I have several headless computer machines that I routinely have to plug into a monitor and keyboard in order to test configurations and hardware setup. It has become very tiresome to always be dragging these machines over to my desk and plugging them into a monitor and keyboard.
This is what I am suggesting as a build: A portable device that will act as a dumb terminal to connect to a headless server/computer. This device would be made of 3 components: an LCD monitor, a keyboard and a trackpad. I'm think that the device would have a small LCD display with a keyboard and track pad attached, and out the back would be like a cable chassis that would have an HDMI/DVI/D-Sub VGA/RCA/whatever video connector, and 2 usb cables (one for the keyboard and one for the trackpad). Preferably, the device would be battery powered, but could also be setup to draw power from the computer somehow (5v USB draw from the computer?) You would simply be able to then walk up to a machine plug in the HDMI and 2 usb cables, and voila! your server now has a monitor, keyboard and mouse to use for booting and troubleshooting.
What do you think?