Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers and tests essential home tech like vacuums, TVs, beauty devices, and eco-friendly hacks. Her ever-evolving ...

Smart lighting isn't all the same, which is why you should understand how to choose between smart bulbs and smart switches ...

Updating your home lighting is a big project, and it may be easy to lean toward smart lights. However, smart light switches can deliver much of the same convenience at a lower cost. Let’s put these ...

Finding the perfect smart light bulb is a major challenge. Between the multiple brands to wade through, to figuring out the style you want, and assessing which features you need, we’re going to help ...

The best smart bulbs add convenience, customization and color to a fundamental part of every home: lighting. They can overhaul your living room without any changes to the furniture and decor or serve ...

Smart light bulbs range from budget to premium, offering color control, voice support, easy setup, app-based customization, and more.

There are plenty of awesome smart home gadgets that can give your place some high-tech flavor, but few have the flare of smart bulbs. Kitting your house out with smart bulbs is not only a handy way to ...

While we’ll forever refuse to accept the ‘younger generation are lazy’ stereotype, when it comes to technology, consider us pardoned. With smart-technology, and more recently smart lighting becoming a ...

I’ve been playing around with various LED smart lights for over a decade. The first set of household bulb replacements that I really got into was a Philips Hue kit I bought in 2012. It was pretty cool ...

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Do the benefits of features like dimming and scheduling make up for the constant energy draw needed for connectivity?

Light switches are as old as Edison, and today there’s a better solution. With a smart bulb, you can turn your lights on or off with a voice command to an iPhone or HomePod. But the real advantage is ...