to say that this thing is cutting edge would be a gross understatement this is
care project apparently and it is demo
zero zero one of something that absolutely blew my
freaking mind so inside this box we've got a bunch of accessories and stuff and
this now it doesn't really look like much but what it is is it is a super
thin external monitor pretty thin right oh
wait bam this
is the thinnest external monitor
in the world this is the thinnest in the world right and we are gonna check it out oh and did
i mention that it's like just over 200 bucks
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
do you build a display that is this
freaking thin i mean i guess if you think about it you know
the display that's built into something like you know your smartphone or your even
something like oh yeah here we go even something like a laptop
is honestly probably not a lot thicker or maybe even thinner but for some
reason nobody has ever done something like this
in an external monitor i mean especially the part of the top like that has to be
just the thickness of a panel which
means that um quite a few of the other
components of a display look like they've had to be externalized now if
this was an oled we've actually seen tvs
that have a design kind of like this where they're thicker at the bottom and
then they're basically just the thickness of a piece of glass with an
oled panel on the front of it but it's not it's an lcd so that would
explain well one of the reasons why the bottom has to be a little bit thicker so
what we're clearly looking at is the actual lcd film itself here
and some kind of light diffusing layer on
the back at a minimum there's other components as well then we've got some
kind of light source so it's actually edge lit from the bottom up once we fire
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
one of the other things that's noteworthy about this is many external
monitors include a battery so you can run them just when you're on an airplane
or whatever else but this one clearly doesn't like there's just
no possible room for a battery inside this display and the thing is shockingly
light like i would imagine if it had a battery
in it it would have to be quite a bit heavier i actually brought along a scale
for y'all here so let's go ahead and tear this
throw our panel on there it is just over 200 grams
that is about half a pound for our american friends
i'm freaking real one of their pitches is that you can like prop it up on a
handheld controller in game like that not 100 sure about that we're definitely
going to try that later for now i want to take a closer look at some of the
accessories because some of them under normal circumstances wouldn't even
be considered accessories first
we've got a usb type-c cable so that is
one of the only things that's actually present on this bottom i o module here a
usb type-c port on the other side we've
got this rocker switch button that we
actually aren't sure what it does so then
one of the things that had to be externalized is of course the power
supply and i o normally you'd have a thicker monitor and you'd have room
inside for these components here now c4 says that you can actually run it just
like this but the kit that we've got comes with this external hub that allows
for more i o options anything we'll be connecting it to will be using this hub
so there's our display inputs we've got type c as well as hdmi it apparently has
a built-in usb hub so that's pretty cool headphone jack and all that and there's
your power in as well as your output to the monitor itself it's also available
with a bunch of different mount options that we can check out in a bit more detail later because i want to focus on
the mount that i think most people are most likely to use which is this kind of
um sleeve like tablet sleeve style mount so
let's go ahead and pop this in one thing of note guys is that they've
got kind of this carbon fiber finish on it but and it's light enough that honestly
i think i'd probably believe it but we actually um dinged this corner of it you
can see that there's some exposed kind of like a um a low luster
metal here so it looks like it's either aluminum or magnesium or some alloy of
the two that's giving it its light weight it does not appear to be actual
carbon fiber additionally there are clear machining marks in this piece here
so this also seems to have a metal backing
obviously at this kind of thickness the screen's a little bit on the flimsy side
but to their credit the bottom piece is
shockingly robust so that's pretty neat the way that it
sets up is a little something like that so you're
counting on like kind of your magnet to hold it in place there it seems not the
most amazing mounting mechanism i actually kind of like it better just uh out flat this way
so then you can use the grooves from the folds to sort of yeah
it's not it's not perfect i mean it is a prototype in fairness but i don't know
that they will improve these elements of it so now we're at the point where it's
time to kind of have some fun with this thing so we're going to start by just
trying to go straight usb type c into
usb type c from this predator gaming laptop is this thing working no
there we go helps when you turn the power button on now that's curious it detects a
secondary display but we're not actually
getting any output here okay so phase two we're going to try using the cf-120
central hub so we've got a nice high quality
cable here put that in the input side
not actually expecting this to work wait what
that worked why very interesting so apparently this is
getting enough power over usb type c to run the hub
run the display and also power the apparent cooling fan in here is there a
cooling fan in this thing that is really sharp check this out this thing is 4k
all right so that's not very ergonomic over there obviously you wouldn't do
something like this with it but i'm just gonna i'm gonna put this here for illustrative purposes
that's it 4k display so initial impressions
color really stands out as a strong point i wouldn't describe it as
over saturated or anything like that like this is this is a brightly colored
game now they claim that it's got full
adobe rgb coverage and according to our benchmarks that claim actually checks
out now one area where they don't make any claims and probably rightly so is
when it comes to the pixel response times or or ghosting it is a bit of a
smeary mess to be perfectly honest you can really see now that we're on the
desktop this trailing edge of this white window in the dark background is pretty
darn nasty i mean honestly if you're more into like perfect response times in
gaming you're going to want to check out the review we have of asus's upcoming
monitor that has both elmb so that's motion blur reduction and variable
refresh rate in the same display at the same time that is a first so don't miss
it for now i think it's time to experiment a little bit more with this
guy so this worked but
not necessarily every laptop will
compatibility on this thing has been a bit hit or miss for us so here we're
trying the exact same configuration on an lg grams usb type c port
and nothing so what we found was that this
device needed supplementary power from the wall
so the magic arm down there is going to go ahead and plug that in for me thanks
james and there we go so now with supplementary power into our hub
we are running i'm going to let it boot up before i plug this in though
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there we go all right
so this is more like what i would consider to be a practical application
for this thing now one thing they obviously have to figure out is kind of
the jankiness of this type c connection down here you can see there's a lot of
wiggle wobble there and you guys have seen the display flicker on and off
multiple times as i've been sitting here fiddling with it that's something that
clearly can't make its way into the finished product if we were going to recommend this thing
this is a pretty sick travel setup a gram plus this thing
total freaking weight in your bag basically negligible like it's like half
a gaming laptop of thickness it's crazy well as risky as this might be the next
thing i want to try is with my phone now off camera i tried
going straight from the phone into the monitor that did not work but
hey look at that this is way more promising boom hdmi connected just like
that so with another 200 grams of weight
i can use samsung's crappy browser instead of chrome
on a display this size no i don't want to set it as the default why would i
want to do that oh my god it's got a usb hub in it do we have a keyboard let's
get keyboard it up here this is freaking
awesome now obviously for the ideal experience you wouldn't have like a
freaking full-size 104 key keyboard like that
but with like a super compact or like a foldable keyboard or something you just
tie a big rubber band around that in your external display this is a
shockingly functional like coffee shop setup mind you you need a you need a
power outlet or you could probably run it off a battery bank okay so the ultimate setup
continues here we have taken the power brick out of the wall we've
got our mophie we're gonna plug that into our hub
hey hey there it is now in fairness we've kind of gotten to
the point where you might as well just have a laptop
versus this particular setup but hey i
think we've made our point in terms of the versatility that's afforded by a
super thin super light display and we are just getting started this is
the part of the video where things get really crazy so this is just it seems to
be an off-the-shelf ps4 controller to
phone mount and then this is kind of a similar doodad for the xbox one
now what c-force seems to maybe have created
is a gopro mount that fits in a phone
controller adapter mount
and so weird
uh this bracket doodad
that goes on the back of their monitor and screws in
so it appears the intent is that you put this on here
yeah and you hold it like this and of course
because this is not a game console um it
still needs an external signal so you'll also need this
now one thing i hadn't actually noticed before until i was digging around for adapters is that they are appear to be
aware that this connection's a little janky they went ahead and wrote a little note for us
velcro fixed self-adhesive tie
this is for fixing the connector thank you
no no no that is not a solution you guys got to find a better one when you
actually release this thing so i i guess
i guess it's
you know what why don't we move on to the switch one before we hook up our
nintendo switch we did get some clarification as to why this hub here
requires active cooling most monitors include a scaler this one
has basically nothing on it so the scaler is in here as well so that takes
the signal that's coming out of uh whatever device you're using be it a
laptop or a blu-ray player or a game console or
whatever the case may be and then translates that into something that the
panel that it's connected to can understand so this is basically just a
bare ass panel so if whatever you connect it to
happens to output some kind of signal that's compatible with it then
peachy keen if not you're going to need one of these all
right so we got this working man i suck at this game i don't even
know how to block so this is not a great experience um
for a variety of reasons one this mount is super stupid and gets in
the way of the buttons uh two you have a cord hanging off of it
um so anytime you're gonna be like tethered to something you might as well
probably be running on your tv but you know what
i'm sure some of you out there will see an application for this
and in fairness to the response times on this screen they are not as bad as
windows might make it seem like they should be and again
the colors look really good dang it cloud get up get just stop i
just i want to land my heavy attack just let me land a heavy attack
and we're done here so ultimately then that's really up to
you it's 220 while they're crowdfunding
for just the display and the uh the case slash stand here and
then it's about 270 us dollars if you
also want the hub which i would say is basically a necessity so the drawback is
that the solution is a little bit janky and you might have to diy things a
little but the advantage is this is the only experience like this that i'm aware
of a 12 and a half inch 4k display that's not much thicker than a pair of
credit cards you know what else isn't that thick
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