I really like desks that are also computers. The form that allow you to shove the center of a desktop beneath some tempered glass and watch your components go brrrrrr proper beneath your fingers. It simply is sensible: If you’re constructing a pc that’s basically the other of moveable, why not combine it into the furnishings you’re utilizing for it on the identical time? Transparent OLEDs do not make sense for any type of sensible software, however they’re good for this sort of superb extra. Enter Lian Li, a PC case maker that’s no stranger to both desks or glorious excess.

Lian Li confirmed off a few of its latest {hardware} in its Digital Expo videos yesterday, together with a brand new collaboration with SFF specialist Dan Cases and a brand new Vision case designed for back-facing motherboard connections (the War on Cables continues!). But the showstopper is definitely the brand new prototype for the corporate’s mixture standing desk-PC case designs. These desks have already got some fairly rad options, together with choices for twin chambers accommodating two PC builds directly, and digital glass that may shift between clear and opaque. But the DK-07 outdoes all of them by masking the PC parts with a clear OLED display provided by LG.

The 30-inch panel is plugged into the PC itself, basically working as one other monitor, with a non-screen area straight in entrance the place you’d anticipate a keyboard and mouse to go. It’s flanked by an aluminum floor with a couple of further goodies, like a wi-fi charger that pops as much as reveal an outlet and USB ports, and even an built-in coaster with a cooler/heater on your drink. The case itself helps an enormous array of followers and/or radiators, with sufficient area for the most important shopper parts and a 340mm graphics card mounted for show with a riser cable.

Aesthetically, the DK-07 appears to be like type of tough in comparison with Lian Li’s earlier desks. The seamless glass high is now damaged up into 4 distinct sections, with components of the part space and body now absolutely uncovered. You may even see the massive barrel of the charging station from the entrance, awkwardly sitting beneath the desktop floor. But that is nonetheless a prototype design, and if it involves market, I’d anticipate it to be extra aesthetically completed. The built-in monitor mount is a pleasant contact — placing heavy screens on the glass floor is why I can’t really construct one in every of this stuff for my very own PC setup.

Is this in any means sensible? Of course not! As I’ve said before, clear screens are one thing that’s being willed into existence out of the minds of sci-fi film props. There’s zero profit to creating a show the place it’s tougher to have a look at what’s on the display since you’re additionally taking a look at what’s behind it. How telling that Lian Li confirmed off the desk with a video of waves that’s totally ornamental. But for this sort of over-the-top design, the place aesthetically pleasing ridiculousness is the complete level, it is sensible. I hope Lian Li brings this to market, if solely as a result of I need to see what the oldsters at /r/battlestations make out of it.