Lightbulbs that change colour with a tap on your phone

EVERYTHING else in your life is smart, so why not lightbulbs?

Make your house brighter, and lift your mood, with the energyefficient LIFX Color 1000 Bulbs, (£59.99, amazon.co.uk) which sync with an app on your smartphone so you can choose what colour you want them to be across the entire spectrum. The company boasts there are 1,000 shades of ‘dimmable’ white, for example.

You control them with your voice — asking them to turn on or off and pre-programming them to come on at any time you like. Other smart lightbulbs include the Philips Hue, (pictured, £139 for the starter kit, very.co.uk). This is an entire system operated from your phone, which you use to control brightness, colour and timing. Should you wish to combine lighting and sound, what better way than by getting the Mipow Playbulb (£49.99, currys.co.uk), which is both wireless speaker and lightbulb. You can also use this bulb as an alarm clock, so you will be up bright and early.