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Startup Offers a Digital Take on Art for Your Home PIxeled app lets users send images and animation to framed displays on their walls.

By Michelle Juergen

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Al Linke is the Santa Clara, Calif.-based creator of Pixeled, an LED-based display for pixel art. To showcase a low-resolution masterpiece, users open a free Pixeled app on an Android device or a PC and tap the image or animation they want, sending it to the framed display via Bluetooth. When not in use, the Pixeled display looks like a mirror.

Bright idea: Al Linke of Pixeled.
Bright idea: Al Linke of Pixeled.
Photography by Eva Kolenko

"Illuminating" moment
"I'm a techie, but a wannabe artist," says Linke, whose day job is IT director for a Fortune 500 company."If you follow the whole maker and open-source movements, there are a lot with LEDs, but you need to be techie to do a cool LED project. The vision was to create [one] anyone could do. It's as simple as picking an image from your smartphone."