Pentagon Banning Thumb Drives

It took far too long, but the Pentagon has finally taken a step in the right direction by banning USB flash drives from employees. After "fears of security" they have confiscated all thumb drives from employees and have not said when or if they will be returned. Symnatec has noted that there is a virus "that is easily transferred through external media". This virus, thought to be from China, is most likely the Pentagons concercn.

First Multi-Touch Laptop-HP tx2

If you have seen a Smartboard you were probably amazed at its capabilities and touchscreen. But, it can only be used with one marker or hand at a time. If you watched CNN over the election you may have seen this, a multi-touch computer:



The big screen she was using was made a company specializing in that type of computer called Perspective Pixels. The advantage of a multi-touch computer is that, by using a projector in back of a screen full of sensors, you can use multiple hands and do many different things at once.

HP has released photos of its multi-touch laptop, the tx2. Adding to its already ground-breaking touch srceen desktop computer out (shown below.) Though it will run the not-so-innovative Windows Vista it has a proising application called HP MediaSmart. Unlike most multi-touch computers that run Windows surface (a streamlined, easy to use OS) it will have the standard Vista. It will have a AMD (not Intel) cpu and an ATi video card. It may not be a quantum leap for touch screens but it sure looks promising.

Forum is up!

The *official* forum is up, you can talk about almost everything geeky there. The url is notesfromthetb.roflforum.net