You can use already use a USB connection to connect a keyboard, mouse, webcam, PDA, camera, MP3 player, and dozens of other peripherals, but now you can add one more big item to that list: your monitor. LG Electronics launched the first North-American line of USB-capable monitors on Monday, which use a USB 2.0 cable to deliver HD-quality graphics without the traditional DVI or VGA connector.
LG’s FlatronWide L206W 20-inch widescreen monitor will be the first display to offer a USB connection, with technology from DisplayLink, a California company. Using DisplayLink’s DL-160 chip, the monitor receives a stream of information from a virtual graphics card running on the host computer, which it then reconstructs into the display image.
