If you wish you had two monitors on your desk at the same time to handle different functions on each, you’ll want to know about a new kind of technology that will soon be making its appearance — thanks to a little known Korean company called E-Detail. No doubt, the idea will crop up in other products soon. What they appear to specialize in dual displays.

The Multi Web Pad is a tablet PC that offers two displays, one standard sized and the other, well, dinky. The specs are pretty standard for a non-professional PC: an AMD CPU, Windows XP Home Edition (an odd choice for a machine that could easily be used for work), 512K RAM and a built-in webcam.

But having those two monitors built in is a boon. Imagine those situations where you have to crane your neck to see somebody’s display while they talk you through a demo of something at work. This way, they can flip a monitor around for you to watch. Or, if you participate in a project where the team is remote, you can view the webcam showing teammates on the mini-monitor while doing your note-keeping or wiki updating on the other.

Posted on December 16th, 2007 by dian