If you're just starting your smart home lighting journey, there's a decision you can make from the outset that can help guide you in the right direction: smart switches or smart light bulbs? You might ...

It's the latest evidence that smart bulbs and smart switches are finally learning to play nice in the connected home. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure ...

Smart light bulbs are often a gateway for anyone interested in smart homes or automating some aspect of their house. The promise of controlling lights with just your voice or using your smartphone can ...

When it comes to starting a smart home, lighting is one of the simplest ways to get going. You might assume that starts with a smart light bulb, but there are other ways to add smarts to your lighting ...

Smart bulbs are barely smart.

When I drove to the offices of a start-up called Switch Lighting last week, I wasn’t expecting much. A company representative had promised to show me something amazing—an alternative light bulb that ...

An ultra-efficient light bulb that you can dim with a regular light switch has been invented by a trio of engineers from Toronto. Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger and Christian Yan of Nanoleaf, now based in ...

I am all for moving away from the normal incandescent bulbs almost all of us use today to a more efficient and longer lasting alternative like CFL or LED lighting. The problem is that the incandescent ...

So I have a couple of floor lamps that have three-way switches and was designed for incandescent light bulbs. To clarify, when I say three-way switch, I mean it cycles between off, low, medium, and ...