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We've always been fans of the Philips Hue here at GNC and looking back I reviewed Hue back in December 2013. At that time, Hue was only a small range of connected light bulbs. Today Hue has a much wider range of bulbs and integrates with other elements of the connected home such as Nest, while Hue Tap brings practicality, turning
This is going to be a challenging post for a large chunk of GNC's audience. Not only is it about football with a round ball, it's about German football too. Anyway....Philips have partnered with one of the biggest club's in Europe, Fußball-Club Bayern München to promote Philips Hue LED lighting system (German / English) With names familiar to soccer fans worldwide, the promotional video shows
In my first post on Philips Hue, I referred to "The Internet of things" where normally dumb devices such as fridges and washing machines are connected to the network. Having a washing machine with an IP address may mean that I can check whether the spin cycle has finished without getting out of my chair, but the real value of
While researching the Philips Hue Android apps, I discovered that currently there is a single Hue app for Chrome. It's called Hueful and while it's fairly basic, it deserves a mention as (a) it's the only app on Chrome but (b) it shows that Chrome can support this kind of hardware-oriented app. Previously I would have discounted Chrome from being an
Last week, I had a first look at the Hue "Personal Wireless Lighting" kit from Philips. As I mentioned in the review, Philips has opened up the lighting system to developers via an API and this week, I'll take a look at some of the apps available, both from 3rd party developers. As you'd expect, they run the gamut from
Kevin Ashton coined the phrase "The Internet of Things" back in 1999, but a decade later most of the on-line gadgets in my house are still recognisable as being technology. My fridge is still a fridge, my front door still needs a key and my house doesn't talk to me. That was the situation until a couple of weeks when