funding and development. We don't really have any details about what these fake trees look like -- but Thom Yorke's probably going to write a song about them.
