This portable monitor has a rather embarrassing name.
We love a good gadget here at overkill, and a nice portable monitor is no exception — in fact we've even reviewed a couple of them. But there's a message we need to send to the marketing folks: please don't call your screen a 'pornitor'.
Sure, everyone can appreciate a good portmanteau, but combining the words 'portable' and 'monitor' and arriving at the word soup that is 'pornitor' isn't clever, or good wordplay, it's just down right cringe.
Look, I kinda get it — these brands need to do literally anything they can to help stand out in a sea of endless Amazon listings (there's over 30,000 results for "portable monitor" on Amazon right now). But my god, please don't try and make this a thing. I don't want to be standing next to some tech bro who whips out his pornitor to get some work done whilst on the move.
There's one 'brand' on Amazon called Pornitor who currently have a variety of portable monitors on offer, including some dual monitor models — perfect for Excel spreadsheets on one screen, PornHub on the other?
Now, this clumsy naming convention doesn't appear to be a wholly new thing — I can find references to it going back a few months now, but it's today that I've seen a handful of people mention it across social media — so, I figured if I've seen this abomination of gadget designation, you should too. Sorry.