Three extra screens for your laptop, and they snap together with magnets

11 Nov 2026, 08:50 · The Gadgeteer

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TobenONE’s new display system starts with the problem every clip-on laptop extender has: the screens come as one fixed unit, so the whole thing travels like an awkward slab and lives on one desk or none. This one comes apart. Three separate 16-inch panels snap onto an alloy stand with magnets, link to each other with no cables between them, and run off a single cable plugged into your laptop.

It’s live on Kickstarter now. Pledges start at $489.

The company behind it has made laptop docking stations since 2016, and its docks ended up as a standing catalog on Amazon, which is more follow-through than most crowdfunding brands manage. Displays are a new lane for TobenONE, though the ideas carry over from its docks and from the modular magnetic hub it took to Kickstarter before this one: magnets, swappable modules, and one cable doing the work of a nest of them.

TobenONE Magnetic Modular Wireless Triple-Screen Display
Three 16-inch 1920 x 1200 panels · magnetic snap-together modules · one cable to the laptop
Price: $689 ~~$1,499~~ (save $810, 54% off) for the three-screen set on Kickstarter; two-screen pledges from $489
Where to buy: Back it on Kickstarter

The kit is a stand, three modules and three panels

Everything hangs off the stand. It’s an aluminum alloy frame that holds your laptop in the middle and gives the panels something solid to mount to, and it folds flat when the day is done. The laptop sits raised on it, which also lifts the laptop’s own screen up toward the panels’ eye line.

The whole kit breaks down to a stand, three magnetic mounting modules and three panels. Image: TobenONE

Three magnetic mounting modules clip the panels to the stand and to each other. A panel can sit on either side of the laptop or above it. Landscape suits a spreadsheet or a timeline; turned portrait, the same panel suits documents and code.

Because the panels are separate pieces, you don’t have to build the full three-screen wall every time, and TobenONE says each panel works on its own as a single portable display for the days when one extra screen is enough.

No cables between the screens

The wireless part of the name lives in the joints. Look at the back of a panel and you’ll find contact strips along its edges, and those contacts carry the signal and the power from one screen to the next when the magnets pull them together with a click.

The contact strips on each panel’s back carry the link from one screen to the next. Image: TobenONE

That leaves exactly one cable in the whole setup, running from the laptop to the stand, and the kit includes a power adapter for desks where one port can’t feed three panels on its own.

There’s no driver to install and no app to set up. The panels run in extended mode on Mac and Windows, each showing its own app instead of mirroring the laptop screen. The stand adjusts to fit different laptop sizes.

What the panels are

Each panel measures 16 inches, at 1920 x 1200 and 60Hz. That’s a work spec, not a gaming one.

Three 16-inch panels on the stand, waiting on a laptop. Image: TobenONE

The frames are magnesium-aluminum alloy, thin enough that the three panels stack into a flat pile. The whole setup weighs about 3 kg (6.6 lb), stand included. The panels swing through up to 270 degrees of adjustment, so a screen can face you or turn outward, and the person across the table gets a screen of their own.

The top slot is the unusual one. Clip-on extenders flank a laptop; this stand also puts a screen above it, which is where a chat window, a call, or the reference doc you keep glancing at can live without stealing width from the side panels.

Set against a pair of decent 27-inch desk monitors, three 16-inch panels give up size and resolution. What they give back is a setup that assembles in about a minute and disappears into a bag, and for a lot of laptop workers that’s the trade they actually want.

Built for desks that change

Most triple-screen extenders assume the desk stays put. This one assumes the opposite.

The assembled kit from the front three-quarter. Image: TobenONE

From behind, the panels hide the desk almost completely. Image: TobenONE

Fold the stand, stack the panels, and the workstation goes in a bag, modules and all, though the modules are small enough to lose in a bag pocket, which is either a storage plan or a warning, depending on how you pack.

The maker pitches it at meetings, too, where a panel turns outward so the people across the table see the deck instead of crowding behind your chair.

A fixed desk with room for real monitors is still better served by real monitors. This kit is for the person working from a kitchen table this week and a co-working desk next week, who wants the screens without giving them a permanent home.

The campaign, and the wait

The two-screen set is the entry pledge at $489. The full three-screen set runs $689 at the Kickstarter special price, against a planned retail price of $1,499, and shipping is expected to start in February 2027.

Backers have pushed it to 1,353% of its goal, with 74 backers in. The team has shipped crowdfunding hardware before: its modular magnetic hub raised about $1.32 million on Kickstarter, and its docking stations sell on Amazon today.

Separate panels that snap together fix the extender’s oldest annoyance, which is that the screens were stuck being one object. If your work moves between desks, this is the triple-screen setup that moves with it. The only long wait in the pitch is February.

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