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Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass'
Barence writes Microsoft will deliver a touchscreen PC that is 'no thicker than a sheet of glass' within the next three years, according to the company's principal researcher. The device will be the next generation of Microsoft's Surface project, which currently houses a touchscreen PC in a deep cabinet that uses cameras to detect hand gestures and objects placed on the screen. According to Microsoft's Bill Buxton, 'Surface will become no thicker than a sheet of glass. It's not going to have any cameras or projectors because the cameras will be embedded in the device itself.' Microsoft is developing a new screen technology to make this possible. 'The best way to think about it is like a big LCD where there's a fourth pixel in every triad. So there's red, green, and blue pixels giving you light, and a fourth pixel which is a sensor that will capture stuff,' Buxton claims in an interview with The Globe and Mail."
...of keeping things secret until they are ready to go out the door. Rather than talk about some supposed product 3 years off that probably will never happen.
Ten pounds for a cat? 4.5kg??!?
What kind of sick bastard would let his poor cat suffer the required famine to only let him reach 4.5kg? ...
My sister's "Sonar" weights 24 pounds; the cutest ball of fat and fur. :)
Uhm, a slightly overweight Norwegian Forest cat is 8kg, and that's the biggest race there is. Your sister's kitteh at 11kg sounds like something barely able to move.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
slightly overweight Norwegian Forest cat is 8kg, and that's the biggest race there is. Your sister's kitteh at 11kg sounds like something barely able to move.
Ok, slightly overweight would be a bit too euphemistic. He can walk perfectly well, and his belly does touch the floor. He can't really jump much, though.
My sister's "Sonar" weights 24 pounds; the cutest ball of fat and fur. :)
Shall resist. Should resist. Aw, fuck it, can't.
Your sister's pussy weights how much? And you describe it as "the cutest ball of fat and fur"? You're sick, dude!
And spills a blue-tinted substance all over the place.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Personally, I consider that to be animal abuse. Put the poor thing on a diet, so he can go back to living like a real cat.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
Not true. Cats become spherical at around 50 lbs.
At this point they can still walk by arching their back. And they are still strong enough to climb into a persons lap, resulting in only moderate blood loss and a few stitches.
The cats name was Charlie.
A prediction that considers the physics: If you drop it, it will shatter, because the bending forces will be extreme, and something thin cannot counteract those forces.
Funny, I have plenty of laptops, displays, and even a tablet that all have screens that are the thickness of a piece of glass.
They are still quite useful, and I would assume one would use the same common sense to not drop them if at all possible as you would with this tablet.
Sure I know my devices don't have the same product in them, screen only instead of screen plus camera.
But they are the same size of device.
Even the laptops you might own have screens in them that are only the thickness of a sheet of glass!
Or do you not buy LCDs and laptops and flat panel TVs because if you drop them they will shatter?