iBuyPower presents at CES 2017 an LCD side panel monitor, which allows you to see inside the chassis and play video and view utilities.
Computer towers are more and more innovative, but rather tell iBuyPower, which has surprised with a chassis with a side formed by a transparent LCD panel that reproduces figures and colors. This curious panel shows us the Intel logo and the use of the processor, in addition to leaving us very surprised, because it is something really interesting and different, that who knows if it ends up becoming popular.
Project Snowblind, which is what it is called, consists of a conventional chassis, the only thing that changes is the left panel, which far from being made of methacrylate or tempered glass, they have opted to put it in an LCD and color type, not like the original version that presented at Computex that it could only reproduce in black.
Being able to see the time or the use of the processor is fine, but Project Snowblind is much more than that simple thing. The idea is that it be used as a secondary monitor, which is achieved through the HDMI connector, which we must logically connect to the graphics card and which allows us to reproduce what we want in real time. The truth is that if we compare it with the quality of a monitor, it is not the same, but it is very striking, we could even use it as a primary monitor, so we have all the components and the screen in the chassis. A different solution.
According to iBuyPower, this monitor is configured through the Rainmeter plug-in, which shows us the processor usage and the time. This is still a prototype that they are working on, but the panel at the end could have a lot of information, such as temperatures, the amount of free storage space, calendar notifications and a lot of other things and who knows if you can put a video on Playback to make it cooler.
iBuyPower specifies that this transparent panel needs internal lighting in the chassis so that the contrast can be seen, something certainly logical, since it would be the panel of a monitor and the back light, by means of LEDs, would be necessary for the images to be seen. It could not be used without installing LEDs inside the chassis. According to the Snowblind company, it will be available in February for about $ 250. Is this 'bullshit' really worth spending so much for?
Source: pcgamer
