Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For too long, color-changing smart lighting has been stuck inside bulbs and light strips, limiting its use to ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

The holiday season has come to a close, and January is here — we're talking two-degree days (if we're lucky) and dark skies starting at 4pm. If I've learned anything about preparing for limited ...

First, there were triangles; then there were squares. Next came hexagons, and now, say hello to lines. No, this isn’t your sixth grader’s geometry homework. It’s the latest addition to smart lighting ...

Think of an item — any item — you might use in home decor. Chances are somebody now sells a version of same that comes equipped with color-changing LED lights. “Get your glow on,” suggests Pottery ...

Nanoleaf on Thursday added to its array of modular light panels with Elements. The new Elements LED wall panels deviate from the colorful hexagonal tiles my colleague Ry Crist wrote up last year -- or ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...