This IFA innovation has enlightened and inspired me
At the tech fair, Lexon is showing very simple yet sophisticated decorative lights that communicate with each other. For me, this is the most magical innovation at IFA.
The Digitec and Galaxus editorial team will be reporting on site from IFA 2023 in Berlin. You can find all the news and background information published so far in our overview:
For over 30 years, the French brand Lexon has focussed on the motto: small and design. The brand has alarm clocks, speakers, chargers, radios, but also lights on sale. And the lights are also at the centre of its presence at the IFA tech trade fair.
The new Luma lamps, which are available in various sizes, are a real eye-catcher. And which we already have in our range. Like every Lexon product category, the lamps were designed by an external designer. In this case, Manuela Simonelli and Andrea Quaglio from Paris.
One luminaire controls all the others
The small lights are intended purely as a decorative element, they don't provide much light. But they do provide ambience - you can even change the colours with a click on top. Several Lexon Luma lamps can also be connected together via Bluetooth, which then synchronise with each other. This allows you to control the colour and intensity for the entire group via one lamp.
The lights are waterproof, so they can also be used outdoors. They are charged via USB-C or, even more elegantly, wirelessly via a charger that supports the QI standard - which is what most wireless chargers are. One charge then lasts for up to 24 hours.
Lexon is now extending the principle to other areas. Bubble is a new lamp for the office or reading table. Although it can also switch between nine colours with a single click, it can also simply provide white light with a brightness of 150 lumens. So you really do have a bit of light. The base of the lamp also has a QI charger with 15 watts. There are also two USB-C ports. You can also use Bubble wirelessly, the battery lasts for six hours of light.
Lamp for the bedside table - and one for the restaurant
Lexon not only has a new lamp for the office desk, but also for the bedside table. Mina Sunrise also has the new lights as ambient lighting as well as a clock and an alarm clock that can be combined with a simulation of sunrise and sunset. So you set the wake-up time and press the lamp. It slowly gets darker, the colours change from yellow to red, just like a sunset. And in the morning, it slowly gets lighter before you are definitely woken up by one of the five melodies or natural sounds.
The principle of the Luma lights mentioned at the beginning will soon also be available to admire in a new series called Steli. This was specially designed at the suggestion of the catering industry. Although the Luma lights also look stylish on the tables in a restaurant, they emit a little too much light all round - and are also a little wide and rounded.
The Steli lights are slimmer and somewhat less conspicuous. They only shine downwards onto the table. Ideal for indirect lighting in a restaurant - but also for the home.
Cover photo: Lorenz KellerGadgets are my passion - whether you need them for the home office, for the household, for sport and pleasure or for the smart home. Or, of course, for the big hobby next to the family, namely fishing.