After Hours Vinyl Bluetooth Speaker with Ripple Light and Clock

Three things on one small square.

Most bedside gadgets do one job. After Hours does three, and it does them quietly. It plays your music over Bluetooth, it tells you the time on a soft LED display, and it throws a slow, moving ripple of light up onto your wall. Switch all three on and a plain corner of a room turns into somewhere you actually want to sit.

The light is the part people notice.

Lift the clear lid and the light pours up through it, breaking into a rippling pattern that drifts across the ceiling like water. It is not a harsh RGB strip. It moves slowly enough to read by, or to fall asleep to.

Built to look like a record player.

A miniature platter, a real tonearm sweep, two knurled knobs and a grille. It reads as a piece of decor first and a speaker second, which is the point. It looks right on a desk, a shelf or a bedside table even when it is switched off.

What you get

• Bluetooth speaker, ambient ripple light and LED clock in one unit
• Slow moving water-ripple projection through a flip-up acrylic lid
• Front display shows the time and the remaining battery
• Two-knob control on the front, no app needed
• Retro turntable styling that suits a desk, shelf or bedside table