I've been seeing this around for some time, and never really paid much attention to them. So today I decided to get online and take a closer look. On the surface they look like they're pretty cool (can't help but picturing someone setting up a romantic evening with their sweetheart, walk in, tap a button on their mobile device, stereo cues up Barry White and lights take on a soft warm reddish/orange glow, lol). But in all seriousness I've never given my lights too much consideration - they're either on or they're off. I switched to the LED variety not long ago because they run at least just as efficiently as the CFL's but claim to last much longer. And they require no warm-up time like the CFL's often do.
Anyway, back to the Hue lights. Wondering if anyone has them? Are they cool enough to pay the money? Do you use them often? I could see some real benefit in installing them in a dedicated home theater room where you tie in light control with your remote's functionality in turning on the appropriate A/V gear without having to incorporate more complicated Crestron or AMX control systems, etc., that would require additional RF to IR adapters for the electronics that don't have RF built in. So you start movies and lights go down like they do in a real theater..minimal cabling or programming involved. In a standard living room... dunno. Maybe cool at first to play around with all the colors but maybe the novelty wears off quickly.
Thoughts?