TRANSPARENT LIGHT SPEAKER

They loved a lantern in the Lord of the Rings trilogy – hobbits daisychaining them at Bilbo’s birthday party, Harry Goatleaf the gatekeeper of Bree illuminating shadowy strangers, elves swinging their Fëanorian lamps about – but if they’d all had access to the Transparent Light Speaker they could have ditched the matches and stuck on Now That’s What I Call Middle Earth at the same time. This 5W Bluetooth speaker is a take on the traditional outdoor lantern, only rather than an actual candle, a sound-activated ‘vibrating bass-and-light element’ creates the glow. Omnidirectional sound comes from a 2.5in full-range driver and a 3in passive radiator.

£290 / transpa.rent