Never mind your homeowner’s association’s guidelines. Why shouldn’t our homes be permanently bedecked in colorful mood lights and not just in the days leading to Christmas? Govee’s coming out of the gate of IFA 2025 with a set of permanent outdoor lights that create a prismatic pattern over your home’s dull siding.
Compared to Govee’s other permanent outdoor lights, the new Outdoor Lights Prism creates a tricolor lighting effect from each custom LED unit on the light strip, cascading a gradient of three distinct colors at a downward angle. Govee’s system supports 16 million colors, so depending on the time of year, you could theme your home lights to purple and orange hues during Halloween or bright pinks and yellows in time for spring.
Like its other outdoor lights, the Outdoor Lights Prism is rated to work in temperatures between -30 degrees and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re also rated IP68 for surviving dust and the odd rainstorm. Govee says the lights should last a total of 50,000 hours. Unfortunately, Govee still hasn’t shared pricing yet. The Light Prism should be available around Sept. 22. None of the company’s other lights shown off at IFA, including its bright and beautiful Galaxy Light Projector Pro with a built-in speaker, have official pricing yet, either.
Govee’s TV backlight uses ‘cinema quality’ lenses to match your screen
Let’s say you don’t have a backyard, but you’re a couch potato who wants a gadget that will watch your TV as intensely as you do. In comes the TV Backlight 3 Pro. Govee’s backlight has a few extra features that push it over the top compared to similar devices like those from Nanoleaf. The camera you mount to the TV uses a triple-sensor HDR camera array to capture the colors of your screen. That high dynamic range is important, according to Govee, as it allows for a wider range of imaging for perfect color matching.
Maybe the TV Backlight 3 Pro could match the slimy, dark tones of a Xenomorph from Alien: Earth. The other end of the device is the light strip that you adhere to the rear of your TV. Govee says this setup is brighter than its other strips, specifically 337 lumens compared to the Backlight 3 Lite at 120. The device supports the Matter smart home standard, but it will also sync up with Google Home and Amazon Alexa. Govee still hasn’t shared pricing details, but the TV Backlight 3 Pro will hit the scene on Sept. 29.
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