Using Old Laptops as Pass-Thru Displays?

Wirenut asks: "After another WinDOZE based round of laptop upgrades, I've got a pile of Toshiba (among other) laptops with beautiful displays and crappy processors. Anybody know a techie-way of making these work as flat-panels for regular PC's? I could save a lot of room om my tech bench. PS> I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, so let me have it. " Interesting thought. Could something like this really work?