When you’re available in the market for a Google Assistant-supported good lamp, you’ll be sorely disenchanted to know that Google created one, but it surely’s just for workers, as reported by 9to5Google. Google designer Ben Gold tweeted out a picture of the lamp, cleverly referred to as the dLight, noting it “will doubtless by no means be on the market outdoors of the corporate.”
The Google lamp is named the “dLight” and I confirmed that it’s not confidential. Once more, this product will doubtless by no means be on the market outdoors of the corporate. pic.twitter.com/fMmDXdr6Yk
— Ben Gold (@bengold) February 11, 2022
The ultra-modern lamp contains a round base and skinny submit that homes a cylindrical gentle, and, admittedly, its vivid white coloration virtually makes it appear like one thing you’d discover at an Apple retailer. As famous by Gold, you possibly can transfer the sunshine into completely different positions, letting you level the sunshine downwards in the direction of your desk or at your face throughout video calls. It additionally comes with a number of lighting presets, in addition to the power to vary the temperature of the sunshine.
The lamp’s FCC paperwork point out web connectivity and help for Google Assistant, as its label has the “Hey Google” brand stamped on it. And whilst you can’t see the USB-C port in any of the offered photographs, Gold says it does include one, and that it additionally will get over-the-air updates.
Sadly, these of us who aren’t employed by Google received’t have the ability to get our fingers on the dLight. However as 9to5Google factors out, this isn’t the primary time Google has made an employee-only product — in 2017, the corporate developed a pair of Google-branded over-the-ear headphones for its employees.
Gold says workers positioned within the US can order the dLight without cost (though he notes it’s at the moment on backorder) by means of the corporate, as a part of Google’s efforts to enhance the do business from home expertise. Google’s workers nonetheless aren’t obligated to return to the workplace as a result of pandemic.
