Store Your Cameras in Style with Nanoleaf’s New LED Display Cases
King of RGB lighting Nanoleaf announced a new collaboration with smart home brand Fantaqi: stackable display boxes with embedded multi-colored LEDs. While made for collectibles, they also provide a stylish way to make camera equipment into a part of home office decor.
The Nanoleaf Expo Smart Display Cases are made of “premium ABS resin” and can connect with each other to form towers of illuminated shelving. Nanoleaf says that up to 300 can be connected to each other, limited mainly by vertical stacking which caps at 16; the company says there is “no limit” on how many can be connected horizontally. One standard 42W plug, which ships in the four and eight pack configurations, can power up to eight. A larger 75W plug ships with the 12-pack kit and can power up to 14 Expo Cases. Nanoleaf says buyers “should not” mix 42W and 75W plugs in the same layout.
Once connected, the Expo Smart LED Display Cases use Nanoleaf’s “automatic LayoutDetect” technology that allows the lighting to flow together into complex patterns and also interact with sound.
The cases have an external measurement of 38cm (W) by 29cm (D) by 22cm (H)and internal dimensions of 36cm (W) by 25cm (D) by 19cm (H), so they’re not terribly large. However, that’s big enough for small figures, shoes, and most cameras.
“Whether it’s shoes, figurines, or any other treasures—EXPO Smart LED Display Cases turn your collections into their own works of art,” Nanoleaf says.
While a majority of the example setups from Nanoleaf’s marketing materials shows figures (up to seven-inch tall figures), books, and shoes (a pair of up to US size 15) — an Expo Case can hold an American football but not a men’s basketball — the company also shows at least a few examples of how photographers might like them, too.
The transparent front-facing door folds down and will trigger a lighting effect when opened and closed via hidden magnetic sensors. The top right of the inside of the case door also has a manual control panel for those who don’t want to use Nanoleaf’s app for whatever reason. Speaking of which, the boxes can be connected to a WiFi network and controlled via the app which allows for more color options to be downloaded and played.
Like all Nanoleaf products, the Expo Smart Display Cases can get expensive quickly. One “expansion” box is $79.99 but that doesn’t include the necessary power cable. A kit of four is $299.99, a set of eight is $573.45, and the big 12-pack kit costs $881.91. As The Verge points out, if someone were to max out the system to the full 300 boxes, that would cost $22,499.25. Luckily, the example use case of three boxes above a computer station wouldn’t break the bank.
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