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The Philips Hue lighting system is a great way to spice up the ambient color of your home by just swapping out a few lightbulbs. Now the smartphone-controlled illumination system is getting its own TRON-like hardware meant for accent lighting.
The new LivingColors Bloom and LightStrips fixtures are less about replacing the bulbs you already have in your home, and more about creating a fancy color landscape with accents. The $90 LightStrip is a two meter flexible strip of LEDs that can be cut to size, and includes an adhesive strip so you can place it pretty much anywhere you want a colorful line of lights.
Maybe under the counter? You can adjust the color to match your culinary dishes. Possibly a mellow yellow along a hallway to help light your way at night? Or my favorite: a blue accent under your couch so it looks like a lowered '90s Honda Prelude.
The LivingColors Bloom is its own standalone lighting fixture that can be placed on a table or floor and used to bounce your color of choice off a wall. Both the $80 LivingColors Bloom and LightStrips need the $200 Philips Hue starter pack with its ZigBee LightLink wireless standard hub and three lightbulbs. But, if you're interested in taking your lightscapes up a notch, the new Hue lighting fixtures will be available at the Apple Store on Thursday.
