Hue launches a pricey new sunrise lamp

Following leaks past week, astute lighting institution Philips Hue has confirmed it has a caller sunrise lamp called Twilight. The institution besides announced respective different caller products, including a little costly airy strip, caller decorative Lightguide bulbs, and the Datura ceiling light. The caller products are disposable now, but the ceiling light, which is coming connected September 10th.

The Philips Hue Twilight ($279.99 / €279.99) is the company’s archetypal dedicated astute sunrise lamp — a airy designed to assistance with falling dormant and waking up much naturally. At $280, it’s adjacent much costly than the very costly Hatch Restore 2 (although it doesn’t necessitate a subscription). It’s astonishing that Hue hasn’t had a coagulated offering successful this abstraction to date. While, if connected to a Hue Bridge, you tin usage the Hue app to acceptable its astute bulbs and lamps to simulate sunset and sunrise, the Twilight has immoderate much circumstantial features designed to assistance you with a much peaceful slumber.

The Bluetooth and Zigbee-connected lamp includes 2 individually controllable airy sources — an illumination caput and a backmost airy that tin formed a colorful glow connected your wall. Available successful achromatic and black, the lamp is 13 inches gangly and has 2 buttons to power the airy directly, positive you tin usage the Hue app to acceptable wake-up automations that gradually brighten the lights.

The buttons are customizable, but by default, 1 cycles done six caller airy scenes, including “Arise” and “Sleepy.” The different fastener triggers a caller “Sunset Go to Sleep” automation that Hue says simulates the airy of a sunset. The institution says the lamp besides dims to 0.5 percent brightness — which is the lowest I’ve heard of.

HueBlog.com has the archetypal hands-on with the merchandise and reports that you tin besides angle the lamp’s head astir 180 degrees near and right.

Meanwhile, the new Philips Hue Solo airy strip is the company’s cheapest airy portion to date. It displays achromatic airy oregon a azygous colour compared to Hue’s much costly options that diagnostic gradient oregon colour ambiance lighting.

The Solo comes successful 3 sizes — 10 ft ($69.99 / €69.99), 16 ft ($89.99 / €89.99), and 33 ft ($159.99 / €159.99) — and should beryllium utile for adding airy to spaces similar closets and shelves without spending a fortune. The airy portion has 1700 lumens and is cuttable.

The Philips Hue Datura is simply a frameless ceiling airy with 2 individually controllable lights. It’s disposable successful 2 sizes — 15 inches ($299.99 / €299.99) and 22.6 inches ($399.99 / €399.99) — and features achromatic and colour ambiance airy with customizable colour effects, positive the enactment to take betwixt task lighting oregon ambient lighting.

Hue is besides yet expanding its decorative Lightguide line. The full-color and achromatic connection bulbs launched successful 2022, but respective models were discontinued a fewer months later, citing prime issues. Now, successful summation to the ellipse-shaped bulb, Hue is offering a tiny globe ($79.99 / €79.99), ample globe ($99.99 / €99.99), Edison ($79.99 / $79.99), and triangle ($99.99 / €99.99).

Also caller are 3D-printed Cone array lamp bases for the bulbs, which outgo €60 and travel successful sage, sand, and achromatic but aren’t disposable successful the US.

Other EU-only products launching see the Tento ceiling light — a slimmer mentation of the Datura with lone a azygous airy source, disposable successful achromatic light, achromatic ambiance, oregon achromatic and ambiance color. The Tento besides comes successful 3 sizes, starting astatine €69.99 and going up to €199.99. There are caller slim recessed ceiling lights, too, featuring 1120 lumens and starting astatine €89.99.

The institution is upgrading its GU10 bulbs — and spot luminaires that usage the GU10 — to 400 lumens astatine 4000 kelvins, compared to the erstwhile generation’s 350 lumens. The caller models person a longer lifespan of 25,000 hours with 50 percent little standby powerfulness consumption. 

Hue is besides updating its precocious launched Philips Hue Secure information system. This summertime users volition yet beryllium capable to person their lights flash and the alarm built into Hue’s caller cameras spell disconnected automatically erstwhile a question oregon interaction sensor is triggered portion the alarm is armed. Currently, you person to manually activate the alarm successful the app. The strategy volition besides beryllium capable to beryllium acceptable to limb and disarm connected a schedule.

While the caller additions to Hue’s lineup consciousness mostly incremental, they bash assistance circular retired this mature astute lighting ecosystem. The little costly airy strips are peculiarly welcome. It ever seemed a small brainsick to person to walk implicit $100 to airy up a closet conscionable truthful you could power each your lights successful the Hue app.

It’s precise expensive, but the Twilight lamp is an absorbing move. There aren’t galore sunrise lamps that tin besides integrate with a astute home, and Hue has not had a large offering here. Its Hue Go Portable Table Lamp does successful a pinch arsenic a bedside lamp, but astatine 370 lumens is not agleam enough. The Twilight reaches 1,380 lumens, truthful it should beryllium much practical. I look guardant to investigating it retired to spot however it performs.