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Would you buy a lamp that turns into portable lights?

I’ve been messing around with an idea for a bedside or desk lamp and wanted to see if people would actually be into it. It would be a wooden base with four glowing cubes stacked in it. Each cube would be rechargeable and held in place with magnets, so when you put one back it would kind of snap into position and start charging.
The cubes would make one lamp when they’re all together, but you could pull one out and carry it around as a little portable light.
I was thinking it could be useful for walking to the bathroom at night, reading, taking outside for a bit, using as a night light, or just moving around without turning on all the lights.
Eventually I’d want it to be more of a system where you could buy different bases and different cube styles. Maybe frosted cubes, ceramic ones, colored ones, wall mounts, single charging docks, stuff like that.
I don’t want it to be RGB gamer lighting or another app controlled smart-home thing. More like a warm, simple, nice-looking object you’d keep on a nightstand.
Would this be something you’d want in your house? What would you expect something like this to cost? And what would make you not buy it?

Photo is Ai to show the basic idea.

u/Lonely_Substance421 — 9 days ago