Smart lights are a great way to harness the power of Alexa, Google Home, and other voice assistants to control and adjust the lighting in your home. By connecting your new lamp to Wi-Fi, you can choose multiple lamp colors, set schedules and scene options, and even adjust the lighting on the go.
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From the smart lighting pioneers to some new and inventive brands, here are our picks for the best smart lamps of 2020.
Philips Hue Bloom Smart table lamp
Do you want to light up your home while adding a bit of color? This smart table lamp is part of the Philips Hue line, well known among smart home enthusiasts who enjoy the brand's endlessly colorful lighting solutions.
This lamp is the perfect size for a desk or bedside table as it is only 5 inches in diameter. You can just tuck it away in a corner of the table or even hide it behind a TV. It can produce millions of different colors and you can sync it with your Alexa-enabled or Google Assistant-enabled devices or the Philips Hue app and control the lamp with your voice. The lamp can also be synced with your favorite songs, films and video games to add a whole new dimension to your favorite entertainment.
WiZ Smart LED Hero table lamp
This smart lamp from WiZ has such a modern design that it will look equally at home on your side table, TV stand or desk. The 7 inch tall design is an ideal size for most rooms. What makes this lamp super cool is its ability to change colors on certain events. For example, you can program the lamp to automatically glow blue when it starts raining outside. You can also set it to yellow when bedtime is approaching by creating a lighting schedule with the app.
With the app you can switch the lamp on and off. So if you prepare for bed and find that you forgot to turn off the lamp, you don't even have to get up. The lamp doesn't require a hub or bridge, although you can sync it with your Amazon Echo or Google Home device if you need to. To go on vacation? Use the vacation mode, which turns the lamp on, when you want to create the impression that someone is home while you are away.
Philips Hue White Ambiance Wellness table lamp
The lighting in a room can really affect its mood. For this reason, Philips developed this wellness lamp, with which you can create a quiet work environment in which you can concentrate and be productive. The lamp comes with a Hue White Ambiance lamp that can produce 50,000 different shades of white. The brushed aluminum looks modern and calming from your bedroom to your office.
Whether you're trying to get some much needed rest and relaxation, a meditation session, or focused study, this lamp has presets for every occasion, mood and need. Would you like to create a more fun atmosphere? Just swap out the lightbulb for a color bulb and you can program the lamp to produce thousands of different colors.
The C from GE Sol Smart Lamp
The C by GE Sol Smart lamp is as futuristic as it looks, with an integrated smart speaker. Amazon Alexa is integrated into the lamp, so you can switch the lamp on and off with your voice and even set timers, check the weather report and play music.
With a variety of lighting options in different colors, it's easy to choose the perfect shade for your mood and use lighting colors to encourage a better sleep cycle. Sol is compatible with a wide variety of other smart home devices so you can have a truly connected home. This lamp isn't small - it's roughly the size and diameter of a basketball - unlike some of the other more compact devices on this list. So make sure you have enough space in your room for it.
Napatek Smart LED desk lamp
This 64-LED desk lamp from Napatek is a charmer and offers voice support for Alexa and Google Home commands. The lamp easily understands and quickly executes prompts such as "turn the lamp on" and "decrease the brightness". You can also download the Napatek app (for iOS and Android) to easily control the lights when you are not at home or in the office. You can turn the lamp on and off, set schedules, choose between three different color modes and six lighting levels, and switch to candle mode for calm night tones.
We love that the base of the Napatek is actually a 10W Qi charging station. Placing your phone on the deck gives you a quick and fast battery charge (phones must be enabled for wireless charging). The icing on the cake? The lamp has an automatic 30 minute timer, a great little feature for those of us who always forget to turn off the lights when we leave the room.
Aukey Touch RGB lamp
This 360 degree bedside lamp from Aukey is one of the coolest lamps to play around with on this list. For starters, each of the three main lighting functions is controlled by touching the aluminum base. One tap turns the light on, a second tap allows you to adjust the brightness and a long press allows you to change the lamp color. The warm white light and color modes are each rich and vibrant, bringing to life spaces that need them. Set the lamp to blue before bed to give you a soothing hue in the morning. If you're stuck indoors, put it on green to give your living space a more natural, earthly presence. If you'd rather let the lamp make the selection for you, there is also an auto-cycle mode.
At 3.94 inches wide and 8.5 inches high, the Aukey isn't much bigger than an Amazon Echo speaker, so you can just unplug it and move the lamp from room to room. Every now and then the power cord can be a little uncooperative if the lamp is not positioned in a certain way. However, this problem can easily be reprimanded by simply rotating the Aukey so that the cable is not pushed against walls or other surfaces.
Amazon Echo Glow
Compatible with any Echo device, this little ball of fun has some extremely interactive and useful features that your kids are sure to love. A built-in rainbow timer uses normal commands to set a timer for ... and turns it into a multi-colored light show.
When the timer expires, the glow will change color, a visual reminder for the kids to finish the game or prepare for school. The lamp can emulate a flickering campfire, pulsate like a siren bulb, and even dissolve it when you tell Alexa to "start a dance party". Are you afraid that your child will get caught up in inappropriate content? Subscribe to Amazon FreeTime and turn your Echo Glow into a kids-only zone with exclusive Amazon music and audiobooks.
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