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patrickl:
Just saw a new gadget from the Microsoft Research guys.
It acts like a see through screen where you can use your fingers both on the "back" as well as on the front of the screen. I have to say it looks a bit impractical when you see the whole thing with the camera on a stick behind the screen.
Looks a bit like Microsoft Surface that we saw a while ago in the microsoft surface thread
lanman31337:
That's been out for a month or two - it's nice to see some competition.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: lanman31337 on August 28, 2007, 01:57:50 pm ---That's been out for a month or two
--- End quote ---
What do you mean "out for a month or two"? You saw it before somewhere else?
--- Quote --- it's nice to see some competition.
--- End quote ---
Competition with what?
patrickl:
Ah OK, Apple has patented something similar
Either way, this MS version looks completely unusable to me.
boykster:
in this current prototype stage it's just that...a technology prototype. I can't think of a single application where picking up that monstrousity would be more convenient that doing it some other way.
Now if they can make the sensor hardware smaller and easier to use, then sure. I have a nokia 770 web tablet
that is fun to use, but if I could hold it in my hands and use my fingers from behind to scroll and click links, that would be neato. Having a 12" boom off the back with a camera? not so much :P
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