The days when portable TV designs involved sticking a handle in the top of massive hunk of plastic wrapped around a cathode ray tube that weighed more than an armful of bowling balls have, thankfully, long been replaced by much lighter, thinner, tuck under your arm LCD sets. LG, though, is out to reinvent the portable TV concept once again with its innovative StanbyME and StanbyME Go TV duo.
You don’t even need to find a plug point for it, since the StanbyME screen carries a built-in battery capable of delivering up to three hours of use on a single charge. LG’s ThinQ AI and Apple’s Airplay2 are both supported by the StanbyME, and you can use it with Google’s Homekit system, too, if you have an external Homekit device.
When the case is opened the screen inside can be raised up vertically and have its height adjusted by up to 18 cm. Its innovative mounting bracket can tilt the screen to your preferred angle, too, and allows you to rotate the screen through 90 degrees, to support portrait viewing as well as landscape.You can even leave the screen flat in the case if you wish, for use as a touch-screen gaming ‘table’. A number of optimised game titles are already available for this scenario.