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whoa it's real
this is the slide from slide and joy a
product that actually got backed on kickstarter way back in 2015. they
raised 600 000 and well they haven't shipped anything yet they are clearly
still hard at work on their product and they are clearly getting a lot closer
they're planning to ship in spring of this year
so what is the slide well it's a triple
monitor solution for your laptop but unlike project valerie which we saw last
year at ces from razer this one
actually makes an ounce of sense and is similar to what i had suggested at the
time that razors should probably be to
be practical it's a module that actually
clips onto the back of your laptop screen then plugs in with just one cable
and enables you to have either a triple monitor extended desktop or with their
innovative kickstand a couple of other configurations now they've got two
prototypes here this year a 15-inch and
a 17-inch but they're planning a 13-inch and the weight for these things which is
one of the big questions for something you're expected to carry around with you
is anywhere from about 1.2 kilograms to 1.9 so it actually won't weigh much more
than your laptop on its own so they've got three different options basic is
made out of abs and aluminum with nine color options premium is leather
alcantara wood or anodized aluminum and
then their limited edition will be available with a real carbon fiber
finish or full grain leather now setting
up the slide is actually surprisingly easy you take the four pads and you can
put them either directly on the back of your laptop or if you have a case like
with this macbook demo that we've got here you can just put them on there the
kickstand can then be adjusted to whatever angle you prefer and then
finally you plug in as few as one cable into your laptop so if you're
using usb type c or type a it's just one
but if you're using usb 2 you will probably need two because of the lower
power output from usb2 now the kickstand
was a real engineering challenge because it had to be flexible enough to be
mounted on anything from a very thin to a very thick laptop or even be left
standing by itself when you take your laptop with you
so it can be left flat then if you just want to take out one of your screens and
duplicate your view for the person sitting across from you this is great
for business meetings or consultations or it can be folded down to help support
the additional weight of the extra screens in a multi-monitor single user
configuration or with up to three-way
sharing if you've got a group of people that all need to be looking at the same
thing and the last functionality it enables is because it can stand alone
you can actually get any size of the slide and pair it with any size laptops
you could buy a 15-inch slide with your 13-inch laptop if you want that extra
real estate when you're docked but you just want a smaller device when you're
out and about so the productivity implications are
huge with mobile devices getting more powerful and more functional every year
we're finally getting to the point where the bottleneck really is
screen real estate just like what happened on the desktop 10 15 years ago
so it doesn't take a ton of imagination to think of what you could do extra work
wise entertainment wise with two more
1080p ips displays so the final ones are
going to be made by lg they're going to run at 60 hertz but
before you get too excited about the 60 hertz it should be noted they're using the usb protocol rather than displayport
so i wouldn't expect to be gaming on them with that said if they're
successful who knows what the future will hold so pricing goes from 350 euro
for the basic all the way up to 850 for the limited edition and it's
gonna be a hundred dollars more once they're actually shipping but for my
part i see this as being a lot more practical than a laptop with built-in
multiple displays because it gives me the option to
just take my you know nice light mobile device out with me
or pack an epic mobile workstation
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so thanks for watching guys let us know in the comments what you imagine
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