Control Your Kitchen Bulb With Mobile Phone!

Saturday, September 22, 2012:  A group of young Australian inventors have developed the bulb that dims, changes colour, strobes, switches on automatically, and can be fully controlled using a mobile phone. The inventors secured almost a million pounds in funding to manufacture a 42 pounds light bulb that lets you have a disco in your kitchen.

The LIFX light bulb will give users the power to quickly dim the lights or switch on the disco strobe. At 42 pounds each, with a lifespan of 25 years, the bulbs cost a staggering amount compared to normal energy-saving fluorescent bulbs, which can be picked up for as little as 2 pounds and typically last for around ten years.

The project has, however, seen an astonishing level of support since it launched. Billed by company founder Phil Bosua as "the world's smartest light bulb", the bulb will screw into normal light fittings and function like a normal light bulb if you lose your phone. 

"Traditional bulbs also use heaps of power and those energy efficient fluoro bulbs have that cold white light that we all hate," Bosua said. "So I started thinking with all the technology we've got today, surely there must be a better way. I mean it's not like we get up to change the TV anymore, so why do we still do that with our lights? "Six months and more than a dozen prototypes later, we've managed to create the world's smartest energy efficient light bulb," he said.

The prospect of controlling electronics via mobiles have caught up across the world, over the last couple of years. But how efficient and successful these bulbs are is yet to be seen. Anyhow, with the global powerhouses looking to reduce the power emission into the atmosphere, this invention could well turn out to be a masterstroke.

Source: news.efytimes.com