You might have read about a few companies bringing out 7″ and 8″ USB displays recently. I don’t know if there is a desperate need for these displays to be honest. I mean, why would you want to pay the same amount for a 7″ display if you could get a 19″ display? It seems a bit silly to me.

I’m sure that a lot of you will find uses for these displays, but personally I can’t see a use for them. They can be rotated to be viewed in either landscape or portrait, which is a bonus, but for me the size is just too small to be of any use. Obviously I may be biased because I’ve just had a 22″ TV/Monitor delivered. I mean, would you want to do 3D work on 7″ / 8″ worth of screen real estate? Or even editing a word document would be bothersome. The screens do boast resolutions of 800 x 600 pixels, which is pretty good.

I keep thinking of the screens you get in the back of cars to watch DVDs whilst travelling and I find it difficult to watch a movie on them to be honest. I can’t be totally negative about them though because they do provide a simple way of expanding your screens by using USB. I’m hoping that this is the beginning of a new age in screens being connected via USB because I’d love to have a couple of 22″ displays that were as easy to connect. I’d definitely purchase them if they were available.

Its early days for this technology and I do hope that it grows in to a must have gadget of the future. Watch this space.