second screen for laptop. where is it or would you buy it?

[markisb]

I have a problem. well its not really a problem its more of a want then a need. Here is the situation:
Imagine this your working out or the office or in school and your doing something that requires alot of screen real-estate. Say for example writing an assignment or writing that report for your boss and you are used to, need or would like two screen to work on. Is there a screen that you can clip on to your computer and use as a second display that is powered through one or two usb ports and uses the normal hdmi or vga connection for the picture?

If so can you direct me to a site that sells it. If not what do you think of the idea and would you buy one?

 

[markisb]

no i dont mean a docking station. I mean like a 15 inch screen that you can take around with you where ever you go that is powered off your laptop.

 

[markisb]

There's this mobile monitor that's made by Toshiba. However it's a 14 inch display. I'm unsure if there are additional sizes. I found it when I googled "Mobile LCD Monitor"

[link]http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=2000004668[/link]

wow pritty much what i was looking for. never occurred to me to google it. thank you very much

 

[DoPo]

It wouldn't be possible to electrocute yourself because electricity makes things into magnets and shit, the laptop has a lot of electricity, so it is a magnet, the magnetic laptop attracts more electricity, so the electricity would not escape the laptop into your body. That is exactly how batteries work.

It's a safety feature invented by Bill Gates.

You've just given students everywhere an excuse to not turn in their homework. I was adding a second monitor to my laptop. When I added more electricity it turned the laptop into an electromagnet. Which erased my hard drive. Which erased my homework. And so I can not turn my homework in today. Also, I will not be able to turn my homework in in the future. My laptop becomes and electromagnet every time I plug it in.

Nah, that's no excuse. If you have a good firewall, that should protect your hard drive. Besides, since the hard drive is a magnetic storage, it's only a small adjustment (just let me do the Maths) to use that to your advantage - you can turn your entire laptop into a hard drive.

 

[DoPo]

But what will happen when the computer's flux capacitor reaches 1.21 Gigawatts. We'll lose all data cohesion. Even time will start bending in the face of that many RPMs.

I'm still doing the calculations. I have a theory - maybe if we align the laptop so the left bit of the space key points directly to the magnetic north, we could reduce that by at least 0.15, perhaps even as much as 0.17. I'm still not sure, though. We always have the option of offering prayers and sacrifices to the computer daemons. It's a little backwards I know, but it should work for the beginning, until we settle on a better method.

Also, firewall utilization? How do you propose to deal with thermal failure inherent when you reach the melting threshold of the laptop's casing?

Good thinking. I hadn't thought of that. Damn the laptop manufacturers and them skimping on money for the materials... Maybe if we closed port 80, that could help with the cooling. I dunno. Perhaps, we should also submerge the laptop in some dry ice (we don't want to risk water damage, after all). Any other ideas?

 

[DoPo]

I suppose that if we found a way the make the serial port accept cereal, that may satisfy the daemons until we can sufficiently insulate the floating decimal variable in enough duct tape. However, without knowing what kind of cereals are serial compatible, it's all trial and error.

Brilliant! That should do for now.

The answer is liquid metallic hydrogen. If we can generate enough pressure (about 500x greater than that at the Earth's core), we might be able to create a bathe of liquid metallic hydrogen. Submerging the laptop will not only allow for cooling but provides additional electroconductive qualities we won't find anywhere else. The downside, the electricity bill will be astronomical as we have to keep it near absolute zero.

Don't mind the electricity bill. We can bypass that capitalistic money grab

Spoiler: with ENGINEERING