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.
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posted Oct 14th 2008 8:09AM
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?
she needs me on her screen in private
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.
Nice idea... but that girl is seriously distracting.
im sorry, did you say something?.
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.
the only thing that attracted me to this topic was the women..... whats it all about?
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.
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"
The whole point is that there is a way to control it smartass
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.
This is just filler until the Apple event starts...
You can wait without trolling you know.
@Chris: Tell that to all the "this is just filler until Apple tanks" trolls in the [insert_Apple_product] threads, please.
Wow, before it was a flat screen problem, not it's a addon feature.
LOL maybe will add 500 bucks to the build
great, Tower Defence in physics class just got easier.
It's not the first nor the second such display we've seen with this ability.
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.
there have been some attractive women displaying gadgets on this site before...
but she aint one of them. ugh...