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Turn Your PC Into A Tablet

Posted by Hemos on from the purty-stuff-for-me-to-test? dept.

Odkin writes "Geekstreet.ca has a story on a new concept invented by Philips called Detachable Monitor. It's an LCD with a touch screen that connects to your PC via 802.11b. I found this article in German with some nice hi-res pictures and there's also a link at Philips' homepage. "

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  1. Microsoft Mira by XRayX · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft presents something similiar on the CeBit. It's called Mira and is a hybrid between a PDA, a Webpad and a PC.
    Read about it at CNet and Microsoft PressPass.

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    1. Re:Microsoft Mira by cristofer8 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Microsoft announced MIRA awhile ago, and this seems to be exactly the same thing. As Mira is just the software behind it, I would not be surprised at all if the phillips screen actually runs on Mira. Just for more info, a Mira screen is running Windows CE.NET and connecting to a windows xp sp1 desktop through remote desktop. And no, it works terribly with video or 3d, since the CE screen can't render them well over an 11mb connection.

  2. Re:protocol & usefulness by richard-parker · · Score: 4, Informative

    The question is what is the link protocol and what's in the "remote display".
    It uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

    Your guess about Windows Terminal Server is spot on. The article in German mentions that the Philips monitor is based on Microsoft's Mira technology, Mira relies on Microsoft's Terminal Server and Microsoft Terminal Server uses the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).