Humanscale's eight-monitor mount is huge. Seriously.

Sometimes one display isn't enough. Sometimes you need two. Sometimes you need eight. When you need eight, you'll probably want to contact the folks over at Humanscale -- an ironically named company that creates mounts that are decidedly inhuman. Take the Paramount Parabolic Multi-Monitor Display, for instance: a rack for your bank of eight monitors that's a guaranteed must-have for your elaborate array of "stalking" screens in the basement of your creepy estate. We're sure there are uses for this beyond tracking the every movement of your house-guests, but we don't want to know what they are.

[Via Crave]

[linumax @ Feb 25th 2008 2:19PM]

I'd buy one for my pet spider, his birthday's in two weeks!

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:22PM]

nah.. better for a bee. they have lots of eyes

[linumax @ Feb 25th 2008 2:34PM]

My spider finds your lack of knowledge of spiders disturbing.

http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/toolkit/hairy/see.htm

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:41PM]

I just got pwned a little

[E71 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:44PM]

Moving the cursor between all those monitors must be tiresome... should set sensitivity to uber-high.

[xenon87 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:51PM]

I find your ownership of a spider disturbing!

[bi0hazard @ Feb 25th 2008 2:58PM]

if only we could use 8 cursors.

[Sergio @ Feb 25th 2008 4:13PM]

You can't enjoy Crysis unless it's on 8 monitors, obviously.

[Anton @ Feb 25th 2008 2:23PM]

But can it display Crysis at full resolution?

[E71 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:46PM]

Everyone praises that game but I shun those kinda games. I mean, every game released should be designed to run very well on the high to highest-end machines in the market at the time of release... for some reason these developers think otherwise.

I for one am not going to play a game with a low frame-rate and play it again when I get a better machine in a year or two.

*shakes fist*

[risk @ Feb 25th 2008 3:08PM]

@above if your way of thinking was in the world, then we would still be sufficient with DOS games.

[o29 @ Feb 25th 2008 3:34PM]

@risk

I think he's referring more to games with graphics can't be fully realized unless you use a $5,000 computer. Most games can be maxed out on a decent $2,000 PC.

[T-Bone @ Feb 25th 2008 2:23PM]

Almost as cool as the 9-monitor display at Microsoft's Visitor Center.

[Allen Farris @ Feb 25th 2008 2:24PM]

Thanks, now I know just what I need for my birthday.

[Dualboot @ Feb 25th 2008 7:01PM]

Who is going to pay for the keyboard I just drooled over? Joshua, where to I send the bill?

[Thermos14 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:24PM]

wanting.

[Organic_Shadow @ Feb 25th 2008 2:25PM]

I can see how this would be useful for a small studio with mass-monitor needs, security offices, and that sort of thing without them needed to destroy a wall just for the monitors. All they need is a sturdy table/desk/thing to attach it to and that's it.

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 25th 2008 2:25PM]

Finally! I can see more than just an eyebrow in pictures taken on my new 13.6 megapixel camera!

Joy!

[Raheem @ Feb 25th 2008 2:27PM]

Stop taking pictures of eyebrows *Zoom out* :P

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:27PM]

so _that_ explains why i keep getting cropped pics of eyebrows from n00b friends of mine! at least they tweeze...

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 25th 2008 2:29PM]

Zoom out!? More like super zoom in! I. WANT. TO. SEE. YOUR. MOLECULES.

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:30PM]

molecules? careful buddy, you're gettin awfully close to talkin bout them nanotechnologeez

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 25th 2008 2:31PM]

And thus, Engadget memes have come full circle.

No questions on blendability or Doomability required.

[Missy @ Feb 25th 2008 9:36PM]

Something's wrong with the people who responded to this comment.

The guy isn't taking pictures of eyebrows! For crying out loud! He's talking about the fact that his camera takes such high-res photos that he can't see the entire image at it's actual resolution.
Now, with this eight-monitor system, he can.

Of course, then your photos will have black bars dividing it into little blocks.......

[eggothewaffle @ Feb 25th 2008 9:55PM]

Haha! I figured that's how they were originally replying but I chalked it up to that they understood what I was saying and just carried on a really strange joke in a really strange manner...Hooray!

[AshR @ Feb 25th 2008 10:01PM]

@Missy

Thanks captain obvious, clearly we all thought he was "actually" taking photos of only his eyebrows

[Anton @ Feb 25th 2008 2:29PM]

eight-monitor porn!

[captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Feb 25th 2008 6:04PM]

one for each of the major genres!

[Rainier @ Feb 25th 2008 2:31PM]

"Crap! A dead pixel!!!"

"Huh? Where?"

[Killer @ Feb 25th 2008 3:16PM]

LMAO...That just made my day. If only I could vote you higher than Highest. Oh what the hell, I'll try anyway because you deserve it.

[Scott G. @ Feb 25th 2008 2:33PM]

I hope it plugs in to one outlet. With all my other stuff around my computer, I'm not sure if one wall outlet would be able to handle that and I'd be blowing fuses all day long.

[Teetdogs @ Feb 25th 2008 2:56PM]

Since when do monitor mounts need to be plugged in?

[Adam E @ Feb 25th 2008 2:34PM]

For some reason this seems as if it would fit well in an evil genius' lair.

[Reader @ Feb 25th 2008 6:23PM]

Swordfish did it... Or close, forget how many monitors there were, but lots of unnecessary 3-dimensional geometric shapes to represent computer hacking. Oh the joys of technology in Hollywood.

[Bob @ Feb 25th 2008 2:38PM]

come to daddy.

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:50PM]

come to Butt-Head

[Matt @ Feb 25th 2008 2:39PM]

Finally, Night Trap can be played like you really are in control.

[Thermos14 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:41PM]

Think of the Nibbles possibilities!

[bob sakamano @ Feb 25th 2008 2:49PM]

1.engadget
2.engadget hd
3.tuaw
4.engadget mobile
5.gmail
6.aim
7.itunes
8.favorite dvd

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 2:55PM]

a whole screen filled up by aim? that's wrong on so many levels...

[Ian @ Feb 25th 2008 3:47PM]

but right on so many others!! haha

[erhan @ Feb 25th 2008 8:24PM]

1) Pr0n
2) Pr0n
3) Pr0n
4) Pr0n
5) Midget Pr0n
6) Pr0n
7) Pr0n
8) Pr0n
:) :) :) :) :) :) :P

[Brandon @ Feb 25th 2008 2:49PM]

How much does that weigh? I can picture my computer desk toppling over the next time I hit my keyboard in frustration.

[bob sakamano @ Feb 25th 2008 2:49PM]

i assume this comes with some kind of waiver that you have to sign each time you use this setup stating that you won't be filing any lawsuits against Humanscale for the dramatic loss of vision within three days of using this?

[Sam @ Feb 25th 2008 2:50PM]

so how does Doom look at that resolution?

[bob sakamano @ Feb 25th 2008 2:50PM]

why dont they just got the panasonic 103 inch lcd

[bob sakamano @ Feb 25th 2008 2:51PM]

get*

[Thermos14 @ Feb 25th 2008 2:56PM]

*sell their soul for

[Mike @ Feb 25th 2008 2:57PM]

In the CalIT2 building at UCSD, we have a 11x5 tile wall display. Sure, it doesn't sit on a single mount, but it's at least built on prefab parts that you can easily buy. Actually, they have a spreadsheet that let's you configure your array of screens and calculate what parts you'll need to buy.

Here's an article with photos of a few in use. http://www.optiputer.net/news/TRECCarticle.php

[robopony @ Feb 25th 2008 4:24PM]

So where can I get this spreadsheet?