The knotty part about engorge on Netflix , besidesdeciding what the hell you really want to watch , is resign yourself to staying sedentary for hours and hours in whichever room the TV pass off to be in ( because rent ’s be honest , watch on a lilliputian laptop screen is pretty unpaid ) . fortunately , there ’s a new impertinent lightbulb that can project a heavy - ass silver screen onto any flat surface . It ’s calledBeam , and it ’s about to make your dreams of watching thelatest and expectant streaming goodnesson your ceiling a reality .

The LED - powered medulla , which is just more or less bigger than your average Solo cup , screws into any standard igniter socket , and easily connects to your smart devices via Bluetooth or Wi - Fi . shore on its side on the floor or a table , it casts an excellent 854 x 480p cover on the contiguous wall , but when you feel like get down clever , there ’s also a special long - armed point of view that makes it easy to manoeuvre and point it in any direction you please .

At $ 560 , this thing ai n’t chintzy , but it ’s also equal to of a tidy sum more than just projecting your never - terminate Netflix queue . It ’s got 8 GB of build - in storage , enough to dilute up on a number of other apps or photos , and supports both AirPlay and Miracast , so you may freely broadcast subject to it from a whole mint of apps via your laptop or phone .

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For instance , you could screw it into the light socket above the kitchen counter to follow along with your favorite recipes , or set it up in your bedroom as a wall - sized alarm clock that wakes you every morning with the daily headline and forecast . Even well , it does n’t needs ask to be filch up to external Speaker , since there ’s one build in .

It also follow in ready to hand even when you are n’t using it to watchStranger Thingsfor the sixth fourth dimension . It transition at the picture of a push button into a traditional , dimmable lightbulb .

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