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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.