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As an alternative to your regular alarm, these smart bulbs can be scheduled to wake you up by mimicking the sunrise effect and fading in gradually. So instead of a jolting noise—which can increase higher blood pressure, heart rate and stress level, you’re waking up naturally as if you’re reacting to the sunlight streaming in from your window in the morning.

Whether it’s a bright sunny day with clear blue skies or fiery with the purple and orange hues of the sunset. Thanks to the IFTTT app and weather-related services like Weather Underground, you can have your lights automatically change color or even mirror the weather condition in your area.

There are several apps available that lets you sync your lights to your music so that they change colors and even blink and flicker to the beat. Our favorite is iLightShow (free for iOS and Android). Go with a preset – Auto, Chill or Party – or create a custom experience, where you control Brightness, Saturation, Energy and Color Changes.

With third-party apps and gaming peripherals with reactive lighting, you can integrate your Philips Hue lights so that it floods your gaming room or living room with reactive lights. After installing hueDynamic (Windows and Xbox One) and attaching a compatible gaming peripheral, like Razer Chroma, you can use the Hue app to have your lights will reflect the action in the game.

You need not worry about stubbed toes or head bumps when you’re going to the bathroom in the middle of the night anymore. With a Hue Motion Sensor, which you can station in hallways, at the bottom of your nightstand or anywhere that makes sense, you can set a Hue light to light your way when it receives the cue from the motion sensor. You can also use the Motion Sensor to save energy by installing it in rooms you only spend a few minutes at a time in, like the laundry room and the garage, and program the lights to automatically turn off when the Motion Sensor doesn’t detect movement for a predetermined amount of time. Or install it in the kids’ rooms and bathrooms, so you won’t have constantly reminded them to turn off the light.