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.

Comments

Sparkly!

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

But yeah, you could probably do something easier with your tablet pc in portrait mode.
Now, if it advertized itself as a tablet PC with extra software and goodies, then it would be an interesting buy. But as a one use product, way too much money.
Hm, $300 for software and pedal that plugs into usb port. Now that would make a lot of sense. Steve, you wanna invent something?

Re: Sparkly!

[mdlbear]

I can't see any sane hacker spending even $300; I implemented a basic page-turner in a couple of afternoons last Spring, and I'm in the process of dusting it off and adding the necessary bells and whistles so I can have something at GaFilk in January. (Besides, it's related to something I'm doing at work...)

The Nokia tablet is about 1/4 the size you'd need: 800x480 and too small to see from reading distance. As for the pedal, you could make one that talks to a serial port for $5 worth of parts. (USB is a little harder.)

But, yeah.

Re: Sparkly!

[johno.livejournal.com]

Still pricy, but Gateway now has tablet for less then $1K they have been heavly advertising on TV.

Heck, you could probably find a 2-3 year old tablet on ebay for much less.

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.

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

Ah!!! the difference of men and boys are the price of their toys. giggle.