Everything Philips Hue announced at IFA 2026

A small fisheye camera that clips above your television and watches the screen. Because it reads what is actually displayed rather than an HDMI signal passing through a box, it syncs your lights to anything the telly can show: a streaming app running on the TV itself, free-to-air, a games console, all of it.

Every previous Hue sync product sat between a source and the screen, so anything the TV generated on its own was invisible to it. A camera has no such blind spot. The trade is that it has to see the screen, so it needs a clear line of sight and a calibration pass, and Hue rates it for TVs up to 85 inches.

A slimmer, cheaper sync box with a single HDMI input, aimed at people running one source into the TV rather than a stack of them. It is the same idea as the existing sync box, cut down to the setup most homes actually have.

Paired with bridgeless sync, this is the cheapest way into Hue TV lighting that Signify has ever offered.

The TV strips are cuttable now, so you trim one down to your screen instead of hunting for an exact match. The range reaches 100 inch screens for the first time, and a Pro version uses RGBWW LEDs for better whites.

Cuttable matters for anyone who has bought the wrong length before. Hue still sells the strips in sizes. In Australia the standard strip is $249.95 for the 65 inch and $299.95 for the 85 inch, the Pro is $349.95 and $389.95, and each has its own bracket set at $39.95.

A separately sold module that brings compatible Nanoleaf Shapes panels, meaning Hexagons, Triangles and Mini Triangles, into the Hue app as real Hue lights. They join scenes, automations and entertainment areas like anything else.

Two ecosystems that have spent a decade ignoring each other agreeing to interoperate is genuinely unusual, and it is the announcement here most likely to matter in two years.

A flexible rope light that emits evenly around its whole circumference rather than out of one face, in 3m and 5m lengths. It is meant to be wrapped around furniture, stair rails and architectural details rather than run in a straight line behind something.

It is also the most expensive thing in this announcement by a wide margin. Signify's global release puts it at 399.99 euro and its UK release at 429.99 euro, and both list the launch markets as Europe, the UK and North America. Australia was not among them.