Ever seen pictures of a wall of monitors and gotten envious? Well, now you can be the one inspiring the envy in others with the HP USB graphics adapter.

We’re not totally clear on when the HP USB graphics adapter came out, but boy do we want one (or 6) right about now.  The HP device allows you to run up to seven monitors via USB as seperate screens or as one image wall.  SlipperyBrick (with a nod to Steven at The Iinquisitr for bringing it to my attention) decided to give it a shot and set up six 19″ monitors and one 20″ screen to see if it would really work.  While there have been USB monitor connections in the past, they have been known to be sluggish, so the thinking here is this would either over tax the 2 GB of RAM they had on the Vista desktop they were using, it would look horrible or it wouldn’t even work.

Oh, it works… it works really well.

While they did notice problems with videos under certain situations, they weren’t every day use.  SlipperyBrick opened a YouTube video in each window and was able to play all seven at the same time with no issues.  They were also able to run seen seperate occurances of Internet Explorer with each monitor showing a different web page with no issues.

Now, if you’ve always thought people only did this for gaming, there really are a lot of reasons to run more than one monitor.  You can look at oversized spreadsheets at once, run programs in seperate screens to keep your desktop clutter free, basically it is a multi-tasker’s dream.  While you can do it with certain video cards, it can be complicated, this appears to be easy and straight forward, and for a $59 investment in the adapter (monitors you have to provide), you can be set up to go in no time.

I’m seriously considering ordering one really soon so I can be just that much bigger of a geek.