Sony VAIO Tap

[Lazybones]

http://cnettv.cnet.com/vaio-tap-20-sony-20-inch-touch-screen/9742-1_53-50135062.html

A very odd touch PC.

but then I thought about it....

If you put one of these down on a table it might make a nice dynamic DND map...

[Mr. Analog]

It's getting closer that's for sure.

I could imagine playing a board game on a device like that.

[Darren Dirt]

meh, looks like a tablet for Shaq or Andre The Giant.

[Mr. Analog]

Actually it reminds me of a dinner tray or something.

[Lazybones]

It is really a desktop that can be used as a giant tablet... Really the only use I see for it that way is as a nice interactive board... How many times have we said that having an interactive table top would be cool.... This might be one of the first steps, at least from an affordability point.

[Mr. Analog]

True. I still think I'd wait for the HD version though...

...also maybe a non-Sony version

[Darren Dirt]

I mentioned Shaq/AtG because the blasted thing is TWELVE POUNDS.

by way of comparison, one of my cats, pretty average weight, is 9 pounds -- and the other quite-stocky cat is 17 pounds.

[Tom]

I mentioned Shaq/AtG because the blasted thing is TWELVE POUNDS.

by way of comparison, one of my cats, pretty average weight, is 9 pounds -- and the other quite-stocky cat is 17 pounds.

Heh. My cat is 15lbs or there-abouts. But he's not super stocky. Just huge. He's a maine-coon. Some maine-coons get upwards of 25lbs. Jasper is a bit of a runt.

[Thorin]

20" 16x9 screen isn't really that big.  For an interactive D&D map it would need to be bigger.  Also, HP had touchscreen all-in-one PCs that looked very similar to this (running Win7, though) a couple of years ago: http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Desktops/HP-ENVY-All-in-One/H4A30AA?HP-ENVY-23-d055-TouchSmart-All-in-One-Desktop-PC

Although I suppose the added battery is what makes it an "amazing new idea".  Sure, you can lug it around, but at 12 pounds it's luggable not portable.

[Lazybones]

Sony and a few others make 24" touch PCs for windows 8.

http://store.sony.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=100803&storeId=20153&langId=200&identifier=S_Desktops_L


But the battery was the unique part of th tap.