Add A Little Nostalgia To Your Desk With These Modern Pixel Lights

Have all the RGB lights and over-the-top gaming hardware on your computer left you yearning for simple, colorful gaming? Govee’s latest lighting products, the Gaming Pixel Light and Mini Panel Lights, offer the best (or worst) of both worlds. Its Pixel Light especially comes with a modern, space-like aesthetic where it has all the fake LED pixels to remind you of the 8-bit era.

Govee’s latest lighting is clearly designed for gamers with its wide range of features and decals. Although the frame of Govee includes 32 by 32-pixel count, it is-thanks to the technology of modern LEDs-capable of displaying images with different colors than traditional NES games. It has over 150 “views”, including a clock or weather display. The camera supports still images and GIFs up to 30 FPS, which you can create and edit through the app.

If you’ve seen Divoom’s slate of pixel art speakers and wall art, you’re probably feeling deja vu. Divoom products, such as Timebox Evo he is speechless 64 by 64-pixel wall panel, Combine creating your own pixel art with animation and then set it to music. What separates the Govee box is its sci-fi-aesthetic design that could be more at home in a computer setup than others. You can also use Govee’s in-app AI to quickly create pixel art, though it takes a lot of effort to create 32-by-32-pixel artwork so you can ignore the AI’s capabilities entirely.

Even better, you can connect the frame to the Govee HDMI 2.1 Sync Box with the Govee software. This allows you to project your desktop monitor to Gaming Pixel Light, displaying your detailed 3D games in pseudo-2D pixel art. Govee said its Gaming Pixel Light will also detect music played through its speakers and adjust the display based on the beat and rhythm of the song.

Govee said the Gaming Pixel Light will be available sometime in Q2 this year.

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