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The Mother Of All Computer Monitors

ic.siemens.com — I need to get myself one of these...

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  • Civil44, on 10/12/2007, -9/+175Counterstrike on that would just be too much for my poor little brain
    • bndocksnt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+152There are some experiences in life that are worth sacrificing a little brain for. I'm thinking this is one of them.
    • pastasauce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+80It'll be good for flight sims.
      ...And unit overviews.
    • micropizzle, on 10/12/2007, -27/+15It wouldn't be bad to have tons of apps up either.
    • trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+82Resolution?
    • omghi2u2, on 10/12/2007, -22/+13"It wouldn't be bad to have tons of apps up either."

      There is such a thing as too big for monitors as far as apps.

      I personally use a 42" 1920x1080 monitor sitting back approx 3 1/2 feet, and have MUCH less head movement than someone using that Siemens would, and I still find not using the whole monitor. Any task done for any period of time moves to the center of the screen, as having 2 apps side by side is just uncomfortable.

      It's just one of those things that you don't know how actually useful they are until you try them.
    • socoolisme, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4Or a newer game like Battlefield 2142.
    • insinuate, on 10/12/2007, -38/+19You don't have much of a mind if you play something like counter strike.
    • Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46Asides from the size, it doesn't look very good to me.
    • thecheatah, on 10/12/2007, -16/+7@omghi2u2

      I have that monitor, its called the westinghouse 42' monitor. I use it for tv, but ubuntu+beryl looks very nice on it!

    • Lyanto, on 10/12/2007, -9/+89Hehe. Siemens.
    • acetv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19My first thought when I saw the diagram on the left of the screen: "They're playing Rainbow Six on that thing?!"
    • edillcyde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+76screw counter-strike, im watching porn on this one
    • streak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll take the display and the nuclear reactor please.
    • RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That's ALL that guy is doing with it?! I call inaccurate....
    • d8cam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Is Counter-strike seriously the best game you guys can come up with to play on this?
    • mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4MAKE IT SO!
  • hfolkense, on 10/12/2007, -169/+6We have one of those at my job (not)
  • OpCzar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+100You won't notice a dead pixel in this baby!
  • yuriw, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28This would be kickass for a giant system link game of COD3.
  • rcran, on 10/12/2007, -6/+81Is that one screen or many tiled together? I see seams, but it's hard to see...

    ( And don't digg me down for asking a question )
    • SpikeX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+538 screens (4x2) arranged and tied together. You questioned whether or not you could see the seams... that's a good thing, that means they designed their screen well. =)
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -8/+46um, those seams are very easy to see.

      All this looks like to me is a bunch of small rear projection screens tied placed together to work as one. Not that special.
    • PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1In fact, the only prominent seam is above the right guy's head, and he's pointing away from it. The others are covering dark areas or the covering the left-hand diagram which has lots of lines anyway.

      A cleverly posed marketing trick. However they forgot one small detail - the guy on the right doesn't work for this fictional power plant, as his name badge says he works for well ... guess who?

      Doh!
    • frostw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Siemens build power plants dude
    • dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@paulowen & rcran

      You guys must have ***** monitors. I can see all of the seams very clearly.

      I've seen this monitor before. Oh yea, it was 10 years ago at my local Best Buy
    • PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1frostw & dustyshadow

      Subtle didn't do it, so I'll explain in easy terms nice and slowly.

      The scene is meant to depict the monitor system in use "in the field". However the namebadge suggests that the guy on the right is not working for the powerplant at all, and is not a real customer posing for the camera. This indicates that the scene is a mockup, a farce put together for marketing purposes (albeit not very well).

      It therefore appears very likely that they do not have a reference customer for this prototype, and that its not a "real" product. That probably wasn't their intention, but that's how intelligent customers would interpret this scene.

      Still don't understand? Well then nevermind.
  • Jonny5alive, on 10/12/2007, -52/+4Why the smeg would you ever need a screen that big.
  • NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71X'D
    Imagine trying to make or find wallpaper for that
  • mousy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+85Why does he need that little moniter on his desk ?
    • Pyroteq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Because he values his eye sight.
    • synarchy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It is there to enhance the scale of the large monitor. "See how much bigger the Siemens GIGANTOR is than a desk monitor!"
    • mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@synarchy

      I dugg you up, but defnitely not for the word GIGANTOR.
  • Skurt, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1Looks like 4 42" plasma/LCD monitors on their sides and glued together.
  • bonkers1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71pr0n.
  • jsreid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44you could watch a lot of porn on that thing simultaneously.
  • Reliant, on 10/12/2007, -26/+4Hey! It's still not big enough!!!
    • dekleining, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24i've seen bigger.
    • SteveMax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37It's not the size, it's how you use it.
    • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2It's not about the length, it's all about the thickness.
    • moyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not the size of the monitor, it's the motion of the pr0n
  • Grambodino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19If I had one that big, I would not be sitting that close to it. My neck would get worn out from tilting my head every which way to see everything.
    • wallakoala, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3it appears to be mounted into the wall, so he is actually looking straight forward.
  • arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Even a screen just 1/8th of that would be enough to make my head explode with joy...
  • JDMSpecSTi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow.. Impressive.. You'd never want to look at anything else after that!
    • arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Anything else might send you into a raging fit of claustrophobia.
  • hernam19, on 10/12/2007, -1/+89wow, dragging the mouse from one end to the other would be some adventure...

    through the land of desktop apps, across the plains of internet browsers and through the woods of the taskbar...

    one journey...
    • GaiaUnlimited, on 10/12/2007, -58/+1A journey that has just been dugg down.
    • YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11That's what multiple-sensitivity mice with click-toggle buttons are for.
  • nubnub, on 10/12/2007, -15/+10pr0n!
  • thefutureisours, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2831337!! Why is this in a control room of a nuclear plant instead of the basement of an avid 12-year-old Counterstrike player? Makes no sense. NO DIGG.

    • maram500, on 10/12/2007, -39/+4Just because it doesn't meet your, ahem, "refined" tastes doesn't mean it isn't worthy of priase, genius. Don't you see how this could be helpful to certain industries requiring large screens to display multiple series of data to several hundred people who can't easily see what's displayed on a projector or written on a blackboard? Are you THAT insane and childish?
    • dippyskoodlez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25w00t for not comprehending sarcasm?
    • b3mus3d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I love it when people are too stupid to comprehend a piece of sarcasm and then call the person who said it "insane and childish"
    • moyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@maram500 Your comment doesn't deserve Priase.
    • detonate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not to be a grammar nazi, but that's not sarcasm, it's facetiousness.
      http://www.answers.com/sarcasm&r=67
      http://www.answers.com/topic/facetious
  • maram500, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6I think it IS several monitors tiled together...overall, though, it looks great. I may be legally blind, but I'm certain I could see anything on that screen...

    Is it just me, or is it maybe TOO big for just one person? I could understand it maybe in a conference room, sure, but in one person's office? Come on; who needs something that freakishly huge?

    I'd probably end up playing old-school games on it, games where a pixel on that screen would be as big as the average human head. Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein--all great games...but where'd they all go? (Yes, I know, it's completely irrelevant, but...) If that IS a monitor, and I'm not saying it is or isn't, doesn't it seem weird that there is no semblance of an operating system anywhere on the screen? I'm just posing a question here.
    • rabidg00se, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It looks like he's running a dual screen setup, with the smaller monitor as the primary. If you look on that one you can see what looks like a Win2k task bar.
  • leo2791, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4DESEO!
  • fmayson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Definitely Wii worthy.
    • NiGHTSChao, on 10/12/2007, -17/+8Silly fmayson, Wii is for 10 inch TV's
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Not until they come out with the HD-capable Wii. :)
    • punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You'd need one hell of a sensor bar for that beast.
  • ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5it's a back PROJECTION SCREEN, from Siemens. good grief. heck, i've got this *great* computer monitor for you--it's this big screen at my local movie theater...
  • OpenFuture, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Why does it have ambilight?
  • weoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20But where do the baby monitors come out of?
  • Goop, on 10/12/2007, -12/+0Yeah, and you NEED it just to see that JPEG. I had to scroll all over the place on my lil' iBook to get a sense of the image.
    • gotacid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5use a browser that scales the image (camino/firefox)
  • sbbath, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2if a video card can support that resolution
  • rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Im thinking this is a concept image

    /edit

    Though when some dudes are making sure a nuke plant doesnt melt down, they deserve a huge ass monitor like that :)
    • nroose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Seem to me that depends on the people. Some people would get so high on the screen and what they could do with it (see above), that the plant would definitely melt down the first week they had this thing. Others would use it to it's full potential and it would be the best run plant on the planet.
  • GIScope, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It's 8 monitors stuck together. The only purpose for the Siemens logo on the top is that it's probably a Siemens engineer who stuck them together
  • insinuate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Thats pretty wicked.
  • KIERANMULLEN, on 10/12/2007, -23/+5Not accurate. Is not one big computer screen. This isnt news. Comon people

    I will get dug down for this for sure... oh well..

    Lemmings click away...
    • jctambay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3not dugg down for your comment, dugg down for your arrogance
    • detonate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who said anything about news?
  • kritik, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Believe half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
    It looks fake to me.
  • Fluidity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Got to question quite how much those engineers need the screens to be that big but at least they'd make you feel like you were doing something really important!
  • Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This would be cool for some kind of shared work environment. People could have their own monitors and workspaces, but share a giant communal workspace. Something like a star trek bridge type of experience, good for team RTS games or design team brainstorming sessions.
    • Heywoodj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well done @ ans ya beat me to it.
      This thing is very use full that's why Star Fleet requires one on all it's vessel's
  • LordStryker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, 30 years later the guy sitting at the desk is diagnosed with cancer of the eye. Look how close he's sitting! O.o
  • crapple, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5can't.resist.joke.....
    Someone must have been looking at porn just before this photo...Seimen is all over that thing!
  • DSoM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i'm sure would be great play "pong" on this :D
  • allyant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Theres just one thing...... how much is this going to set me back?
  • zcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Lame.

    For a larger screen, try an LED videowall

    For high res immersive VR using overlapping, seamless projection try a CAVE. http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/

  • jdh24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Only $999,999.99 !

    lol
  • vicaya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's really nothing special in 2006. I've seen a much bigger monitor setup in 1999 at a demo. Yes the reality center was available then:

    http://www.sgi.com/products/visualization/realitycenter/
  • thestorey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7http://thestorey.googlepages.com/sc_upload_file_soct200507_01_300dpi_1271355.jpg

    Hells ya!
  • numlok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seams are a bit thicker on these, but the number and resolution are pretty phenom...
    http://9xmedia.com/pages-Build_a_system/X-Top_Design_a_system-Configurations.html
  • russianmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This is either a well executed hoax, or its Siemens sticking 8 monitors together and housing it in a big frame.

    I'm gonna take a bet on the second one.

    Siemens do exactly the same thing in their Medical division, whereas this is more for looking after a Coal/Nuclear power plant.

    I think you'd need to be about 6 feet away from the screen to make sure you don't hurt yourself!
  • dcpar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if you don't mind the borders between windows this one's more "afforable", 7360x1600 res, $5499.

    http://digitaltigers.com/displays-powerscape.shtml

    (they make some pretty decent normal-sized ones as well)

    I'm hoping one day Lieberman will be resurrected, and they'll continue making their insane montiors and laptops:

    http://www.l-computer.com/monitors/athens/features/index.htm

    • Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More affordable, but nowhere near as cool.
    • PerryG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for the pointer to Lieberman, hadn't seen that one before. The "Hollywood" laptop seems to spec as a serious piece of equipment. Did you check the PCMCIA interface into the passive backplane for PCI cards? I'm still trying to wrap my brain around that one...
  • PoVRAZOR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A shame, I was hoping for a monitor that could give birth.
  • Wildog27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Would make it difficult to hide my surfing at work.
  • JoeB4ever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Who's up for a game of pong?
  • ASSASSYN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1My 360 is getting horny.
  • clemsontiger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1why does he have a old keyboard?
  • samste, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1http://duggmirror.com
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