A friend alerted me to this crazy piece of technology. Imagine a chart that can be manipulated like a giant ipod. Sounds like they are doing some work with the British RNLI. It also reminds me of the huge displays Tom Cruise used in “Minority Report”.
Maritime Charts on Surface from Rob Blackwell on Vimeo.
Richard Prodger talking about how we ported our maritime charts to Microsoft Surface
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