Gadgetory

I am seeing a track crisp and this is the Philips hue tap this is a remote control for your Philips hue lighting you can put it on the wall or stick it in your pocket or just leave it out in the coffee table and you'll have a series of buttons you can press to trigger your hue lights now the Philips you tap gives you four buttons in total to control your lights with there are these three buttons on the face of the device and then the face of the device is a fourth button itself now that gives you the option to turn one light off or turn one light on or turn an entire scene of lights on or off so if I press this button I get this light turning purple if I press this button I get all the lights turning red and then similarly if I press the third button I turn off just one light and if I press the big fourth button here I turn off all the lights and that's really it you just turn your lights on and off with this thing so it's a pretty simple device and it costs $60 which might be a bit steep for some but if you've got an existing hue set up a lot of lights that you like to control I think having the practicality of a physical remote is a really nice touch one thing though this thing's called the Philips you tap but it's going to take a bit more than a tap to get these buttons to work if you just press them down they'll click but they won't necessarily work you have to press and then give it a little extra oomph in order to get the entire face of the button down before they'll work the reason for that is that the hue tap doesn't use any batteries it actually runs off of the kinetic power generated each time you press a button that's a really cool feature you don't have to change batteries you don't have to worry about charging it but it does mean that it's not quite as usable as you might like all in all though I like this device a lot I wish it cost a little less than $60 but it's still pretty cool and if you have an existing Philips you set up you're going to like being able to control your lights without having to fish your phone out of your pocket for seeing that I'm right Chris