PC case with extra screen to help reduce clutter

SAN FRANCISCO

COMPUTER users who lament the lack of screen space for the display of widgets, toolbars and other applications now have a smart-looking option.

Moneual Labs has developed a new dual-screen PC (DSPC) case, a tower-type slim PC chassis with a built-in secondary LCD display that can be used as a dual screen set-up within Windows 7.

The extra screen will allow users to display Windows widgets and other tools and apps such as chat windows and calendars, and help free up their main working area, Engadget reported.

There is also enough space next to the input/output panel for several USB ports and audio jacks, plus an optical-drive slot.

The DSPC, with an estimated retail price of US$1,500 (S$1,930), is slated for release in the third quarter of the year.

The PC case was unveiled in Las Vegas during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month.

Technical specifications – including resolution and size – were not provided at the show.

However, the company said the device is the “world’s first energy-saving PC case with a patented power-management system built right in”, Engadget said, quoting Moneual Labs.

The design was impressive enough to land it a 2011 Innovations Honoree award at the trade show.

Moneual Labs is no stranger to unusual PC cases: Its I*magine home-theatre PC grabbed a CES Innovation endowment back in 2008, according to LovingGadgets.com.

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