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The company Expanscape shows a prototype of a laptop with seven screens at CES. The laptop has six folding screens, supplemented with a small screen that is integrated in the housing.
The Aurora 7 prototype from Expanscape contains four 17.2 “screens with uhd resolution and three 7” screens with resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. One of the latter is an integrated touchscreen. The company has developed an ingenious system with folding and extending the screens to accommodate all panels on a single device.
Expanscape uses a, according to itself, substantially modified ODMlaptop and the prototype incorporates a Core i9-9900K and GeForce GTX card. The entire system can work on a single battery although it is not known what the battery capacity is and how long the device can keep up on a single charge. The manufacturer has made the prototype with security managers, data scientists and graphic designers in mind as users. Aurora 7 could thus serve as a mobile device security operations center.
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The idea of equipping laptops with multiple screens is not new. One of the first effects was the ThinkPad W700ds from 2009, with a 17 “screen and additional extendable 10.6” panel. In 2017 Razer showed a prototype of a laptop with three 4k screens.
Another prototype is the TeenySERV, a portable pocket server with two 7 “screens with a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels and a small keyboard with background lighting. The server runs on a Core i7 and has 64 GB of ram. A programmable Arduino microcontroller is also integrated in it.
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