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pretty uncommon to come across something that's both aesthetically pleasing and

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practical i mean unlike the pink lamborghini i have here in my garage

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all those RGB memory modules you bought for the inside of your pc

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aren't really all that useful even if you use the flimsy justification of

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oh but they warn me my CPU is hot by

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turning red but what if i told you there was a way

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to trick out your workspace that also has practical benefits

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i'm talking about bias lighting and that

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doesn't mean a fancy browser extension that highlights articles and social

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media posts with a political agenda though that would be pretty neat

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bias lighting is simply light that's placed behind your display and is a very

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common way that hobbyists make their computer and home theater setups really

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stand out on those websites that feature nothing but glam shots of personal

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entertainment stations i mean that backlighting makes it look

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so dramatic and artsy don't you think

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well even if you could take or leave the look considering biased lighting for your

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setup makes practical sense for a few reasons

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first of all some users report that it reduces eye strain and while it might

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seem counterintuitive that adding more light would make things easier on the

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eyes the idea is that your computer screen is

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often much brighter than your surroundings especially if you're not in

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an office environment with oppressively bright fluorescent bulbs

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that means that your eyes have to be constantly adjusting between the

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brightness of the screen and the relative darkness of what's behind it

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leading to eye strain and a feeling of fatigue

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bias lighting is supposed to help normalize the amount of light entering

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your eyes without overdoing it and

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even if eye strain doesn't particularly bother you bias lighting can also allow

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you to get the best possible picture out of your display

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you see you can partly relieve eye strain by turning on bright room

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lighting so that you won't be overwhelmed by your screen but not only

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is that an ugly solution it decreases

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the perceptible contrast on your display

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meaning that dark and bright colors won't have as much detail and the image

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will look more washed out overall not to mention the glare that you can

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get when you place a light source in front or above a monitor

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but since bias lighting sits behind your display it doesn't clobber the screen

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with extra light and provides the additional benefit of making images

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appear richer due to how our brains perceive them when they're placed in

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front of a lighter background so for some folks bias lighting works so

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well that it allows them to turn down the brightness of their display without

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a noticeable undesirable loss in

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contrast or detail best of all while professional solutions

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can cost a lot of money diy bias lighting is super inexpensive there are

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led based solutions available for between 10 and 30 us dollars that just

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stick onto the back of your display the most sensible use white leds at a

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color temperature of 6 500 kelvin this

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is considered standard in both the pc and cinema industries and is the best

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choice if you want to fully reap the contrast enhancing benefits

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with that said if you're more into adding a splash of color to your setup

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RGB bias strips are also available

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whatever you end up buying though i would recommend choosing a kit that can

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plug into a nearby usb port that way you

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