{"id":756949,"date":"2026-06-24T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756949\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:57:19","slug":"laser-retro-lava-lamp-with-bluetooth-speaker-review-pickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756949\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker review \u2013 Pickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick review<\/p>\n

Laser Retro Lava Lamp Speaker – $69.95<\/p>\n

The good<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something hypnotic about melting wax, no matter what decade it actually is<\/p>\n

Eye catching (because it\u2019s a lava lamp)<\/p>\n

Choice of Bluetooth or 3.5mm inputs<\/p>\n

The not-so-good<\/p>\n

Single lava colour<\/p>\n

Gets predictably hot (and could be dangerous)<\/p>\n

Speaker is only ordinary at best<\/p>\n

You can get a basic lava lamp for less<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll get groovy and searingly hot lava vibes from the Laser Retro Lava Lamp and Bluetooth Speaker, but the audio quality leaves a little to be desired.<\/p>\n

Laser\u2019s whole pitch to market has always been about delivering budget priced products that essentially do what they say on the box.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s absolutely true for the Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker, because it is\u2026 well\u2026 it\u2019s a lava lamp that has a Bluetooth speaker incorporated in its base. That\u2019s it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a simple enough pitch, and its value proposition ultimately rests on whether you think that combination has some appeal for you beyond retro kitsch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nDesign and features<\/p>\n

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Lava lamps themselves aren\u2019t a new technology, and they always give me a distinct 70s kind of vibe, despite dating from 1963<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What\u2019s interesting in a technological sense about the Laser Retro Lava Lamp speaker is that it is running on technology that dates back\u00a0 63 years now with no fundamental changes at all.<\/p>\n

The unit itself is remarkably simple, with a sealed liquid and wax tube that sits on top of a heating element, and a power cable snaking out the back to keep it charged up. This is also a speaker, so Laser has included a 3.5mm input jack to the right and a switch for choosing between line input and Bluetooth at the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The front of the base houses simple cheap rubber buttons for playback and volume control of audio through the speaker sitting just above them.<\/p>\n

Finally, there\u2019s a power switch at the side, without which the lava lamp Bluetooth speaker would do absolutely diddly squat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You do get instructions \u2013 which are mostly a warning guide around the heat that a lava lamp can give out (more on that later) \u2013 but most people really won\u2019t need them at all. It\u2019s all pretty self explanatory.<\/p>\n

In-use<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with their operation, any lava lamp works on the basic principle that if you heat up wax it melts. We know, you\u2019re surprised.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that wax is suspended in liquid, the differences in the wax\u2019s density as it heats and the surface tension of the water cause the wax to rise to a point, after which it cools enough to solidify and drop back down through the liquid to the heating element below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Do that for long enough, and you get globules of wax with a somewhat lava-style appearance, and if the heating element is also a light bulb\u2026 you get a lamp.<\/p>\n

This is exactly what the Laser Retro Lava Lamp does, and no more at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It warns you that the lamp gets hot, and it does. However, it does take some time to heat up and start forming lava bubbles, although some of the strings of wax that form while it does do still have their own slightly trippy charms.<\/p>\n

Performance<\/p>\n

The underlying lava lamp technology in Laser\u2019s Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker is nothing new, and that does mean there\u2019s\u00a0really only one thing you need in terms of its lava flow: patience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On first switching it on, you\u2019ll get a light and\u2026 not a whole lot else. It takes time, covering around 20 to 25 minutes before the wax base gets warm enough to start rising, and then maybe around 30 to 45 minutes again before you get a real lava \u201cflow\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be waiting for the lava vibe to be a thing, that\u2019s for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the meantime, you get shapes that look like they belong in the test tubes of a mad scientist, something that wasn\u2019t helped in the case of the review unit I was sent, because it lights up bright green. Insert maniacal laugh here.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lava lamps work off heating up the wax, which did make me wonder just how hot it would get\u2026 and that\u2019s when I had the brainwave that I could finally make use of the thermometer function in Google\u2019s Pixel 10 Pro XL<\/a>, because it\u2019s meant to be able to measure surface temperatures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is something that Pickr Editor Leigh and I have debated for some time now, because it long felt like a feature on that phone that had no practical usage.<\/p>\n

Is it practically useful to use it to measure the exterior temperature of a lava lamp? Probably not, but I wasn\u2019t going to let that stop me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At last, the Pixel 10 Pro XL could have its moment in the sun\u2026 or to be more precise, its moment near a glass tube filled with molten wax that certainly felt dangerously warm.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what it measured: hot. <\/p>\n

As expected, the Laser lava lamp was also one of the warmest Bluetooth speakers you could find. While speakers normally get warm, this pushes things to a degree most speakers would struggle to hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is this finally a reason for Pixel phones to have thermometers in them?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe there are better reasons after all, but the point here is that the liquid inside is likely even hotter than that, and it is quite vital that you place Laser\u2019s lava lamp speaker somewhere solid and safe, outside the reach of small children and away from pets who might knock it over. <\/p>\n

Lava lamp fires, or even scalds from hot wax, are nothing to trifle with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps the tiny benefit here is if, like me, you\u2019re using the Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker in a smaller room, because over time that ambient heat will raise the room temperature, at least a little.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a grossly inefficient way to do so, and you might want to prefer simply putting on something warmer. However, it\u2019s a tiny plus against the rather more obvious risk of scalds and burns and molten wax on your furniture if you were to accidentally break it.<\/p>\n

Of course, what Laser\u2019s selling here isn\u2019t just a lava lamp; it\u2019s a lava lamp Bluetooth speaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pairing is very simple, though there\u2019s no support for multi-point pairing, and you do have to choose between Bluetooth or 3.5mm connectivity via the switch at the back at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You might be thinking that it would be unusual to listen to audio that\u2019s broadcast through a lava lamp, what with the varying resonance of different sized globules of molten wax. I know I did.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a question that Laser\u2019s lava lamp speaker hybrid doesn\u2019t answer in any way at all, because its Bluetooth speaker sits at the bottom of the lava lamp underneath the heat source.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The positioning means your audio just isn\u2019t going to have the impact you might want. Even at full volume, it\u2019s not enough to get the wax even mildly vibrating, though this would be a bad idea in safety terms, really.<\/p>\n

Laser\u2019s audio output is rather understandably mono, and quite basic, at that. If you\u2019re after that retro AM radio sound for your next hippie-themed party, it would fit in beautifully, but for most musical genres it is predictably underwhelming.<\/p>\n

To give this its full workout, and while hoping that Pickr editor Leigh won\u2019t have me summarily executed for not using the official Pickr sound test<\/a> exclusively, I also assembled a thematically suitable playlist of the following songs that felt like they should be \u201cright\u201d for the Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker.<\/p>\n

We Didn\u2019t Start The Fire \u2013 Billy Joel<\/p>\n

I\u2019m On Fire \u2013 Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n

Girl On Fire \u2013 Alicia Keys<\/p>\n

Eternal Flame \u2013 The Bangles<\/p>\n

Light My Fire \u2013 The Doors<\/p>\n

Fever \u2013 Peggy Lee<\/p>\n

Set Fire To The Rain \u2013 Adele<\/p>\n

Steve\u2019s Lava Chicken \u2013 Jack Black<\/p>\n

Fire \u2013 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown<\/p>\n

Burning Down The House \u2013 Talking Heads<\/p>\n

Of those, the songs that presented best were Fire and Light My Fire, and that\u2019s largely because their presentation works slightly better with a treble-heavy speaker anyway. Everything else was ordinary at best save for Steve\u2019s Lava Chicken, which is a song so irredeemably awful that speaker quality makes no difference to it in any way at all.<\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s note: stunned Alex didn\u2019t use Jimi Hendrix\u2019s Fire or the Nigel Kennedy equivalent, or even Modern English\u2019s I Melt With You.)<\/p>\n

Value<\/p>\n

The Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth speaker retails for $69.95, which is a little higher than you\u2019d just pay for a straight up Lava Lamp all by itself; some simple research finds similar audio-free units available for between $30 and $50 in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That puts the audio component at around $20 or so of the total cost.<\/p>\n

While nobody with ears is going to sing the praises of its speaker, and audiophiles are likely to recoil in horror, $20 isn\u2019t a lot to pay for a serviceable Bluetooth speaker, as long as your audio needs are very basic indeed.<\/p>\n

What needs work?<\/p>\n

The speaker on Laser\u2019s retro lava lamp is ordinary at best, but then anyone expecting high-level audio out of what is absolutely sold as a novelty gadget is only fooling themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Of course it could be better, but that would undoubtedly involve a more costly unit.<\/p>\n

My bigger gripe here is with the lava lamp itself, and the fact that it features a single colour bulb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You absolutely do need a heating element to melt the wax, but multi-colour LED lights are ludicrously cheap things to buy even for consumers, and they must be a scale cheaper again at the manufacturing end.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adding the ability for variable or even switching light patterns would give the Laser retro lava lamp speaker even more scope for entertaining patterns. As it is, the green model I\u2019ve got would make a fine background prop for any mad scientist labs in B-grade horror movies, but that\u2019s about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What we love<\/p>\n

I am a bit of a sucker for a lava lamp once it\u2019s heated up, and I will admit that even beyond the point where I\u2019d assessed the Laser Retro Lava Lamp\u2019s speaker for its audio and basic wax-melting capabilities, I did keep it going a little longer just for its slightly hypnotic effect.<\/p>\n

That does suggest to me that in my own personal case, I\u2019d be better off just buying a lava lamp. I do tend to like a few retro games, so maybe I\u2019m just more of a retro kind of guy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Final thoughts (TLDR)<\/p>\n

The Laser Retro Lava Lamp with Bluetooth Speaker is very much a gimmick product, and like most gimmicks, its value directly relates to how often you\u2019re likely to use it.<\/p>\n

If you were setting up an artisanal rug and \u201ccoffee\u201d storefront in Mullumbimby, it would fit in beautifully and allow you to play all the Etruscan Nose Flute music you wanted to for your customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Equally, if you were hosting a lot of 70s-themed parties \u2013 whether for nostalgic reasons of your youth or for a retro-throwback vibe \u2013 then it might also get a lot of use.<\/p>\n

Like any lava lamp, you do need to be careful, however; one breakage could lead to some pretty serious hot times in your home\u2026 and not the party kind, unless a visit from the fire brigade and maybe an ambulance is your kind of shindig.<\/p>\n

LASER RETRO LAVA LAMP SPEAKER<\/p>\n

$69.95<\/p>\n

The good<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something hypnotic about melting wax, no matter what decade it actually is<\/p>\n

Eye catching (because it\u2019s a lava lamp)<\/p>\n

Choice of Bluetooth or 3.5mm inputs<\/p>\n

The not-so-good<\/p>\n

Single lava colour<\/p>\n

Gets predictably hot (and could be dangerous)<\/p>\n

Speaker is only ordinary at best<\/p>\n

You can get a basic lava lamp for less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quick review Laser Retro Lava Lamp Speaker – $69.95 The good There\u2019s something hypnotic about melting wax, no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,56250,1855,17404,105,264087],"class_list":["post-756949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bluetooth","tag-laser","tag-retro","tag-technology","tag-wireless-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}