Review: Witti Design’s Notti and Dotti are a couple of fun little lights

Witti Design’s line of smart home accessories contains several products which can only be described as delightfully odd. As a big fan of interesting design decisions in technology products, I simply had to review a couple of the company’s strangest offerings: the Notti and Dotti.

First, the Notti

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Pictured in the above image is the Notti, a smart light with a unique aesthetic that you can take from me when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Despite the fact that it doesn’t connect to Alexa or Google Assistant, can’t be voice-controlled, and still manages to have the audacity to call itself smart, I still fell in love with my Notti review unit.

Let me explain why: It’s ridiculously easy to change colors with or without the app, the colors are beautiful and the design is mesmerizing. The Notti looks like someone went to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude and used some sort of kryptonite axe to knock a chunk loose. And it’s perfect for date night.

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It has one button, just one! You long-press it and the light turns on. Double-press it and it begins cycling through colors, once it lands on the one you want, you press the button. And that’s it. The app’s even easier to use, and adds further functionality like dimming, patterns, and the “smart” features.

What’s so smart about it?

You can connect the Notti via Bluetooth to your phone and then set it to react to your notifications, music, and alarms. This sounds like a big selling point, and I’m sure a bunch of people will use and enjoy it, but to me it was a conflation of two things that didn’t need to go together.