Wanna control your lighting with your iPhone? Got an app for that

Here's a real new twist on LED lighting. Available on www.kickstarter.com, the LIFX ED LEDs can be controlled by iPhones or Android smart phones. But here's a really new twist for average-Joe homeowners who want to do something a little different with ...
Sept. 17, 2012
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Here's a real new twist on LED lighting. Available on www.kickstarter.com, the LIFX ED LEDs can be controlled by iPhones or Android smart phones. But here's a really new twist for average-Joe homeowners who want to do something a little different with their home lighting. You can not only turn the LIFX LEDs on and off -- you can program them to emit different colors, and match the lighting to the beat of your music.

Alas, there's a catch. The bulbs are available for a "pledge" of $69 and won't be available until March 2013. Pledge $5,000 and you get the distributor deal -- 100 LIFX LEDs in four-bulb packs, point-of-sale displays, a demo bulb. and direct technical support from the LIFX team. The bulbs are available in Edison-screw mount, bayonet-cap or downlight mounts. They produce lumens equivalent of a 60Wincandescent bulb or 50W halogen downlight. Lots more background available by clicking here.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.