GE Lighting jumps in with Apple HomeKit

You can add GE to the list of companies hitching themselves to the launch of Apple HomeKit, with a new HomeKit-enabled smart LED due out by the end of the year. Building on GE's existing brand of Align LEDs, which offer fixed color temperatures aimed at helping you wake up in the morning and wind down in the evening, the new HomeKit-enabled bulb is fully color tunable. That means you'll be able to use your phone to dial the color temperature up from a warm, amber glow to something higher, hotter and more bluish in tone. You'll also be able to automate those changes to happen automatically throughout the day -- an approach that makes a lot more sense than buying separate bulbs with different, fixed color temperatures.