Lenovo Wants Your Desk Lamp to Charge Your Phone and Hold Your Webcam

Year after yr, we demand increasingly more options and performance from our day by day use gadgets, however for some motive we’re comfortable to simply let lamps slack off and do nothing however give us gentle? The lamp’s day of reckoning is right here now that Lenovo has proven us how much functionality it’s crammed into its new Go Desk Station.

At first look, the Lenovo Go Desk Station reminded us a whole lot of Dyson’s $600 Lightcycle lamp, which has a horizontal arm that may elevate and decrease or lengthen and retract by a intelligent cantilever system, in addition to automated shade temperature changes to match the time of day when it’s used. Lenovo’s lamp as an alternative includes a strip of LEDs alongside an arm that may be rotated up to offer illumination for somebody on a video name, or angled down onto the floor of a desk.

Similar to the Dyson, the Desk Station lamp additionally presents three shade temperature settings for the LEDs—3,000K, 4,500K, and 6,500K—to assist match the time of day. But way more helpful to those that spend an excessive amount of of their day on video calls is the 4K, 30FPS webcam with autofocus and automated framing that helps preserve the individual the digital camera is targeted on in body, at the same time as they transfer about.

The lamp basically serves as a tripod stand for the webcam, making it simpler to place than if it had been perched atop a monitor or a laptop computer’s display screen, and the webcam itself may be connected to both its personal rotating arm, or the tip of the lamp’s illuminated arm (to increase its attain). Like the Desk Station’s strip of LEDs, the digital camera may also be adjusted to level downwards in the direction of a desk or desk, making it simpler to focus on a bodily doc or object throughout a video name with out having to carry it as much as the digital camera.

Even the bottom of the Lenovo Go Desk Station goes above and past the decision of obligation, with a 20W USB-C port, a 65W USB-C port for powering laptops, a pair of USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and even a pop-out wi-fi Qi charging pad with as much as 15W of energy supply.

The lamp can be out there beginning subsequent March for $329, and whereas you should purchase the included Lenovo Go 4K Pro Webcam individually for $150, the Go Desk Station is barely out there bundled with the webcam.