Permit me to indulge in some work-related geekiness, but I came across this really cool product today, and I had to say something about it. I’ve been using Matrox stuff for years. In fact, one of the only times my dad actually paid for a name-brand video card, he bought a Matrox card. And if I remember right, X-Wing: Special Edition ran like a champ on it. Ever since then, I’ve had a pretty high opinion of the company.

So we’ve been selling this Matrox DualHead2Go at work, and it’s been a great product for us. Basically, it lets you add extra monitors to your computer to increase your desktop space, which is a really cool concept to me. As an aside, I just want to say how sold on multi-monitor desktops I am. I have two monitors here at work, and this week one of them broke. So there I sat, in front of my lone monitor, and tried to get down to work. Yet, somehow, without that extra monitor, I couldn’t accomplish anything. I felt cramped, restricted, hamstrung, whatever. I just couldn’t work, and it was misery. What a relief when my replacement monitor showed back up. It was one of the best days of work ever.

So let that experience preface what I am about to tell you. Matrox has announced the big brother of the DualHead2Go. That’s right, prepare yourselves for the TripleHead2Go! (Duhn duhn duhn) So I thought this was really cool. Now you can hook up three 19″ monitors to your computer’s VGA port for a ridiculous amount of desktop real estate. I found the way it works to be fascinating. Apparently, the TripleHead2Go fools your computer into thinking that it’s dealing with one giant monitor instead of three separate monitors placed side-by-side. Matrox pointed out that this setup is great for gaming. You can set the monitors up so that there is a wraparound-style image, so even your peripheral vision gets sucked into the illusion. Anyway, the thought of having that much space makes me giddy, so I’ll stop, but if you’ve got an extra $300 sitting around, and you’re willing to wait until April, you can pick the Matrox TripleHead2Go at SewellDirect.