Chad's Crappy Corner and another gadget for his August theme: cheap Smart Home gadgets.

Chad's August theme (As voted on by our loyal patrons) is “Crappy Smart Home Gadgets” and Chad's 2nd cheap gadget is the MIPOW E26 Bluetooth Smart LED Light Bulbs APP Group Controlled Dimmable Color Changing Decorative Christmas Party Lighting for iPhone, iPad and Android phones or tablets. 

Here's what Amazon says about it: MIPOW Bluetooth 4.0 Smart LED Light Bulb can wireless control the Light ON/OFF, Brightness, Change Color, Set Timer, and group control from your mobile phone by a FREE APP. with 16,000,000 RGB colors, you can shake your mobile device or tap the color palette on the APP to change colors, set a timer to turn it on or off or change color at preset time via App. Additionally, you can make it display any color in any picture. It is absolutely wireless, just need screw it into any E26 / E27 screw base and then turn it on / off like an ordinary light bulb. It uses Bluetooth 4.0 to achieve fluent transmission. The PLAYBULB X App is compatible with Apple devices running iOS 7.0 or above, and most Android devices running Android 4.3 or above and with Bluetooth V4.0 or above. It is a leading edge smart home device, especially ideal to be used at home, apartment, dormitory etc. $19.99.

And Chad's take? Chad had mixed feelings about the MIPOW Smart LED Light Bulb. He showed us that similar bulbs from the leader in color-changing LED bulbs, the Philips Hue, cost at least three times more. The MIPOW Smart LED bulb can change colors via a Bluetooth app, but as you'll see in the video, the app doesn't work particularly well. The app is available for Android and iOS. Although Chad liked the colors from the MIPOW LED Smart Bulb, he was disappointed that it didn't do white very well. Also, as you see in the video, when it's set to white, the light is very bright, but the light has a lot of yellow in it. A good feature is that you can install many MIPOW Smart Light Bulbs in a room and control them all at the same time via the app. But the app is a stand-alone one and unlike the Philips Hue, it can only control other MIPOW bulbs. So it's an expensive controllable bulb, but does have several draw backs. It got 3.9 stars out of five from 132 reviewers. Watch the video to help make up your own mind.

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