Friday February 10, 2012 4:16 AM AEST

Cebit 2008

By David Field
11:38 May 20, 2008
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Cebit 2008
This is a ruggedised tablet PC that is aimed at the medical field. It's running Vista, has an inbuilt barcode reader, RFID, 3G network access, a fingerprint scanner and the usual connectivity suspects like Bluetooth and 802.11 wireless. Most interestingly, it can be chemically disenfected once blood and the rest of the patient's precious bodily fluids are splattered all over it in the emergency room.

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It was good to see the Linux stand attracting a nice crowd. There's a whole section here called "Open Cebit" that groups the Linux community together, and out of frame to the left of this picture is the Red Hat stand, manned with people handing out Red Hats.

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Here we have a few keyboards from Cherry designed for specialist applications. You see thiese things all the time in Internet kisoks and at banks and the like.

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But we weren't prepared for this thing. Leave your kids locked in the car while you bask in the glory of the roulette keyboard!

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Panasonic was back with it's 103" plasma that it showed off last year. Total Concept Projects also had their video wall on display which doesn't have the shock and awe value of the Panasonic plasma, but does let you chain together and control a mesh of up to 200 LCD panels.

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Before I hit the floor again, if you happen to be at the conference, drop by our stand and say hi. It's up the back right of the floor as you enter the halls.

And now I hit the floor again.


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