Add a Little Nostalgia to Your Desk With These Customizable Pixel Art Lights

Have all the RGB lights and excessive gaming gear on your desktop left you yearning for a simpler, more pixelated gaming experience? Govee’s latest lighting products, its Gaming Pixel Light and Mini Panel Light, offer the best (or potentially worst) of both worlds. Its Pixel Lite in particular comes with a modern, spaceship-like aesthetic with all the faux LED pixels to remind you of the 8-bit era.

Govee’s latest lighting product is clearly tuned for gamers with its wide frame and decals. Although the Govee frame has a 32 by 32-pixel count, it – thanks to the advanced capabilities of LEDs – is capable of depicting images with a much more varied color palette than a traditional NES game. It has over 150 preset “scenes” including a clock or weather display Frame supports static images and GIFs at up to 30 FPS, which you can create and edit with an app.

If you’ve ever seen Divoom’s slate of pixel art speakers and wall art, you’re probably experiencing some deja vu. Divoom’s products, eg Timebox Evo and non-speakers 64 by 64-pixel wall panel, Create your own pixel art and animations and then set them to music. What sets the Govee box apart is the sci-fi-aesthetic frame that might be more at home with some desktop setups than others. You can use Govee’s in-app AI to create pixel art with prompts, though creating 32-by-32-pixel art takes so little effort that you can ignore the AI ​​capabilities entirely.

Even better, you can connect the frame to a Govee HDMI 2.1 sync box and the Govee app It lets you stream your on-screen game visuals to Gaming Pixel Lite, displaying your detailed 3D game in a pseudo-2D pixel art fashion. Govee says its gaming Pixel Lite will also recognize music playing through its speakers and change visuals based on the beat and rhythm of the music.

Govee says the Gaming Pixel Lite will be available sometime in Q2 of this year.

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