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to say that this thing is cutting edge would be a gross understatement this is

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care project apparently and it is demo

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zero zero one of something that absolutely blew my

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freaking mind so inside this box we've got a bunch of accessories and stuff and

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this now it doesn't really look like much but what it is is it is a super

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thin external monitor pretty thin right oh

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wait bam this

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is the thinnest external monitor

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in the world this is the thinnest in the world right and we are gonna check it out oh and did

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i mention that it's like just over 200 bucks

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weighs like nothing you know what else weighs nothing

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okay so come on in here let's have a look at this thing like how on earth

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do you build a display that is this

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freaking thin i mean i guess if you think about it you know

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the display that's built into something like you know your smartphone or your even

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something like oh yeah here we go even something like a laptop

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is honestly probably not a lot thicker or maybe even thinner but for some

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reason nobody has ever done something like this

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in an external monitor i mean especially the part of the top like that has to be

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just the thickness of a panel which

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means that um quite a few of the other

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components of a display look like they've had to be externalized now if

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this was an oled we've actually seen tvs

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that have a design kind of like this where they're thicker at the bottom and

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then they're basically just the thickness of a piece of glass with an

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oled panel on the front of it but it's not it's an lcd so that would

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explain well one of the reasons why the bottom has to be a little bit thicker so

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what we're clearly looking at is the actual lcd film itself here

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and some kind of light diffusing layer on

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the back at a minimum there's other components as well then we've got some

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kind of light source so it's actually edge lit from the bottom up once we fire

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it up we're going to want to take a look at what the uniformity looks like to see if we've got hot spots along the bottom

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one of the other things that's noteworthy about this is many external

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monitors include a battery so you can run them just when you're on an airplane

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or whatever else but this one clearly doesn't like there's just

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no possible room for a battery inside this display and the thing is shockingly

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light like i would imagine if it had a battery

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in it it would have to be quite a bit heavier i actually brought along a scale

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for y'all here so let's go ahead and tear this

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throw our panel on there it is just over 200 grams

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that is about half a pound for our american friends

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i'm freaking real one of their pitches is that you can like prop it up on a

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handheld controller in game like that not 100 sure about that we're definitely

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going to try that later for now i want to take a closer look at some of the

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accessories because some of them under normal circumstances wouldn't even

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be considered accessories first

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we've got a usb type-c cable so that is

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one of the only things that's actually present on this bottom i o module here a

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usb type-c port on the other side we've

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got this rocker switch button that we

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actually aren't sure what it does so then

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one of the things that had to be externalized is of course the power

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supply and i o normally you'd have a thicker monitor and you'd have room

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inside for these components here now c4 says that you can actually run it just

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like this but the kit that we've got comes with this external hub that allows

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for more i o options anything we'll be connecting it to will be using this hub

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so there's our display inputs we've got type c as well as hdmi it apparently has

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a built-in usb hub so that's pretty cool headphone jack and all that and there's

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your power in as well as your output to the monitor itself it's also available

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with a bunch of different mount options that we can check out in a bit more detail later because i want to focus on

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the mount that i think most people are most likely to use which is this kind of

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um sleeve like tablet sleeve style mount so

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let's go ahead and pop this in one thing of note guys is that they've

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got kind of this carbon fiber finish on it but and it's light enough that honestly

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i think i'd probably believe it but we actually um dinged this corner of it you

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can see that there's some exposed kind of like a um a low luster

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metal here so it looks like it's either aluminum or magnesium or some alloy of

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the two that's giving it its light weight it does not appear to be actual

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carbon fiber additionally there are clear machining marks in this piece here

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so this also seems to have a metal backing

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obviously at this kind of thickness the screen's a little bit on the flimsy side

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but to their credit the bottom piece is

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shockingly robust so that's pretty neat the way that it

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sets up is a little something like that so you're

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counting on like kind of your magnet to hold it in place there it seems not the

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most amazing mounting mechanism i actually kind of like it better just uh out flat this way

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so then you can use the grooves from the folds to sort of yeah

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it's not it's not perfect i mean it is a prototype in fairness but i don't know

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that they will improve these elements of it so now we're at the point where it's

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time to kind of have some fun with this thing so we're going to start by just

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trying to go straight usb type c into

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usb type c from this predator gaming laptop is this thing working no

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there we go helps when you turn the power button on now that's curious it detects a

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secondary display but we're not actually

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getting any output here okay so phase two we're going to try using the cf-120

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central hub so we've got a nice high quality

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cable here put that in the input side

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not actually expecting this to work wait what

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that worked why very interesting so apparently this is

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getting enough power over usb type c to run the hub

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run the display and also power the apparent cooling fan in here is there a

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cooling fan in this thing that is really sharp check this out this thing is 4k

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all right so that's not very ergonomic over there obviously you wouldn't do

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something like this with it but i'm just gonna i'm gonna put this here for illustrative purposes

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that's it 4k display so initial impressions

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color really stands out as a strong point i wouldn't describe it as

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over saturated or anything like that like this is this is a brightly colored

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game now they claim that it's got full

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adobe rgb coverage and according to our benchmarks that claim actually checks

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out now one area where they don't make any claims and probably rightly so is

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when it comes to the pixel response times or or ghosting it is a bit of a

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smeary mess to be perfectly honest you can really see now that we're on the

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desktop this trailing edge of this white window in the dark background is pretty

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darn nasty i mean honestly if you're more into like perfect response times in

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gaming you're going to want to check out the review we have of asus's upcoming

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monitor that has both elmb so that's motion blur reduction and variable

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refresh rate in the same display at the same time that is a first so don't miss

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it for now i think it's time to experiment a little bit more with this

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guy so this worked but

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not necessarily every laptop will

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compatibility on this thing has been a bit hit or miss for us so here we're

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trying the exact same configuration on an lg grams usb type c port

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and nothing so what we found was that this

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device needed supplementary power from the wall

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so the magic arm down there is going to go ahead and plug that in for me thanks

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james and there we go so now with supplementary power into our hub

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we are running i'm going to let it boot up before i plug this in though

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like this one hey

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there we go all right

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so this is more like what i would consider to be a practical application

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for this thing now one thing they obviously have to figure out is kind of

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the jankiness of this type c connection down here you can see there's a lot of

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wiggle wobble there and you guys have seen the display flicker on and off

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multiple times as i've been sitting here fiddling with it that's something that

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clearly can't make its way into the finished product if we were going to recommend this thing

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this is a pretty sick travel setup a gram plus this thing

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total freaking weight in your bag basically negligible like it's like half

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a gaming laptop of thickness it's crazy well as risky as this might be the next

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thing i want to try is with my phone now off camera i tried

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going straight from the phone into the monitor that did not work but

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hey look at that this is way more promising boom hdmi connected just like

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that so with another 200 grams of weight

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i can use samsung's crappy browser instead of chrome

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on a display this size no i don't want to set it as the default why would i

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want to do that oh my god it's got a usb hub in it do we have a keyboard let's

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get keyboard it up here this is freaking

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awesome now obviously for the ideal experience you wouldn't have like a

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freaking full-size 104 key keyboard like that

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but with like a super compact or like a foldable keyboard or something you just

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tie a big rubber band around that in your external display this is a

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shockingly functional like coffee shop setup mind you you need a you need a

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power outlet or you could probably run it off a battery bank okay so the ultimate setup

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continues here we have taken the power brick out of the wall we've

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got our mophie we're gonna plug that into our hub

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hey hey there it is now in fairness we've kind of gotten to

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the point where you might as well just have a laptop

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versus this particular setup but hey i

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think we've made our point in terms of the versatility that's afforded by a

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super thin super light display and we are just getting started this is

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the part of the video where things get really crazy so this is just it seems to

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be an off-the-shelf ps4 controller to

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phone mount and then this is kind of a similar doodad for the xbox one

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now what c-force seems to maybe have created

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is a gopro mount that fits in a phone

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controller adapter mount

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and so weird

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uh this bracket doodad

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that goes on the back of their monitor and screws in

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so it appears the intent is that you put this on here

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yeah and you hold it like this and of course

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because this is not a game console um it

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still needs an external signal so you'll also need this

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now one thing i hadn't actually noticed before until i was digging around for adapters is that they are appear to be

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aware that this connection's a little janky they went ahead and wrote a little note for us

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velcro fixed self-adhesive tie

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this is for fixing the connector thank you

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no no no that is not a solution you guys got to find a better one when you

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actually release this thing so i i guess

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i guess it's

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you know what why don't we move on to the switch one before we hook up our

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nintendo switch we did get some clarification as to why this hub here

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requires active cooling most monitors include a scaler this one

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has basically nothing on it so the scaler is in here as well so that takes

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the signal that's coming out of uh whatever device you're using be it a

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laptop or a blu-ray player or a game console or

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whatever the case may be and then translates that into something that the

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panel that it's connected to can understand so this is basically just a

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bare ass panel so if whatever you connect it to

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happens to output some kind of signal that's compatible with it then

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peachy keen if not you're going to need one of these all

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right so we got this working man i suck at this game i don't even

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know how to block so this is not a great experience um

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for a variety of reasons one this mount is super stupid and gets in

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the way of the buttons uh two you have a cord hanging off of it

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um so anytime you're gonna be like tethered to something you might as well

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probably be running on your tv but you know what

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i'm sure some of you out there will see an application for this

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and in fairness to the response times on this screen they are not as bad as

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windows might make it seem like they should be and again

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the colors look really good dang it cloud get up get just stop i

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just i want to land my heavy attack just let me land a heavy attack

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and we're done here so ultimately then that's really up to

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you it's 220 while they're crowdfunding

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for just the display and the uh the case slash stand here and

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then it's about 270 us dollars if you

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also want the hub which i would say is basically a necessity so the drawback is

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that the solution is a little bit janky and you might have to diy things a

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little but the advantage is this is the only experience like this that i'm aware

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of a 12 and a half inch 4k display that's not much thicker than a pair of

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