4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
4:36 p.m.
On 4 June 2013 20:27, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Also, I can't see holding my arm up to a
touchscreen for 6 to 8
hours at a go. They'd get tired. Likewise, I can't see working
on a horizontally-oriented table for that long. The diagonal
compromise sucks a little both ways. So there are significant
ergonomic considerations blocking something like CAD from tablets
as well.
Hold on for a bumpy ride here.
For some years now, computers have been attached to their displays by
a technology we call "cables". They are still a metal interconnect,
like a bus or backplane, but very thin, and so /flexible./ Incredible,
huh? It allows you to position a display /anywhere you want./
Now that your mind's blow, imagine if the display and the computer
were in the /same device./ Unbelievable, I know, but it is actually on
the market today. You can get multi-core multi-gigahertz computer
/built right into the display./
It's an expensive technology, though, sometimes commanding up to $50,
sometimes as high as $75, and only runs for a third to a quarter of a
day on batteries.
But with technology like this, tethered to a mains supply with another
of these so-called "cables", you could /put the computer at any angle
you wanted./ You could even put two of them side-by-side and use one
as an extended display on the other - this technology too already
exists.
Mind-expanding stuff, isn't it?
.....
Sheesh, guys...
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