Motorola patent combines multiple devices to make one large display

It seems to us that if you indulge in mobile video from time to time, you're either lugging around a device with a decent display size (netbook, tablet, whatevs) or more likely than not you're watching your Britain's Got Talent! clips on a handset -- either solution is obviously less than ideal. What if we told you that Motorola has filed a patent application for a "Reconfigurable Multiple-Screen Display"? This technology will essentially let you configure multiple devices for use as one big display: Instead of lugging around your Thinkpad or suffering the indignity of watching postage stamp-sized video on your Droid you can simply and conveniently carry four phones around. Why didn't we think of that?

[moosedaddy357 Posted Mar 5th 2010 10:51PM]

I saw this concept a long time ago and it took me a while to find a link, but here it is, looks awesome...

http://m.yankodesign.com/2007/08/28/two-brix-are-better-than-one/

[junktrunk Posted Mar 7th 2010 8:52AM]

@moosedaddy357
Thank you for adding something useful to this discussion! Now *THAT* looks like prior art.

So sick of the majority here just going off on a patent system that they don't understand. Yes, there are big problems, but not everything is "obvious". I wonder how long ago Yanko published that.

[etwashoo Posted Mar 6th 2010 12:07PM]

Did you guys ever think that the patent would be for the METHOD that it shares the screens and not just the fact that it shares screens?

[windzilla Posted Mar 6th 2010 1:58PM]

seems like moto has a secret andy-warhol working in their patent department.