Nanoleaf Launches Multi-Functional Desk Lights for Your Mac

Nanoleaf contiguous announced the motorboat of the Pegboard Desk Dock, a desktop airy that's besides capable to clasp accessories and service arsenic a dock for peripherals similar a keyboard and a rodent acknowledgment to added USB-A and USB-C ports.


The Pegboard Desk Dock works with the Nanoleaf Desktop app, truthful it is capable to alteration the colour of the airy to lucifer the contented connected your Mac's display, making it perfect for gaming, watching movies, and akin activities. Like different Nanoleaf products, the Pegboard Desk Dock supports millions of colors, and tin beryllium acceptable to antithetic scenes, including those that respond to music.

Because the Pegboard Desk Dock is meant to enactment specifically with a Mac oregon PC utilizing a carnal connection, it does not link to HomeKit similar different Nanoleaf products, nor does it enactment with the Nanoleaf mobile app. Instead, it connects to a machine implicit USB-C. There's a built-in USB-C cablegram that needs to link to a USB-C larboard connected a Mac oregon a Mac's attached display, similar the Studio Display.

Once connected, the Pegboard Desk Dock tin beryllium paired to the Nanoleaf Desktop app. More than 1 Dock tin beryllium paired to a Mac astatine once, but some request to beryllium plugged into abstracted USB-C ports, or, alternatively, 1 tin plug into the other. To powerfulness two, the big Dock's PD larboard needs to beryllium connected to a powerfulness adapter via a USB-C cable, neither of which are included. You'll besides request to plug successful for higher powered peripherals similar webcams and keyboards with RGB lighting.


The Nanoleaf Desktop app tin beryllium utilized to acceptable colors and animated scenes wherever the lights volition rhythm done antithetic colors utilizing patterns. There is besides the enactment to person the lights alteration based connected what's connected the show of your computer, which is simply a neat effect. Turning connected this enactment requires Screen Mirroring to beryllium enabled, and for that, the Nanoleaf app requires Screen and System Audio Recording capabilities.

While the Nanoleaf Desktop app itself is dilatory and somewhat laggy, the Screen Mirroring diagnostic that really displays the colors connected the Pegboard Desk Dock works good with nary latency. The Screen Mirroring enactment matches the colour of the main model that you person active, truthful it's champion for afloat surface games and entertainment. It's akin to airy strips that alteration colour based connected what's connected a display, but it is much versatile. Because the lights aren't designed to illuminate down a display, the Pegboard Desk Dock works for setups wherever your table is not successful beforehand of a wall.

An Orchestrator conception of the app changes the airy based connected the audio of an app that's selected similar Apple Music, and a Scenescapes diagnostic plays dependable and airy for an immersive experience. There are scenes similar aquarium, beach, astatine sea, fireplace, and rainfall. Orchestrator and Scenescapes are lone disposable with 1 enactment without a Nanoleaf Desktop subscription.

The Nanoleaf Desktop app costs $1.99 per period oregon $19.99 per year. It's not needed to play scenes, alteration colors, oregon usage Screen Mirroring, but it is needed for afloat Orchestrator and Scenescape access. When Screen Mirroring isn't on, determination are user-created scenes to take from, and these scenes supply one-click entree to tons of colour and question options. There's plentifulness to entree without a subscription.


The Pegboard Desk Dock is two-sided, truthful the airy tin beryllium seen from either side. One broadside has the "pegboard" of the name, portion the different is simply a plain, diffused LED. There are 4 hooks that tin beryllium attached to the pegboard broadside of the dock, and the size is perfect for crippled controllers oregon different akin objects.

There are 2 USB-C ports astatine the backmost of the Pegboard Desk Dock, different USB-C larboard connected the side, and a USB-A larboard connected the other side, truthful aggregate peripherals tin beryllium connected. Aside from the built-in cable, there's a cablegram extender if other magnitude is needed to scope a Mac. The airy information of the dock pops retired of the base, which makes it casual to swap designs.

Each airy is 50 lumens, and the dock broadside is not excessively agleam erstwhile it's adjacent to a display, but the different broadside tin beryllium a small hard to look astatine if the colors aren't muted down somewhat. Given that these aren't ace bright, they're champion utilized for ambient lighting successful a dim room.

The Pegboard Desk Dock tin beryllium purchased from the Nanoleaf website for $60, with a two-pack disposable for $100.
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