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The manufacturer configures the maximum number of acceptable dead pixels in the software.

For a premium machine from a company like nintendo that number should be 0

Not for the price you're paying. LCDs come in different grades and a certain percentage of dead and stuck pixels is allowable without a panel being declared defective depending on its grading. The only LCD screens that come with a guarantee of zero dead/stuck pixels are ultra high end grade typically used in medical and critical applications and you'll pay several times the price you'd pay for a consumer grade panel. http://www.magictouch.com/Lcd_...

What can I say, hmm, Ohhh Noess, the only touch screens or tablets in the world are on an Apple iPad. What this is not true, http://www.magictouch.com/large_resistive_touch.html and whoops http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370090,00.asp. Ipad an overpriced little dinky toy reader pretending to be something it's not, to scam the iGullible for big profits. For portability smart phones, like the iPhone or the whole Android range work, once you go for greater usability, you are bound by physiological constraints, ergonomics and, haptic technology. Apple even ripped off a patent for auto-focusing for virtual reality glasses, which is the real direction for portable digital interaction.

http://www.magictouch.com/addon.html

It's priced around US$200, but works with your fingers and have a mac version.

Which basically tape over an existing screen, LCD or CRT. I briefly investigated them for an epos system I was putting together but eventually decided on a ELO screen, why add hassle you don't need.

e.g.
http://www.magictouch.com/builtin.html

Given a few years, they'll be built into almost all screens.

Some remarks:

• The concept: Take a 12" iBook, flip the display onto its back, attach a Keytec USB touchpanel on top and fix it all together. No further hardware modifications, of course you will not be able to use the keyboard or trackpad afterwards, and one USB port is already used by the touchscreen.
• None of these have ever been build. From their site: "The iTab is not built yet. We will build them as they are sold." If they intend to sell 100 of them, shouldn't they at least build one prototype? All they have are some photoshopped mockups.
• Obviously Apples warranty will no longer apply. They will give you no guarantee either. Even more: "We will not fix any broken iTabs." Great service. Should you buy it and it never works, just throw it away. But of course this will never happen, because "we will do extensive tests on the iBook before modifying to catch any problems with it. Any problems with a computer are usually immediately visible after these tests. So the chance of your iTab breaking after purchase is lower." Exactly. The whole warranty stuff is overrated, vendor tested hardware almost never fails.
• Handwriting does not work. "The touchscreen technology used in iTab is not compatible with InkWell, Apple's handwriting recognition technology". Your only option is to purchase a third party virtual keyboard product.
• The vendor has a 14 feedbacks from buyers at ebay, five of them since 09/2005, most of which where books about tennis, none hardware.

Don't touch it

Auction on ebay
iTab homepage (already slashdotted)

Chriss

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I think that the iMac G5 is probably one of the best choices since you can get software/hardware that enables touchscreen capabilities on it... here's one from a company called Troll Touch and another one from Magic Touch ... I've never used these products, but they seem like they would work pretty well. The iMac G5 could be mounted on the wall or sit on an unused (yeah, right) portion of the counter. If a keyboard and mouse is needed, the blue-tooth wireless ones would work pretty well. They could be stored in a drawer or cabinet when not it use.

• Matchbox WM + A Touchscreen = User Interface.
• Go read Handhelds.org - Linux has been doing small screens for ages. Combine it with exisiting media apps like xmms and mplayer and you're a long way there already. Maybe WinXP isn't ideal, but there's plenty of other stuff that is. Try to think outside the windows your mind is trapped in.

Well, some fun things and activities for the baby... Thing number one is called a sling, or "over the shoulder carrier". With a baby in the sling, you can type your dissertation (as I did), walk around and participate in some of your regular activities, such as cleaning, reading :-) or giving talk at seminars (as I also did) - all without bothering the baby. It is much easier to travel, to calm the baby during troubled night times, etc. if the baby is nursing... Log onto La Leche League for info on how to prepare for that and how to support your wife's nursing.

A computer is a great baby toy. Put some pretty pictures into PowerPoint - the baby will bang on keyboard and each bang will produce a new slide. It helps a lot with those colics at three or four month of age and later too. When the baby is about nine or ten month, you can get a touchscreen - the one that is clapped onto your regular computer screen. It costs around one hundred dollars... But then the baby can play computer games meaningfully, while with the mouse it will take about another year until the coordination catches up... Reader Rabbit Baby and Reader Rabbit Toddler are good beginner games.

Magic Touch (yes, believe it or not, they put a space between the words -- must not be programmers or Germans) which says "Introducing at Comdex: Magic Touch USB version and Linux version." on the home page.

Found in Gary's Encyclopedia.