It’s not quite whole house automation from your Android smartphone, but if you’ve been looking at your Christmas tree in disgust as it cycles through its preset LED lighting patterns then you need MEA Mobile’s iGloLEDset. A string of 120 color-changing LED lights, the 5m string comes complete with an Android app to remotely control it.
There are also iOS apps if you’re an Apple user too. The whole thing hooks up via WiFi, so you needn’t be in the same room as the tree either. Sadly this sort of Christmas control doesn’t come cheap; the iGloLEDset is priced at $299, though the company says they’re still shipping in time for Christmas day.
Press Release:
Google’s Android Gets iGlo by MEA Mobile
WiFi Controllable LED Light Strip Now On Google Android & Android Gingerbread Mobile Platforms
NEW HAVEN, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MEA Mobile today announced its breakthrough interactive lighting product iGloLEDset is now available on the Google Android and Google Android Gingerbread 2.3 mobile platforms. iGloLEDset is an super bright, full color lighting kit which is controllable with mobile devices. Users can wave their phones in the air and control a 16 to 50 foot strip of 120 to 360 lights.
“The launch of iGlo for Android and working with Google’s platform is an exciting next step for our emerging company,” says Bruce Seymour, managing director of MEA Mobile. “We love the idea of moving mobile technology into specialized markets.”
MEA Mobile developed its iGloWiFi controller as a platform for leveraging mobile devices for hardware control. “Light switches are obsolete,” says Seymour. “There will be an entire industry dedicated to their removal in the future.” In the mean time MEA Mobile is focused on marketing the LED lights to the architectural and lighting design markets, restaurants, custom car specialists and for individuals who want to zazz up their Christmas trees with LED Christmas lights.
The Google Android app features real-time control of the color LED lights as well has dozens of presets to choose from. The iGloWiFi controller can connect to users’ WiFi hubs and can be secured using standard WiFi encryption. The app also works with Google’s new Gingerbread version of Android. Multiple kits (for large Christmas Lights applications) can be controlled using a single Google Android mobile device such as the Nexus S, Nexus One, T-Mobile G2, HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Captivate and other phones running Google Android 1.5 through Gingerbread 2.3.
