![]() When the Symfonisk range goes on sale in August, you’ll find them only in Ikea’s physical and online stores. After its own delays, Ikea now has Google Assistant working on its Trådfri smart lights but plans to follow the Sonos voice roadmap when it comes to speakers. Notably, Sonos has run into issues getting Google Assistant working seamlessly across its products. If you would have voice capabilities, yeah, it might have been better, but let’s be clear about the first purpose at this point in time.” ![]() “The main purpose of this product is to really enable music and sound into basically every room in a very versatile way. “Obviously we explored many opportunities in terms of what product we should make in this first round,” Block says. You’ll be able to control the Symfonisks through the Sonos app or connect them to other Sonos products that do respond to voice commands. For its first-generation collaboration, Ikea and Sonos opted to skip voice control, running counter to one of the biggest trends in tech-one that each company has embraced elsewhere. One surprising thing that neither Symfonisk product can do? Talk. I think that’s a really strong collaboration that we did.” “You can then combine those two products and make them into a beautiful object that blends into a modern home-furnishing environment, and do two jobs instead of one. “In many places in a home, you want to decorate with table lamps and have that cozy lighting at the same time as you want to have music in that space,” says Block, who cites Ikea’s previous efforts integrating wireless charging into furniture as inspiration to try more mashups. ![]() But by combining multiple functions in one product, it joins the recent, welcome trend of Swiss Army gadgets. The design seems potentially more polarizing than the bookshelf speaker it looks a little like a blending of Wall-E and Super Mario’s Toad. For $179, you get what Toulis describes as “essentially a Sonos One”-with some adjustments to compensate for the new form factor. The one you really want to know about, though, is the speaker-lamp, a hybrid rarely seen outside the wilder corners of Amazon.
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