I can't *stand* not having it!

[mdlbear]

Electronic Music - Don't Use Pencil - Gizmodo

The electronic music stand allows paperless performances by either scanning your music or downloading it from an 85,000 score library. The image is displayed on a low-glare 12" 1024x768 LCD. Flipping pages is easy with the foot pedal and the stand allows you to make notes via keyboard, stylus or touchscreen. Plus, the unit stores MP3s, setlists and fingering charts, while featuring small bonuses like pitch pipe, midi support and metronome.

Too expensive, obviously. If the price were an order of magnitude less, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. As it is, I think I'll just write a hacked-up viewer, and rotate my laptop 90 degrees.

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Re: Sparkly!

[mdlbear]

I actually have a tablet at work that would do just fine except that the fan is noisy as heck. I have a Fujitsu tablet (also at work; it was abandoned by the project that was using it) that I could probably use, though it might be difficult getting Linux onto it without the docking station. Java, maybe.

And there's technology coming down the pike that will be *much* better, but I'll probably not be able to get my hands on it for a while. For now, I think I'm going to stick with the rotated Mac, which is also easier to explain in an airport.