Home Kiosk and Slate PCs

I was thinking the other day about touch screen tablet PC, to use as a remote for the media center, and other things around the home.

http://www.olphro.de/wordpress/projekte/ngrc-next-generation-remote-control

Then a friend suggested a home kiosk, for checking basic things of the day, calendar items for the whole family, weather, traffic etc.

This is the kind of hardware he was thinking of:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/asus-eee-top-touchscreen-pc-zombie-hands-on/

I think altering the ngRC software (open source I think) to add functionality like daily calendar, and loading it on an ATOM based tablet PC would be fantastic.

However the only Tablet PC that looks suitable is the Archos 9inch, which isn’t available anywhere until September.

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/05/archos-9-tablet/

Bugger!

Update: I’ve just found this Samsung one which looks pretty good, dont know about availablity.

http://www.tabletpc2.com/Review-Samsung_Q1_Ultra_UMPC-Article70020609.htm

Looks like a new form factor exists, a Slate PC which is a tablet PC without the folding keyboard. That’d be perfect if it came as the right size (reasonably big rather than small to carry arround all the time).

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