New Networked LED Bulb Provides Wireless Light Control
Philips just announced its smart light bulb, which can be programmed via WiFi connectivity and smartphone/tablet apps. Users can adjust the brightness as well as the color.
According to the company, the LED bulbs can display a variety of white tones ranging from warm yellow white to blue white, in addition to virtually any other color desired by the user. The technology used in the bulbs is related to Philips' now defunct AmbiLight TVs, which allowed a device to adjust the surrounding TV lighting to the screen content.
Called hue, the smart light bulb starter kit is priced at $199 and comes with three bulbs and a network bridge that can control up to 50 bulbs at any time. Each additional bulb is $59 a piece. Via a smartphone, a user can apply a programmable timer, remotely control the lights or go to more extravagant usage models and take a picture of an object and apply the color tone to a light bulb.
According to Philips, there are several preset lighting modes that provide tones for specific environments, including calming tones for reading and relaxing.

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Their bulbs don't require a bridge to work. Everything is contained within the "master" bulb, then you have basically "slave" bulbs. I swear this is not spam
$60 per bulb x3 blubs is $180
The starter kit comes with 3 bulbs, plus a wireless router/controller for 50 bulbs for $200
... and somehow you think the starter kit is expensive, and the bulbs are not?
the 200$ starter isnt that horrificly expensive to me, but the 60$ bulbs... i already pay 30$ a bulb for led lights (you ever have a cfl catch fire on you, or when they burn out they smell like frying electronics, and you are willing to pay a premium for piece of mind) but i would not pay 60 for this. maybe 40$
i would only consider 60$ if these were 120 watt equivilant bulbs but im doubting they are.
These lights by Phillips are networked and can change color... That's worth an extra $10 to me. Not to mention the life expectancy on LEDs blow away the way overstated life of CFLs, while using half the power.
That doesn't mean you need to change every light in your house with these. What it means is, if you want to color shift your living room or bedroom, this will let you do it for a couple hundred dollars. All jokes aside, you really aren't going to need to set moods in toilet or hallway.