All i can say is Widescreen Monitors!!!

I was at Wired Nextfest last summer and they had a display very similar to this for the military. They were demonstrating how it could be used to track troops and vehicles on a map/satellite image of the battlefield. When you touched the screen where a troop was it would give real time heart rate and other info on the soldiers health. Very very cool stuff.

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That demo was just bad ass as far as I am concerned...I could see many uses for that on my wall :D


<---------- only 11,513 more to catch up with NN ;) :ROTF:

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Yeah but your uses of it aren't to be heard by small children :p:
ask an admin, you can have my entire post count. It doesn't matter to me

BlackX,
Your generalizing an entire society based off of a few articles you may have read back in Lithuania is not appreciated here as you can see. You clearly have never been to America and you have no clue what you're talking about. So, either come here and see for yourself that people are not all fat and lazy or be quiet.
Thanks

Back on topic...
Anyone wanna guess how much these cost? While I don't think these screens will replace a keyboard and mouse, they definitly have their niche. I imagine they would be prefered by photo/video editors and web designers. Ex: sometimes when I'm editing photos I wish I could just draw on the screen rather than recropping something 3 times to get it exact. Other applications could be military, medical, air traffic control, ports, airports, etc...basically anything where a lot of things/people need to be kept track of. For instance, you could have an overview of an airport and touch a plane to view its status and maybe even give it orders! I think they used something like this in the Matrix :).

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hey ppl why dont you go and see one good movie called "Supersize me"? Then we wont need to argue on this anymore.

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I've seen the movie X-Men, and they're Americans too :p:

I hope someone comes out with a multi-touch touchpad....screens are too big to get that close to, IMO.

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BlackX,
Your generalizing an entire society based off of a few articles you may have read back in Lithuania is not appreciated here as you can see. You clearly have never been to America and you have no clue what you're talking about. So, either come here and see for yourself that people are not all fat and lazy or be quiet.
Thanks

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I dont want to offend anybody. I have many friends in USA and Im not aginst this nation. It was sarcasm and its your problem if you dont understand it.

On topic. 2 Years ago I saw something similar in CeBIT at Intels stand. Now its more advanced and looks like we will be able to buy this stuff in the near future. :woot:

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Yeah but your uses of it aren't to be heard by small children :p:
ask an admin, you can have my entire post count. It doesn't matter to me

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As to the first part: :slapass: :slap: :nono: :slapass: :slap:

I could care less about post count too....I just like giving you grief :eek: :D ;) :toast:

This argument is ridiculous. Everyone knows that Lithuanians are in perfect shape. Just look at their elite Olympic team. :banana:

OMG I WANT ONE

perfect present gift for me LOL

Sounds like some of you guys could use a tablet. I got my sister one for her birthday and she loves it. I almost got hooked after an hour of getting used to it.

Makes a mouse feel rather primitive when it comes to drawing.

mice are not for drawing.

Fine for chopping, but not drawing.

Ya I've been following there screen tech for a while.

It does have practical use though. While home computers I doubt I could see it for a while (unless it becomes laying on your desktop) but work uses I see many uses for it. Wish I could use that type of tech at work, it be cool, besides the fact customers would love to see that type of tech but it would improve productivity. I mean hell drawing on a screen for a sketch to make something im all for that. Expecailly for my position 1 big screen is where its at.

The screen tech is old (soulburner mentioned tablets) the sheer size of the tablet is new. what really blew me away in that video was the software! WOW that musta took a long time to build. And a very long time to learn to use it as fast as those guys! wow that was sweet

wow...

I dont think its old tech. Notice that the screen is able to handle multiple touched points at once. Amd thats not just the OS or app being used.

I would already be satisfied with a data-glove :)

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The screen tech is old (soulburner mentioned tablets) the sheer size of the tablet is new. what really blew me away in that video was the software! WOW that musta took a long time to build. And a very long time to learn to use it as fast as those guys! wow that was sweet

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This is not exactly old tech, it's quite a different way of sensing where there is contact. The screen can be manipulated by many fingers, they say it can already be used with more then 20 contact points at the same time, which makes it possible to use it with 2 persons at the same time and the screen is also able to sense how hard you are pressing on it (which is usefull when you are trying to sketch for example). This can all be done because of this new way of "sensing". It is explained a little better in the article where it states:

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Inspiration came in the form of an ordinary glass of water. Han noticed when he looked down on the water that light reflected differently in areas where his hand contacted the glass. He remembered that in fiber optics, light bounces on the inside of the cable until it emerges from the other end miles away. If the surface was made of glass, and the light was interrupted by, say, a finger, the light wouldn't bounce anymore, it would diffuse--some of it would bleed into the finger, some would shoot straight down, which was happening with his water glass. Physicists call the principle "frustrated total internal reflection" (it sounds like something your therapist might say).

Han decided to put these errant light beams to work. It took him just a few hours to come up with a prototype. "You have to have skills to build," he says. "You can't be strictly theoretical. I felt fortunate. I walked into a lab with crude materials and walked out with a usable model."

He did it by retrofitting a piece of clear acrylic and attaching LEDs to the side, which provided the light source. To the back, he mounted an infrared camera. When Han placed his fingers on the makeshift screen, some light ricocheted straight down, just as he thought it would, and the camera captured the light image pixel for pixel. The harder he pressed, the more information the camera captured. Han theorized he could design software that would measure the shape and size of each contact and assign a series of coordinates that defined it. In essence, each point of contact became a distinct region on a graph. "It's like a thumbprint scanner, blown up in scale and encapsulating all 10 or more fingers. It converts touch to light." It could also scale images appropriately, so if he pulled a photo apart with two fingers, the image would grow.

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That was sweet.

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Originally Posted by sladesurfer

Let the snake thing play, it's an add.
The video's after....Can you say Minority Report!! WOW!!

Video: http://fastcompany.com/video/general...tivepixel.html

Article: http://www.fastcompany.com/subscr/11...touchthis.html

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with that as the norm, we'll have sleek, svelt and well sculpted geeks instead of scrawny, oily, flaky ones.

(i'm all for it)

:)