Nanoleaf made a 12-sided Apple HomeKit remote
In one of CES’s stranger announcements, Nanoleaf has introduced what’s essentially a giant 12-sided die that controls your home. You just set the die down, and it’ll set your smart home gadgets to some predetermined configuration.
The product is called the Nanoleaf Remote, and it’s meant to control gadgets that connect to Apple’s HomeKit platform. But rather than being any sort of normal remote — built around, you know, specific controls, like turning things on and off — the Nanoleaf Remote is all about switching between pre-set scenes.
That means you have to set up scenes on your phone in advance and then attach them to one of the remote’s 12 sides. For example, you might have an evening scene with dim...