STACK #217 November 2022

LIFE TECH FEATURE

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ENTERTAIN US INDOORS

With the entertaining season soon hitting full swing, it’s a great time to get your indoor living space in a top party mood. For, as we all know, you’ll always have your indoor guests as well as your outdoor ones. Amaze them all with some nifty new smart home tech. Words Bec Summer

34- inch monitors, these programmable Hue Bridge compatible strips affix to the back of the monitor, emitting a pleasing RGB glow in whatever patterns you decide to program them with via a handy desktop app. Wiz Colour and White Portable Lamp This truly portable sleek

wonder measures just under 20 centimetres in height and may look

THE SIGHTS! One of the easiest ways to lend your living space some added pizazz is to get creative with smart lighting. Whether you look at retrofitting your existing lighting or bolstering it ready for any mood from full-blown party to a more chilled gathering, there are options aplenty. Best of all, these smart lighting opportunities all hook into various smart home ecosystems so that you can do what you’re meant to do, and that’s sit back and relax with family or friends, and let the tech do the work for you! Twinkly RGB Squares 5+1 Master Kit Blur the line between art and functionality and liven everything from a romantic setting to full-on summer party time vibes. They're hot for gaming nights, too, able to react to every onscreen move that you make. Twinkly Curtain 210 LED RGBW Lights Spread the decorative RGB lighting love with this impressive curtain setup, featuring ten drops of 21 smart LEDs, all controllable individually from your trusty smartphone. up the party with these incredible programmable light panels. Each of them has 64 individual LEDs, programmable through the Twinkly app to make

Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box If you’re in the versatile Philips

innocuous when turned off, but let it burst into life and 16 million colours are at

your smart control disposal. The perfect central focus for the next party – forget that old-school mirror ball – this one can be controlled via app, but also features onboard controls for when you’re partying phone-free. Wiz LED Light Strip Start Kit 2m Of all the smart lighting

smart lighting ecosystem, then adding this clever box of tricks can up your entertaining ante immeasurably. It brings the ability to sync your onscreen TV content with your Philips Hue lights, with up to four media devices able to be connected via HDMI. You have your big screen and your surround sound, now say hello to surround lighting! Philips Hue Gradient Signe Floor Lamp With understated yet striking industrial design simplicity, this smart floor lamp offers all the colours of the rainbow in one seriously slick conversation piece. Bring the party feels, the chillout vibes, or just pretend that you have your very own lightsaber in the corner of your room – with the abilities of the Philips Hue ecosystem, you can sync to vision, music, games… or just let it run your favourite dynamic scenes.

items available, strip lighting is possibly the most versatile. From practical uses to purely decorative, these Wiz strips live up to their name, compatible with all the usual smart home ecosystems,

and able to be pre-programmed with a wide selection of dynamic effects. Available in two metre lengths, you can link them up to ten metres off one connection for some serious lighting that’ll be the envy of your guests – and a great talking point, too!

HAVE A LIGHT BULB MOMENT

Philips Hue Gradient PC Strip Home computers are part of many of our living spaces nowadays and can prove a more subtle way to spread the joy of smart lighting in your entertaining space. Available in sizes specifically to fit 24- to 27-inch and 32- to

Smart lighting doesn’t have to just be about the showy, as you can replace your everyday household bulbs with smart options in plain white or coloured, all controllable by a smart hub or smartphone app. The wizards at Wiz have a vast range of shapes, sizes, and fitments to suit your classic light fittings.

Dazzle your guests with

amazing displays of animated lighting design or, when the time is right, go for a more chilled vibe – and all with the flick of a fingertip.

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