This is the best realization of the 80s Anime supertech I've ever seen. I remember a 3 screen system I saw one time from...I want to say HP, but this totally beats it.
Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
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#52Pretty fun project! I also sometimes dream of building something more unique, but I don't have the tools and materials :/
Was thinking, dual screen laptop, "dual screen" smartphone (just 2 smartphones in a special case, kind of like what LG has done), smartphone built into the palmrest, and other stuff.
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#53Seems like a 17" laptop with some iPads attached to the sides for extending screens onto would work fine too.
Or just bunch of portable monitors
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#54The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
I seem to remember about 10 years ago or so, when that kind of tiny 7-10" laptop was briefly popular. I don't know exactly how the marketing went, but I imagine it was positioned as "your on the go device for when your phone isn't enough." Or, maybe it was kind of like a "super PDA." Who knows? I hated them. Never bought one.
I loved my mini laptop in middle school. I could carry it around in my pockets and get a full computer.
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#55Ok, this is clearly a joke / fun project that metastasized / etc, and it's also clearly awesome, but I gotta ask - why 7 screens? Why not 6? Or 8? They said that they wanted to design a mobile Security Operations Center - do people doing this work normally need exactly 7 screens worth of information? I've seen pictures of "Operation Centers" which have tons of screens so it's plausible that someone would need "a lot"…
Traders frequently use smaller monitors stacked up very high. The upper monitors usually have charts or heatmaps or live video feeds. They don't usually read the text from those screens. This product would have sold well to the finance crowd when monitors were relatively expensive.
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#56In my dream world, "decision makers" (gov officials, top managers) attend their fancy meetings with one of these, and have on-screen info, fed by an army of people in different parts of the world, to minimize the amount of bullshit said, and make government / admin more efficient. Yes, they could also have the setup at home, but I think they like the going around in black SUVs, having doors opened for them, shaking h…
There is only so much information that a single brain can analyze and parse. This is why decision makers employ a team of brains to parse it for them, rather than attempting to do it all themselves. Delegation has very significant performance advantages. More screens isn't the solution -- better parsing and analysis is the need.
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#57The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
I seem to remember about 10 years ago or so, when that kind of tiny 7-10" laptop was briefly popular. I don't know exactly how the marketing went, but I imagine it was positioned as "your on the go device for when your phone isn't enough." Or, maybe it was kind of like a "super PDA." Who knows? I hated them. Never bought one.
Even I have a very lightweight 13" notebook, I searched something smaller and bought a 10" from Lenovo (with "just enough power for the moment"). It was the smallest I could find around here. I would liked even something more small, but couldn't find something around here sadly.
Before 2000 I used an Psion 5. I was a cool thing.
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#58Is your productivity also a function of pixels? Sometimes, when I have a deadline approaching, I simply ask for more pixels.
It is if you are programming in LabView.
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#59This is the best realization of the 80s Anime supertech I've ever seen. I remember a 3 screen system I saw one time from...I want to say HP, but this totally beats it.
There was a Razer prototype with 3 screens [1] and another that comes to mind is the two screened Thinkpad w700ds
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#60But why??