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Lighting company LIFX has just debuted Beam, a decorative Wi-Fi-connected smart light that joins the recently announced LIFX Tile. Where the LIFX Tile is a series of square panels, the beam is a thin rail that is a more delicate room accent.

Just as with Tile, Beam supports 16 million colors including different tones of white, multiple zones per beam that can be controlled independently, and dimming. There are six beams per kit with one corner piece, and each beam has 10 blended light zones. LIFX’s website doesn’t state if Beam will have moving, color-changing effects, but given that Tile does, it’s likely that will be a feature.

These thin light rails are probably not a substitution for a room’s current lighting, but are a complement to…

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/3/16412540/lifx-beam-smart-light-system-wi-fi-connected-price