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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You’ve got your indoor bulbs that look like a gas flame and a Bluetooth speaker that looks like a flaming torch, now you’re ready for outdoor lighting that also looks like flaming torches! You’ll get a set of two Solar Garden Lights from Dikaou, plus accessories to set the lights up for wall mounting, using
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For Christmas 2013, I received a Philips Hue starter kit with three color-changing LED bulbs and a bridge to connect them to my home’s WiFi network. I was thrilled by the thought of having lots of light “recipes” to change the color and mood of my living room. But I found that I really didn’t
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SnapPower GuideLights are easy to install outlet wallplates that add an automatic LED night light that turns on when it gets dark and turns off during the day. I reviewed the SnapPower GuideLight back in 2014 and continue to use them in several rooms of my home. Well, every room except in the bathroom and
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There are many ways to control your Hue WiFi-connected lighting system – smart Hue Switches, apps for mobile devices or computers, Alexa voice commands, IFTTT – but those are limited in various ways. Perhaps there are some areas, like a dark hallway or stairs, where you would like a hands-free way of turning on the
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