Ikea’s cheap smart blinds could finally make the perfect lazy Sunday morning complete
Ikea is known for its low-cost furniture, but over the past few months, the company has been expanding into a new market: inexpensive, decent-quality smart home gadgets, including connected lights and outlets. Now, if Ikea product pages are to be believed, the company is moving into the next area of the smart home: cheap, internet-controlled smart shades, via Zatz Not Funny.
To start, Ikea is launching two models of smart blinds: the Kadrilj, a set of regular gray blinds that start at 99 euros (around $113) for the smallest size, and the Fyrtur, which are blackout shades that start at 119 euros (around $136). That’s aggressively low pricing, considering that most smart blind systems tend to start...