LG intros integrated, adjustable privacy screen for laptops

You're not being paranoid if you're surfing in public and feeling a little self-conscious; that creepy guy to your right is totally peeking over his Times, looking for a vicarious gadget fix. Right now you're probably thinking a privacy filter would help, but they tend to make things look awfully murky even if you're sitting front and center. LG says it has the solution with its new Viewing-angle Image Control display, a 14.1-inch screen able to have its visible extent cropped from 175- down to just 60-degrees via a push of a button, supposedly without impacting overall brightness. It's not the first nor the second such display we've seen with this ability, but it is already in mass production and should start showing up in laptops everywhere soon -- or not showing up, as it were.

[Via Electronista]

[Esat Dedezade @ Oct 14th 2008 8:17AM]

If you ever had to use this in public, you shouldn't be doing what your doing in public in the first place.

Does.. does that make sense?

[Fusion Fuzo @ Oct 14th 2008 8:25AM]

she needs me on her screen in private

[Anthony @ Oct 14th 2008 10:24AM]

Too bad she's wearing a girly version of Michael Jackson's "military" garb from the '90s. That's all I see w/ those weird shoulder pads & accent fabric.

[HornyOldMan @ Oct 14th 2008 8:28AM]

Nice idea... but that girl is seriously distracting.

[Magallanes @ Oct 14th 2008 8:46AM]

im sorry, did you say something?.

[Tom @ Oct 14th 2008 10:01AM]

Either those laptops are glued down, or she's seconds from tipping the screens over, cracking the hinges, and smacking her face on the desk.

[Bjsfreaked @ Oct 14th 2008 10:19AM]

the only thing that attracted me to this topic was the women..... whats it all about?

[Boarderwoot @ Oct 14th 2008 8:28AM]

Thats all fine and dandy while youre waiting for your plane at the airport and feel like checkin out the latest bikini pictures of Sarah Failin, but what happens when you get on the plane and your buddy also wants to watch Van Wilder too. it'd be better if there was a way to control it, like an external physical filter, or just get an external physical filter.

[Luke @ Oct 14th 2008 8:36AM]

You mean like a button?
"able to have its visible extent cropped from 175- down to just 60-degrees via a push of a button"

[nooob @ Oct 14th 2008 8:36AM]

The whole point is that there is a way to control it smartass

[sockatume @ Oct 14th 2008 9:03AM]

Yeah, it really needs a feature like that. They could put that feature in, and then Engadget could run a story on it, and then somebody could ask "why doesn't it have that feature?" in a story about it having that feature.

[iEye @ Oct 14th 2008 8:36AM]

This is just filler until the Apple event starts...

[Chris @ Oct 14th 2008 8:54AM]

You can wait without trolling you know.

[randombloke @ Oct 14th 2008 9:44AM]

@Chris: Tell that to all the "this is just filler until Apple tanks" trolls in the [insert_Apple_product] threads, please.

[System Daemonologist @ Oct 14th 2008 8:37AM]

Wow, before it was a flat screen problem, not it's a addon feature.

[Cybergypsy @ Oct 14th 2008 8:49AM]

LOL maybe will add 500 bucks to the build

[William @ Oct 14th 2008 8:52AM]

great, Tower Defence in physics class just got easier.

[chris @ Oct 14th 2008 10:39AM]

It's not the first nor the second such display we've seen with this ability.

[techno.techie @ Oct 14th 2008 9:55AM]

I was at a local coffee shop last night talking with a friend and I wish the creepy, obese, older guy with the mustache had this feature on his laptop. That way I could have been spared the nude youtube amateur vid that you could very easily see from the angle that we were sitting. Thank you, LG. I think this could both spare folks from seeing your screen as well as prevent some spying.

[bungsana @ Oct 14th 2008 4:29PM]

there have been some attractive women displaying gadgets on this site before...

but she aint one of them. ugh...