Fox News Touchscreens are Microsoft Perceptive Pixel Displays Running Windows 8

&#x27;Aside from it being simply neat of Fox News to use the displays,&#x27;<p>Nah.<p>&#x27;it’s a nice moment for Microsoft:&#x27;<p>Nah.<p>&#x27;the company has found an early commercial use for the technology.&#x27;<p>Nahhhhhh.<p>To me it&#x27;s more likely Microsoft is driving hard these visible partnerships, for example like Delta Air using Surface tables, at a loss for exposure. But I wouldn&#x27;t know, I&#x27;m not a TechCrunch journalist.

It&#x27;s hard to find tech specs on the Perspective Pixel displays, but at least one source† says they are 1920x1080. The idea of doing lots of text-oriented work sitting inches away from a 55&quot; 1080p monitor sounds <i>horrible</i>, but I guess it makes for good TV.<p>† <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2819660" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;2819660</a>

I think it&#x27;s great that Fox employs tiny journalists. They&#x27;re just as intelligent and capable as other newspeople.

Glad to see our corporate overlords are equipping their propoganda departments with the latest high-tech gear.

Those bezels look larger on one side... which must make their work lean heavily to the right. &#x2F;snark<p>In all seriousness, though, I can&#x27;t imagine how they are going to be any more productive at those resolutions than they would be with traditional input methods, not to mention the sore arms that these will cause.

Does anyone remember the CNN hologram?<p>I don&#x27;t quite understand the newsroom gimmicks...

We would have bought some at $dayjob but their Linux support required coding against a proprietary API. We&#x27;d like a nice big interactive display (e.g. take a wacom, make it big) that works on Linux. No custom APIs, please; if your hardware needs special bits please improve the Linux ecosystem and contribute them there.<p>Apologies if this has changed since we demoed them, but those were my notes at the time.

It&#x27;s great that they&#x27;re trying to leverage the technology like this. Ideally, we&#x27;ll get a little news room arms race, which will hopefully lead to a few innovations. The next newsroom needs 8k screens. :-)

Giant displays or newsalumpas?

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Those poor bastards. Their arms are going to be unbelievably sore by by 10a every day.

It looks like the keyboard and mouse shown are made by Apple.

&quot;The Attack of the Giant iPads&quot;<p>Or Surfaces...

can anyone say, gorilla arm?

Either the Fox staff does not know how to use these or they were captured using it not exactly the way it was intended. From what I know these are not supposed to be used as tablets like the guys in the article are doing. These are huddle around whiteboards. Something you can use in a meeting room. Their use in media is interesting and the use of these in a broadcast is just a minor use case for these amazing devices.

So a shit fascist news service is using a shit fascist operating system.<p>Bring on the haters.