Would you pay $230 for a nine-inch auxiliary touch-screen monitor? Nope, me either, but that doesn’t stop the iMo eye9 from being pretty damned neat. It hooks up via a single USB-cable and gives you a 1024 x 600 screen off to one side on which you can place all the essential little windows that usually get lost behind less important stuff, like work.
The selling point is the touch capability, which should let you just reach across and quickly update your Twitter, say. It also comes with a 1.3MP webcam, which slots into a standard jack-socket on the monitor’s edge. That means you can push Skype calls off to the side while you get in some serious solitaire time.
The iMo eye9 comes with a stand to hold it horizontal or vertical, and you can also spring for an ugly-but-useful flexible mounting-arm with a suction cup on its base ($40).
Apart from the price, there’s a lot to like (although remember the touch-screen is resistive, not capacitive). If you already have a 10-inch tablet computer though, there are apps available to do this for you. And one last tip: Trying to use a touch-screen alongside a mouse-driven screen will confuse you, fast. I sometimes use my iPad like this, but it drives me crazy.
iMo eye9 monitor product page [Mimo Monitors. Thanks, Kevin! http://www.mimomonitors.com/products/imo-eye9]
The selling point is the touch capability, which should let you just reach across and quickly update your Twitter, say. It also comes with a 1.3MP webcam, which slots into a standard jack-socket on the monitor’s edge. That means you can push Skype calls off to the side while you get in some serious solitaire time.
The iMo eye9 comes with a stand to hold it horizontal or vertical, and you can also spring for an ugly-but-useful flexible mounting-arm with a suction cup on its base ($40).
Apart from the price, there’s a lot to like (although remember the touch-screen is resistive, not capacitive). If you already have a 10-inch tablet computer though, there are apps available to do this for you. And one last tip: Trying to use a touch-screen alongside a mouse-driven screen will confuse you, fast. I sometimes use my iPad like this, but it drives me crazy.
iMo eye9 monitor product page [Mimo Monitors. Thanks, Kevin! http://www.mimomonitors.com/products/imo-eye9]
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