Philips have just unveiled an LED light-bulb that is web enabled; allowing users to control the light via their Smartphone or Tablet.
Not only can you control the lights whilst at home but the app gives you the ability to control the lights whilst you are away form home as well. A great burglar deterrent I must add.
How does it all work? The kit comes with a Smart bridge that will connect to your WiFi router. The bridge will then communicate with the LED bulb itself which will then receive demands from the app. The bulb is compatible with your existing fittings.
The app is really where all the fun starts, you can control the light with an array of features including matching the colour of the light to a colour on any photo (up to 16 million different colours)
The system includes an alarm that will adjust the light accordingly at what ever time you demand; a far more natural way to rise than that of a fog horn sounding in the early hours. Different settings can be saved and logged on your device allowing you to simply click one button to allow the setting to be applied for that particular part of the day without too much fuss.
Could you see yourself using technology like this in your own home?
Source: geeky-gadgets
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£179 for a pack of 3 LED Bulbs and if you have an Android phone not all the features will work.
Yet again it is hardware ‘primarily’ developed for the ‘Fruit Machine’.
Mike
Hey, if you buy these you help save the planet and stimulate the economy!
To be fair iPhone users need these far more than us. They need to attain the exact shade necessary to hide the scuffs! ;o)
OoOooooooo… that’s cutting Bug.
As frustrating as it is, I can understand the logic behind developing something like this for iOS first because of the fragmentation of Android – it must make development a lot trickier.
This seems to be the latest ‘Buzz Word’ and I note a few others are using it as their ‘get-out-claus’.
Personally I find the use of fragmentation as an excuse inexcusable (no not a contradiction).
Mike
I’m not sure that Philips has given that as an actual reason, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has played apart.
It’s a buzz word in that people give it as an overall disadvantage for Android (when for the end user it’s not necessarily a big problem), but in terms of development there’s no arguing that it’s harder to test for hundreds of different Android devices, all with different sized screen, different OS versions and different skins, as opposed to the handful of iOS devices.
Philips Hue is quite expensive. I ordered some bulbs at easybulb.com that can do almost the same thing and they are only £15 each while the Philips Hue is over £250.