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Corsair's bendy monitor is great if you can't decide between flat and curved

You'll need to use your hands, though.
By Stan Schroeder  on 
Corsair Xeneon Flex.
I am very strong. I could bend this monitor easily. Wanna see? Credit: Corsair

We've all been there: You need a new monitor, and the curved ones look really cool, but do you really need that curve? Isn't it better to just get a flat one? You sit there in front of your (old) monitor, with 20 browser tabs open, unable to make the decision between flat or curved display.

Corsair's got a solution for such (admittedly completely fabricated) troubles. The company's new monitor has a name that's hard to remember — Xeneon Flex 45WQHD240 — so we'll just call it "the monitor that bends" (via The Verge(opens in a new tab)).

Corsair Xeneon Flex
The Corsair Xeneon Flex is bent manually. Which could be annoying or satisfying, depending on the kind of person you are. Credit: Corsair

The 45-inch monitor uses an LG Display-manufactured, W-OLED display that doesn't mind bending. The fun (or possibly annoying) part is that you do the bending manually, with your hands. It could be a cool party trick, and it probably reduces costs (as there's no need for a motor and a bending mechanism), so we'll take it.

In terms of specs, the Xeneon Flex has a 3,440 x 1,440 pixel resolution, a 240Hz refresh rate, 1,000 nit peak brightness, 1,350,000:1 contrast ratio, and a super quick 0.01ms pixel on/off time. As any gaming-oriented monitor should be, it's compatible with both the NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium standards.

The only problem with the Xeneon Flex is that it's not yet quite something you can buy. It will be demonstrated at Gamescom 2022(opens in a new tab), which kicked off yesterday and ends on Aug. 28. Then, Corsair will share final specifications and details on availability "later in 2022."

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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.


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