Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Greek birth certificate probe in 'Maria' case

In this police handout photo taken on Thursday , Oct. 17, 2013, Greek Roma, Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, or Selini Sali —a woman who has two separate sets of identity papers. is seen in the Larisa regional police headquarters, Greece. Dimopoulou and her companion have been charged with abducting a little girl found living with them in a Gypsy settlement. Police in Greece on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, have released the photographs of a couple alleged adductors of a girl known “Maria” after they were formally taken onto pre-trial custody and an international search for the girl’s parents intensified. (AP Photo/Greek Police)







In this police handout photo taken on Thursday , Oct. 17, 2013, Greek Roma, Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, or Selini Sali —a woman who has two separate sets of identity papers. is seen in the Larisa regional police headquarters, Greece. Dimopoulou and her companion have been charged with abducting a little girl found living with them in a Gypsy settlement. Police in Greece on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, have released the photographs of a couple alleged adductors of a girl known “Maria” after they were formally taken onto pre-trial custody and an international search for the girl’s parents intensified. (AP Photo/Greek Police)







In this police handout photo taken on Thursday , Oct. 17, 2013, Greek Roma, or Gypsy, man Christos Salis, 39, is seen in the Larisa regional police headquarters, Greece. Salis and his companion have been charged with abducting a little girl found living with them in a Gypsy settlement. Police in Greece on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, have released the photographs of a couple alleged adductors of a girl known “Maria” after they were formally taken onto pre-trial custody and an international search for the girl’s parents intensified. (AP Photo/Greek Police)







Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Council of Europe, speaks to The Associated Press in an interview at the start of his two-day visit to Athens, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Greek lawmakers are to vote late Tuesday on a proposal to suspend state funding for political parties accused of criminal activities, a measure targeting the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn group. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)







In this police handout photo taken on Thursday , Oct. 17, 2013, Christos Salis, 39, right, and his companion Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40, or Selini Sali — as the woman has two separate sets of identity papers. pose with the little girl only known as "Maria" in the Larisa regional police headquarters, Greece. Police in Greece have released the photographs of a couple alleged adductors of a girl known “Maria” after they were formally taken onto pre-trial custody and an international search for the girl’s parents intensified. (AP Photo/Greek Police)







(AP) — A top Greek prosecutor has ordered an emergency nationwide investigation into birth certificates issued in the past six years after an unknown girl was discovered living with her alleged abductors at a Gypsy camp.

Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani ordered the inquiry Tuesday for birth certificates issued after Jan. 1, 2008, amid media reports of benefit fraud by families who declared the same birth in multiple cities or who had produced false birth certificates for children that may or may not exist.

Critics say Greece's birth registration system is wide open to exploitation. Until just five months ago, there was no central national registry. Even now, births declared in different municipalities before May are not cross-checked on a national basis.

The birth registry investigation was sparked after a Gypsy, or Roma, couple was jailed on charges of abduction and document fraud in the case of the girl known only as "Maria." The blonde girl, believed to be 5 or 6, was found during a police raid on a Roma camp. She was taken into protective care last week after DNA tests established the Roma couple was not her biological parents.

Police said "Maria's" birth was falsely declared in Athens in 2009 but did not elaborate. The charity in charge of the girl's temporary care says a dental examination indicated she is five or six years old, not four as originally thought. It is not even certain the child was born in Greece.

The two suspects, aged 39 and 40, deny the abduction allegations, claiming they received "Maria" from a destitute woman to bring up as their own. They are now in pre-trial detention.

The girl's DNA has been entered into an Interpol database to check for matches.

Authorities allege that the female suspect claimed to have given birth to six children in less than 10 months, while 10 of the 14 children the couple had registered as their own are unaccounted for. Police say the two suspects received about 2,500 euros ($3,420) a month in subsidies from three different cities — a substantial amount in the midst of Greece's devastated economy.

On Monday, the mayor of Athens ordered the suspension of three officials in charge of record-keeping. It was not clear exactly why.

Earlier this month, the city of Athens had complained that "extremely problematic and antiquated" Greek laws allowed people to register babies as their own on the basis of one person's declaration backed by two witnesses. Prior to the new registry, parents could have delayed registering their children until they turned 18.

New parents now have three months to declare their newborns. Investigators in Athens, however, had found a large number of babies had been declared near the end of that deadline, and they suspected some were multiple declarations to claim benefits from different areas.

The mystery girl's case has triggered international interest in missing children. Irish police on Monday seized a young blonde girl from a Romanian Gypsy family in Dublin in a move spurred by the case in Greece.

The Irish government was seeking court approval Tuesday to take the girl into foster care while police investigate her origins. The couple in Dublin said the 7-year-old child was theirs, but a Dublin maternity hospital they identified had no record of the birth. Nobody has been arrested.

"Maria" was spotted during a police raid near the central Greek town of Farsala on Oct. 16. Greek police have carried out dozens of similar raids on Roma camps in the past few weeks in a crackdown on drug smuggling and burglary gangs.

Human rights groups are now worried that Europe's Roma community as a whole is being unfairly targeted by authorities and the media. Europe's top human rights official told The Associated Press he was worried about a possible backlash against Greece's Roma minority.

"Of course it is a danger," said Thorbjoern Jagland, Secretary General of Council of Europe, as he arrived in Athens for a two-day visit. "If a Roma family, a Roma people are involved in this, this should not lead to condemnation of the whole Roma society."

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AP writers Costas Kantouris in Thessaloniki and Nicholas Paphitis in Athens contributed.

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Apple's Double iPad Party: Everything You May Have Missed

Apple's Double iPad Party: Everything You May Have Missed

Today was a banner day for new Apple goodness. We got a thinner, lighter, iPad—the iPad Air—as well as a new retina display iPad mini, new Haswell chip-packed MacBook Pros, and a deeper look at the new Mac Pros. Do you feel like you need a cheat sheet to keep track? We've got just the thing:

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Coffee Coming Up, Nice And Hot ... And Prepared By A Robot





Briggo's Coffee Haus takes up about 50 square feet of space, has a nice exterior wood design, and accepts orders either on-site or via a website.



Courtesy Briggo


Briggo's Coffee Haus takes up about 50 square feet of space, has a nice exterior wood design, and accepts orders either on-site or via a website.


Courtesy Briggo


A new trend is brewing in the coffee world: coffee prepared by a robot, able to be preordered via cellphone and picked up at an unmanned kiosk, perfectly adjusted to your taste and ready to go.


To some, this might seem lamentable: the beginning of the end of coffee shops as we know them. No more huddling around warm cups of coffee with friends or sipping a refreshing iced latte while reading.


But to others, this might be just what they've waited for: no lines when you're in a rush, and coffee prepared by a machine that is programmed to make it perfectly time and time again.


The latest company to present such a coffee kiosk is Austin-based Briggo. As Quartz recently reported, Briggo opened its first kiosk on the University of Texas' Austin campus in July of this year. The kiosk — dubbed "The Coffee Haus" — takes up about 50 square feet of space, has a nice exterior wood design, and accepts orders either on-site or across campus via a website, informing the customer precisely when the drink will be ready.


Customers are able to control every detail to their liking, including the flavor, the type of sweetener and milk, and the amount of each ingredient. A variety of choices are offered, from espressos and lattes to iced coffees and hot chocolate. If customers create an account online, the system will remember their favorite order (of course, your friendly neighborhood barista probably does the same thing).


While the convenience of such a machine is probably its biggest selling point, consumers who've sampled Briggo's brew tell The Salt that the quality of the coffee is nothing to sniff at, either.


Unlike baristas in training, who need to figure out the tricks of the trade, their robotic counterparts have been programmed to control every aspect of the process, with the goal of creating a consistently tasty product.


"The coffee tastes good and it always tastes the same," Yamit Lavi, a student at UT Austin, tells us. "I would say the consistency of the taste makes it better than a standard coffee shop."


The machine, after all, can measure humidity, temperature, water pressure, timing and other such factors to a T. And while institutions host the coffee kiosks, Briggo retains ownership of the machines so it can closely manage the entire process, from origin of its direct-trade beans to cup in hand.


Briggo isn't the only company to pursue a robotic coffee venture. There's also the Marley Coffee Machine, which croons Bob Marley tunes while the robot within the box prepares coffee from freshly ground beans. And Starbucks' satellite brand, Seattle's Best, is pairing with the company that owns Redbox to set up one-dollar coffee kiosks in hundreds of supermarkets across the country.


And yet, although students at UT Austin enjoy the Briggo "Coffee Haus," many of them still hold on to the value of a real coffee shop experience.


"At coffee shops you can build relationships with the people making your drink and have a more personal interaction," says Mina Ghobrial, another student at UT. "I believe that's very important in today's society, especially since electronics have taken over face-to-face interactions."


The coffee kiosks don't have to eliminate coffee shops altogether. Instead, they can be a nice addition: something there when we need it — and not bad-tasting to boot.


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Iraq vet's family considering gravestone options


CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of a slain Iraqi war veteran wants her towering SpongeBob SquarePants headstone returned to her final resting place while the cemetery officials that removed it say that's the only thing they won't do, leaving both sides at an apparent impasse that may have to be decided in court.

Deborah Walker told The Associated Press after Tuesday's meeting with Spring Grove Cemetery officials that she'd consider their various proposals if they would think about hers — simply putting her daughter Kimberly's gravestone back.

But cemetery President Gary Freytag told the AP that isn't an option.

The headstone fashioned in the cartoon character's likeness was erected at Spring Grove Cemetery on Oct. 10, almost eight months after Kimberly Walker, 28, was found slain in a Colorado hotel room.

Despite getting the cemetery's prior approval of the headstone design — a smiling SpongeBob in an Army uniform, with Walker's name and rank — cemetery staff called her family the day after it was installed to say it would have to come down.

Cemetery officials said the employee who approved the design made a mistake. It was taken down along with a near-exact duplicate erected for Walker's living twin sister.

Deborah Walker said she's beyond frustrated with Spring Grove, saying her family had a contract, wants it to be honored as promised and is now considering their legal options.

"You can't keep blaming it on an employee," she said. "That employee represented that whole cemetery and when they do wrong, you've got to make it right. Put SpongeBob back up."

Freytag said he's "willing to do whatever the family thinks is best, other than installing the monuments back as they were."

Other possible solutions, Freytag said, include creating new, more traditional headstones bearing a smaller SpongeBob likeness, or laying the original headstones flat on the ground after redesigning the lot.

Spring Grove would cover all the costs, Freytag said.

Kimberly Walker's twin sister, Kara Walker, said her family went to great lengths for each of the $13,000 headstones, including obtaining copyright approval from Nickelodeon. The family believes the headstone was the only fitting tribute for her sister, a huge SpongeBob fan.

Kimberly Walker was an Army corporal assigned to the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion and served two yearlong tours Iraq in 2006 and 2010 as a petroleum supply specialist, her family said.

She was found dead in a hotel room in Colorado Springs in February on Valentine's Day, strangled and beaten to death. Her boyfriend, an Army sergeant stationed nearby, was arrested and charged with her killing.

"My sister served our country and most people try to accommodate veterans and try to take care of them," Kara Walker said. "For them not to accommodate and respect what my sister sacrificed, not only for my family, but for everyone else in this country, really bothers me."

Freytag said Spring Grove admires and appreciates Kimberly Walker's military service but that the cemetery has to consider the wishes of other families whose loved ones are interred there and may not feel that gravestones modeled after cartoon characters are appropriate.

The dispute over the headstones has gained nationwide attention. Freytag said the cemetery has received so many calls, both in support of and against its decision, that they had to set up a special extension to field all the comments.

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Teacher Who Died Trying To End Shooting Remembered As A Hero





A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after a fellow student killed a math teacher and himself in Sparks, Nev., on Monday.



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A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after a fellow student killed a math teacher and himself in Sparks, Nev., on Monday.


Kevin Clifford/AP


Michael Landsberry, the 45-year-old middle school math teacher and Afghan War veteran who was killed trying to talk down a student shooter at a Nevada Middle School, is being remembered as a hero.


Witnesses at Sparks Middle School in the Reno suburb during Monday's shooting described how Landsberry approached the armed 13-year-old boy and tried to get him to surrender a semi-automatic pistol he had used to shoot two fellow students. The boy then turned the weapon on Landsberry, fatally shooting him, before using the pistol to take his own life.


"In my estimation he is a hero," Reno's Deputy Police Chief Tom Robinson said at a news conference Monday.


Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez said: "We have a lot of heroes today, including our children ... and our fallen hero, an amazing teacher."


A Facebook page in honor of the fallen teacher "Rest Easy Mr. Landsberry" had more than 12,000 "likes." Other photos of Landsberry can be seen here.


"It's very unfortunate that [the life of] someone like that, who protected our country over there and came back alive ... had to be taken at his work, at a school," Sparks Mayor Geno Martini said, according to CNN.


Landsberry, a former U.S. Marine who later served in Afghanistan with the Nevada Air National Guard and held the rank of senior master sergeant, wrote on his classroom webpage: "One of my goals is to earn your respect while you earn mine. I believe that with mutual respect that the classroom environment will run smoothly."


Chanda Landsberry said her brother-in-law loved teaching.


"He loved his schoolkids. He loved the Guard," she said. "It defined him."


She said he leaves behind his wife, Sharon, and two stepdaughters.


Authorities tell ABCNews that one of the wounded boys had been through surgery and the second is said to be "doing well."


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Builders of Obama's health website saw red flags


WASHINGTON (AP) — Crammed into conference rooms with pizza for dinner, some programmers building the Obama administration's showcase health insurance website were growing increasingly stressed. Some worked past 10 p.m., energy drinks in hand. Others rewrote computer code over and over to meet what they considered last-minute requests for changes from the government or other contractors.

As questions mount over the website's failure, insider interviews and a review of technical specifications by The Associated Press found a mind-numbingly complex system put together by harried programmers who pushed out a final product that congressional investigators said was tested by the government and not private developers with more expertise.

Project developers who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity — because they feared they would otherwise be fired — said they raised doubts among themselves whether the website could be ready in time. They complained openly to each other about what they considered tight and unrealistic deadlines. One was nearly brought to tears over the stress of finishing on time, one developer said. Website builders saw red flags for months.

A review of internal architectural diagrams obtained by the AP revealed the system's complexity. Insurance applicants have a host of personal information verified, including income and immigration status. The system connects to other federal computer networks, including ones at the Social Security Administration, IRS, Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management and the Peace Corps.

President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged technical problems that he described as "kinks in the system." He also promised a "tech surge" by leading technology talent to repair the painfully slow and often unresponsive website that has frustrated Americans trying to enroll online for insurance plans at the center of Obama's health care law.

But in remarks at a Rose Garden event, Obama offered no explanation for the failure except to note that high traffic to the website caused some of the slowdowns. He said it had been visited nearly 20 million times — fewer monthly visits so far than many commercial websites, such as PayPal, AOL, Wikipedia or Pinterest.

"The problem has been that the website that's supposed to make it easy to apply for and purchase the insurance is not working the way it should for everybody," Obama said. "There's no sugarcoating it. The website has been too slow. People have been getting stuck during the application process. And I think it's fair to say that nobody is more frustrated by that than I am."

The online system was envisioned as a simple way for people without health insurance to comparison-shop among competing plans offered in their state, pick their preferred level of coverage and cost and sign up. For many, it's not worked out that way so far.

Just weeks before the launch of HealthCare.gov on Oct. 1, one programmer said, colleagues huddled in conference rooms trying to patch "bugs," or deficiencies in computer code. Unresolved problems led to visitors experiencing cryptic error messages or enduring long waits trying to sign up.

Congressional investigators have concluded that the government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, not private software developers, tested the exchange's computer systems during the final weeks. That task, known as integration testing, is usually handled by software companies because it ferrets out problems before the public sees the final product.

The government spent at least $394 million in contracts to build the federal health care exchange and the data hub. Those contracts included major awards to Virginia-based CGI Federal Inc., Maryland-based Quality Software Services Inc. and Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

CGI Federal said in a statement Monday it was working with the government and other contractors "around the clock" to improve the system, which it called "complex, ambitious and unprecedented."

The schematics from late 2012 show how officials designated a "data services hub" — a traffic cop for managing information — in lieu of a design that would have allowed state exchanges to connect directly to government servers when verifying an applicant's information. On Sunday, the Health and Human Services Department said the data hub was working but not meeting public expectations: "We are committed to doing better."

Administration officials so far have refused to say how many people actually have managed to enroll in insurance during the three weeks since the new marketplaces became available. Without enrollment numbers, it's impossible to know whether the program is on track to reach projections from the Congressional Budget Office that 7 million people would gain coverage during the first year the exchanges were available.

Instead, officials have selectively cited figures that put the insurance exchanges in a positive light. They say more than 19 million people have logged on to the federal website and nearly 500,000 have filled out applications for insurance through both the federal and state-run sites.

The flood of computer problems since the website went online has been deeply embarrassing for the White House. The snags have called into question whether the administration is capable of implementing the complex policy and why senior administration officials — including the president — appear to have been unaware of the scope of the problems when the exchange sites opened.

Even as the president spoke at the Rose Garden, more problems were coming to light. The administration acknowledged that a planned upgrade to the website had been postponed indefinitely and that online Spanish-language signups would remain unavailable, despite a promise to Hispanic groups that the capability would start this week. And the government tweaked the website's home page so visitors can now view phone numbers to apply the old-fashioned way or window-shop for insurance rates without registering first.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee was expected to conduct an oversight hearing Thursday, probably without Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifying. She could testify on Capitol Hill on the subject as early as next week.

Uninsured Americans have until about mid-February to sign up for coverage if they are to meet the law's requirement that they be insured by the end of March. If they don't, they will face a penalty.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., plans to introduce legislation to delay that requirement because: "It's not fair to punish people for not buying something that's not available," Rubio told "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday.

On Monday, the White House advised people frustrated by the online tangle that they can enroll by calling 1-800-318-2596 in a process that should take 25 minutes for an individual or 45 minutes for a family. Assistance is also available in communities from helpers who can be found at LocalHelp.HealthCare.gov.

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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.

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Boxlight ProjectoWrite6 X32N


The Boxlight ProjectoWrite6 X32N is an XGA (1,024 by 768) interactive projector with a difference. Or lots of differences. Unlike most, it's built around an LCD, rather than DLP, engine; it uses a wireless connection rather than a USB cable to control interactivity; and it offers a standard throw, rather than a short or ultra-short throw. The combination makes it stand out from the crowd, mostly in a good way.



As with the Editors' Choice Epson BrightLink 436Wi Interactive WXGA 3LCD Projector, the LCD engine in the X32N gives it two advantages over DLP-based competition and one disadvantage.



The first advantage is that it's guaranteed not to show rainbow artifacts—in the form of red, green, and blue flashes—that DLP-based projectors can show. The second is that it has the same color brightness as white brightness, which is often not true for DLP projectors. A difference between the two can affect both the brightness and color quality of color images. (For more on color brightness, see Color Brightness: What It Is, and Why You Should Care.) The disadvantage is that it doesn't offer 3D support, which you'll find in most DLP projectors. Unless you need 3D, however, that's a non-issue.


Interactive Advantages and Disadvantages
The wireless connection for interactivity comes in the form of a dongle you plug into your PC's USB port. This isn't much of an advantage for a permanent installation using a single computer. If different people use different computers, however, it's a little more convenient than connecting a cable every time you switch computers. And if you plan to use the projector as a portable, the wireless connection means one less wire to worry about every time you set it up.


The standard throw, unfortunately, is far more of a minus than a plus. A standard throw lens helps keep the initial price down compared with a short throw or ultra-short throw lensing system. However, the closer a projector is to the screen, the easier it is to avoid shadows, which is why most interactive projectors offer either a short throw or ultra-short throw.


Using a 78-inch wide (roughly 98-inch diagonal) XGA image, for example, I measured the short throw Acer S5201M at only 49 inches from the screen. The X32N needed 107 inches for the same size image.


As you would expect from the X32N's throw distance, when you're standing next to the screen to interact with the image, it's easy to wind up with a shadow covering the part of the image you want to interact with. That also means you're blocking the projector from seeing what you're doing with the interactive pen.


The good news is that this isn't as much of a problem as you might expect it to be. After a little trial and error, I was able to adjust my position to reliably avoid shadows over the part of the screen I wanted to interact with. If you're in front of an audience, however, you may have to step out of the way when you're done to let everyone see the full image.


Setup and Basics
The X32N is small and light enough to carry with you. However, at 3.8 by 12.8 by 10.2 inches and 7 pounds 8 ounces, it is in a size and weight class that usually winds up permanently installed or on a cart for room-to-room portability. The 3,200-lumen rating puts it in the usual range for a projector aimed at a small- to mid-size conference room or classroom.


Aside from using a USB dongle instead of a USB cable for interactive control, setup is mostly standard fare for an interactive projector, with manual focus and manual zoom.


Choices for image input include the usual VGA, HDMI, and composite video ports, an S-Video port and a USB A port for reading files directly from a USB memory key, and a mini-USB B port for direct USB display. In addition, the projector offers a 1.5GB internal memory to let you show images without an external device and a LAN port to let you send images and audio, as well as control the projector, over a network. You can also get an optional Wi-Fi dongle ($99 list) that will let you send images from PCs, Macs, and both iOS and Android phones and tablets. Apps are available for recent OSs in each case.


As is common for interactive LCD projectors, the X32N uses infrared technology, which allows thinner pens than the ones that most DLP interactive projectors come with. This will be particularly welcome in a classroom with younger students with small hands.


One disadvantage of infrared technology is that the pens have to touch the screen, which means you need a screen with a hard backing. You also have to calibrate the pens to the projector. With only four points to touch on screen, however, the calibration step is quick and easy. Note too that the interactive feature lets you use two pens at once.


Image Quality and Other Issues
Data image quality for the ProjectoWrite6 X32N is solidly in the good to excellent range. The projector sailed through our standard suite of DisplayMate tests, with fully saturated vibrant color in all modes and good color balance. Grays were suitably neutral at all levels from black to white in all but the brightest mode, and showed just a hint of yellow tint in the brightest shades of the brightest mode.


More important for most data screens is that the projector held detail well, with both black on white and white on black text crisp and highly readable at sizes as small as 6.8 points. I saw some exceedingly minor dynamic moire with an analog (VGA) connection, but only on screens that are designed to bring out that problem. Unless you use patterned fills instead of solid blocks of colors in your images, you'll probably never see this issue.


Video is watchable, but not high quality. The projector did a good job with shadow detail (details based on shading in dark areas), and I didn't see any motion artifacts or posterization. However, the low contrast ratio showed as washed out color in every scene. The quality is good enough to let you watch a full-length movie comfortably, but don't expect colors to pop off the screen.


One last issue that demands mention is that, as with most projectors in this weight class, the built-in audio for the ProjectoWrite6 X32N is hardly worth having. The sound quality is acceptable, but the 10-watt mono speaker puts out barely enough volume for a small conference room. If you need higher volume or stereo, plan on plugging an external sound system into the projector's stereo audio output.


The standard throw on the ProjectoWrite6 X32N makes it a less than ideal choice if you need a projector for extensive interactive use. If you need only occasional interactive capability in an XGA projector, however, the combination of good to excellent data image quality, watchable video, and interactive extras like dual pen support can easily make the Boxlight ProjectoWrite6 X32N a good fit.


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