You Won’t Want To Hide Ikea’s Colorful New Bluetooth Speakers

Ikea’s introducing 2 caller Bluetooth speaker designs adjacent month. | Image: Ikea

Ikea is launching 2 caller Bluetooth speakers adjacent period arsenic portion of a larger postulation announced earlier this year, pursuing nan extremity of nan company’s business pinch Sonos. Like nan Blomprakt speaker lamp that launched successful nan US past month, some nan caller Solskydd and Kulglass speakers blend exertion and creation truthful they’ll usability arsenic portion of a room’s decor while not filling it pinch music.

“We’re treating speakers pinch nan aforesaid attraction arsenic nan remainder of nan home, truthful they lend to a room’s ambiance and characteristic not only done sound but besides done form, colour and character,” says Ikea merchandise developer Sara Ottosson. The institution collaborated pinch designer and colorist Tekla Evelina Severin to execute that, resulting successful devices that look thing for illustration what typically comes to mind erstwhile you deliberation of Bluetooth speakers.

The Solskydd is simply a family of information speakers successful 3 different sizes that could beryllium mistaken for serving trays. The smallest 8-inch exemplary ($79.99) features a azygous 2.5-inch driver hidden down a cloth wrap pinch an orangish checkerboard-inspired pattern. Despite its size, it tin output up to 80.5dB of sound and is nan only portable action pinch a rechargeable artillery that’s rated for up to 25 hours of playback.

A somewhat larger 11-inch type ($99.99) of nan Solskydd pairs a 1-inch tweeter pinch a 4-inch woofer for up to 83.6dB of sound hidden down a greenish cloth destruction pinch brownish and beige diagonal stripes. Like its smaller counterpart, it tin beryllium hung connected a wall aliases attached to an included show stand. The largest 18-inch Solskydd exemplary ($139.99) hides a 1-inch tweeter and 2 4-inch woofers (producing up to 93.6dB) down an orangish textured decorativeness and is exclusively designed to beryllium wall-mounted. The 2 larger options connection 3 different EQ settings, while each 3 versions of nan Solskydd are besides disposable successful cleanable achromatic finishes if you for illustration your speakers pinch a subtler design.

In summation to Bluetooth connectivity, Ikea’s speakers support Spotify Tap truthful you tin commencement playing euphony from wherever you near disconnected successful nan streaming app, arsenic good arsenic multi-speaker connectivity. You tin usage 2 of them successful a left-and-right stereo configuration to boost a TV’s sound, aliases link up to 100 of them together and person them each play successful sync to capable a larger space.

If you want moreover much functionality, Ikea’s caller Kulglass ($129.99) pairs a whimsical lamp featuring an crystal cream-inspired swirl-shaped shadiness pinch a Bluetooth speaker successful its base, packing a 1-inch tweeter and 3.5-inch woofer producing up to 82.6dB. Unlike nan Solskydd speakers that trust connected a brace of buttons for adjusting volume, nan Kulglass lamps, disposable successful 2 versions vanished successful shades of greenish aliases red, see a measurement knob.

Specific merchandise dates successful December 2025 will alteration by country, but successful nan US nan caller speakers aren’t expected to beryllium disposable until January 1st, 2026.