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hey guys it's Brad a minimun from pocket now calm in this video we're gonna unbox something I've been waiting for for a very long time light bulbs that are controlled with Wi-Fi with your smartphone there's a lot of possibility here let's get to the unboxing so this is called Philips hue and right now it's an exclusive in the Apple Store the app is only available on iOS devices although this will be available on Android devices and this product will be sold in other places in the coming future so the cool thing about this is like I said these bulbs are controlled via Wi-Fi on your smartphone but not only that but the bulbs which are LED bulbs which last for a very very long time and are very power efficient can change their color to 16 million different colors which seems crazy but there are a lot of really interesting possibilities and we're going to talk about that in a minute so let's take a look what we have in the package by the way this is not cheap at all this is new technology and you're gonna pay for it this kit which includes three bulbs and a gateway to allow you to control the light bulbs with Wi-Fi from a smartphone app is 199 bucks and then you can buy additional bulbs for $60 each yeah that is ridiculously expensive it's many times the price of a standard LED bulb and most people aren't even buying LED bulbs you've got the compact fluorescent light bulbs which are power efficient and then these LED bulbs which are even more efficient and they're a lot newer so they're more expensive so let's see what we have here kind of really interesting packaging it gives you a really basic set up scenario here one of the things you can do with this is through the smartphone app you can import a picture so let's say you have a picture on your wall that has the color of a sunset you can actually make the lights have those colors in them so you kind of create this mood within a room or maybe you want to have a light that is very conducive to paying attention or studying a very bright light that really focuses and it's kind of like a natural sort of sunlight I'm not a lighting expert as you can tell but the the foss they seem really cool here so let's just take a look inside the packaging and exactly what we get and by the way this system can handle up to 52 lightbulbs so if you flood it too you could put your whole house on this and each individual light bulb can be linked to one another so you could press one button for a party mode of one button for relaxation mode and all of the light bulbs respond differently throughout your house whether you're connecting this to overhead lighting when you're connecting it to a lamp which is probably what most people are going to be doing so we've got a ethernet cord here interesting alright because we connect the ethernet cable to this guy which makes a Wi-Fi mesh network for the light bulbs I can't believe they put Wi-Fi chips and light bulbs that's awesome OSI Connect that's your router with the ethernet cable and let's see what else we have this is probably power adapter yeah a power adapter so not much to unbox here I'm kind of unboxing the prospect of really cool geeky sort of home automation these bulbs are actually kind of attractive they don't look like light bulbs out of the year 3000 I mean they look like great regular light bulbs and they've got LEDs in them a series of LEDs to be able to make those 16 million colors so I'm super curious about these whether this is something that actually makes life a little bit better or if it's just a complete novelty and who cares about having 16 million colors so we're going to do a follow up video and talk about how this system works again this is an Apple Store exclusive for now you can get it on apple.com and it'll be rolling out to retailers other retailers in the near future so let us know what you think about Wi-Fi controlled light bulbs if you have any interest in that kind of home automation or if you have a less expensive system that you're looking at or thinking about or already have leave us a comment down below it's a little bit of a different video here for PocketNow but it's related to mobile because it works with a smartphone and tablet app that's it for now