Magnetic Bluetooth Speaker with Ambient Light

You set it down and the whole shell lights up, because the light is inside the body rather than printed on it

The outer wall is smoked and translucent, so the colour ring behind the driver washes through the entire object. In daylight it reads as a chrome finish with a faint oil sheen. Switch a room lamp off and the same speaker becomes the light in the corner, cycling slowly from cyan through violet into magenta.

It fits in a palm at 40 by 50 by 55 mm, and the base carries two things the sheet barely mentions: a magnet, and a flat ring set into the body that lifts out. The maker photographs it clinging to a dark tiled wall, sitting on the back of a phone and hooked over a rucksack strap on a hillside. Three buttons on the rim do everything else, volume up, power, volume down, with a pinhole microphone beside them.

Key Benefits

• The shell is the light A colour changing ring sits behind the driver inside a smoked translucent body, so the glow comes from the whole object rather than a strip.
• A magnet in the base The maker shows it holding on a steel surface and on the back of a phone, which is what lets it live somewhere other than a shelf.
• A ring that lifts out The flat ring in the body doubles as a stand and as something to hook over a strap, and it folds back flush when you are done.
• Small enough to forget you packed it 40 x 50 x 55 mm, with everything on the rim so nothing catches in a bag.
• Named Bluetooth, not guessed The maker states Bluetooth 5.3 and an effective range of 10 m.

Best for: desks and bedside tables that need a bit of colour, campers and cyclists who want sound clipped to a bag rather than held in a hand, and anyone who wants a speaker that also works as a phone stand.

Why It Works

Most small speakers give you one place to put them, which is flat and horizontal. A magnet in the base and a ring in the body give you three: a steel surface, a strap, or standing on the ring itself as a prop for a phone. Combined with a translucent shell rather than a painted one, it means the speaker earns its place in a room even when nothing is playing, which is more than a rubber cylinder with a grille can say.

Quick Product Facts: 40 x 50 x 55 mm; smoked translucent shell with an internal colour changing light; magnet in the base; flat lift out ring for standing and hanging; three rim buttons, volume up, power and volume down; pinhole microphone; Bluetooth 5.3 as stated by the maker; effective range given as 10 m; frequency range given as 100Hz to 20kHz; signal to noise ratio given as 85dB or better; 5W rated power at 3.7V; built in lithium cell charged by USB cable; seven colours; the maker lists 266 g.

How It Fits Your Routine

On a desk it sits on its ring with a phone leaning against it, playing while it charges. At night the light stays on after the music stops, which turns it into a small lamp with a colour that keeps moving.

Outdoors it hooks onto a rucksack strap and rides at shoulder height, where a speaker in a side pocket is muffled by the bag. In a kitchen or a workshop the magnet finds a steel surface and it stays there instead of migrating into the sink.

Charging is a USB cable, supplied. The shell is a gloss plastic, so a dry cloth deals with fingerprints and the ring recess is the one place worth clearing dust from.

FAQ

Will it stick to my phone? Only if your phone or case already has a magnet ring in the back. The maker photographs it on a phone but never says which phones hold it, and never gives the magnet strength, so we cannot promise it for a given model.

How long does a charge last? The maker gives the cell only as a range, which is a marketplace filter band rather than a real capacity, and publishes no runtime at all. We are not going to invent one.

Can I take it in the shower or leave it in the rain? No water resistance rating is stated anywhere by the maker, so treat it as a dry weather speaker and bring it inside.

Are the lights adjustable? The maker does not describe any light modes, colours or brightness settings. The photographs show a colour cycle running behind the driver, and that is as far as we can honestly go.