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With way too much time on their hands these days, my twin teenage gamers have expanded their area of focus from consoles to include PC gaming as well. They recently purchased new high-powered laptops — ostensibly for school, but no one needs that kind of graphics firepower to write an essay. Anyway, they also picked up gaming mice (another dead giveaway) but forgot to add a mouse pad to the basket. I ordered them a pair of Havit RGB mouse pads from Amazon, and these things are actually pretty cool.
The Havit mouse pad is soft, flexible (it arrives rolled up in a tube), lightly padded, non-slip, and covered in a tight weave cloth surface. All fine, but what makes it pop (literally) is an RGB LED light strip sewn into the outer edge of the pad. The light displays Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Cyan, Yellow, and White, with the option of choosing one color or using one of seven dynamic lighting modes.
The mouse pad plugs into a PC’s USB port for power but doesn’t attempt to synchronize with any game settings. This is purely decoration. The light setting (including brightness) is adjusted by pushing a button on the mouse pad controller.
The pad is offered in two sizes. I picked the small (about 10 x 14-inches), but there is also a larger size offered. After being unrolled, the pad fully flattened out within a day or so. The USB…
