iContact by Paul Murphy, Hot-Desking Solution, developed by Paul Murphy as a degree project. Designed to take advantage of software, making the hardware very simple and easy to understand. It has a secondary display for storing toolbars, open documents and folders leaving a full screen for working on. It uses touch screen instead of a pointing device, and the screen can be moved to a variety of positions for different purposes - sitting on a train/bus, sitting at a desk, presentation..... the screen can also be moved to a portrait orientation while working on word processing etc... It has a built in webcam, microphone and speakers, and has three different types of wireless communication built in - Bluetooth for accessories, Airport for networking (ieee 802.11) and UMTS (3rd generation mobile phone). Copyright May 2000, Paul Murphy from : http://homepage.eircom.net/~murphi

Created : May 11, 2000
Last updated : July 2, 2000