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If you’re looking for an easy way to add color to a room, check out the Philips LivingColor light fixture. About the size of a bowling ball, the fixture comes with a remote that you can use to flood your room with any color you choose. You can stick with one color or have the light cycle through colors. The secret is in the light’s LED technology, which puts a rainbow of color options at your fingertips.

The touch-sensitive remote not only lets you pick a color, but also lets you control the color intensity. You can choose from 16,000,000 colors. Already a success in Europe, the LivingColor is coming to America in August. The only downside is that each lists for $209.99. Let’s hope that comes down sharply soon.

Philips‘ Master LED bulbs may well have been forgotten in the US — as far as we can tell, they never showed up for that hot date last July — but it’s hard to be miffed when the company’s new bulbs, dubbed EnduraLED, are four times as bright. Due in the fourth quarter of the year, the 60W equivalent at left sucks down only 12 watts of electricity but emits a reported 806 lumens of soft white light — a ratio green enough to save the world, Philips claims, if only you’ll buy in. Problem is, people’s generosity typically depends on price, and a company rep told us we’ll shell out around $60 per bulb when the shiny silver socketables ship. Mind you, that’s just an initial figure, but until we hear different we’ll be going to Home Depot for our lighting needs, thank you very much. Press release after the break.

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Philips’ new LED light bulbs are brighter, more efficient, not cheap originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 06:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most exciting moments from this year’s Greener Gadgets Conference. The highlight of the day was the on-stage live-judging and announcement of this year’s Greener Gadgets design competition winner, the AUG/Living Goods Program. Renowned industrial designer Yves Béhar also wowed us by unveiling a brand new design for a “Hackable” solar-electric car that is composed of modular components. (Engadget liveblogged it here.)

Speaking of sun-powered vehicles, Hungarian auto company Antro has just unveiled plans to create an out-there yet undeniably cool solar-powered car that splits into two vehicles. And for those looking to ride the seas in style, take a long, hard look at this giant solar boat. Then again, why ride a conventional vehicle when you could hop aboard this insane futurictic crawler town on wheels? Too bad it’s made out of LEGOs.

Finally, we brought to light several illuminating energy projects: researchers have found a way to generate electricity by shining light on tiny gold nanoparticles, opening the door for self-powered molecular machines, and Phillips unveiled a blooming solar street lamp that soaks up energy during the day and uses it to light up the night.

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Philips has been on somewhat of a roll with new releases overseas, and the outfit’s new SoundSphere might just be the most intriguing yet. Generally speaking, home stereos don’t do much for us, but the minty fresh MCi900 and MCD900 definitely add a fresh touch on an age-old concept. Both systems are equipped with a pair of speakers, 100 watts of amplification and “free floating” tweeters that are outside of the enclosure. The shells themselves are molded from a single piece of aluminum, and there’s also an integrated CD player and USB socket on the both of ’em. The former gets a Streamium logo and a 160GB hard drive, support for internet radio and wireless streaming with networked PCs or Macs. There’s no mention of a price just yet, and potentially more disheartening, no indication that we unimportant Americans will ever see it on our soil.

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Philips breathes new life into home stereos with SoundSphere originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This is soon enough to market that it’s hard to blame the iPod nano specifically for its appearance, but either way it seems that the Philips Cam is the newest member to the oh-so-small club of MP3 / camera combos. The new player is joined in its life of crime by the new Muse and Ariaz, which at last offer a higher-end aspect to Philips‘ long-lackluster PMP lineup. The Cam does up a 1.8-inch screen, 8GB of storage and a 2 megapixel camera for $100, but the Muse has a full 3.2-inches of touchscreen, 16GB of flash, SD expansion and HDMI out for a mere $50 more. The Ariaz finds a simpler calling, with a 2.4-inch LCD, HDMI, 8GB and an $80 tag. We’ll have to play with these to see if they’re worth taking home from Walmart, but we’re glad to see Philips is trying to stay in the game — we can’t all be lucky enough to be Zune HD owners.

Philips Cam, Muse and Ariaz mark a renaissance for the boring PMP originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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