We Saw Govee’s Flashy New Smart Lights at CES 2025: Sync Music, Upgrade Gaming and More

Govee smart lights already have several recommendations at CNET, which is why I was excited that Govee’s new colorful, app-controlled lighting launched at CES 2025 brings even more AI-fueled options for the home. 

Govee’s CES space combined audios and visuals to help show just what its new home lights are capable of. One Govee light broadcast a colorful stream of waving lights onto the ceiling, like gentle red and green flames. A wall of blocks pulsed with more colorful light above a bed. Tabletop lamps with built-in speakers gave the vibe of 21st-century lava lamps, playing “California Dreamin'” by the Mamas and the Papas. If this wasn’t on the frenetic show floor of CES 2025, it might even be relaxing.

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But what’s going on with this riveting display? What first caught my eye was Govee’s plans for Mini Panel Lights, smallish squares of lights designed to be snapped together into wall designs, which can flutter with color or build up a vivid, changeable picture. You can connect up to 120 of these little guys in whatever pattern you want, really letting your imagination run wild for decorating living rooms, bedrooms or, of course, gaming hideaways.

There’s also the new Table Lamp 2 Pro x Sound by JBL (yes, it comes with JBL speakers,) which is sort of like a modern lava lamp designed to sync with whatever music is playing. Some of my colleagues have the speakerless Table Lamp and love the whimsical nature of picking presets or programming almost any color scheme you can imagine. 

You’ll be able to choose from 100 color scenes to show off with the latest lamp– quite the upgrade or bright splash of color for special spaces. It works with Google Assistant and Alexa for voice commands and comes with Matter compatibility.

For gamers and PC desktops, the Gaming Pixel Light is a colorful type of smart display meant to sit by your desktop PC or a similar location and, well, make things more interesting. The lighting panel can use its pixels to show images or GIFs that you upload or allow you to sync it to music with a Govee sync box. It can even use its own speaker to play brief tracks and sync the lighting itself.

Govee also showed off ways you can connect the Gaming Pixel to online widgets so it can display basic info like the weather, the current price of a specific stock, scores for a current game and dozens of other possibilities.

Throughout these new products runs Govee’s latest lighting effect technology, dubbed the AI Lighting Bot. It’s designed to learn how people like to customize their lighting effects and make adding new effects even easier. That tech works alongside Govee Dreamview, a mirroring technology that allows you to instantly set lights to mirror a specific image, color palette or set of sounds so you can get just the experience you’re aiming for.

Govee isn’t currently releasing price information for its new lights, but the company plans to start shipping products like the Pixel Light and Tablet Lamp 2 Pro in the second quarter of 2025. I’ll keep you updated when I’m able to experiment.

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