The falling cost of LCD displays is enabling new applications like the Philips Entertaible displayed at CES and pictured left. A company called 3Touch demonstrated similar face-up application at the BETT IT-in-education show in the form of what looked like a very well designed electronic lectern (below right).

The Liberty lectern is designed to deliver presentations either to a hall or across a network, and packs a full-fledged Pentium 4-based PC with a 80GB hard disk and a 1280 x 1024 touch screen. The camera at the side can be used to  display paper-based A4 documents. The list price is £7749, excluding the camera.

The device comes with a suite of programs allowing you to screen to multiple rooms, or run a conference in dispersed locations simultaneously.