When you’re available in the market for a new gaming monitor, one of many early selections you want to make is whether or not to purchase a flat or curved display. The 2 codecs supply completely different benefits and steadily imply the distinction between choosing up an when contemplating an LCD display screen. Corsair is creating a new monitor that would appear to supply the very best of each worlds.

This week, the corporate introduced the Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240, a 45-inch 3,440 by 1,440 monitor you can manually bend to change between a flat panel and a curved display screen. The prototype options a pair of handles on its sides that permit you to alter the curvature of its LG-made W-OLED panel as much as a most of 800R. You can even alter the perimeters independently of each other – although there’s no sensible motive for doing so.

The traditional knowledge with regards to whether or not you should purchase a flat or curved monitor is that the previous is best suited to day by day use and productiveness duties whereas the latter is right for gaming because it can make the expertise really feel extra immersive. What might be attention-grabbing to see with the 45WQHD240 is simply how sturdy it proves to be over time. Samsung’s foldable telephones have a noticeable crease the place you bend them open and their display screen protectors are . For a monitor that can probably value hundreds of {dollars}, nobody needs to see these sorts of imperfections.

Judging by its different specs, the 45WQHD240 might be a greater than succesful gaming monitor. Its 21:9 ultrawide panel options a 240Hz refresh price, 0.03ms gray-to-gray response time and 99 p.c DCI-P3 protection. It’s additionally G-Sync suitable and can max out at 1,000 nits of brightness. The largest draw back is that it gained’t help VESA mounting, however the included stand provides loads of ports.

The Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 doesn’t have a launch date or price ticket but. Given the function set, it’s going to in all probability be eye-wateringly costly when it arrives. Corsair promised to share extra particulars later this 12 months.