The Vaio Imaginative and prescient Plus 14 goes on sale right this moment in Japan as a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200 USB-C monitor that weighs simply 0.72 kilos (325g). That’s lower than half as a lot as many of the displays you’ll discover in a typical “greatest transportable monitor” checklist and notably lighter than the 13.3-inch, 1.08-pound (490g) Asus ZenScreen OLED MQ13AH, regardless of having a bigger display screen.
The Vaio can be simply 12.4mm thick (0.49in) at its widest level and three.9mm (0.15in) at its thinnest.
Vaio managed the sunshine weight partly with a skeletal design (take a look at that kickstand and aspect profile!) and partly by molding the again panel out of carbon fiber, which it discovered was 33 p.c lighter than aluminum and notably lighter than magnesium alloy on the similar rigidity.
Talking of rigidity, the corporate claims the Imaginative and prescient has been examined at its facility in Japan to face up to drops, bends, and years of use. The corporate claims (by way of Google Translate) you could “use it with peace of thoughts within the unlikely occasion of stress throughout rush hour or impression when dropped.” It additionally has 5 movies for example that the monitor can face up to some gentle torture; I’ve embedded one in all them above.
It additionally comes with an origami-style stand cowl that may elevate it excessive sufficient to be a second vertical display screen above your laptop computer:
Like another transportable displays, you possibly can energy this one out of your laptop computer with a single included USB-C cable so long as it supplies 10 watts — you possibly can moreover plug a 65W or increased USB-C PD energy provide into the monitor’s second USB-C port and cost your laptop computer concurrently. The monitor itself consumes about 4W in use, in line with Vaio’s spec sheet, and it will possibly go by a most of 60W to your laptop computer.
One unknown is image high quality. Vaio doesn’t specify what sort of panel we’re speaking about, and whereas Vaio says the display screen shows one hundred pc of the sRGB spectrum, that’s a comparatively small coloration area for graphics professionals. The antiglare display screen additionally solely hits 400 nits of brightness, which must be nice indoors however possibly not for an out of doors cafe.
Whereas Vaio does promote its computer systems within the US and different international locations, it hasn’t but introduced if the brand new transportable monitor will probably be obtainable exterior of Japan. There, it’s on sale right this moment for 54,800 yen (roughly $339) and is delivery this week.