04-10-2003, 03:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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LCD Scanners?
"Toshiba Matsu****a Display Technology Co., Ltd. has added an image capturing function to its low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal displays. A 3.5-inch diagonal LTPS LCD dubbed Input Display has an optical sensor for each pixel. The transmissive type color display with a QVGA (320x240 pixels) resolution, when placed on an object, scans an area of actual display size and captures it as a 960x240-pixel monochrome image."
This is one of those inventions from left field that could really create a new niche for handheld computing. Imagine if you could use your PDA to scan news clippings and other materials! However, do note that this is a transmissive screen, and who knows how it'll look...
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04-10-2003, 03:37 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.
Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:
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04-10-2003, 05:27 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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LOL! Wow that sounds like really cool technology, it'll be interesting to see how it's really used in the real world.
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04-10-2003, 05:53 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Dodd
There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.
Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:
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Wow. This reads like a /. post http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/1....shtml?tid=196
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04-10-2003, 06:20 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by rlobrecht
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Dodd
There's a classic help-desk legend about the user who complains that her PC's fax software isn't working. Support guy follows her through the steps until she holds a paper document against her monitor screen and hits the transmit button in order to fax it.
Turns out she was just ahead of her time, I guess. :lol:
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Wow. This reads like a /. post http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/1....shtml?tid=196 |
Great minds think alike, as they say... 
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04-10-2003, 06:23 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2003
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great, now we have to worry that every monitor in the planet is potentially a spy device.
3 generation down from this initial prototype, it will have the sharpness of current 3Mega pixel camera. I wouldn't want my computer to learn reading lips that's for sure. This combined with microsoft and TIA will make HAL looks like a benign home calculator.
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04-10-2003, 09:47 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Hmmm to access your desktop, laptop, or pocket pc computer you would put your thumb on the screen. Cool.
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04-10-2003, 10:27 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
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COOL! No more going to the PUBLIC copy room to make scans of your butt! 8O
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04-10-2003, 11:58 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by Peter Traugot
COOL! No more going to the PUBLIC copy room to make scans of your butt! 8O
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can you imagine if you posted a little earlier :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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04-11-2003, 12:37 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Yea, crappy timing on my end. I need to read the board more often. [sigh]
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