EVGA shows off USB monitor adapter, InterView dual-screen display

Those looking for some added desktop real estate may want to keep an eye on what EVGA has in store, as the company has just taken the wraps off two upcoming products that take considerably different approaches to expand your view of things. The first is a rather standard USB monitor adapter, dubbed the EVGA UV Plus+, which will apparently be available in both standard and widescreen-capable versions (as opposed to one that does both). The former of those will give you a max resolution 1280x1024, while the latter maxes out at a decent 1680x1050, with each boasting a single DVI port and support for full 32-bit color depth. Taking another tact is the company's so-called InterView display (pictured after the break), which consists of two 17-inch monitors that can be folded together for toting around. Those'll give you a combined 2880x900 resolution, along with a 500:1 contrast ratio and an 8ms response time. On a somewhat related front, EVGA also took the opportunity to show off its latest motherboard, which may be most notable simply for its name: the EVGA 780i SLI FTW (we kid you not.)

[Images courtesy of PC Perspective]

[Reuben Gathright @ Oct 10th 2008 10:01AM]

I just found the EVGA UV Plus+ ( MPN: 100-U2-UV16-A1 ) a few weeks ago and wrote a review of it. I liked it a lot but found a few problems you should be aware of.

http://www.epinions.com/content_447191944836

[s00perbad @ Jan 9th 2008 3:19PM]

EVGA 780i SLI FTW FTW! Wonder if the you can use two of these at once

[s00perbad @ Jan 9th 2008 3:20PM]

Actually, now that I think about it you probably could use two of them at once but it would just display the same thing on both (4 monitors with two of them being the same), not 4 separate monitors like I was thinking.

[Ken @ Jan 9th 2008 3:39PM]

"Taking another tact..."

Actually, it looks like they're taking another "tack" with the new monitor. If they took another tact, it wouldn't have been so inconsiderate.

[Geir E @ Jan 9th 2008 4:20PM]

EVGA monitor adapter? that brings memories to when i envied my friends CGA card, my father had a hercules b/w with cga emulator (with terrible tailing of graphic movement) and VGA later came and I got angry hearing about companies trowing out their EGA equipment to upgrade. If I just could have one of those EGA cards and monitors. good times.

[spam_from_engadget @ Jan 9th 2008 7:08PM]

So is this USB-to-VGA thing another instance of the DisplayLink technology, or have they made this one themselves?

[mhabdank @ Jan 9th 2008 8:05PM]

This was one of the more impressive exhibits at CES 2008. However, what's not mentioned is that the technology that enables monitor expandability harnessed through USB uplink, is researched, developed and produced by a company called DisplayLink based in Palo Alto, CA. While USB technology is becoming more and more ubiquitous, DisplayLink engineering has set the standard for stable, lossless performance in expanding users' desktop workspace. Check out their CES 2008 blog for demos and more--

http://www.displaylink.com/ces08/