Philips LivingColors Colour Changing Mood Lamp, with Remote Control

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Summary: colourful!!
Comment: this is a great lamp. not only for its colour changing abilities, but is bright enough to be used as a general lamp in the house too. great for mood setting and warming the room. apparently you can sync up to 6 off of one remote control! - I'm desperate to get another to fill the whole room with colour! Best used against a blank wall.

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Summary: Top Gear Cool Wall Rating = SubZero!!
Comment: The LivingColours unit simply must be seen to be believed. Those tech boffins at Philips have taken a giant Christmas bauble and stuffed in a bunch of LED wizardry, allowing you to bathe a whole wall in technicolour glory. The ipod style colour selection wheel is intuitive and a joy to use, and the remote control unit benefits from some kind of RF connection, instead of the typical infra-red, allowing you to control the device from round corners and behind obstacles. On the down side, the emitted light isn't all that bright, so you really do have to use it in the dark to get the best results.

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Summary: Worth every penny!
Comment: Out of the box this lamp has a futuristic look, it is well made and the remote has an apple feel of simplicity to it. Plug it in, point it at the wall and create thousands of different colours instantly. My room is all white and wanted something that would give it character, this light paints my walls instantly. Since it is LED it does not heat up, it is a low energy user and no problems to note for during the 2 weeks I have had it. Might be pricey for a lamp, but so worth it.

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Summary: Gorgeous colours and fun for all the family
Comment: My husband bought me this for my birthday - and I love it! We've put it in the bedroom and I have the "zapper" on my bedside table. In the morning I turn it a bluey colour to help us wake up (circadian sensor), in the evening I have it on a dull orange as we get changed for bed (no circadian hit). If we want to read in bed, we just about can with it desaturated to white, though it's not really bright enough for long-term reading (and you couldn't light your living room with it).

Our 2-year-old son loves it too. When he climbs in our bed in the morning he always asks for the remote, plays with it and shouts out the colours.

I also took it along to a physics course my friend teaches - it is an excellent way to explain to people how you can make yellow light out of red and green. It's not really designed to provide white light though - the colour rendering is not great when it's on white (because there are bits of the spectrum missing "between" the LED emittance bands). This means you shouldn't use it as room illumination when you might have to recognise colours in what you're doing.

But as fun mood lighting it's great! And a superb present to buy a woman for Christmas!

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Summary: Not cheap but worth it perhaps
Comment: I was somewhat offput by the cost at first but Amazon cut the price and I decided to buy one and have not since regretted it.

Firstly, don't think of this as a light source, it is not, it's designed for mood lighting in an otherwise darkened room. The best way to use it, at least for me, it is to locate it in a corner in a room with white or plain walls angled upwards. You can then just keep on for a pleasant moody atmospheric lighting changing it as the fancy takes you or just allowing it to cycle through its' auto setting.

If you have the money for it you can buy up half a dozen of them and they will work together to create ( I imagine) a stunning effect.

Remember that the LED light source is non replaceable and the unit itself, which is about the size of a large melon, is fairly delicate so it needs to be carefully handled.

If you are looking for some mood lighting for a special room then this would be a great buy, although a cheap one.

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