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Technology

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11 October 2003

PASS THE JPEGS PLEASE

Digital photos and text files projected onto the surface of Mitsubishi’s bizarre digital table can be passed around, grabbed and even scribbled on. Engineers at the firm’s lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, think its “UbiTable” could revolutionise business meetings (). To look at the same document, colleagues will no longer have to crowd around one screen or send files between laptops. Instead, they can download documents to the table’s surface, tap them to make copies, and slide these across to their colleagues. They can then annotate them by hand or by using a keyboard.

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