God that was an awfully long topic. Anyhoo, I got some nice feedback about this in IRC, so I thought what the heck, let's post it!
So the basic idea is to have an external (auxiliary) monitor/display on your laptop (why not on a PC?) and do all sorts of tasks from that when you're too lazy and/or <insert word>.
Asus and some other bigger firms are bringing up laptop models that have this capability integrated, but it only works in Vista. Their auxiliary display is usable even when the laptop is switched off.
This hack only works when the computer is on, but hey, the touch screen makes up for it!
Original author's link is here.
Here's an image of how I ended up doing it:
Basically you need a Pocket PC (you can get those pretty cheap these days) and a software called SideWindow (by Innobec) which costs about 14 dollars or so, but hey, there's always a free trial. *cough*
After that you can pretty much run anything in it, including those memory hogging widgets, irc clients, media player and whatnot!
Detailed guide in the "Original author's link".
Hope this proved useful and hope you guys enjoyed it!
(this could be useful for hacking *wink*)
