{"id":505941,"date":"2026-01-10T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/505941\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:42:17","slug":"ikea-smartened-up-some-of-its-artsy-fartsy-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/505941\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikea Smartened Up Some of Its Artsy-Fartsy Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ikea came out swinging in its debut appearance at CES 2026<\/a>, showcasing an array of new (hello, Kallsup!<\/a>) and recently released speakers and Matter-compatible smart home devices. That includes the announcement that the company is adding smart home capability to two designer lamps in its Varmblixt collection.<\/p>\n

The first thing I saw on walking into Ikea\u2019s CES suite was a shelf with a multicolored assortment of the company\u2019s donut lamp. Before, this lamp was a moody amber color; now, it has an RGB light inside of it that shifts between colors slowly and gently, something an Ikea representative said is a purposeful part of the design.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Varmblixt<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\u00a9 Wes Davis \/ Gizmodo \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"Closeup<\/a> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tDo not eat the donut lamp. \u00a9 Wes Davis \/ Gizmodo \t\t\t\t \t\t <\/p>\n

The lamp\u2019s colors aren\u2019t quite as saturated as something you\u2019d get from Govee, but that\u2019s not the worst thing. I\u2019ve always found Govee\u2019s colors to be a little too vibrant, at least for indoor home lighting.<\/p>\n

\"AThe Varmblixt pendant light only cycles through white color temperatures. \u00a9 Wes Davis \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

The other light on display was a pendant lamp that\u2019s made up of what look like a bunch of hanging, bent fluorescent tubes. They\u2019re not dimmable and aren\u2019t RGB, but instead range across the white light temperature spectrum, similar to Philips Hue\u2019s white ambiance lights. Like the donut lamp, the pendant lamp transitions along its color temperature range gently.<\/p>\n

Both of the new smart lamps are Matter-compatible, meaning they should work with any of the major smart home platforms. For those who don\u2019t feel like connecting them, Ikea includes a small, pre-paired Matter-compatible remote with two buttons on it. It can both dim the pendant lamp and change its color temperature, while for the donut lamp, it dims or cycles through 12 colors chosen by artist Sabine Marcelis, who worked with Ikea to design them.<\/p>\n

Ikea says in its press release that it\u2019s collaborating with Marcelis on a new collection that it plans to launch in 2027, although it\u2019s not clear whether that will include smart home devices. The new Matter-compatible Varmblixt lamps will be available starting in April; the donut lamp will be $99.99, and the pendant lamp $149.99.<\/p>\n

Gizmodo is on the ground in Las Vegas all week bringing you everything you need to know about the tech unveiled at CES 2026. You can follow our CES live blog here<\/a> and find all our coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ikea came out swinging in its debut appearance at CES 2026, showcasing an array of new (hello, Kallsup!)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":505942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[214452,61496,10170,143686,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-505941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ces-2026","9":"tag-ikea","10":"tag-smart-home","11":"tag-smart-lights","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115870390515683649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}