I just received an email from Enzo, who is with the team at HalmaPixel. Enzo wanted to make sure I was up to date with the team’s latest offering, which is called DuoFlex.
DuoFlex is billed as “The World’s First 360° Rotation Dual-Screen Monitor.” What this means is a dual-screen assembly you can rotate such that the screens are stacked (presented horizontally, one above the other) or aligned (presented vertically, side-by-side). Also, you can lift, lower, and tilt the assembly to modify the height and viewing angle.
There are currently two screen size choices (24” and 27”) and three resolution options (1080P, 2K, and 4K). Hmmm, I wonder which one I want LOL.
As we see in the above video, in addition to their touchscreen capability (very, very useful), these bodacious beauties boast seamless, single-cable connectivity (that’s one cable from your host computer to the display) with 165W pass-through charging and a 7-in-one dock (1x USB-A, 2x HDMI, and 4X USB Type-C).
The only thing that would make the DuoFlex better, as far as I'm concerned, would be the ability to "fold" the two displays together for transportation purposes. Whenever my wife (Gina the Gorgeous) and I go anywhere, I usually end up working a few hours each day in our hotel room, and it's a pain lugging a big display around, but we digress...
You can daisy-chain multiple DuoFlex units to form a display wall. Now, that’s what I’m talking about! Having two DuoFlex units with their four screens presented as shown here would certainly bring a little tear of joy to my eye.
Here in my office, I currently have two AGON AG323QCX2 31.5” curved widescreen LCD monitors sitting side-by-side to provide a super-size desktop. I love them to bits, but I am using every inch of screen real-estate to accommodate multiple application windows. Since I’m a 1-man show, spending a minimum of 8-hours a day (only 4 hours a day on the weekends) sweating over a hot keyboard, anything I can do to increase my productivity would make the radiance of my smile light up the world.
I’ll have to start saving. In the meantime, do you have any thoughts you’d care to share on displays in general and the DuoFlex in particular, including how the DuoFlex compares to the first computer screen you ever saw?
Have the poor man’s version, albiet no touchscreen.
The LG 28MQ780-B 28 Inch SDQHD (2560 x 2880) Nano IPS DualUp Monitor with Ergo Stand, DCI-P3 98% (Typ.) with HDR10, USB Type-C (90W PD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG5iPLNDyw
You can easily split the screen into two 2560×1440 quadrants, or use the entire 16:18 aspect ratio when working in MS Code. It was under $600 last fall during Amazon’s Cyber Monday sales
Thanks for sharing
The first screen I had was on an ancient laptop (the word is used loosely here) which had a contrast of about 2:1. I later got an old 12 inch green monitor and that was a vast improvement. How things have progressed. I remember the first CGA monitor I saw and how vivid the colours were. I remember borrowing a 17 inch CRT monitor from my supplier for a demo and hankering after it for month afterwards. Now I use 2 21 inch LCDs – one horizontal and one vertical which is a personal preference – for editing word documents it’s so nice to be able to display them portrait so you can see a whole page. I had two 24 inchers but they died and the 21’s were all I couild get – sometime I’ll have a go at fixing the 24’s. Or biting the bullet and getting some new ones. My desk will only fit about a 27 inch at best.
Where I used to work we had a couple of video walls with 4 x 60 inch (I think) screens. You can get boxes that do all the hard work, all you have to do is mount the screens and some minor setting up.They had a vast amount of info on them and all the IT people who worked there had their own part of the screen dedicated to the health of their systems.
It’s easy enough to set up 2 or even more screens yourself these days, most PCs have multiple video outputs and Control Panel or the monitor’s apps will let you organise and sync them, I helped a few of the less PC literate people at work set them up and it’s not too difficult. Which is probably a pity – if I ever left my PC unlocked at work my workmate would come and re-organise everything, put the screen displays sideways, swap them around, and for good measure change all the mouse settings as well. It was a good incentive to lock your machine when you were away from it 😀
Who needs enemies when you have friends like that LOL
I’ll take three, maybe four.. I currently have three 27″ (1080P on the outside and a 4K in the middle) monitors and would be happy with more screen real estate. Like yours, my screens are pretty much always full. The nice thing is that my son has transitioned from taking my hand-me-downs to giving me his – and he likes to upgrade often, so I haven’t paid for any of these.
Like David, I go way back. I may go back even further. My first monitor was a 10″ black and white vacuum tube “portable” TV that I picked up at a garage sale and had to hack in a composite input. I am capable of doing most Internet things on my phone, but I’ll get up and go fire up the big computer more often than not because I’ve spent my entire technology career trying to get more and more screen space and I find it a hug step back and a bit insulting to work on a 5 or 6″ phone display.
I’m waiting for augmented/virtual reality headsets to be of sufficiently high resolution to provide usable virtual screens of any size … it’s coming…
And when said VR/AR glasses can work with a phone capable of the sort of work I do these days, I can just sit anywhere I am and unroll my keyboard, or better yet, project/sense a virtual keyboard and mouse…
The future is closer than we think