On Ver ion Hi tory: How a very expen ive, very fancy lightbulb figured out what we really want from our home .
On Ver ion Hi tory: How a very expen ive, very fancy lightbulb figured out what we really want from our home .
The tate of the mart home can be fru trating, becau e it i ju t o obviou how thing ought to work. You hould be able to control everything from everywhere. Your pace hould adapt to what you’re doing and how you’re feeling. Making your home mart houldn’t require renovating, and the mart hould be mo tly invi ible. All of thi i , of cour e, incredibly hard to pull off — but the goal i pretty clear.
Until now, maybe no product ha come clo er to nailing the mart home than Philip Hue. And on thi epi ode of Ver ion Hi tory, we dig into all the thing Hue got right. The Verge’ David Pierce and Jennifer Patti on Tuohy are joined by mart home journali t and expert Richard Gunther to di cu Hue’ origin , which have an awful lot to do with the ri e of the martphone. They al o talk about Hue’ early embrace of practically every mart home platform, it omewhat hocking price tag, and what it take to make a mart device that actually ju t… work .
Thi i the fifth (and next to la t) epi ode of the fourth ea on of Ver ion Hi tory. If you haven’t yet checked out the tory of the Harmony remote, the Roomba vacuum, the Ne t thermo tat, or the Keurig coffee maker, make ure you catch up! It’ mart home ea on thi ea on, and there’ o much to get into. Here’ how to get every epi ode, and all our other fun tuff, a oon a it drop :
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