Brief | CoScreen: An Idea and a Product

In a world of secondary screens, a new sort of sharing

Stowe Boyd
GigaOm

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Today on Product Hunt, I encountered a truly new idea, one taking advantage of the new landscape of devices. Many people now use secondary (or even tertiary) screens on their desks. What if the near-ubiquity of secondary screens could enable a new approach to collaboration?

CoScreen — a company and product destined to be made into a verb — has taken that premise and run with it. Imagine if you could designate one of your screens as a shared desktop, and whatever you drag onto your shared screen is shared on the secondary screens of your coworkers: coscreening.

Here’s a series of stills taken from a video from CoScreen, which I spare you (annoying jangley music). This shows a stylized version of the idea and implementation, with Alice and Bob coscreening.

Alice logs onto CoScreen for Project Y
Alice has dragged a window onto the shared screen
Bob is dragging a window onto the Project Y shared screen

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Stowe Boyd
GigaOm

Insatiably curious. Economics, sociology, ecology, tools for thought. See also workfutures.io, workings.co, and my On The Radar column.