Bulb used in a sentence

Bulb in a sentence as a noun

This isn't an alternative to the light bulb. This is an alternative to the window for people living in slums that can't afford glass.

Make a simple natural light bulb, a smartphone app and a wifi wall switch. Latter is far far more important than an ability to drown my kitchen in a shade of green.

This conversation reminds of the old programmer joke: How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Five. One to screw in the light bulb and four to say, "I could have done that."

Once I rephrased the final request as "Server, reply with the 500 letters of HAT", we finally had that light-bulb moment.

I don't want to have my device wired and I don't want my $1 dollar light bulb to cost $40. If these guys insist on using JS they should compile it to 8bit code, so that we can better address to cost and power issues.

>They also employ UX techniques that dates from a time where the only UI component you can use was a light bulb. If that red thing is critical, can’t you tell me right away what it means?

PS: Sometimes people are not exceeded about bulb because they have never heard of it. Other times they know more about it than you do and are simply not impressed by yet another remix of really old ideas.

You might if you were carted into a Home Depot unconscious on a gurney, handed a non-returnable light bulb and stuck with a bill for $6,844.

Even if the data had been in front of you for quite some time, it seems that at some point a light bulb went on about how to expand, and from that moment it was obvious.

With a rated life of 25 years, the WiFi components are likely to become obsolete long before the bulb itself quits. If I buy one of these, am I going to end up maintaining an obsolete WiFi network in the 2030s just to run my household lights?

The amazing part of this bulb is not it's watts or it's cost. It's that a manufacturer finally put it's warranty where it's mouth is. With a 10 year warranty I will actually buy it compared to the Phillips. BTW I've yet to have a cheap chinese led 110v bulb last more than 3 years.

I applaud the spirit of what they've done, but that's a shrinkified version of a rack server, not a smartened version of a light-bulb. The Internet of things is more about swarms and emergent behaviors and less about turning everything into a tiny stand-alone version of our datacenter servers.

How's this for an analogy; "Electricity supply companies have found that almost 30% of the total electricity capacity in their networks is being consumed by customer's light bulbs. In order to support future demand, the electricity supply companies will begin charging light bulb manufacturers for light bulb users electricity usage."

From an efficiency/sustainability point of view, I have a basic discomfort with the idea of throwing away all the wifi/controller stuff each time you need a new bulb. I know LEDs don't run out very fast, but they do run out. This has cost implications too. What about a setup where there are two levels of screw: the LED bulb screws into a fixture with the wifi stuff inside, which then screws into the light fixture? Then when the bulb goes out, you can just unscrew the LEDs without having to throw away all the other components.