Phillips today announced an expansion of its Hue line of lights, adding the new Philips Hue Wireless Dimming Kit and Philips Hue white bulb.
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Plus, the new Philips Hue wireless dimming kit can control up to 10 Philips Hue white lights at the same time-even if the bulbs were already installed in your home.
Each dimming kit includes one Philips Hue white light bulb and a portable battery operated dimming switch, with additional white bulbs available as a separate purchase. The best part is that you won’t need an electrician to install it. But once you fix the remote switch, you can adjust the brightness of up to 10 bulbs by just pressing buttons. The multi-use contraption also serves as a normal wall switch, or a remote control that can be placed anywhere in the house. Using the dimming kit is as simple as plugging in one of the Philips bulbs.
Philips also said that the user won’t face any flickering and buzzing by using this dimmer kit.
Philips, the company behind the much-loved Hue lighting system (which will soon work alongside Apple’s HomeKit protocol), has launched a brand new accessory designed to help out the technophobes in your household: a physical dimmer switch that can be attached to your wall, or which can function as a handheld, wireless controller for your Hue lighting setup. “With the kit, anyone is able to begin enjoying the simplicity of modern dimming”, says Leonardo Avenzzano, the marketing chief for Hue.
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Philips Hue Dimming Kit will cost $39.95 and will be available in North America from September. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips posted 2014 sales of Euro 21.4 billion and employs approximately 106,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries.
