Gadgetory

come take a look at this view is pretty sweet I try to stay as productive as possible when I'm traveling the one thing I've done to help me stay productive is I built a triple screen laptop you might have heard a project Valerie made by Razer there triple screen laptop the side screens don't actually fold in the laptop I've built is glassful let me show you so this here is my mobile battle station it's got two extending monitors on either side and I'll show you how to build these in just a second I just want to show you that this screen is fully functional I can take Windows and drag it across and drop it on either side and the laptop is 100% portable it's got some interesting construction practices but these hinges right here allow each of the monitors to fold completely flat each of these hinges was about 2 bucks and the side monitors were around 100 so it's a pretty inexpensive project comparatively I was inspired when I saw project Valerie at CES this year so let me show you how I built my own so this is the beginning of my triple monitor setup right now I'm using one of my old laptop these monitors on the side here are entirely powered and receive all of their information from a USB cable so there's no power adapters or anything like that these monitors aren't super awesome for gaming they have an 8 millisecond response time but they are super portable because they only have that USB power connector and display connector they also do this weird thing where if you tip them sideways they will turn back on and the orientation of the screen will be this direction instead which would be awesome for browsing Reddit or you know working on something on this computer and having information on this screen as well whether you're like editing videos are working on a project and that's where the triple screen laptop comes into play they do have the visa mount on the back so you can put these on like a monitor extension arm but since I have limited space on the back of my laptop we're going to have to use something else and I'm going to use these door hinges to hold the monitors in place and allow them to flip out these glues right here these are called epoxy a few brands that have Loctite and jb weld I'm probably going to use the JB well just because it has a higher psi which means it has more strength and holding power so right now I have some tape wrapping around the side of the monitor just holding it in place and trying to get an idea of where the hinges should be placed it box these two different chemicals that mix together and when they're mixed together they form a chemical reaction that make them hard in about five minutes this thing will fully cure in about 24 hours that's why there's still liquid inside of the tubes but once they're outside of the tubes and exposed with air and mixed together they'll get really hard really fast right now both hinges are good and actually it's only been carrying for about two hours but the weight of one hinge can hold the whole laptop so this epoxy is pretty strong I'm going to clip on the first screen right now and by clip on I mean epoxy and so I'm going to put some tape down so I don't get any glue stuck to the hinges I'm going to flip them over and I'm going to set the monitor down in place right after I finish gluing it so right now how to stack on top of a book and you can see that the second monitor which is this guy right here is resting on top of the hinges and engines are glued it's not going to stick to the laptop because there's a piece of tape underneath and then I added some more weight on top of that to kind of add pressure to the glue is help it dry better I made sure there's an even amount of room between the edge of the laptop and the top monitor right here so when it folds out they're still going to be even with each other all right so I've taken off all the weight and it looks like it's been probably about an hour and the instructions say that this stuff gets tacky in about five minutes it actually holds pretty pretty strong even after just an hour of sitting there let's see if it stands up on its own got the door hinges on the back here so this second screen that I'm going to add right here I guess you can call it the third screen is a little more tricky because it needs to open up and it needs to sit on top of the second screen not added there so what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick this hinge just like that so that part is stuck to the laptop and then this part is going to fold up and attach to the side of the third monitor there and I'll probably do two of them just so there's more support and this one will actually have a flat surface for the inch to attach to so it should be just as secure as the other one since it had the curved area of the back so this time around I'm making sure that the hinges are also straight with each other because if the hinges are kinked or co-op it they're not going to fold in the same direction one my fault this way and the other one might fold slightly that way which wouldn't give a direct swing to the monitor so this one I'm using the edge is a laptop and just pressing this bulge up the hinge right up against it the same on both sides and that will make them both equal one of my favorite things about having a triple screen laptop is on long flights like this I can get three times as much work done as I would normally claims but if you met broken heart episode oh yeah so when I was at CES I did see the real project Valerie on display but apparently it was misplaced or stolen so a razor if you need a working prototype I'm your guy thanks Don for watching a few you you