By Desire Athow
Like the rest of the hardware market, innovation in monitors has rather plateaued. The question is how do you improve on a peripheral which, even in its current form factor, has been almost 20 years in the making?
While the consumer market is gradually warming to 4K and ultra-widescreen formats and to larger sizes, it is the business sector that could see some interesting developments.
The most intriguing one has been the slow rise of standalone, desk-bound touchscreen monitors, and one of the latest offerings, the HannsG HT225 HPB, caught our attention because of its price and the features it offers.
It costs as little as £170 (around $220, AU$285) which is roughly twice what you’d expect from a monitor with a 21.5-inch diagonal and a full HD resolution, but there’s more than enough here to justify the price premium.
What struck us when we pulled this monitor out of the box was how compact it is for a 21.5-inch display. There are two reasons for that.
Firstly, it has a super-thin bezel, certainly the tiniest we’ve seen on a display at this price. Secondly, it has a kickstand rather than a traditional socle-stand combination.
<img src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/art/monitors_and_projectors/HannsG/HannsG%20HT225%20HPB/New/hannspree225g-420-90.jpg" alt="Hannspree …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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