We can see it now: the four former members of 'N Sync (minus Justin Timberlake) showing up in an HP-inspired television spot, their heads cut off from the frame while they individually sing about what how each of their MIDs knows them personally and proceed to show what they can do in a array of spectacle and CG. Suddenly, they all hold their devices next to each other in a two-by-two grid pattern and the four screens become one as their voices, too, join in harmony -- which is exactly what
Intel touts its newly-developed multi-client display linking can do. Except for the harmony part, that's all 'N Sync. In a word? Beautiful. It's all part of Intel's MID-centric "Carry Small, Live Large" initiative. We're not taking bets on whether or not this feature will make a cameo in its upcoming
joint venture with LG or any device in the foreseeable future, but it's definitely something's that piqued our interest.
posted Mar 6th 2009 9:41PM
Boy, do I feel manly carrying this around.
'N Sync + covered up WMP pause button = possible problems.
Don't worry, you still have access to the volume, as well as the stop and close buttons.
Ain't nothin' a heartache!
Ain't nothin' but a mis-sync!
I never want to hear you say!
That IIII want a 52" HDMI Display!
By the way, that is the special Engadget version, recorded in 2001.
lol I guess that is actually backstreet boys. DISREGARD COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So all they need to do is to make the bezel smaller. It's still need design tweaking ;)
O no you did not.
it's interesting that the borders are taken into account.
bwhahahhahaha
*sings Tearin' Up My Heart*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqPXrmCD54Q
You guys forgot to mention that for this to work, Intel says you MUST rock goggles on your forehead.
anyone ever heard of synergy.. its a great program for linking multiple computers and its free.
yeah, it streams mouse and keyboard, not video, so its not really the same at all.
not that im bad mouthing it, it does have its uses
maxivista?
Synergy sucks. Development on it stopped a long time ago, and it's not even Vista compatible.
Input Director, on the other hand, is a great piece of software. Not even close to what this is, but still better than Synergy.
*nix has been able to do this for 10 freakin years!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinerama
and randr even allows even more i think syncronized screen rotation and the like...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRandR
This somewhat reminds me of ScreenRecycler:
http://www.screenrecycler.com/
Yeah, it's though VNC but works fairly well if you have fast computers.
GONE
I've been waiting for the day to come when we can sync computers together to work as -one- within a proximity so i can just touch a file and throw it off the screen so it'll land into another computer. You people at IBM clearly don't know how it is to go on with a life without this technology! *cries in tears and huddles in a corner*
~they don't care~ *continues to cry*
Actually, they had this pretty swank light pen tech back in the day that worked kind of like that, but then everyone ended up getting gorilla arms and punching clear through their keyboards whenever they got frustrated typing something. The past is a funny, funny place.
On topic, I've always thought N'Sync had the worst band name ever, topping even The Alan Parsons Project.
I agree, this looks cool. Touch screen netbooks would be the perfect candidate for this tech. Then you could have one netbook with a clip on keyboard or snap two together to make a dual screen "book". If you had pals with similar netbooks (and lets face it, they're nearly all identical right now) simply adding a cross connector would allow building "walls" of screens. This would also answer the "iMac" question (since we mentioned Intel and LG) that we can't use iMacs as displays after their CPUs have become out of date, a double bonus.
I would TOTALLY buy something like this.
Buy, Buy, Buy
LOL@ Jim
I see what you did there.... And iLike-:)
Isn't this pretty much what David Merrill talked about at TED??
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
Found the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Dude, seriously. I'm starting to get real tired of that joke.
Bezel.
Agreed, for this to work, these things need to be bezel-less.
On a side note, that commercial idea actually sounds really good. I'm all for clever ads.
Disclaimer: I can't stand boy/girl bands.
oh boy this is a must buy for me :D