Create Your Own Dark Knight Surveillance System With J5Create’s Display Adapters

August 22, 2011 Posted in Features, Gadgets, homepage, Stuff

What’s sexier than having a big-assed computer monitor screen? Having 2 or even 3 of them, is what! Flat-panels are priced like they’re being given away — spend a couple hundred bucks to get a 16:9er with millions of colors and high-res. The issue used to be because a laptop or even desktop would limit you to one or two additional screens – not any more. J5Create’s JUA adapters uses USB connection to allow you to connect as many screens as you want to become the ultimate security guard (or that perv from Sliver).

Forget about complicated. This jazzy all-aluminum guy is way easier to set up than microwaving Mac ‘N Cheese. It looks sort of like a stretched out iPod Nano wannabe, except for the USB cable at one end and the VGA or DVI (depending on the model) socket at the other.

So you plug it into a USB port and plug a monitor into the socket. That’s it. Now you’ve added an up to 720p res screen to your Mac or PC and can make it part of an extended desktop or mirror what your main view is showing (on a PC you can even tilt from horizontal to vertical). Once you load the driver from the website, the computer’s display functions will handle the rest because the connector acts as an external video card.

I plugged in 2 of these guys and now have 4 monitors working on my Mac Pro. Heck, if I can get my wife to take an extended vacation, I’ll “steal” her 27” iMac and turn that into yet another screen. Now I really feel like one of those James Bond villains in his secret lair. On the cheap.

Keep in mind that the horsepower of your computer will determine how many of these adapters you can add, but short of a netbook, an additional 2 shouldn’t be an issue and up to 6 is something to shoot for. Especially since the adapter is way under $100 bucks.