Touch screen: how's that work with gloves on? Better make it resistive. Except, no one likes those because they're really annoying to use (pressure, precision), especially now that we're all spoiled by capacitive displays. Worse case you've got a membrane keypad (again, no one likes those) and a non-touch display. Either way you'll have to compromise on display resolution and size, when you really want to graph something onscreen in a really large format. Meanwhile one of the most successful equipment stories is still Nanodrop, which doesn't have a display at all, as I suggested: it sends all data to the nearby computer.
-- Re: Wireless again. Measuring very low voltages with sensitive electronics while beaming a bunch of RF energy all around right next to the amplifiers will cause trouble.
Cheaper than competitive equipment? Why not kill off the competing equipment with either a retail price so low that their margins are destroyed, or alternatively keep the "higher low" price as you suggest and keep more margin yourself? Either way the cost of building the device should be lower, not higher.
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Josh Perfetto <josh@openpcr.org> wrote:
I think that the touch screen is valuable for enabling proper use of the device/reaction setup in some use cases, and being a device which generates data, internet and web connectivity via ethernet/wifi are paramount to A) providing a great user experience for researchers to access and analyze their data, and B) enable others to build applications on top of the machine. By "low cost" hardware, I meant it would be cheaper than the cheapest generally available qPCR machine (which AFAIK is about $10k) by at least an order of magnitude, not that it would be the absolute cheapest machine possible.
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