Mimo debuts 7-inch iMo Pivot Touch monitor
By Donald Melanson 
posted November 23rd 2009 5:09PM
posted November 23rd 2009 5:09PM
Mimo may not be doing anything crazy like producing a full-size monitor, but it's not exactly slacking when it comes to its tiny, secondary monitors -- the latest of which is the 7-inch iMo Pivot Touch. Apparently designed for folks that prefer pivoting to sliding, this new model packs the usual 800 x 480 resolution we've come to expect, along with an adequate 350 cd/m2 brightness, 400:1 contrast and, most importantly, touch capabilities (with support for both Mac and Windows). At $199.99, the Pivot Touch is also a full ten bucks cheaper than its sliding counterpart, and Mimo is even offering its own little Black Friday deal with free shipping until November 30th -- the monitor itself won't ship until December 3rd, though.
This is extremely interesting, but for some reason that huge logo on the bezel kills its aesthetic appeal for me...
I was just thinking that.. I wonder if the logo is put on there cheaply.. might be easy to remove. Still, pretty awesome for that price.
@Ohse This method might work:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-remove-Logos-from-your-PDA--cell-phone-wit/
I agree. A couple of pics on the manufacturers page show it with no logo, and on thinkgeek.com there is no logo, so hopefully they just had it on the PR display. I will be checking to make sure before buying though. This would be nice for a car pc and a handheld interface for my laptop while I'm watching tv, but the logo is a deal breaker.
@RJMajestic my model barely worked on arrival and then crapped out after I switched it off but the (only) good thing about it was they don't have that ugly logo on the front of it.
This has been available from Thinkgeek for a while now. I have a recently purchased one sitting on my desk :)
Not bad for the price.
Just a thought: Why are all the standard avatars crudgadgets?
What are you talking about? That's the new Nintendo SSi (single screen, i?). It has only one non-touch screen, and no shoulder buttons, but it has 3G for downloading 'apps'. It's for people that think it's wrong to touch their gameboy in that way.
This would be pretty neat as a secondary display for a HTPC. 7" touchscreen headrest monitors go for half that price though.
I see a new popular in-car computer screen. Wonder if it takes 12V DC power...
Only take 5v, but if you actually have enough interest in this to consider buying it, you would click on the link and see that whatever you are connecting it to will probably be able to power it by itself.
It's really something they should have pointed out in the post. I usually don't complain, but way to overlook one of the most basic but important specs engadget...
@FuturePastNow it's usb powered so concentrate on powering your in car computer instead
It cuts itself..
It cuts itself..
@iFargle Wow, I wonder what happened..
they've decided not to be tight arses and include mac touch drivers this time?
Ordered unit arrived this evening. Connected it to Intel MacMini. All works as claimed: image is relatively sharp (text is the tiniest bit chunky if you look close), and left/right viewing angles are not bad. While driver is included for touch capability, touch feature is a bit disappointing. Hardware appears to be resistive (?) so pressure required for touch is substantial enough to push display over, but it does work. Full screen video works very well, while things that rely on good graphics card (ie 3D acceleration) run slowly, but they do run. At first glance, seems to be a pretty good buy for price.
I just received this monitor last night and I've had nothing but problems. The provided drivers for Mac don't work properly, the tech support is not very helpful (they kept referring me to the windows part of the manual, even though I told them what version of MAC os I was using), the manual has plenty of info for the windows install but barely anything for the mac install (and is written in typical Engrish). They didn't include all the accessories I was promised as part of the Black Friday sale. The monitor stopped working altogether overnight after I turned the switch to off and now I have to pay out of my own pocket to return the product and I am out the $30 in custom fees I paid to import the product. Too bad because it was a neat concept and I had a lot of hope for it. I'm hoping I just got a faulty unit and it's not an issue with the whole lineup but I really think they should have paid for me to return it (with an RMA and a purolator slip, like most other companies) and exchanged it for a working model.