Gadgetory

philip's you expanded its smart lighting lineup this summer with a bounty of new bulbs and fixtures including several that are designed for use outdoors up first a new outdoor version of the popular Philips II light strips with the weather proof design Philips Hughes outdoor light strips are meant for your garden or for your patio but the thick rubber surrounding the LEDs themselves means that there are a lot bulkier than the average indoor light strip I tried to hide them under the railing here on the deck at the scene at smart home and as you can see aren't exactly inconspicuous another problem of these lights you can't cut them if they're too long for your needs like you can with the indoor light strips you also can't purchase extensions to make them longer the strip's come in a two metre version for $90 and a five metre version for 160 if you need them to be any shorter or longer than either of those two lengths you're out of luck also new outdoor fixtures for your porch available in a couple of designs and starting at just 50 bucks they're really just normal wired light fixtures that come packaged with a Philips II white bulb I'd like them a lot better if they included a built in Philips hue motion sensor but they don't at any rate those hue white bulbs cost fifteen dollars each on their own and are already dampness rated so feel free just to swap one into your old fixture instead Philips also has two new color changing lights for your lawn these Kalla pedestal lights and lilies spotlights both options daisy chain together to a weatherproof power supply and work just like other color changing hue lights and they're pretty easy to install too between the two I like the lily spots a lot better especially if you like to go nuts with the decorations at the holidays just be prepared to spend though a three lily starter kit costs two hundred and eighty dollars with additional lights selling for eighty bucks each meanwhile a one light kala starter kit with the power supply cost one hundred and thirty dollars with additional lights selling for ninety seven none of these are cheap worst yet neither of them come with the Philips hue bridge which is mandatory to control them unless those prices come down a bit color me a little bit unimpressed