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Jan 17, 2012 11:48 PM
Sounds like it's going to be available for the public, and it's only going to cost about $250-$500.

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Jan 17, 2012 11:48pm
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Jan 17, 2012 11:50 PM
I'd rather pound salt.
Jan 17, 2012 11:50pm
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Jan 17, 2012 11:53 PM
sleeper;1056632 wrote:I'd rather pound salt.
Um ... cool? Have fun pounding salt?
Jan 17, 2012 11:53pm
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Jan 17, 2012 11:56 PM
sleeper;1056632 wrote:I'd rather pound salt.
Read:This won't fit in my trailer
Jan 17, 2012 11:56pm
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Jan 17, 2012 11:57 PM
*Looks at CES thread*
*Spots his own post about this*
*Internet rages about repost*

Just kidding, I think this thing is cool as shit too.
Jan 17, 2012 11:57pm
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Jan 18, 2012 12:01 AM
Damn. I didn't know what to search.

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Jan 18, 2012 12:01am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:03 AM
O-Trap;1056637 wrote:Um ... cool? Have fun pounding salt?
Sorry. This is just another thing Americans don't need, but they will buy, and then complain or ask for a bailout when trouble arrives and they have no money to bail themselves out. I wish innovations in technology would be more focused on larger advancements like alternative energy, medical care, water purification, etc. It seems most of our innovations are about the next gadget we don't need or a new social network for your dogs.
Jan 18, 2012 12:03am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:12 AM
sleeper;1056666 wrote:Sorry. This is just another thing Americans don't need, but they will buy, and then complain or ask for a bailout when trouble arrives and they have no money to bail themselves out. I wish innovations in technology would be more focused on larger advancements like alternative energy, medical care, water purification, etc. It seems most of our innovations are about the next gadget we don't need or a new social network for your dogs.
This thing can be useful for a lot of businesses, thought you'd appreciate that. Pair a display like this with Microsoft's Pixelsense and you've got an absurdly awesome presentation tool that I'm sure people can figure out all sorts of useful...uses for.

The question with the other technologies is how do we get companies and investors to hedge bets on those things?
Jan 18, 2012 12:12am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:15 AM
I Wear Pants;1056678 wrote:This thing can be useful for a lot of businesses, thought you'd appreciate that. Pair a display like this with Microsoft's Pixelsense and you've got an absurdly awesome presentation tool that I'm sure people can figure out all sorts of useful...uses for.

The question with the other technologies is how do we get companies and investors to hedge bets on those things?
Business already have sufficient presentation tools. Let's call a spade a spade, this is a cool but worthless invention.
Jan 18, 2012 12:15am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:21 AM
sleeper;1056666 wrote:Sorry. This is just another thing Americans don't need, but they will buy, and then complain or ask for a bailout when trouble arrives and they have no money to bail themselves out. I wish innovations in technology would be more focused on larger advancements like alternative energy, medical care, water purification, etc. It seems most of our innovations are about the next gadget we don't need or a new social network for your dogs.
Our technology focuses on demand. That would be the nature of free market.

Don't worry. When the need for alternate energy and such is FELT enough by the population, there will be someone with a solution in a hurry.

Also, having things one doesn't need only HELPS the economy if the central government refuses to bail them out. I'm not asking for a bailout, and I've made a nice life for myself without any need for a job, so I won't be asking anytime soon.

Like it, hate it, or be indifferent about it. However, don't act as though it's some great ill of society. That's a test every citizen fails once the can of worms is open.
Jan 18, 2012 12:21am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:23 AM
sleeper;1056683 wrote:Business already have sufficient presentation tools. Let's call a spade a spade, this is a cool but worthless invention.
Yes, like overhead projectors, which can do 99% of what people use PowerPoint to do.

Books are sufficient for entertainment without televisions or radios.

This will indeed make a presentation space less intrusive, particularly in a small office or a full office space.

And it's projected to cost a whopping $250. Not exactly going to drive people broke. Sounds like you should have a bigger beef with laptop computers.
Jan 18, 2012 12:23am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:24 AM
O-Trap;1056690 wrote:Our technology focuses on demand. That would be the nature of free market.

Don't worry. When the need for alternate energy and such is FELT enough by the population, there will be someone with a solution in a hurry.

Also, having things one doesn't need only HELPS the economy if the central government refuses to bail them out. I'm not asking for a bailout, and I've made a nice life for myself without any need for a job, so I won't be asking anytime soon.

Like it, hate it, or be indifferent about it. However, don't act as though it's some great ill of society. That's a test every citizen fails once the can of worms is open.
I wasn't specifically talking about you. Our demand is f'd up. Most of the money made in this country is from our best and brightest going to wall street to move money for a living. I don't blame them for making as much money as humanly possible, but its definitely disheartening.
Jan 18, 2012 12:24am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:24 AM
sleeper;1056683 wrote:Business already have sufficient presentation tools. Let's call a spade a spade, this is a cool but worthless invention.
Ah yes the classic "let's not innovate anymore, what we have is good enough".
Jan 18, 2012 12:24am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:25 AM
I Wear Pants;1056694 wrote:Ah yes the classic "let's not innovate anymore, what we have is good enough".
Damn newfangled contraptions! What my granddaddy had was enough, and he lived to be 106! ;)
Jan 18, 2012 12:25am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:27 AM
I Wear Pants;1056694 wrote:Ah yes the classic "let's not innovate anymore, what we have is good enough".
I still don't see how moving a power point presentation to a window is exactly going to change the face of business as we know it. Sure its cool, and yes we should always encourage innovation, but this is useless.
Jan 18, 2012 12:27am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:30 AM
sleeper;1056699 wrote:I still don't see how moving a power point presentation to a window is exactly going to change the face of business as we know it. Sure its cool, and yes we should always encourage innovation, but this is useless.
It's not going to "change the face of business as we know it," but there is ground between that and "useless." A false dichotomy.

This makes one less gadget necessary in the office. A series of small innovations can indeed create larger changes. Think of it like evolution: small and slow changes that, over time, lead to bigger ones.
Jan 18, 2012 12:30am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:38 AM
sleeper;1056699 wrote:I still don't see how moving a power point presentation to a window is exactly going to change the face of business as we know it. Sure its cool, and yes we should always encourage innovation, but this is useless.
Something like this with the PixelSense stuff I mentioned could allow for windowed walls (like some offices spaces such as at least a few Microsoft buildings have) to be effectively turned into whiteboards/presentation/whatever without the need of markers.

And most people were saying that tablets were useless in the early 2000s and now here they are as the seeming pinnacle of tech.

I was only giving one example my dumb brain can come up with for how to use this I'm sure there are tons of others and I know companies like Pepsi, Redbox, and others have already invested in some of these techs (mostly the new Microsoft Surface which uses the PixelSense stuff I'm talking about).
Jan 18, 2012 12:38am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:39 AM
I Wear Pants;1056709 wrote:Something like this with the PixelSense stuff I mentioned could allow for windowed walls (like some offices spaces such as at least a few Microsoft buildings have) to be effectively turned into whiteboards/presentation/whatever without the need of markers.

And most people were saying that tablets were useless in the early 2000s and now here they are as the seeming pinnacle of tech.

I was only giving one example my dumb brain can come up with for how to use this I'm sure there are tons of others and I know companies like Pepsi, Redbox, and others have already invested in some of these techs (mostly the new Microsoft Surface which uses the PixelSense stuff I'm talking about).
I'm convinced its mostly marketing. Companies like these kind of things because it makes their company seem cool. I still think tablets are useless. They are just another gadget that people don't need.
Jan 18, 2012 12:39am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:46 AM
sleeper;1056712 wrote:I'm convinced its mostly marketing. Companies like these kind of things because it makes their company seem cool. I still think tablets are useless. They are just another gadget that people don't need.
Even if you strip a tablet of its Internet capability and give it nothing except word processing capability and a reasonable amount of harddrive space, it becomes a notepad you almost never have to replace, and you can recall your notes far more easily (if you label properly). That, in and of itself, is an increase in value for business life, particularly in corporate offices where multiple meetings each day are commonplace.

Add the spreadsheet capability and you're able to expound on reports relatively well on the spot without dragging a laptop everywhere.

Finally, throw in Internet and you basically have all the power of a laptop, but with the transportability that is closer to a cell phone than a laptop.
Jan 18, 2012 12:46am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:51 AM
O-Trap;1056723 wrote:Even if you strip a tablet of its Internet capability and give it nothing except word processing capability and a reasonable amount of harddrive space, it becomes a notepad you almost never have to replace, and you can recall your notes far more easily (if you label properly). That, in and of itself, is an increase in value for business life, particularly in corporate offices where multiple meetings each day are commonplace.

Add the spreadsheet capability and you're able to expound on reports relatively well on the spot without dragging a laptop everywhere.

Finally, throw in Internet and you basically have all the power of a laptop, but with the transportability that is closer to a cell phone than a laptop.
Oh O-trap. I disagree. A tablet is not a notepad you never have to replace. Tablets break just like everything else. Laptops are easier to type on and use almost any program(especially spreadsheets), so the businessman is more productive with a laptop. Plus laptops are cheaper.
Jan 18, 2012 12:51am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:54 AM
Tablets are cooler than laptops though. But its a myth that tablets allow for greater productivity, which is what a business should care about when making an investment in technology.
Jan 18, 2012 12:54am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:55 AM
The new wave of Windows 8 tablets coming will pretty much make those criticisms moot.

The key to any of these cool new hardware advances, as always, is good software. Incredible hardware is nothing without good software. It's why these things sometimes turn out into nothing that changes how we do things and other times end up as iPhone type successes.

And talented people going to Wallstreet to move money around has far more to do with our monetary policy and regulations/lack of than it does with the latest gadget.
Jan 18, 2012 12:55am
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Jan 18, 2012 12:55 AM
sleeper;1056734 wrote:Tablets are cooler than laptops though. But its a myth that tablets allow for greater productivity, which is what a business should care about when making an investment in technology.
They can in the right instances and with the right software.

It's not a fit for every scenario.
Jan 18, 2012 12:55am
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Jan 18, 2012 1:04 AM
sleeper;1056729 wrote:Oh O-trap. I disagree. A tablet is not a notepad you never have to replace. Tablets break just like everything else. Laptops are easier to type on and use almost any program(especially spreadsheets), so the businessman is more productive with a laptop. Plus laptops are cheaper.

Tablets break ... if you do something to break them. If not, then you can have either one tablet or dozens of legal pads. Tablets are more portable than laptops, and they're comparable in terms of a keyboard (hell, with a little practice, QWERTY cell phones are almost as comparable).

As far as any program, THAT might be overkill, as most the people in my office use little more than Notepad, Word, Excel, Outlook, and maybe Adobe Reader. All of those already have parallels on tablets.

For what it's worth, I don't own a tablet, and I use legal pads in meetings.
sleeper;1056734 wrote:Tablets are cooler than laptops though.
That's a matter of personal perspective. I personally don't find them cool at all, quite honestly, which is why I don't own one.
sleeper;1056734 wrote:But its a myth that tablets allow for greater productivity, which is what a business should care about when making an investment in technology.
Actually, they have been shown to be much easier to "whip out and use" as it were, making them far less clumsy than a laptop (which, from a technological standpoint, is still my weapon of choice, but for different reasons).
Jan 18, 2012 1:04am
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Jan 18, 2012 1:05 AM
I Wear Pants;1056736 wrote:They can in the right instances and with the right software.

It's not a fit for every scenario.
Precisely. For me, it's not, because of what is still not available on it, and because I do enough graphic work to make the small screen less advantageous for what I need.
Jan 18, 2012 1:05am