Ever wished your phone’s screen was, ooh, seven times larger? Well ViewSonic can help: its new smart touchscreen display wirelessly connects to your phone, extending your handset’s display.
ViewSonic has announced a 23-inch monitor that comes with 10-point capacitive multitouch screen. But the best bit is that tucked away behind the display is an ARM11 processor and built-in wireless 802.11b/g/n connectivity.
According to ViewSonic, the wireless connection lets you extend your phone’s screen on to the monitor — though it doesn’t explain exactly how. What that does means, though, is that you could casually stream videos from your phone while it was on the other side of the room, or play Angry Birds on larger screen than you’re used to. Which has to count for something, right?
It also supports VGA and DVI, and has two port USB ports. No word on ship date or pricing at the moment. [ViewSonic via The Verge]
Antipodean
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 8:37 AMUnless this thing can connect to your PC as a replacement monitor, it is truly pointless and if you buy this to replace your regular monitor so you can plug your phone in, your an idiot!
Labrys
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 8:58 AMI think it maybe a sign of more convergence between tablets, phones and PC’s.
Tablets and phones are getting more and more powerful. The majority of people really don’t need a heck of a lot of power in their computers. So I imaging the ability to come home, link your quad core tablet running win8 to your monitor to get some work done on a larger screen then unlinking it and continue to work on things on the move. Possibly also wirelessly connect to a mouse and keyboard if you need. You then don’t need that chuck of metal and plastic that you keep trying to hide. You can just have the monitor tucked away somewhere to pull out when you need.