Friday, July 12, 2019

"Ikea doubles down on smart homes"

There's a joke in here, somewhere, but I'm too tired to look for it.
Speaking of which, waddya think about your house (or wearables) telling your employer how much sleep you got last night?

From Fast Company:
Swedish furniture maker Ikea is doubling down on its smart home strategy with updated lighting products, a revamped app, and new motion sensors coming soon to a U.S. store near you.
Apple’s home automation enthusiast site HomeKit Hero has found a lot of new Tradfri products in Ikea’s shop—from smart LED bulbs to light panels. Tradfri is Ikea’s line of smart home accessories, which started in 2017 with a bunch of Wi-Fi LED bulbs that are compatible with Apple’s HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home.

The new products include a $16 light bulb with three user-adjustable color temperatures—warm glow, warm white, and cool white. The dimmable light can reach 1,000 lumens, about the power of a traditional 70-watt incandescent light, which is enough to light up a small room.

There’s also a new $20 candelabra frosted E12 white bulb that tops off 650 lumens—comparable to a 40-watt incandescent. It offers nine user-adjustable colors, with options like dark peach, light purple, peach, dark red, dark pink, blue, lime, or yellow. An additional warmer temperature is appropriately called candlelight....MORE
 Previously on IKEA and trends:
IKEA Is Already Designing Furniture For Autonomous Vehicles
"Ikea will soon have a meatless version of its iconic meatball"
Apparently Balenciaga Made A $2100 Knockoff of the IKEA Tote Bag, IKEA Is Amused
Autonomous Robots 'May' Have Mastered The Assembly Of IKEA Furniture
Today in Umlauts: "Journey into the heart of Ikea"