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    8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens

    Pre-Order the Sharp Mebius NJ70A Netbook With LCD Multitouch Trackpad

    Sharp Mebius NJ70A Has Twice as Many Screens as a Typical Netbook

    HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
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    Image of DemanRisu DemanRisu
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens

    For shame, Gizmodo. For shame. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens

    The article also lacked mention of the Sony Pocketstation (pictured). Sony took the PSX memory card and, you guessed it, added an LCD screen similar to the Dreamcast's VMU. While this device was never released in the US, at least one US Playstation title actually was compatible (ie, it had a Pocketstation game, otherwise it functioned as a normal mem card) with it: Final Fantasy 8. The instruction book even contained all the info on how to use the Pocketstation despite also having the note that the device was only available in Japan. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    10/19/09

    @Skunky: Yeah, I remember hearing about those. The Legend of Dragoon used it in the Japanese version to play a minigame to double the number of items you can carry, but since it was never released here, there was no way to hold more items, which kinda sucked. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens

    The Nintendo DS doesn't really fit in here. They weren't trying to be innovative, they were actually trying to be retro.

    The innovation was in making one of the screens a touch interface. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of Accordion Accordion
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens
    the front screen on the camera is a great idea… not really for the uses mentioned, but going up to people and having a scary picture pop up just as you take the picture would produce some great results. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    10/19/09

    @Accordion: Samsung TL220 review (Verdict: GOATSE) #secondarydisplays
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    Image of telepheedian telepheedian
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens
    I read this post just as I opened an extra VMU I ordered off the web. Really cheap, and came in the original packaging, there must be warehouses full of these things. Same thing happened when I ordered a controller, original packaging.
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    10/19/09

    @telepheedian: can I get that site address please. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of telepheedian telepheedian
    10/19/09

    @Cordfucious of Tech Clan: [www.amazon.com]
    I bought them on their normal product pages, through this seller, I've ordered two things, a controller and a VMU, and they both came packaged. Cheap, too, $2 with $4 shipping, same price as the controller I ordered. The controller I got was a european model with the blue swirl, same controller otherwise. I don't know if he has any more of these in stock. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of EBone EBone
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens
    I think the inkjet printers that started coming out about ten years ago with a display so you could hook up your memory card and see your pics without a computer were the first really well-executed version of the extraneous screen. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens
    A post about screens, including keyboard-less devices, and not limited to products that exist.....and it doesn't mention the Apple Tablet?! Sweet mother of crap, I think we may have finally made it through this maelstrom of rumors, exaggerations and obsession!!

    ...Or it's just the eye of the storm. #secondarydisplays
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    Image of cubeenigma cubeenigma
    10/19/09

    In reply to 8 Great Extra(neous) Gadget Screens
    oh the courier. great idea. font style name

    i wish you come out at a good price #secondarydisplays
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    10/19/09

    @cubeenigma: If it comes out at all... #secondarydisplays
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/23/09

    In reply to Pre-Order the Sharp Mebius NJ70A Netbook With LCD Multitouch Trackpad
    Wow, this is what I have been hoping Apple would do in integrating the iPhone's touch screen as a trackpad/programmable touch console.
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    04/21/09

    In reply to Sharp Mebius NJ70A Has Twice as Many Screens as a Typical Netbook
    I was wondering how long it would take the rest of the industry to catch up with Nintendo.
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    04/21/09

    In reply to Sharp Mebius NJ70A Has Twice as Many Screens as a Typical Netbook
    Looks kind of nice, which looks to be its most important purpose.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/21/09

    In reply to Sharp Mebius NJ70A Has Twice as Many Screens as a Typical Netbook
    Great idea, apparently poorly executed.


    When Apple does this and it can be used as a second monitor, independently programmed controls depending on application, or as an iPod Touch emulator (with apps) everyone will be all over it.

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    Image of flamingmenudo flamingmenudo
    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    What is that big black block to the let side? A powersupply? That thing is the size of an apple mini. While the functionality of the second screen is dubious, the design is cleary out of whack. It reminds me of the first Chevy Lumina minivan: vast amounts of weirdly proportioned unused space, cheap looking and shiny shiny.
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    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    01/02/09

    @flamingmenudo: Voodoo has built some extra ports and peripheral functions into power supplies before, so it may just be that.
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    Image of mobiuslogic mobiuslogic
    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    Wait, wait, wait. Hold on here. Apply brakes.


    What's the use of a tiny screen underneath your big screen? I don't get this. If it were on the cover of your laptop so that you could browse your contacts, I could understand that. If it was on the touchpad as a fun little "oh look my fingers make ripples like as if I was touching water" add-on, that would be okay. If it was a touchscreen with customizable shortcuts and such, that's cool too. But in it's current state, it just looks like added expense and wasted real-estate and no added functionality for the sake of saying "we have two screens!!!"


    I guess it'll probably end up as a minor screen with system information and a digital clock display. This seems like a step backward in design and function in order to step forward in marketing and sillyness.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/02/09

    In reply to HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt
    More companies need to look to the wisdom of Dr. Ian Malcolm when coming up with some of these cockamamie designs.


    It seems to me that HP was so busy figuring out if they could put a secondary 800x480 screen of only limited use in that they never stop to think if they should.

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    Image of mobiuslogic mobiuslogic
    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: Oh cheers! You totally outdid my comment by using one of my favorite characters!


    Win.

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    Image of sqeakytoy of the apocalypse sqeakytoy of the apocalypse
    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: I dont think you give our scientists the respect they deserve for what they have accomplished here.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/02/09

    @sqeakytoy of the apocalypse:

    The lack of humility before a crowded laptop market that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.


    I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that HP and VooDoo are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.


    They read what other modders like Ben Heck and Art Lebedev had done and you took the next step. HP and VooDoo didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.


    They stood on the shoulders of modders to accomplish something as fast as they could and before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic hulking behemoth of a "laptop", and now -


    They're selling it! They want to sell it!

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    01/02/09

    @OMG! New Year!: Haven't seen the movie in a while, but I think you're missing a lot of "uuhs" and stutters in there.
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