Singapore
November 2013
Recent days have been filled with overcast skies and rain, rain and more rain...
So it was a certainly a warm thought when the nice folks at Philips invited Merlion Wayfarer to the evening launch of hue.
hue, the world’s smartest LED bulb from Philips, allows one to create and control home lighting directly from am iOS and Android device.
What Can hue Do?
- Set timers e.g. to wake you up and send you to sleep
- It can be set to gently wake you up in the morning and send you to sleep in the evening
- Keep your home safe
- You can turn your lights on or off wirelessly and remotely from anywhere in the world - Change the color of your home
- You can create the atmosphere you want and use any photo on your smartphone or tablet as a palette to paint with light
For aspiring designers and the artistic,
have the full suite of bulbs in your house to play with is just like a new playground reopened...
- Ask your lights to turn on as you approach your home
- The new geofencing means that hue can sense your smartphone or tablet’s location and your bulbs can now be set to turn on/off automatically, change color or light setting
With an open source program code, the techies can design their own customizable apps...
- Set recurring schedules
- The recurring schedules feature means you can program it to enhance your family’s daily routine and create settings for activities such as waking up, homework or bedtime
- Hook up hue to your essential Internet services
- Through IFTTT (If This Then That), it can hook up to your essential internet services, meaning your bulbs can act as indicators for weather, stock quotes, sports scores, email, social media and more. They can be programmed to behave in any way you choose.
- Change your lighting to suit your needs
There is a range of LightRecipes that change your lighting to suit your needs:
- Relax
- Concentrate
- Energize
- Read
The thoughtful gift from the organizers which will ensure many more multi-hued days to come...
The Philips hue introduction pack with 3 hue light bulbs of 600 lumen (50W equivalent) and a hue bridge retails at S$319 (including GST) at major retailers. An individual bulb pack retails at S$89. More information on hue can be found on www.meethue.com.
