EPI (which is the North America brand license partner for Philips Monitors) announced their new Philips Brilliance LED-backlit LCD Monitor (231P4QUPEB). It has been designed to give you the freedom of a laptop with the convenience of a desktop. The monitor can serve as a “home base” solution for business travelers who frequently work on their laptop. The innovative Philips
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
At times it feels like SXSW has become a mini-CES, with all the hot innovations popping up. Wearables combined with health and well-being are definitely where it's at and this year Philips are hosting a Dragon's Den-style Digital Innovation Challenge, with three companies pitching their tech for a week's advice and guidance at Philip's High Tech Campus in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The mp3 digital music format has liberated music in a way that would be totally unthinkable to a previous generation. The Walkman made music portable and the CD digitised music but the revolution came as the mp3 format compressed music to fit into a fraction of its true size. Instead of music collections stretching from floor to ceiling, they could fit into
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