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Friday March 30, 2007
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Tablet PCs were supposed to revolutionize portable computing--provide doctors a way to carry medical records around from patient to patient without paper, let librarians carry entire card catalogs between shelves, allow lawyers to have case briefs and references of hundreds of cases and reams of documents at their fingertips in the courtroom. Well, some of that's happened, but by and large the tablet industry hasn't really taken off. Some people claim it's because tablets are so expensive, and others that the software just isn't up to par.
At the CeBIT expo earlier this month, NAVIsis unveiled a $130 gadget that can attach to any laptop that will instantly turn the display into a touch-sensitive screen with the capabilities of a tablet computer. The device mounts on the side of the display and using a light pen, scans the surface of the notebook's display for activity from the pen. This all means that handwriting recognition, touch sensitivity, and other features that are common to tablets may be available for normal notebook computers. The device was just for show and details on the product are sketchy, but the scanner looks small enough, and could offer a cheap way to give a normal notebook touch-sensitivity when needed.
Via Mobile Magazine
Post by Alan Henry
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March 30, 2007 9:59 PM
This gadget might be interesting, but I hope that its functionality is better than that of similar "touch screen" gadget that are already in existence. I wish i can recall what the gadget is called, but it also has a bar meant to be placed on one corner of a monitor, and turn a small portion of the monitor into touch sensitive. The purpose for the small touch sensitive area is to provide a widget type of bar that you can touch to quickly launch application or gain access to your c drive. The problem with the gadget is that it is not very sensitive at all, and even in normal light condition, it can not pick up the touches very accurately.