If you’re using Philips Hue lightstrips to add accent lighting behind an entertainment console or desk but want to throw more light onto your wall, a new product announced today looks like it could fit the bill: the Philips Hue Play.
A second product – a kind of rigid, vertical lightstrip called the Signe lamp (above) – provides a neat way to throw color lighting up a wall or into the corner of a room …
The Philips Play is a short, rigid lightstrip primarily designed for entertainment consoles. It will be available in single units for $69.95 or in a more useful double pack for $129.95. This compares with $89.95 for the existing Lightstrip.
The Hue Signe lamp is a vertical lamp designed to throw light up a wall. It will be available as a shorter table lamp for $169.99, and a taller floor lamp for $269.99.
Signe will be available in the US and Europe in September, Play in October.
The move is part of Philips Hue’s continuing attempt to move up the food chain by offering lamps rather than just bulbs.
