Safe and Sanitary Classroom Docking Stations
Classroom docking stations can also support social distancing and better sanitation in a shared workspace. Students can type on their laptops and use their touchpads while taking advantage of larger screens and multiple monitors.
When class is over, they take their laptops, and their germs, home with them. With some minor disinfection, the workspace can be made safe for the next student. This eliminates any worries about cleaning the nooks and crannies of a shared keyboard.
A primary goal with docking stations is to provide desktoplike displays for users with notebook computers and other portable devices. To that end, this is one of just a few docking stations with dual HDMI ports that are capable of displaying high-resolution images up to 3840x2160 pixels. It’s surprisingly powerful and accurate, and setup is also extremely easy.
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A Docking Station for Higher Education
The Targus Universal USB-C DV4K Docking Station’s two HDMI ports are designed to support multiple configurations, including a single large monitor, dual displays, multiple devices (a monitor and a projector, for example) or almost anything else that a user might need in terms of display technology. It has a large data channel designed to support just about any use case.
To test the Targus docking station, it was first used to support a large 32-inch LED monitor at the full HD resolution of 3840x2160.
Even when driving highly complex, detailed images, such as schematics rendered by an advanced CAD program, there was never any buffering and no display errors.
A second display was then added to the other HDMI port, this time to drive a huge 65-inch presentation monitor showing an educational video. The video never stuttered, and it looked just as good as it did when shown on the test laptop’s native 14-inch screen.