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Battery-less Philips Hue Tap switch taps in for US availability

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/battery-less-philips-hue-tap-switch-taps-us-availability' title="Battery-less Philips Hue Tap switch taps in for US availability"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/connectedly.com/files/styles/large/public/article_images/2014/07/philips_hue_tap_down_press.jpg?itok=-6u9aREi' />[/url]</p> <p>US customers can now buy the Philips Hue Tap switch from the Apple Store to easily control their Philips Hue lights (http://www.connectedly.com/philips-hue). Previously the Hue Tap was only available in Europe, which makes sense as Philips is a Dutch company. The switch has no batteries and is powered through kinetics simply by pushing the buttons. Yep, buttons — there are four three smaller round affairs and one big button that comprises most of the face.</p> <!--break--> <p>Those buttons are all programmable and can be hooked up to any "scene" (a combination of specific lights, colors, brightnesses) from within the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/philips-hue/id557206189?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Hue App[/url] on your iPhone or iPad. Tapping a button once will turn on that scene, and again turns it off.</p> <p>The Hue Tap is mountable, or it can be moved about freely. For the mounting a wall bracket and mounting tape are included in the box. Of course, you'll still need a Philips Hue bridge and Hue lights to really take advantage (http://www.connectedly.com/heres-how-set-and-get-started-hue-tap) of the Hue Tap (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Philips-431643-Personal-Wireless-Frustration/dp/B00BSN8DN4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1405700665&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hue+philips&amp;tag=imoreb-20&amp;m1k=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">a starter kit with one bridge and three lights is $200[/url])</p> <p>Right now the Philips Hue Tap in the US is only available from the Apple Store (both in retail locations and online), where it is priced at $59.95.</p> <ul><li>Philips Hue Tap switch: $59.95 at Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/us/product/HFV22VC/A/philips-hue-tap-switch)</li> </ul></div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-25817"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/3ca3d19d/sc/28/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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