LIFX: Cost effective and Smartphone-Controlled Lightbulb

A new smartbulb has been designed that can easily be controlled with iOS or Android app and can control the mood of your room or your entire house.

Cherry on the cake is that 1 LIFX smartbulb will last 40,000 hours or 25 years and reduce power consumption by up to 20% from conventional bulbs.

Phil Bosua, an Australian entrepreneur who lives in Ferny Creek in Melbourne has designed these bulbs.

Basua says, "Traditional bulbs also use heaps of power and those energy efficient fluoro bulbs have that cold white light that we all hate".

"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 added.

LIFX Smartbulbs can be turned off and on and color of the glow can also be changed. One can control multiple bulbs and multiple locations from a single smartphone wirelessly.

These bulbs can be programmed to turn on when you arrive home and wake you up gradually glowing brighter.

One such bulb will cost $69 while a pair will cost $119 and four bulbs will be available in $196. Expected delivery for the LIFX smartbulb is March 2013.