EI introduces Life|point HD touch panel

Exceptional Innovation -- the same firm responsible for that quad-CableCARD media center -- is looking to give you a new weapon of choice to control your Life|ware home network. The new Life|point touch panel is available in 8.9- and 12.1-inch sizes, and both high-definition versions rock 16:9 formats, integrated stereo speakers / microphone and an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts screen brightness depending on room lighting. Additionally, the panels are available in black, silver, cream, white and field-finish ready, and each one gives you in-wall control of your home theater, multi-room audio, lighting, security system(s) and temperature. 'Course, it's up to you to decide whether such a convenience is worth $6,000 (and up).

[Via Electronic House]

[ohnoes @ Dec 23rd 2007 1:47AM]

But can it play... Oh nevermind!

I'm debating whether to get this or 6,000 taco's... oh such a cruel world making me decide. :/

[Brandon L @ Dec 23rd 2007 2:15AM]

Damn, thats a lot of tacos... Feed yourself dinner every night for for 8.21 years (2 per night to fill up good... ummmm), or buy this?

I visualize your stumbles.

But then again, have you considered "Nickle Night" at the Tijuana Donkey Show?

Can you say 120,000 nickles? I'm really kicking the can here.

[Billy Fiul @ Dec 23rd 2007 4:12AM]

It takes 10 tacos to fill my tank, so it's only 1.64 years of taco dinners for me.

[CubeGuy @ Dec 23rd 2007 3:09AM]

I'd get it, but I'm pretty sure I still need the media center for starters... >_>

[ethana2 @ Dec 23rd 2007 3:44AM]

psubuntu can play blu-ray movies.
Once gallium is ported to cell, it'll be able to do compiz fusion too.
If that's not the ultimate media center...
You'll have to go with a quad core desktop with a blu-ray/hd-dvd combo drive.. which is likely to cost you quite a bit more... if you can even /get/ one.

[jayjoe @ Dec 23rd 2007 4:43PM]

That interface looks like the Windows Media Center EI showed a few months ago, so I thought this machine would be a Media Center extender, but in the specs they say it runs on a Windows XP Embedded... weird.
I wonder if they developed the same interface as a native executable... any clue?

[matrix @ Dec 29th 2007 12:51PM]

Yes it is its own executable

[jayjoe @ Oct 2nd 2008 9:15AM]

I thought their interface for Windows Media Center was HTML+JavaScript; I've never tried it, but it makes a lot of sense to me, plus I think that's the preferred way to extend WMC.
Can you confirm that? If it's HTML, is the executable for Embedded just a web browser?

[matrix @ Jan 9th 2008 10:29PM]

No there is no HTML/Javascript involved.