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Nanoleaf Smart Multicolor Floor Lamp

Gear Bits, Events, Health and Fitness

Nanoleaf Unveils Smart Lighting and Wellness Innovations to Transform Your Home and Self-Care Routine

Nanoleaf is lighting a more vibrant, immersive, and wellness-focused future with an exciting lineup of new products and services. Known for reshaping how we experience light at home, Nanoleaf is stepping into the wellness world and doubling down on smart lighting with thoughtful innovations designed to fit seamlessly into your life. Whether you’re sprucing up your living space, leveling up your gaming rig, or exploring self-care at home, these latest releases are worth a closer look.

Govee Table Lamp 2 Pro x Sound by JBL

Events, Game Diary, News

Personalize Your Space with the Govee Gaming Pixel Light, Mini Panel Lights, and Table Lamp 2 Pro x Sound by JBL

Govee is bringing vibrant energy to your home with innovative lighting solutions designed to transform your space into a personalized oasis of light and sound. The new products, including the Govee Gaming Pixel Light, Mini Panel Lights, and Table Lamp 2 Pro x Sound by JBL, show how lighting can go beyond functionality to enhance every aspect of daily life. Govee’s concept, “Bring Color to Daily Life,” emphasizes lighting’s power to foster connection, creativity, and enjoyment in your home.

Eufy Permanent Outdoor Lights E22 Review: Transform Your Home’s Exterior with Year-Round Ambiance and Effortless Festive Lighting

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Eufy Permanent Outdoor Lights E22 Review: Transform Your Home’s Exterior with Year-Round Ambiance and Effortless Festive Lighting

I love lighting, especially outside our home. Just as the holidays approached, we installed a 100′ strand of 100′ eufy Permanent Outdoor Lights E22, which have made all the difference. Not only can we program daily lighting for ambiance around the house, but holidays are also extra fun without all the fuss. These lights will stay up year-round and make our house look great every night.

Govee x Mavs Home Court experience

Gear Bits

Enhance Game Day with Govee x Mavs Home Court: The Ultimate Smart Lighting for an Immersive Mavericks Experience

Govee is teaming up with the Dallas Mavericks in an exciting multi-year partnership that will bring smart lighting into the homes of basketball fans everywhere. As the official smart lighting sponsor for the Mavericks, Govee is set to transform game day from simply watching the action to feeling like you’re courtside with every jump shot, buzzer-beater, and victory celebration. The “Govee x Mavs Home Court” campaign is where all the fun happens.

Arlo Wired Floodlight

News

The New Arlo Wired Floodlight Camera Offers 24/7 Outdoor Security with 2K Video and Smart Features

The Arlo Wired Floodlight Camera is designed for those who want seamless, all-day outdoor protection without the hassle of recharging. This floodlight camera offers solid features that make it a standout option, especially for anyone looking to keep their home or property well-lit and monitored. This new wired version builds on the success of Arlo‘s wire-free floodlight but swaps out the need for battery management by connecting directly to your home’s power supply.

Homiffi Is an All-in-One Bedside Fan, Heater, Alarm Clock, and Wireless Charger Promising Better Sleep

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Homiffi Is an All-in-One Bedside Fan, Heater, Alarm Clock, and Wireless Charger Promising Better Sleep

If you’ve ever struggled with temperature control at night, whether it’s too hot or too cold, and you’ve wished for a solution that could keep your sleep environment just right—Homiffi might be exactly what you need. It’s a compact, bedside device that does much more than heat or cool the air. With the ability to quickly warm up or cool down in just 3 seconds, it’s designed to make your nights more comfortable, so you can fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed.

Trek CarBack Radar Rear Bike Light

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Trek CarBack Radar Rear Bike Light Review: Impressive Radar Performance and a Light Visible from 2KM

Wisconsin-based Trek has been in business since 1975 and produces a wide range of bicycles, including road, mountain, gravel, and city bikes. They also sell electric bikes as well as a wide range of accessories and apparel. This review looks at the new Trek CarBack Radar Rear Bike Light. As the name suggests, the device combines a rear bike light with a rearward-facing radar that detects oncoming traffic and sends alerts to the rider via several popular GPS cycling computers and smartphones.

The author's home lit by the Govee Outdoor Triad Floodlight

Reviews, Outdoors

Govee Outdoor Triad Floodlight Review: Durable, 4500-Lumen Smart Lighting That Offers Versatile Customization

Hong Kong-based Govee is a well-established manufacturer of smart home lighting and appliances. Their smart lighting products include gaming lights, TV lights, and wall lights, many of which we have reviewed at Gear Diary. In this review, we look at the Outdoor Triad Floodlight. Although usable for indoor applications, the Govee Outdoor Triad Floodlight features an IP66-rated metal body and IP67-rated control box, making it rugged enough to be used in almost any outdoor environment. I can attest to its weather resistance. I shot sample footage (below) during a fairly strong rainstorm. The floodlight enclosure has a minimalistic look and…

XMCOSY+ Double-Head Low Voltage Landscape Light

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XMCOSY+ Double-Head Low Voltage Landscape Light (4-Pack) Review: Modern Design with App Control

XMCOSY+ offers a range of indoor and outdoor lighting solutions, including string lights, solar pathway lights, landscaping lights, and wall lights. This review focuses on their Low-Voltage Landscape Lights, specifically the XMCOSY+ Double-Head Low-Voltage Landscape Light, which comes in a 4-pack and sells for $159.99. These LED lights are understated and modern, with a stark t-shaped design in black. They are also available in a brown finish.

Home lit up with Jasco Eternity Lights

Gear Bits

Hang Enbrighten Eternity Lights Once, and You’ll Enjoy Permanent Outdoor Accent and Holiday Lighting Year-Round

There’s something magical about lighted neighborhoods during the holidays. Whether the lights are a minimalistic white or an over-the-top cha-cha display, I love looking at their festive effect. Even so, I’ve never strung lights on my own home; I’ve always thought that doing so would be a hassle, especially since you have to remove them a month or so later and have a safe place to store them. But the new  Enbrighten Eternity Lights are making me rethink my stance; they are permanent outdoor LED lights that, once installed, remain in place year-round, providing many outside lighting options.

GVM-BD25R Bi-Color RGB LED Tube Light 2-Light Kit Review: Great for Accent Lighting, Light Painting, and Adding Fun to Your Next Party!

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GVM-BD25R Bi-Color RGB LED Tube Light 2-Light Kit Review: Great for Accent Lighting, Light Painting, and Adding Fun to Your Next Party!

GVM (Great Video Maker) offers a line of assorted products for videographers and photographers that are often aggressively priced compared to the competition while providing similar features and overall quality. These include monolights, tube, panel, flexible, and pocket lights. They also produce camera sliders, wireless microphones, teleprompters, and other accessories. In this review, we are testing the 24″ GVM-BD25R Bi-Color RGB LED Tube Light 2-Light Kit. As per its name, this kit includes two light wands as well as several accessories that are optional when buying the Single Kit. As per its name, the GVM-BD25R Bi-Color RGB LED Tube Light…

The GVM PRO-SD300B and accessories

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GVM PRO-SD300B Review: Excellent Quality Light in a Handsome Package

GVM (Great Video Maker) offers a line of assorted products for videographers and photographers, including monolights, tube lights, panel lights, flexible lights, and pocket lights. They also produce camera sliders, wireless microphones, teleprompters, and other accessories. GVM products are often aggressively priced compared to the competition while offering similar features and overall quality. GVM has certainly stepped it up with their new line of spotlights. This review examines the GVM PRO-SD300B, a 300-watt monolight specifically designed for today’s shooting environments.

Nanoleaf Skylight Pre-Orders Open and 4 Other New Lighting Solutions Announced to Transform Your Indoor and Outdoor Spaces

Gear Bits, Events

Nanoleaf Skylight Pre-Orders Open and 4 Other New Lighting Solutions Announced to Transform Your Indoor and Outdoor Spaces

Nanoleaf is adding new products to its line-up, promising enhanced color and lighting experiences for indoor and outdoor spaces. They’ve just announced Orchestrator software, Essentials Matter Smart Multicolor Lightstrip (for indoor use), Outdoor String Lights, and Permanent Outdoor Lights. Additionally, Nanoleaf is finally opening pre-orders for the much-anticipated Nanoleaf Skylight Modular Ceiling Light!

Nanoleaf Ultra Black Shapes Hexagons and Triangles Review: Dramatic Lighting Effects that Look Like Art When Not in Use

Reviews, Game Diary

Nanoleaf Ultra Black Shapes Hexagons and Triangles Review: Dramatic Lighting Effects that Look Like Art When Not in Use

Nanoleaf is a technology and Internet of Things-focused company that, since 2012, has offered a line of modern smart home products, including several series of light panels. Their system of smart light panels is available as triangles, mini triangles, and hexagons. Occasionally, the company offers limited editions of these products, as is the case with the Nanoleaf Ultra Black Shapes, which are available in Hexagon and Triangle Smarter Kits.

Govee Hexagon Light Panels Ultra Will Provide Customizable, 3D-Like Gaming Light Scenarios

Gear Bits, Game Diary

Govee Hexagon Light Panels Ultra Will Provide Customizable, 3D-Like Gaming Light Scenarios

There are many manufacturers with product lines that include interlocking flat light panels of various shapes, but Govee is introducing something completely new, the Govee Hexagon Light Panels Ultra, which offers the world’s first combination of line and surface illumination. The panels support three illumination modes: individual lines, individual surfaces, and combined lines and surfaces.