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Nanoleaf Launches EXPO Smart LED Display Cases
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People often mistake the object that's being displayed as the subject. It's the environment it's in, the feeling that the blue and purple 12-year old youtube influencer lights along with his sailormoon chair give you; that is the art. IMO, the more expensive the display is, the better.
…It’s absolutely not a need. It nonetheless promotes/encourages good organization and interior design skills to leverage things such as this.
LG haven’t released far more functional variants of boxes like this specifically for shoes that offers UV protection, can steam/sanitize shoes, and yes impressively showcase items within such boxes with this with 360 pivot control and more thoughtful design choices involving colors and lighting.
People have spent money on less functional and organizational things; nonetheless what people do with their discretionary money is their business.
Especially when there is little options to accommodate interior design / item collection enthusiasts.
Let the market play itself out.
My first thought was “Nanoleaf is entering the world of retail display fixtures. Cool, but I will wait until some retailer using them goes out of business and offers them for sale.”
Though the last photo setup in fact would be a cool audio equalizer for visual effects on music.
Though the last photo setup in fact would be a cool audio equalizer for visual effects on music.
…People can say the same about essentially any legal hobby that’s harmless to others but does not fit one’s tastes.
It’s pretty fruitless to scoff at at what someone is willing to pay for a hobby unless they’re trying to be helpful about congruent and fundamentally better things at the core purpose of a hobby.
The forums here are full of people. You can see complaints from people upset about Mac costs and people upset about these costs. Doesn’t mean they are the same people.
Why judge others? Live and let live.
I couldn’t imagine the distraction when watching TV though.
There is an interesting and valuable point of view at LightLink. It would really provide that visual effect.
My comment was specifically about the same people. But we all have different views. I don’t dislike the product, I just think its consumerism at its worst. Oh, yeah, I think you missed the parts where I said "Everyone to their own I guess." And "Live your own life " in the same post.
I think the marketing here is brilliant. It’s just not for me. I’d rather build something but it’s the ease of use that attracts people, just like the ease of use of a Mac. It just works….
Very cool - but I think I'd rather do this using Arduino or something - the only problem would be the cases themselves. The only place you'll see these are in some boutiques and streamer backgrounds (probably with a mirror to 2x the visible number to save $).
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf today announced the launch of the EXPO Smart LED Display Case, a new product that it is debuting in partnership with design studio Fantaqi.
The EXPO has built-in multi-color lighting that highlights sneakers, figurines, or other collectibles. Each EXPO Case is made from ABS resin, and the cases are modular, so you can use several together with unique lighting scenes. Display cases can be set up in any arrangement, and up to 300 can be connected together.
Nanoleaf designed the EXPO with full-coverage lighting that is diffused across the ceiling of each case for uniform illumination that showcases the user's favorite items. A magnetic sensing door provides subtle lighting effects when the display lid is opened and closed.
Using the Nanoleaf app. The LEDs in the EXPO Cases can be set to animated colorways through multiple curated scenes like Hypno Beat and Flames. As with other Nanoleaf devices, the EXPO Cases support community created scenes and allow for custom user designed scenes. The EXPO Case layout is reflected in the Nanoleaf app for optimum display of lighting scenes across each custom layout.
Other supported features include the Rhythm music visualizer for timing light animations to the beat of music, Desktop Screen Mirror, and AI Magic Scenes for creating a scene based on a word or phrase. The EXPO Cases can also be controlled via Siri voice commands through HomeKit integration.
The Nanoleaf x Fantaqi EXPO Display Cases can be purchased from the Nanoleaf website as of today. A Smarter Kit with four cases is available for $299.99, and a one case expansion pack is available for $79.99.
Article Link: Nanoleaf Launches EXPO Smart LED Display Cases
Comparing cheap plastic with simple LED strips to a computer,..is, well...apex irony.
I nearly choked, when I saw that 8 of them are nearly $AU1,000!...are they crazy? Hello Temu
The question was what.
And yes, i agree, collectors need to put their stuff somewhere...instead of throwing them away? What's your point?
Just the setup pictured below, not including the additional lighting, is $4,059.85.
That is absurd. My nearly maxed out M3 Max MBP cost about that much. Just to hold cheap plastic toys and other garbage.
That is absurd. My nearly maxed out M3 Max MBP cost about that much. Just to hold cheap plastic toys and other garbage.
I’m tempted by these because when I first read this article I immediately thought about how they would be perfect for displaying my collection of firearms as I’ve been wanting to do that for a little while now. Unfortunately though they only come in one size that looks like probably wouldn’t fit anything larger than handguns. But if they had 2-3x size options for my rifles and shotguns too then I’d have ordered at least a dozen without hesitation.
…Collector items: Whether that’s shoes, their own art, games, and really whatever they want to display in their living arrangements worth it to them to enclose in such a way
I didn’t miss them. They didn’t seem genuine with how much you’re attacking people who would be interested in it.
I have no desire to buy it. Nor do I care if others do. My only posts in this thread is calling people like you out for valuing your preferences over others.
It’s like colors. We all have a favorite and some have multiple favorites. At the end of the day. It doesn’t matter at all. Colors are colors and we can’t even see the majority of them and the few we can see don’t even look the same to all of us. Let people enjoy their choices so long as they aren’t choices at the expense of others.
I am absolutely the target market for this general category of product: I have an obsolete media collection I’m very proud of, currently displayed in some inexpensive cubicle displays from Target that I’d love to add some LED lighting to and have been shopping for something reasonably priced that I can get routed in to look good (I just couldn’t make strip lights work because of the dividers).
But $80 per box?! Yeah, I don’t think so. Back-of-envelope it’d cost me more to display my collection than I paid for the actual collection. Fortunately the single size wouldn’t fit everything anyway, so even if I was filthy rich I couldn’t use these.
But $80 per box?! Yeah, I don’t think so. Back-of-envelope it’d cost me more to display my collection than I paid for the actual collection. Fortunately the single size wouldn’t fit everything anyway, so even if I was filthy rich I couldn’t use these.
I am entitled to have my opinion, share my opinion and also entitled to disagree with others. I simply said, (paraphrasing) I like the lights but see them as a consumerists waste. But whatever. Maybe go back and read the posts and you will see that I wasn’t attacking anyone. No need to apologise for the irony in your comment devaluing my own.
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