In our experience, the most welcome conveniences hide in plain sight. A favorite reading lamp should not need a control panel to become clever, and with this set of two bulbs, it doesn’t.
Each one fits a standard E26 socket and connects directly to the Wi-Fi in your house, so there is no separate hub to buy. From the companion app you can dim them, switch them on from wherever you happen to be, and set schedules so the front-room lamp welcomes you home each evening. Group several bulbs by room and control them together, or simply ask Alexa or Google Assistant.
Each gives 800 lumens, the brightness of a familiar 60-watt bulb, while drawing 9 watts, and is rated for 25,000 hours, many years of evenings by any reckoning. Note that they connect only to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi networks. A well-loved lamp, in other words, acquires a few new manners.
