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16:9 Notebook Screens?
Transition Cat asks: "Is there any demand for longer notebook computers? With laptops as light and thin as they are, it seems that a laptop with the screen stretched out to 16:9 would still be portable. The longer dimensions would also permit room for a numeric keypad. Good as a portable DVD player (with better stereo effect since the speakers could be farther apart), good for spreadsheets, good for displaying a second browser window, etc. Good idea? Nightmare for Windows drivers? Does anyone want anything like this?"
Looking directly ahead of me, my coherent visual field can encompass an area twice the width of my current monitor with no problem (and maybe 20% more height). Humans are designed for peripheral vision, a 100-degree field of view, but we insist on using squarish monitors which waste a lot of visual area. Multiple monitors are nice, but there's all that blank space between them: we need a visual system like MIT's Cave that utilises as much visual area as your eyes can handle. The productivity boost would be more than worth the expense.
Research needs to be done into the size and shape of the maximum monitor size a human being can use without straining their neck all the time, and then somebody can get rich manufacturing.