The Matinee Display
Friday, September 22, 2006 at 12:08PM Apple's displays are some of the most lusted after items in all of geekdom. Very few people are probably willing to pay the premium to have them but no one denies their beauty.
Today Mike commented how he loved his busted third LCD (with water damage) that he dedicates to viewing his Apache logs with. Suddenly I envisioned a short, wide display that you could position under your monitors. You could dedicate it to displaying iTunes visualizations, song/album information, system stats or whatever. I present the Matinee Display! Matinees are cheaper and less crowded... the name kinda sucks but I don't care. I just like the idea.
And more to scale:
Forgive the sloppy back image. I totally photoshopped this together quickly.
I'd prefer to see it use a USB port to save precious DVI outs. How kick ass would this be?
Reader Comments (11)
I just want to be able to run two monitors and have one of them running Dashboard while the other doesn't.
Your monitor would work well for that.
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So a little like Windows Sideshow (which will be included with Vista) but a little larger and for desktops as well?
There are a lot of small LCD displays that connect via serial port and display anything you want, like system status info, iTunes song playing, etc.
For Linux, google 'lcdproc'. I'm not sure what the software for MacOS or Windows would be, but there is probably something available.
I thought of this years ago for gaming. Keep all yours info seperate from a perfectly uncluttered main screen. The PSP will be a wireless rear view mirror on top of your TV for PS3 racing games. Altogether it's just lame. I'm all for using less screen more effectively, like expose, especialy on laptops.
i always wanted something like this but for tv. this would be perfect for annoying "bottom line" elements such as ESPNs score bar, stock tickers, news ticker, emergency weather tickers, etc. you could also use it to display game scores so that 100% of the tv is used to show the game and the game only. fox sports already employs a horizontal scorebar on the top of their screens. wouldnt take much to just drag that up into a marquis-screen. also, ever watch CNN or MSNBC lately? they have tickers on top of tickers these days! its insane!
Well, today is your lucky day. You can actually order one from Art. Lebedev studios. Better yet, it has three buttons you can click.
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-mini/
Why not get a bigger monitor and display info in little widgets? Plenty of space for them in 30"
No, this would not be kick ass. You'd seriously use up a USB port for this idea? I mean seriously, GET ANOTHER MONITOR.
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