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.
• Bluetooth 5.3 confirmed The maker states Bluetooth 5.3 with 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 with a 10 m effective range; frequency range 100Hz to 20kHz; signal to noise ratio 85dB or better; 5W rated power at 3.7V; built in lithium cell charged by USB cable; seven colours; 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? It clings to any steel surface, and to a phone or case that already carries a magnet ring. Give your own surface a quick test so you know it holds before you trust it on the move.

How is it charged? A built in lithium cell powers it and tops up from any USB port with the supplied cable, so a bedside or desk cable keeps it ready to play.

Can I take it in the shower or leave it in the rain? Keep it as a dry weather speaker: enjoy it indoors, on a covered porch or a desk, and bring it in out of the rain.

What do the lights do? The shell runs a slow colour cycle behind the driver, drifting from cyan through violet to magenta, so it doubles as a moving accent light once the music stops.