Gadgetory

hey I'm seeing that's right wrist and this is orb next it's a color-changing glass cube with built-in LEDs Wi-Fi and its own dedicated channel on if the online automation network that uses if this then that based recipes so with orb next you can program anything you can think of to trigger the color of the cube to change if you want the cube to turn green when your stock prices up or turn blue and you have a facebook notification you can program all of that using ifft now in addition to that if channel you'll control orb next using the blink and play app from advanced to loom onyx the company that made this thing and with that app you can change the color directly you can set a color cycle to go you can do a couple of things but not as much as I would like you can't create a customized color cycle so you can't make it go red green blue red green blue it only has one option you also can't do a music sync mode you can't schedule the light to come on at a certain time now some of that you can do with if you can use if to say at six o'clock I want green light but still that feels like a feature that should have been in the app another qualms with the app is this color selector it's just not that great you have to slide around on the thing and then press a separate button to see the color you can't just watch the cube change color as you slide and you know release your thumb when you like what you see you have to keep on tapping the color selector and tapping the button until you get a color you like I don't like that that's a lot clunkier than you'll see with philips hue or lifx or other smart color changing bulbs that we've taken a look at of course the functionality goes way up once you start playing with if you can do whatever you really want you can do some weird recipes with it and if you want to get creative there's plenty of room for it so if you like that the orb next might be something you'd enjoy still this costs 129 dollars that's an awful lot that the heck of a splurge that's more than the life x bulb cost that's more than individual philips hue bulbs cost more than the taboo lumen bulb cost all of those have color-changing smarts philips hue has its own if channel you've got a lot of options with those that make a little more sense i think than this but still if you like it if you want it on your desk if you think it looks cool and you'd have fun playing with it it's not the worst words in the world for CNN I'm right Chris you