[Novalug] Two monitor questions (slightly OT)

[Nino Pereira]

Charlie,

your question was, I think, in part about how you might best work
on the computer, sitting on your couch in your living room.

A really large-screen television works really well for this purpose.
When we got ours I insisted that there be a way to connect the
screen to the computer, so that I now have access to a 42 inch screen.
I've yet to use it as such because my spouse objects against the
metastasizing computer hardware, and because my best keyboard is e

Charles M Howe wrote:
> (1) I need to get a new monitor. The thought occurs to me that the ideal
> place to use the computer that this is to be the monitor for (browsing
> only; no mail) is seated on the couch in my living room. Instead of a
> monitor, would it be possible to use a projector? Would a projector have
> a suitable amount of resolution?
> 
> (2) Last Saturday, when Roger Broseus was making his presentation, he
> spoke about monitors that were so faint as to be almost unusable. I've
> had those. In fact, question #1 is prompted by the fact that the monitor
> now being used requires me to zoom in every time I go to a new web site.
> 
> Then I think back to a development I read about years ago -- years and
> years and years. It seems to have disappeared, and my question to this
> lost is:
> 
> A company, it might have been TI, was developing a monitor that would
> control each pixel by some kind of tiny swinging mirror. How color would
> be controlled was a total mystery. I can see tiny mirrors swinging
> opening and shutting. They were metal, which ought to mean that if one
> of these babies were discarded you wouldn't be discarding something
> toxic. And they ought to be cheap to manufacture, once you had figured
> out the manufacturing process.
> 
> Does anyone remember anything about this?
> 
> Charlie
> 
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