- IKEA’s Kallsup Bluetooth speakers are now on sale in the US for $10
- They caught our attention at CES and were originally set for an April launch
- They sound impressive for the price and you can pair up to 100 of them
IKEA’s cute and quirky Kallsup speaker caught our eye at this year’s CES show in Las Vegas, and now it can be yours for just $10. The colorful little speaker was originally slated to launch in April, but it looks like someone at IKEA just couldn’t wait because it’s available right now in stores and online, so you can grab a bundle and start stacking them up now.
The portable Bluetooth speaker is unlike anything we’ve seen lately, with its compact cubic design and vibrant colors, and it’s no slouch in the audio department either. TechRadar’s reviews editor Josh Russell got his hands and ears on the Kallsup back in January and reported that it sounds “better than it has any right to”.
“Honestly, I’m kind of blown away by Kallsup’s design,” he said after seeing and hearing the speaker in person. “I’ve complained in the past about how many wireless speakers seem to be cut from the same acoustically transparent cloth these days, so it’s actually really nice to see a device break all the rules.”
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You don’t have to settle for just one Kallsup though – these little cubes are just begging to be stacked, and thanks to their Bluetooth 5.3 support, you can pair up to 100 of them to create what Josh happily called a “sonic skyscraper”.
At the time of writing, Kallsup is available in white and yellow-green, but we also got our hands on a hot pink version, so hopefully it will soon be on IKEA’s virtual and physical shelves. As German site Notebookcheck explains, it’s also available in Germany and Sweden, where shoppers can choose from all three colors, and Portugal, where the only option is white.
See things in a new light
Kallsup isn’t the only fun new IKEA product to arrive ahead of its planned launch date. The donut-shaped Varmblixt smart lamp, with its frosted glass and changing pastel colours, has also landed early. The light, which caused even more attention at CES than the Kallsup, was also supposed to launch in April, but has just arrived in the US for $99.99.
Lance Ulanoff, our Editor-at-Large, quickly became obsessed with the lights’ striking design and imagined they would look amazing grouped together on a wall.
“With each press of the remote, I saw the color change almost imperceptibly, then slowly transition to the new, fully dimmable shade,” he wrote after seeing a collection of them in person.
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So far, the Varmblixt lamp has only been seen in stores in Europe, but if Kallsup is anything to go by, we might not have to wait until April to make our dreams of a wall full of glowing donuts a reality.
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