[ericbarch]

Haha, we actually did think about this when building it. The smartphone notification feature is a major selling point, but we also wanted it to be useful without a phone.

The touch sensitive cap lets you cycle through all the 'moods'. A lot of friends that have seen it love it for the music moods alone (microphone picks up the audio in the room).

We'll also be adding in a feature that allows you to turn the lamp on to full white and back off just by holding the top (really nice if you need to get up in the middle of the night).

[iamthepieman]

What's the control interface for the mobile apps? Is it bluetooth, embedded web server or what? If you make your API open I could probably whip up a web app for it so even schmucks like me without a smartphone could use the full feature set.

[ericbarch]

It's Bluetooth Low Energy. We wrote a very basic Node.js library we're using to control it right now. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/lavallc/ionode Documentation is yet to come, but it will be an open API.

One of these guys and a Linux PC is all you need http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/ We'll most likely open source the Try Ion code as well so you can build off that if you like =)