Later today (don’t blame me for the short notice), Boris and friends are hatching a scheme to wire up the city with wireless goodness. Bunch o’ hippies. I jest, actually, because I believe in this idea and if I were on the right continent, I’d be at this meeting. See Upcoming or Facebook for the, uh, 411.
Anyone who’s ever given a presentation with a projector understands this equation:
Laptop + Projector = Rage, Frustration and Finally Tears
Every time the MC, the A/V and I wrestle with my laptop and the projector, I give the same spiel: the technology industry has failed us here. This should be a plug-and-play operation, but it almost never is. It’s a nightmare of adapters, dongles and too many settings (resolution, input, mirroring displays, and so forth).
And it always comes at the worst possible time. At best, you have ten or fifteen minutes to mess about with the technology. In the worst case, you’re doing it while 30 or 100 people stare at you expectantly.
Via Rococo’s blog (a client), here’s my first sniff of the promised land of wireless connection between computers and displays:
