Philips expands iOS-controlled Hue line

Philips expands iOScontrolled Hue line
Still love it when the lights in your house flash a rainbow of colors every time you’re mentioned in a tweet? According to The Verge, Philips has announced two new additions to the Hue line of internet-controlled lighting; the US$89.95 LightStrips and the $79.95 Bloom.

LightStrips are flexible, sticky-backed two-meter lengths of small LEDs made for accent lighting and things like frames. The Bloom (seen below, from the German Philips website) is a portable lamp that can be used to highlight an entire wall with its 120-lumen LED bulb. Both lights require the Philips Hue wireless bridge, which is part of the $199.95 starter kit available at Apple Stores and other retail locations. That kit includes the bridge and three controllable LED bulbs.

Philips expands iOScontrolled Hue line

All of the Hue lighting products are energy-efficient and can be controlled through the Hue app or IFTTT recipes to display any of more than 16 million colors in a number of intensity levels.

A source for The Verge explained that the new lights are supposed to appear in Apple Stores and on Apple’s online store soon, although the publication was not able to get a response from either Apple or Philips.

Philips expands iOS-controlled Hue line originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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