Gadgetory

hi I'm rich brown frissina today we're going to talk about Philips friends a few light strip so the light strip is a six foot set of adhesive-backed LED lights it's designed to work with Philips hue connected bulb lighting kit the idea is that this works as an accent light it's adhesive back so you can connect it underneath or on top of pretty much any surface and then control it with your smartphone you can use it in conjunction with Philips hue lights or you can use it as a standalone accent light now this should be obvious this is a novelty product it's definitely not a very useful light to have just day to date around the house we can't see kind of putting it underneath a cabinet in a kitchen or somewhere that you might want to utility light but mostly the light strip is designed to be used in conjunction with Philips hue bulbs as part of a decorative lighting scheme at home so if you look closely at each little cluster on here you're see it's made of three tiny LEDs there's a blue red and green one you can change this output to up to 16 million different colors via your mobile app now that sounds like a very broad range but what it does not include is sort of that color temperatures that we're familiar with from standard incandescent light bulbs at home now what's also interesting about this product is that you can actually customize the length of this strip there's little indicators here that let you snip it every 4 inches but of course what you've cut off no longer works so you have to keep that in mind now you can see we haven't connected this strip to anything it's kind of free-floating and the colors on this side got a little bit messed up during the review process but it did cut off a strip just to see how well the strips adhered to a surface and you can see there's a four inch strip here and it's really pretty solidly connected to this piece of wood now like the Philips hue bulbs there are quite a few ways you can program these lights through your smartphone app the app lets you change the color like I mentioned but you can also set it to work on a timer you can have the lights go off on an alarm or in response to your GPS location it also supports IFFT which is the if this then that standard that lets you tie the behavior of these lights to certain online services thanks to the open software in the hue family you can also find other apps available to download that perform different functions so that can make the lights change in response to the stock market they can change in time to music and saw some other things that are kind of Handy kind of a novel one thing I do is those that Phil said may be extended more functionality in its own software the fact that you can't get these to chase for example perform other sort of sequencing functions this is a little bit lame considering these of such a novel product the same that they cost 90 bucks it might be nice to have a little bit of advanced functionality for these overall though the novelty factor is very high here even higher than with the hue bows themselves but if you do already own the hue bulbs you just give you sort of a nice way to extend that product family and give you some other lights to play with some rich Brown this is the Philips hue lightstrip