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What the hell is this thing?
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Jumpin Jesus, I don't know, but I want one!
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My stupid iPhone game: Nesen Probe, it's rather old, annoying and pointless, but it's free.
Was free. Now it's gone. Never to be seen again.
Off to join its brother and sister apps that could not
keep up with the ever updating iOS. RIP Nesen Probe.
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Dang. I can't decide which is more impressive...that technology or someone faking that technology. Either way, very cool. 
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Those plates would be such a pain in the ass to juggle and even use.
That "piece of technology" is a pos.
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"I've smashed my password log in tile, my computer is useless!!" 
Oh and it uses a stylus, and everybody knows that fingers is where it's at!
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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Yay! Let me look at 12 tiny little screens clustered together and try and do something useful on them with a stylus! Let me carry around a mess of small clear chips to get scratched and smudged!
Feh. I did the same thing last week by gluing 25 Treos together.
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They are not little screens. They are just glass squares on top of a big Tablet-LCD.
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Originally Posted by The Godfather 
They are not little screens. They are just glass squares on top of a big Tablet-LCD.
Visually little screens and glass squares on top of a big tablet LCD achieve the same useless results.
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It looks like a lot of time wasted is all it looks to me.
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So it's like widgets and actual applications but in a bulkier-more-pain-in-the-ass packaging. Yeah...that's cool... 
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Originally Posted by zro
Those plates would be such a pain in the ass to juggle and even use.
That "piece of technology" is a pos.
I agree. It's like haveing a bunch of mini Web browsers.
They can do the same thing with a web browser, they just need to program it instead of those pieces of glass/plastic.
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The pieces of glass themselves only have an RFID tag by the look of it that enables on a section of the GUI marked out underneath to become visible. The touchscreen and GUI are all in the main LCD. You can see in the shopping cart example that the glass plates don't need to be used because a section of the LCD to the right of the shopping cart came up on its own.
Nice but too time consuming. There could have been a little manipulation there to make the demo appear fault proof, as in the glass didn't do anything and there's a guy off camera working a computer.
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Last edited by Super Mario; Jan 10, 2018 at 03:45 PM.
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So why not just use a big tablet screen with widgets and junk the tiles??
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One benefit demonstrated in the video was that of tactile controls. a level on one tile allowed rotation of the widget. Consider that you could put buttons, switches, knobs. That might be useful.
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The whole thing seems like an exercise in retro-futurism. Also reminds me of the Magnavox Odyssey with it's static cling tv sheets. How does this function better than a single screen or a touch screen? A touch screen would allow for dynamic window sizes and accomplish the same thing with way more flexibility. Do the clear plastic screens have any memeory? If you changed something on your little plastic tile could you pick it up and move it to someone else's little lcd screen? Once again, all this has been done better already.
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It turns out technology like this might really exist, and it was developed by microsoft. Microsoft Surface
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