Developed for the iHome brand (iHL111) through Checkolite International
A vertical LED speaker lamp with touch-dimmable lighting and a downward-firing speaker chamber, designed for Checkolite's iHome licensed product line and released in 2012. This was the third series in the iHome lamp program I led for Checkolite, and the one where the line matured beyond its iPod-dock origins into a general-residential object designed for broad placement across living spaces.
The form is a single slim vertical column: a frosted white plastic shade above, a brushed silver speaker housing below, joined as one continuous silhouette. Apple's design language had shifted by 2012 from glossy colored plastics to brushed metallics and reduced ornament — the iPhone 5 and the unibody MacBooks of that period — and the iHL111 reflected that shift, designed to live alongside the more restrained Apple devices its predecessors had been built for. The lighting moved to LED with a touch-sensitive dimmer in place of mechanical controls, the speaker fired downward through a tuned chamber for fuller sound in a small footprint, and the dock was replaced by an auxiliary input compatible with any audio source — opening the product beyond the Apple ecosystem the earlier lamps had been tied to.
Released through Home Depot, Target, Staples, and other retailers in 2012, and still available across resale marketplaces today.