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SnapPower ConnectLight review – The easiest automatic lighting you’ll ever install

By Julie Strietelmeier / August 11, 2020 / Reviews / Crowdfunded, LED lighting / 4 Comments

CROWDFUNDING REVIEW – Have you ever wanted to add motion-activated lighting to your home but gave up on the idea when you realized the expense and time required to set everything up? I have something for you today that takes all the headaches out of setting up zoned lighting. It’s SnapPower’s ConnectLight and it’s awesome. […]

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Bulbrite Solana Smart LED Bulbs review

By Jacob Haas / March 20, 2020 / Reviews / LED lighting, smart home / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – Smart LED bulbs are the de facto entry drug into home automation, but you don’t need to be a networking wizard to set them up. Bulbrite’s Solana range of smart bulbs could be just the thing to get you started… see why! What is it? The Solana Smart Bulbs are a line of

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Govee RGB+WW H6188 WiFi light strip review

By Garry Kolb / February 4, 2020 / Reviews / LED lighting / 3 Comments

REVIEW – Light helps. It helps us see. It helps us feel better. It helps set a mood. Light is a good thing. The ability to control light is also a good thing. Making it brighter, dimmer, change colors, pulse to a beat, light specific areas – those are all things we like to do.

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Check out GE’s oversized vintage LED bulbs

By Kathleen Chapman / September 29, 2019 / News / LED lighting / 4 Comments

NEWS – Last year GE came out with some vintage-style LED light bulbs and this year GE has come out with some oversized ones which look pretty cool. These large LED bulbs are available in different shapes and have different styles of filaments (spiral and weave) like those shown in the photo above. They also

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Awair Glow C air quality monitor and smart plug review

By Julian Perry / August 23, 2019 / Reviews / Air Filtration, LED lighting, smart home / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – Each day when I walk back and forth to take the railroad to and from work, it seems that there is a new building being constructed in the city. With all of the construction and materials and digging and trucks going back an forth, pollution seems to be at an all-time high. Since

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EP Design Lab E.P.Light review

By Garry Kolb / August 21, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting / 2 Comments

REVIEW – Lightbulbs have been around for years. Thanks to Thomas Edison and his publicity and marketing genius, we are all familiar with the traditional, screw-in incandescent lightbulb. Of course, lately, incandescents have fallen out of favor due to their inherent energy inefficiency and have been all but replaced by LED bulbs. These satisfy our

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Govee Wifi Smart Outdoor LED String Light review

By Samuel Pair / August 18, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting, Outdoor Lighting / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – This is my second opportunity to review a Govee product, with my most recent review being their smart LED strip lighting that I used behind my TV. This time, I’m getting to show off the Wifi Smart Outdoor LED String Lights! As much as a fan as I was about the strip lighting,

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Govee TV LED Backlights review

By Samuel Pair / August 5, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting, TV accessory / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – My wife and I love our basement theater room and especially enjoy turning out all the lights and watching our movies like we’re actually in a theater. We had read over and over how LED back lighting made the viewing experience even better. A couple of years ago, we bought a strip light

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Loftek LED light ball review

By Brooke Hall / June 12, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – The Loftek LED ball is a versatile ambiance-creator, with multiple modes and color options to inspire anything from a high-charged dance party, to a romantic evening, to some quiet, personal meditation. What is it? It’s an 8-inch, waterproof, indoor/outdoor sphere-shaped light. What’s in the box? LED ball Charger Instruction manual Remote control Hardware

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SANSI A21 omni-directional LED light bulb review

By Smythe Richbourg / May 14, 2019 / Reviews / LED lighting / 3 Comments

REVIEW – When I first started writing for The Gadgeteer, I never in my dreams thought that I would be reviewing light bulbs. And now, I’m reviewing a second one from the same company. But SANSI has good products, and their new A21 LED is lighting my office as I type this. 5000ºK is daylight-bright.

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Now your cooler can have an interior light, just like your home fridge

By Janet Cloninger / November 12, 2018 / News / LED lighting / Leave a Comment

NEWS – Well, it’s not just like the home fridge, because it’s not activated by opening the door. The StarBright Cooler Light has LED bulbs and a rechargeable battery. You turn it on and toss it into your Yeti, Coleman, RTIC, or other coolers of any size. It’s not mounted to your cooler. It lays

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Control your Philips Hue lights by simply entering a room

By Janet Cloninger / October 18, 2018 / News / Home Automation, LED lighting / 2 Comments

NEWS – Most of the bulbs in my house are Philips Hue bulbs or light strips. I have a lot of Hue Tap switches scattered around to operate my lights, and they work well, but a couple of them require you to walk down a dark hallway to reach the switch. I need to add

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These lightbulbs are works of art

By Janet Cloninger / September 11, 2018 / News / LED lighting / Leave a Comment

NEWS – Normally, I wouldn’t write about these lightbulbs because they have virtually no information with the listing. However, they are so beautiful, I did it anyway. The Speed Warp lightbulbs appear to fit normal lamp sockets. They seem to have internal fibers that make the bulbs look like the special effects used for hyperspace

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Philips announces the new Hue Play light bar for your TV

By Janet Cloninger / August 25, 2018 / News / LED lighting, TV accessory / 1 Comment

NEWS – Philips latest smart lighting product is the Play light bar. You choose from 16 million colors to enhance the atmosphere of your room. The light bar integrates into your existing Hue lighting and pairs with your Hue bridge. It can then be controlled by the Hue app or by the variety of 3rd party

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Expand your Philips Hue system at a price that won’t break the bank

By Janet Cloninger / May 30, 2018 / News / LED lighting / 2 Comments

I’ve mentioned that I’ve got Philips Hue bulbs in almost all my lights in my condo now. I’ll admit my setup was very expensive, and I spread the purchases out over about four years. Prices started out at about $50 per bulb for the original color-changing bulbs, then they introduced some white-only bulbs, which were

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MIUO Solar Motion Sensor Light Review

By Lynn Lopez / May 24, 2018 / Reviews / LED lighting, Solar / Leave a Comment

It never fails. I always seem to forget to take out the trash until after the sun has set. It also figures that the place where my trashcans are located is a very dark side of our house. Most of the time I just stumble around hoping to get to the proper trash can (we

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No more bathroom trips in the dark with the Vansky motion-activated LED bed light

By Janet Cloninger / May 14, 2018 / News / LED lighting, Sleep / 6 Comments

Navigating to the bathroom in a dark bedroom can be tricky when you don’t want to turn on a bright lamp and disturb your bedmate. Having a continually-lighted nightlight in the bedroom isn’t an ideal solution either, because being exposed to light while you’re trying to sleep isn’t good for you. What you need is

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IKEA is offering a connected home lighting kit and accessories

By Janet Cloninger / April 30, 2018 / News / Home and Kitchen, LED lighting / 1 Comment

If you want to introduce an internet-connected home lighting kit for a reasonable price, and you don’t care about color-changing bulbs, you need to check out the Tradfri kit from IKEA. Of course, these lights come with a smartphone app (Android Kitkat 4.4 or Lollipop 5.0 or Apple iOS 8 or later), and it’s Apple

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Retrofit your existing downlights with smart Philips Hue kits

By Janet Cloninger / March 17, 2018 / News / LED lighting, smart home / Leave a Comment

I have an old-style downlight in my foyer, and I wanted a smart bulb for it. I saw a lot of retrofit kits for recessed lights with the light source and trim kit in one. But those weren’t what I wanted, because none I found were wirelessly controllable. I gave up on those kits

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Philips Hue will venture outdoors this summer

By Michael Strange / March 14, 2018 / News / LED lighting, Outdoor Lighting / 1 Comment

Over the last couple of years, the Philips Hue indoor smart home lighting system has become very popular. So Philips recently announced that coming this summer they’re taking on the great outdoors with a new line of exterior lights. The Philips Hue outdoor range smart lighting system takes all the great indoor lighting system controls and brings them to the

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