At CES 2026, Ikea spent its first-ever time at the tech event showing off a number of new products, including a new Bluetooth speaker it calls the Kallsup. It’s a teeny tiny cube that is, in every way that matters, far more of a delight than its $10 price tag lets on. It will be available in April in red, white, and green colors.
The Kallsup is lightweight yet solid-feeling, a plastic box with speaker holes on one face, a USB-C port on the back for charging, and two buttons astride a small LED status light for power, playback, and pairing. It was immediately charming, and not just because it’s so dang adorable; every action you do on it prompts these whimsical human-made noises—like a boop or a whooshing sound. The speakers use Bluetooth 5.3 and up to 100 Kallsup speakers can be synchronized together by doing the proper sequence of long presses of the play button between them.
With a few paired together, the Kallsup cubes were able to quickly fill the room with better-than-you’d-expect sound—not tinny or muffled. They certainly didn’t push out much bass, and neither would I expect that at this size and price.
The only real criticisms I have, at first glance, spring from Ikea’s decision to only put two buttons on the box: a play button and one emblazoned with the Bluetooth logo. It’s not obvious to me that you’d long press the play button, rather than the Bluetooth one, for pairing speakers together, and neither is it clear how they’re turned off, or even if you can do that manually. If you wait long enough, though, the speakers time themselves out.
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