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Wednesday 26 September 2007

Samsung CX940UX USB monitoravailable October

I’ve received the following message from Samsung’s PR people:

The specs are available here - http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/monitors/businessdisplaysolutions/digitalsignage/ls19ubpesqedc.asp

We are awaiting for official pricing, but believe it will be in the UK from October.

Monday 24 September 2007

Samsung's CX940UX USB monitor

There's no official information as yet on Samsung's CX940UX USB monitor (apart from a rather cheesy picture), but it seems rather interesting, especially to application users (gamers will probably find it's too slow).
USB2 is 480MBits so even one monitor per port would be limited to AGPx2 (533Mbits) speeds.USB3 (due next year) could up this to 4.8 Gbits per second. PCI-Express 16x is the current graphics standard and is capable of 2500Mbits.
It is a 19 inch PC monitor, from the Syncmaster family, that you can plug directly into your computer through the USB port. This monitor can control 6 others, all linked via the PC, and apparently you won't need any additional graphics card or new drivers to manage the multiple screens operations, their baby will do it all.If that wasn't enough, the "CX" sports a couple USB ports so it can also be used as a mini-hub.

Look - no steering wheel!

This is the new Mercedes Benz SCL600. (Yes, I know I don't usually cover cars, but this one is really different. It has neither steering wheel nor pedals. Everything is controlled from a joystick, which may be fine for people brought up as joystick-literate gamers, but may be hard for some adults to come to terms with. I anticipate some autobahn pile-ups!
Probably, it's just a concept (Merc showed a concept car with TWO joysticks at the Paris motorshow a couple of years back).

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