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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – LG Electronics will start selling this month flatscreen monitors that can function as virtual computers, saving costs by allowing multiple users to run programs off a single standard PC.

LG’s new liquid crystal display SmartVine N-series monitors will include embedded “virtualization” technology from U.S.-based NComputing Inc. Users can connect a keyboard and mouse directly to the monitor, which will in turn connect to a standard PC.

Through virtualization, the LG monitor will allow as many as 11 users to share a single PC for a total cost of roughly $3,000, NComputing said.

Virtualization refers to technology that allows one computer to perform the work of many machines.

“Every single one of our workstations needs a monitor, so why not build our technology directly into the monitor,” said Stephen Dukker, chief executive of privately held NComputing.

Dukker previously founded and was CEO of low-cost PC outfit eMachines, which was eventually sold to Gateway in 2004.

Very cool, I’ll need to go and check it out, but could this be the next ‘standard’ type solution for the enterprise rather than the thin client and monitor equivalent for standard roll outs? We’ll have to see.

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