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HP unveiled a behemoth this week, catering for the BFGs of the world with a 132in multi-touch display. The HP VantagePoint is made up of six 47in, 1366 x 768 screens linked together and covered in tough Gorilla Glass. The prodigious panel packs a combined resolution of 4098 x 1536 and supports 32 simultaneous touch-points. …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Congratulations Microsoft !

    I see you have entered the tablet market at last with Windows 8 compact edition.

    1. dogged

      "The VantagePoint runs on Windows 7, with apps coded through JavaScript, C++, C# and Microsoft Presentation Framework." from the article.

      Although the second clause confuses me slightly - if it runs Windows 7 then surely it'll run practically anything? "apps"? wat?

      1. Old Handle

        I assumed they meant Windows Phone 7. Although a freak device like that could easily be running any weird combination of software.

        1. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge

          It's an x86 workstation; unlikely to be WinPho.

  2. CADmonkey
    Thumb Up

    yes please

    Can i get a smaller one, say A0, that can pivot to horizontal?

    I've been waiting 15 years for one of these.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Smart?

      http://smarttech.com/

      Flip the LCD/Plasma on its side, and use a smart panel.

    2. Captain TickTock
      Pint

      Get in line...

      I've been waiting 25 years ;-0

      But you can have my place in the queue for a pint.

    3. Magnus Ramage

      Funny you should say that... I had a rotating monitor in my office, that went from vertical to horizontal, when I was a graduate student 15 years ago. It was attached to a Mac but I forget if it was Apple kit or third-party. CRT of course, so pretty heavy to rotate. Plenty of rotating monitors exist today, not sure if they'd count as A0 though.

  3. adnim
    Joke

    Alternative units

    "The prodigious panel packs a combined resolution of 4098 x 1536 and supports 32 simultaneous touch-points"

    or

    4 octopuses

    1. K. Adams
      Headmaster

      Shirley you meant...

      .... octopi?

      1. Northern Fop
        Headmaster

        I demand you return your icon

        Octopus has a greek root, not a latin one, so Octopuses is right.

        1. YP
          Headmaster

          Actually octopuses is the plural from the English, the Greek plural is octopodes

      2. Chrome

        @K. Adams

        No

      3. adnim
        Headmaster

        I will admit

        I wasn't sure, I have heard octopi bandied about.... So, I checked the OED first ;-)

      4. Arbuthnot Darjeeling
        Happy

        Octopi

        that's what we're having for tea.

        (Serves 8)

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          octopi serves 8?

          dont you mean serves 3.14....

          1. adnim
            Happy

            @AC:01:46 GMT

            I reckon a pi will serve 3.14159265...

            Where as an octopi will serve 25.13274122....

            Sorry for the pedantry

    2. F111F
      Go

      New Standard?

      Sooo, touch screens are to be measured in Octopuses as well as pixels and area?

      1. Tom_

        Standards

        "Sooo, touch screens are to be measured in Octopuses as well as pixels and area?"

        Surely it's not the number of octopuses that matter so much as the number of suckers?

        1. TeeCee Gold badge
          Coat

          Specifically the number of suckers with 80 grand to blow on a wall of touchscreens......

  4. FunkyEric
    Joke

    Can you play.....

    Angry birds on it?

    1. Captain Save-a-ho
      Coat

      Or worse still

      Can it play Crysis?

      About that coat...

    2. Drew V.

      Nope

      but if someone sets the desktop wallpaper to a Windows sky blue, then actual birds may splatter themselves against the screen.

      1. Albert Hall

        It will anyway...

        BSOD included – no extra charge. Perfect if you hate starlings.

  5. Peter Gordon
    Facepalm

    wot no webOS?

    oh well...

  6. Bill Fresher

    I'm sold

    Perfect for reading eBooks on the tube.

  7. Risky
    Coat

    32-point simultaneous...

    That's a lot of fondling.

    I'll get my coat, and some car keys from that bowl.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    How long until Simon gets one?

    And he and the PFY make it run a real OS?

  9. Christian Berger

    "Flipchart" software

    It would be great to have some sort of distributed flipchart software for it. So you can have several people writing on it, in different locations.

    1. BeefEater

      Drop me a line and I'll send the salesman around

      We already have that. Multiple interconnected touch screens, backdrop according to choice, free text and scribble.

      It's actually used for damage control on ships, but meets your requirements.

  10. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge

    What I want to know is, what's the battery life like...

  11. 100113.1537

    Why am I thinking..

    Minority Report?

  12. mossop
    Linux

    Can't see many takers for this...

    ... so I shall wait until it hits £99 like the last HP tablet.

    Now, I just need someone to port ICS...

    1. P. Lee

      Not sure about ICS

      I have gingerbread on my samsung but touchpad webos is far better for a tablet format. Just as a desktop interface doesn't work on a phone, so a phone interface feels a bit "limited" next to a "designed for tablets" UI.

      WebOS is very elegant.

      Just need ssh...

  13. pullenuk

    now...

    Cover all my living room walls with that!

  14. Steve Evans

    Pah...

    $125,000? I think I'll wait until they abandon the project and then pick up the old stock for 25% list price.

    1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
      Facepalm

      RE: Pah...

      Actually, it is likely these will be popping up in boardrooms all over Europe and the US. I have worked at several companies where awful amounts of cash were "invested" in audio/video systems for boardrooms that might get used once a year. Meanwhile, of course, cuts in the interest of "efficiency" were being made for the frontliners at the same time as the as the under-used boardroom gear was being installed. Unfortunately, compared to some of the boardroom setups I've seen, $125k is peanuts. Apparently it makes all those redundancy presentations look so much better than an ordinary projector.

  15. Sonicjuice
    WTF?

    Lol

    I remember them touting all those possible uses for webOS? Oh well, that didn't last long... #fail

  16. Random Coolzip
    Coat

    Z800 workstation?

    And here I thought Zilog never pushed the Z800 into production...

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