Company Demonstrates Seven-Screen Laptop

The company Expanscape shows a prototype of a laptop with seven screens at CES. The laptop has six fold-out screens, supplemented by a small screen that is integrated into the housing.

Expanscape’s Aurora 7 prototype includes four 17.2″ UHD resolution displays and three 7″ 1920×1200 pixel displays. One of the latter is an integrated touchscreen. The company has developed an ingenious pop-out and slide-out system to accommodate all panels on a single device.

Expanscape uses what they say is a considerably modified ODM laptop and the prototype contains a Core i9-9900K and GeForce GTX card. The entire system can operate on a single battery, although it is not known what the battery capacity is and how long the device can last on a single charge. The manufacturer created the prototype with security administrators, data scientists and graphic designers in mind as users. Aurora 7 could thus serve as a mobile security operations center, among other things.

The idea of ​​equipping laptops with multiple screens is not new. One of the first elaborations of this was the ThinkPad W700ds from 2009, with a 17″ screen and additional extendable 10.6″ panel. In 2017, Razer showed a prototype 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 backlit keyboard. The server runs on a Core i7 and has 64GB of RAM. It also integrates a programmable Arduino microcontroller.