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by tekacs 3314 days ago
I was always under the impression that those devices in schools weren't capable of making any surface touch-sensitive, but rather only the whiteboard itself, using sensing on the whiteboard (IR touch?).

This Sony device seems to enable the former, however.

Happy to be corrected.
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laumars 3314 days ago
In fairness to the OP, there are other devices out there that do make any surface touch-sensitive, such as projection keyboards[1]. I remember seeing those devices being released more than a decade ago, thinking these kinds of devices would be the future. It has surprised me it's taken this long for the next evolution of this product to come to market (possibly due to licencing issues with IBM?) but it's really exciting now that it is finally here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard

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monk_e_boy 3314 days ago
OK, maybe that's why all the downvotes? I'm not sure if you can point them at anything. They are bolted to the ceiling.

I've used projected keyboards that you can move around. We used those in hospitals. Little USB things.

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