MSI has ideas about what future desktop PCs might look like.
Hey hey, MSI drag masks!
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Las Vegas/Tek.no: One of the most interesting things about physically traveling to trade fairs is the opportunity to come across early prototypes – that is, gadgets that do not necessarily end up as a product you can buy in the store.
Because even though the idea may be good and the result may be cool, we have this with the total price tag. If the final sum is too high, it is unlikely that the product will be mass-produced, and instead it may at worst end up as a small footnote in the history of technology.
We could see one example of such a prototype at MSI. This simply went by the name “LED Crystal Film Screen” and was nothing more complicated than a coarse mesh LED screen integrated into the otherwise completely transparent glass doors of a couple of the company’s cabinets.
These screens were supplied with power from the main board, and in theory they could have been set to display all possible information as long as they could be supplied with new data. But at MSI, they were only set to show simple animations – which of course included the red MSI mascot.
For show only
As you can see for yourself from the video clip above, this gives a rather cool effect, while at the same time it is still possible to – at least roughly – take a look at the computer’s internal components.
Unfortunately, this is not a solution we can buy in the store right away.
KameraVegar Jansen / Tek.no
But even if a simple LED film on glass does not sound so technically complicated, we soon learned that this film was actually fixed between two glass plates – a process which, according to one of the MSIS representatives, was apparently neither particularly simple nor inexpensive.
At this stage, there is therefore no possibility that such “LED glass doors” will be available as an option for the cabinets. But with quite a lot of focus around transparent TV technology at this year’s CES, there’s no telling what might become commonplace in a few years.
Project zero nonsense
When we’re first on the subject, we almost also have to mention that this LED film helped showcase the company’s “Project Zero” – where the motherboard and cabinet are designed to move the lion’s share of connectors and wires to the back.
This provides opportunities for an exceptionally neat and attractive PC build for people who care about such things. We’ll let the video clip and a few pictures speak for themselves.
Would you like to have such an LED film in the glass of your desktop PC?
2024-01-18 18:00:00
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