Forget physical switches, now you can control your light bulbs via your iPhone or Android smartphones. If you’re curious, let’s go on checking the following LIFX light bulb.
LIFX is an innovative, WiFi-enabled smart bulb invented by Phil Bosua. As we can see from the images, the smart bulb comes with a standard lamp head in order that you can easily replace existing bulb with the smart bulb, and LIFX light bulb features built-in WiFi and antennae so you can conveniently connect the bulb with your iPhone or Android phone in a wireless way, while using matching iOS app or Android app, you can freely control your smart bulbs via your smartphone such as choosing any brightness for your smart bulb, creating colors to match any mood or decor, visualizing your music with animated colors, creating a night light, setting security mode during your holiday, you even can get notifications for Twitter, Facebook, SMS and more. Apart from that, using its SDK and hacker kit, you can also develop more functions for the smart bulb.
At present, the inventor of LIFX is raising fund on Kickstarter. Pledge $69 will let you own the smart bulb. If you’re interested, jump to Kickstarter official site for more details or check out the following demo video.