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Philips to Sell iOS-Controlled LED Light Bulbs Exclusively Through Apple Stores

wilycoder said:
Wow, light bulbs that only Mitt Romney can afford.
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You probably shop at Wal-Mart regularly and buy all your food there too right? Then these aren't the lights for you.

Know who they are marketing too and quit whining. So many whiners in this thread its unreal. Do any of you realize the technology involved here and the possibilities? You even realize how much closer this brings us to home automation at a more consumer friendly level? Not to mention these are LED's with a 60w output equivalent?

I guess not. :rolleyes:
 
I can buy top rated LED bulbs at The Home Depot, and get up off my *ss to turn the lamps on and off.
 
dcorban said:
I decided to do some calculations to see if LED is worth the cost. Assume that the bulb will be used for six hours every night, for a total of ~2200 hours per year. Prices taken from bulbscanada.

$0.55 for 60w incandescent, rated 6000 hours
$2.45 for 13w CFL, rated 6000 hours
$16.00 for 6.9w LED, rated 40000 hours

LED life is 18 years, meaning I would use 7 incandescents or CFL for every LED.

Purchase price over 18 years:
$3.85 incandescent
$17.15 CFL
$16 for LED

I pay 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour (we have "time of use" rates in Ontario, this is the off-peak rate), so the energy rates per year are:
$8.58 incandescent, $154.44 for 18 years
$1.86 CFL, $33.48 for 18 years
$0.99 LED, $17.76 for 18 years

Total cost of ownership for 18 years:
$158.29 incandescent
$77.58 CFL
$33.76 LED

Conclusion: you will pay $43.82 more over the life span of an LED bulb if you use CFL. Over the life span of these three bulbs, you would pay $131.46 to own and operate equivalent CFL bulbs. The Philips bulbs in the article have a $102 premium price. It is actually cheaper to buy these "expensive" Philips LED bulbs than any other bulb type!
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Nicely done.
 
I really like it... I hope you all go out and buy one so it sticks around long enough to become a bit more affordable :) But I do like it... Hue & Nest are bringing us one step closer to the robot house of the future, and I for one welcome our new computer overlords. Bring it.
 
That old iPhone 3G I didn't know what to do with? My new light switch.

I'm mounting it to the wall where all my main light switches are.
 
AbSoluTc said:
The color of light plays a big role in how we relax, read, wind down, sleep and wake. It's not a gimmick. It's a fact. Go look it up. I can attest to it.
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Likewise, I can attest to the fact that simply turning down a regular incandescent that is adjustable works wonders for relaxing as well. No need to change color, at least not for me.

I feel like people are just making crap for the sake of making it these days; is it REALLY "easier" to pull your phone out, unlock it, fire up the app, and control the light bulb that way? What's wrong with the switch on the wall that has been there for 100 years?

I find that all this stuff just adds to complexity of things, and makes them more of a hassle, and tougher to pinpoint a fix when things go south.

Good engineering is simple engineering.
 
AppleInMyBlood said:
Well at least that was more articulate than your earlier post.
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Really? I stated that you can purchase top rated Phillips LED bulbs at THD for far less. And, per the poster just after mine, it's easier to simply get up and turn your lighting on and off. As that poster also said, sometimes we make stuff just for the sake of making it.

Apple's target market, indeed. When do the lines form?
 
puma1552 said:
What's wrong with the switch on the wall that has been there for 100 years?
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By that logic: What's wrong with the tube TVs we had for 60 years or so?

I for one applaud innovative new products that move us forward, rather than leaving us in a static technological world. And this particular product looks to me to be extremely simple and well-designed, at least from a first look at the details.

Home lighting has remained pretty basic--it needed a shot in the arm.
 
Can't Philips and Apple show some real 'vision' here and add a Thunderbolt port with a single USB 3 bridge and get the price up to a round $999 or £623.232 GBP in real money? :rolleyes:
 
cool design , cool idea , cool Price????

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common its a bulb not a bloody iPad mini:mad:

Sell it for a cheap price and we be all over u, u make ur money thru selling more bulbs. :p
 
expensive but a cool idea. and if you are one of the people who design their living room for tens of thousands of dollars then saving money on lighting doesn't make sense. this is for design inspired living areas or shops and business. 200-300 bucks per room doesn't sound so expensive then. and in two years prices will be way down.
 
macman45 said:
i priced up the non ios variety recently in the uk they want a staggering £15 per bulb...:eek: I know they are supposed to last longer, and will certainly save money, but to replace all the halogen bulbs in my place would cost in excess of £300! I think i'll wait until the price comes down a little, and take care about overuse of the ceiling lighting!
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