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How abut a screen with a camera hidden behind it right in the middle? This way, you could look at the person you are talking to and they could look at you.
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All-in-one Pro
March 11, 2010 6am
It would have a built-in webcam,mic and editing software.You can also wirelessly put songs into your iPod or cellphone.The outercase of the notebook will have a changeable casings and everything is wa...
Standard seamless dual screen micro pc form factor
March 10, 2010 6am
- Seamless dual wide touchscreen screens
- tactile key mat
- accelerometer/gps reality augmentation API
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- 2 internal PCI-e slots
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The clunky way to do this would be to build the laptop like a teleprompter: A half-silvered mirror (or just a pane of glass) at 45 degrees reflecting the horizontal screen below and transmitting the view to the camera behind, all in a big box.
I believe there is some progress already in building the camera into the screen by having sensor pixels interlaced with the display pixels. The image is reconstructed from the array of pixels by interferometry, rather like the reverse of producing a hologram.
It would take lots and lots of processing power, but it could probably be done mostly in parallel with layers of roll-to-roll printed circuitry constructed a wee bit like a fixed-function neural net spanning the back of the display.