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If you’re looking for smart lighting to brighten up your home you are spoilt for choice — and Philips Hue just added a couple of very cool extras to make your lighting smarter than ever.Not just lighting though — there’s a new security camera with a flood light available, a first for the brand which has mostly stuck with lighting prior. The camera is available to buy from today, while the lighting unit comes out in late February.New smart lights for outdoors, and something secureFirst of Philips’ new lighting is the…

When it comes to selecting a smartwatch, it's not just about picking a device that tells time. It's about choosing a fashion statement, a fitness companion, and a smart gadget that keeps you connected. The Fire-Boltt Smartwatch series, especially the golden models, excellently embodies this blend of fashion and function. These smartwatches are more than just timepieces; they are a symbol of luxury and technology, seamlessly integrated. What sets the Fire-Boltt Smartwatch apart in…

The Philips Hue smart lighting system offers a wide range of excellent smart bulbs, from color-changing and tunable white bulbs in every shape and size to LED light strips, outdoor lanterns, and holiday lights. Hue is well known for its interoperability with a wide array of smart home ecosystems and devices and now works with Matter, the new smart home standard designed to make it easier for all your smart home devices to communicate with each other locally in your home. Because Hue already works locally through its…

If you’ve been dragging your feet about shelling out for Philips Hue’s pricey color smart bulbs, today’s your lucky day.  Now that Amazon Prime Day 2023 has arrived, you can snag a 3-pack of Philips Hue’s White and Color Ambiance A19 bulbs for just $75.99, a full 44 percent off the standard $134.99 price tag. And if you’re new to the Philips Hue ecosystem, you can jump in with a starter kit that includes two White and Color Ambiance bulbs plus the Hue Bridge for only $89.99, or 31 percent off the usual list…

A good bedside lamp should be many things – good looking, easy to turn on and off in the dark, sturdy, in case you knock it off your nightstand, and, most importantly, it should be bright.The Philips Hue Go Portable Lamp is all these things, and perhaps even more with its HomeKit compatibility. It’s also extremely expensive, and while its solid build quality and sumptuous light output is well worth the cost, it’s hard to argue that $160 is not a lot of money for a small lamp.Hue Go Portable Lamp: Price and…

For example, Philips Hue pointed out the Hue's "Natural light" scene, which mimics the outside sun, can now replicate outside light that stays true throughout most of the day. Philips Hue also announced a brightness balancer option for individual lights in a group instead of a group as a whole. Users who have several lights in a room can now control specific bulbs (for instance, dimming lights behind a TV to watch a movie while keeping lights behind the couch fully lit), whereas before, all bulbs in an environment had…

Philips Hue is introducing some new features that make it easier to match brightness levels on different lights and fine-tune motion sensor automation, manufacturer Signify announced. The company also unveiled three new lighting products, including a bulb and two panels, though only in the UK, it appears.  The first update is called brightness balancer, developed in response user requests. If you have multiple lights in the same room with different brightness levels, the feature makes it easier to balance them by dimming…

Three new Philips Hue lights have launched in the UK. From today, a new, smaller bulb size is available to buy, as well as updates to the Surimu and Aurelle panels in fresh shapes and sizes. Plus, new features are coming via software updates later this year to the Philips Hue Bridge and Hue app that’ll increase customisation and control over lighting. Don’t forget that to unlock all the features of the lights, you’ll need a Hue Bridge ($59.99/ £49.99). The bridge will let you sync your lights, control them…

A fluorescent compound from a plant root could help image cells quickly. Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.3c00012Plants that emit a glowing light under ultraviolet (UV) light are no longer just a fantasy seen in science fiction TV shows and movies. The roots of a medicinal plant known as Toddalia asiatica or orange climber, have been found to emit an ethereal blue glow. Researchers in ACS Central Science have now uncovered two coumarin molecules that may be the source of this…

Philips promised it would offer Matter support for its Hue Bridge device in the first quarter of 2023. As it just ended, HueBlog contacted the company to inquire about whether the support would come a few weeks later, but the response wasn’t what everyone was expecting. For the launch of Matter, we are working together with many partners in the smart home industry. With Philips Hue, we always focus on convincing quality to meet our customers’ expectations. Therefore, we will take a little more time than…