INTRODUCTION

    If you grew up in the 80's and 90's watching movies and anime like Blade Runner, Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, City Hunter and Ghost In The Shell chances are that not only did you really enjoy playing Cyberpunk 2077 but you're always on the lookout for items that remind you of those times. Unfortunately, even though there's clearly a huge audience for such items the electronics market in particular hasn't really taken steps to cover consumers thus making it extremely difficult to come across such devices, including PC hardware and peripherals. Divoom has long focused in the design and release of gadgets that bring back those feelings and their latest Times Gate product clearly stands out the most.

    Founded in 2006, Divoom was formed by a team of music enthusiasts that absolutely loves playing around with audio speakers. Over the last 14 years, the Divoom team introduced numerous iconic portable speakers to the market. However, we always want to take their innovation to the next level. Back in 2014, Terry, the founder of Divoom, came across several interesting LED gadgets in the San Francisco Maker's Faire, which utilized the SD card to load image 8-bit pixel designs on LED. At that time, LED speakers were barely hitting the market, and no one has thought of combining this with audio play. In 2015, we launched the world's first pixel art speaker - Aurabox and received the tremendous success. Since then, we continued to widen this product line, where we launched several non-speaker pixel art gadgets, including the Pixoo sling bag. Please support our , and let's explore the world of pixel art!

    The Times Gate is a small desktop gadget (available in silver and pink colors) build around 5 full-color IPS LCD screens (1.44" each) which can be configured via the Divoom smartphone app (adjustable brightness levels) to display a large variety of things such as the time (countdown and stopwatch too), real time weather, gaming scores, stock/rate prices, pictures, animation, holiday celebrations, social media notifications (YouTube included), NFTs, noise meter (via built-in MEMS microphone) and of course Pixel Art (128x128). Divoom has also equipped the Times Gate with left/right (surround) and rear RGB LEDs (2 zones - 45 LEDs in total) which are also completely adjustable via their smartphone app (12 lighting effects in total - adjustable brightness). Last but not least the Times Gate doesn't feature a rechargeable battery pack which means you need to always have it connected to power via its USB-C cable and for a desktop gadget that actually makes sense (although a small battery pack in case of blackouts would be nice to have). So, let's see what the Times Gate by Divoom is all about.