More stylish options from the modular smart light specialist
Nanoleaf has released a set of limited edition Shapes Ultra Black Triangles light panels as part of its celebration of 10 years on the smart home tech scene.
The pack includes nine triangular panels and costs $219.99/£199.99, just a little more expensive than the standard $199.99 7-panel Nanoleaf Shapes pack.
A three-panel Extension kit is also available for $69.99/£69.99, handy if you already own some of the older panels and would like to try out this new style.
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Our first impression was that these Nanoleaf Ultra Black panels looks exceptionally neat, a pure black shape. You will be able to see the black borders when they are lit, but when inactive they have a bold, moody effect that should pair well with a gaming PC area.
The second thought — won’t a black surface limit the light output of these panels? Nanoleaf has not published any lumen output figures, and it seems likely they will use the same RGB array as the standard design. There may be a slight hit to brightness.
Ultra Black Features
Nanoleaf’s Shapes Ultra Black Triangles panels otherwise function just like the classic white style. They support Screen Mirror, where the colours in a connected display are recreated by the panels, the music visualizer function, and are touch-sensitive.
Nanoleaf says 100 buyers of the pack will also be send a “special gift box” that includes merch made to acknowledge the company’s 10-year “Nanoversary”. Let’s hope it’s something better than a pack of stickers.
“To be here where we are today, 10 years after starting Nanoleaf, is beyond a dream come
true,” says Nanolead CEO Gimmy Chu. “We started Nanoleaf with the goal of changing the way people experience and use light in their homes.”
The Ultra Black 9-panel Smarter Kit and 9-panel Expansion Pack are available to order from the Nanoleaf website now, for shipping “at the end of July”.
Both are listed as limited edition products, although we currently have no information on whether they are part of a short one-off production run.
This could simply be Nanoleaf testing the waters to see if there’s enough demand to justify making these dark panels part of its core line-up.
