The World's First Four-Screen Laptop

Barence writes "Intel has stunned visitors at IDF by showing off the world's first four-screen laptop. The oddly-named 'Tangent Bay' has three miniature touchscreens set horizontally into the case below the main, full-sized panel. It is a fully functional prototype: delegates were able to scroll photos around the touchscreens by swiping with a finger. The idea smacked a little too much of the ill-fated Vista SideShow." Seems strange that they would put the screens above the keyboard. I think embedding an iPhone type touchscreen in place of the trackpad would be a far more useful thing.

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How do you tag a story?

[Alaska Jack]

I know this is OT -- go ahead a mod me as such -- but I can't figure out how to tag a story. Clicking on the disclosure triangle next to the tags doesn't work, and I've tried several different browsers. Can someone enlighten me?

video everywhere all the time

[peter303]

I thought it was silly to put a computer screen in a refigerator door. But with the cost of video becoming vanishing small (you can by a cell phone at 7-11 for less than $10), what interesting things could you do with video everywhere? It would be a world with Minority Report walls and Harry Potter newspapers. An interesting recent application is the reburbished San Francisco Acadamy of Sciences Museum. They completely replace exhibit and room nameplates with small photoscreens. This way they can be more creative with captioning and update them more readily.

Re:video everywhere all the time

[Philip_the_physicist]

with video everywhere, you could have all sorts of cool feat... Oh fuck, I've just been meatroll'd by the wall.
With video screens everywhere, there would be plenty with poorly secured input feeds, and it would be insane to hope that they wouldn't get used for meatspin, goatse, rickrolls, and so on.