You can buy a monitor light bar pretty cheap, even as low as about $20. But will it be a great piece of gear, illuminating your desk from atop your display, with a nice array of features? Probably not ...

When you look at lots of computer setups people pimp out on social media, you see the same questions cropping up among the comments. One common query: What good are monitor light bars? And what are ...

Whether you need a monitor light for your gaming monitor or not is almost certainly a rare question to consider, particularly so for most folks who mainly use PCs to play games on. We've all been ...

When we set up a workstation, we tend to invest a lot of our money in buying the best desktop monitor. While this is nice, the perfect lighting conditions around the workstation are often overlooked.

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