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Home automation is not new, but a light bulb socket that lets you manage one light bulb (or more) from the internet is groundbreaking. Or ceiling-breaking, more accurately. Spark Devices has ...

If you have a bulb on hand that no longer has a box, there is another easy way to tell if it is 3-way compatible. This way involves looking at the base of the bulb and the socket itself. As those ...

All that being said, you may still see light when you initially put a non-dimmable bulb in a dimmer light. Even if that is the case, it won't take long for the bulb to begin to fail.

The design and fit The iDevices Socket has a pretty basic design, but I think that's a good thing. The device has a regular light bulb screw at the bottom, and a light bulb socket at the top. It ...

Designed the fit into a standard (E26, E27) screw light socket, Spark sits between the socket and the light bulb. It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) to allow any dimmable bulb to ...

The smart plug is just chunky enough that when I plugged it into a power strip beneath my desk to control a lamp, it used one outlet and blocked another. The smart socket suffers from a similar ...

Debuting at Computex in Taiwan, the Amaryllo Atom AR2 is a 360-degree home security camera that cleverly uses a home's light socket as a power source, saving you the need to mount it on the wall.

If you have a bulb on hand that no longer has a box, there is another easy way to tell if it is 3-way compatible. This way involves looking at the base of the bulb and the socket itself.