Gadgetory

smart bulbs are great but a lot of times you need to have a hub installed or know what ZigBee means if you don't want any of that GE has a bulb it thinks you might like it's actually two bolts the GE sleep bulb and the GE life bulb they're both part of the C by GE series and these are designed to be really cheap and also really easy to use they use bluetooth and connect with your phone directly so you don't need a hub and you don't need to know ZigBee your z-wave or any of that stuff is now the GE life LED is a lot like GES old smart bulbs you can turn it on and off or dim it up and down on your phone for basic stuff now the sleep LED is a little more interesting it's got the color tunability feature that we like in a lot of modern lights so when I first screw it in I get this bright blue daylight that's good for the morning when you're trying to wake up but I can also tone it down during the day into this nice warm kind of candle light glow another cool thing is that you can set that color temperature to change automatically using this follow-the-sun feature you can set the times in the app so that it will change from that orange light in the evening to a nice hot day light in the morning to help you wake up the catch is that you have to be within Bluetooth range for those changes to work and that really is the larger catch with these bulbs in general you do have to be within Bluetooth range to use them there's not a hub or any platform right now that supports them to extend that coverage to outside the home still the price is pretty good for these bulb you get four of them for 50 bucks that's to sleep and two light bulbs in that starter kit I like that an awful lot that's kind of the sweet spot where I think smart bulbs should be aiming for I just want the features to get there as well