Just because you can doesn’t mean you should: 4 Screen Laptop

Like most IT professional I read a tremendous amount of news in regards to technology.  This morning while scanning the headlines I saw a blurb on Slashdot about the world’s first four-screen laptop.  Perhaps it was just the morbid curiosity as to what a four screen laptop would look like, but I clicked on the link.  Truly I was expecting some sort of engineering marvel.  Perhaps screens that were made of carbon fiber and paper thin LCDs that folded out?  This would be as equally a bad idea as the one they made, but certainly more impressive.

So I digress, why make a 4 screen laptop?  How is this useful?  The article even highlights that this is never likely to be sold, at least to the masses, so why make it?  Thus kicking off my first edition of “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” segment to the blog.

One has to scratch their head on this one.  I suppose it’s like a “golly gee whiz we did it!” invention, but not very useful.  A much more useful invention to integrate into laptops: High-Res pocket projector – now that is a tool that people could use.  The LCD’s are three smaller screens embedded into the top portion of the keyboard.  The idea is with the touch of your finger you could switch between the content on the screens.  Intel’s theory behind this technology is it could lead to new ways to interact with your computer…jury’s still out on that one…

World’s first four screen laptop