“By announcing support for widgets in the iOS 8 Notification Center this week, Apple opened the doors to a world of possibilities that Android users have long enjoyed,” Kevin C. Tofel reports for Gigaom. “To help show off how widgets will make iOS 8 more useful, Philips is already showing off a concept prototype of a widget that can easily control its intelligent Hue lightbulbs.”
Tofel reports, “The company tweeted out a screen image of its concept on Thursday, and you can see how simple it could be to turn your Hue lights off or even change their color based on a scene or mood.”
http://twitter.com/philipshuedev/statuses/474624625997918209
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
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Not a demo, a mockup.
I mean, I do mockups, showing managers what changes they are asking for, before writing any code. It’s the first step.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/05/philips-shows-off-how-youll-be-able-to-control-your-hue-lights-from-notification-center-in-ios-8/
There can’t be that many people that want to control their lights with their iOS device. What the heck?
I control my TV from my iPhone. Why not the lights in my home? I may never need to move my fat ass again!
Thas is borderline to the idea of remotely adjusting the monitor settings via internet.
There was a short story about dot-com craze period, featuring a fictional dot-com start-up with a “brilliant” idea that would allow user to log into a web site and remotely adjust settings on their monitor without actually having to sit in front of that monitor. The story was a full-throttle satire, skewering the whole time of craze, angel investors, venture capitalists, Wall Street euphoria and all that irrationality that surrounded the boom.
The Hue app isn’t all that friendly.