Sanesh, one of Storm's Presales Engineers in our KZN branch sent me a mail with this link to Reuters. Microsoft have come up with what appears to be a new touch-screen technology (or is it?). Check out the video (if you have the bandwidth). The fact that I'm reading Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson's third novel might have something to do with it, but I suddenly started wondering how I'll react when someone tells me Microsoft are entering the Genetic Engineering market.
I like the idea of collaborating around a coffee table (with cocktails of course - a nice excuse to refurnish my office and get a bar fridge ;) and then downloading results onto mobile phone / PDA / whatever.
At $5k or more for the screen, this is not going to be in the next fridge or coffee table I buy, but I can see an upmarket club (the Black Sun?) putting these in with drinks orders, gambling, etc on the table.
Just don't accidentally drop your credit card on the table after your mates have drunk the bar dry!
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