Slates
Overview
Slates are portable, personal interfaces featuring large displays. They are often used to connect to endpoints in order to control various systems. The typical slate has an edge-to-edge touch-enabled organic display with a thin form factor. Slates can be translucent or opaque, elegant or robust. They come in a number of form factors.
Types of Slates
Glass Slates
Translucent displays that can read data sticks and interface with local terminals. They also have some limited on-board LMNL compute. Glass slates are very common in enterprise and institutional environments where information is constantly in flux, and secured through private endpoints.
Paper Slates
These paper-thin displays (colloquially referred to simply as "paper") are one of the most common varieties of slate. The ‘paper’ material is not really paper, but a highly resilient hard-code nanostructure with a paper-like texture.
Paper slates are commonly used for extremely sensitive information, and is particularly useful in the criminal underworld, and more clandestine enterprises. Paper is also commonly used as a medium of exchange in financial transactions, and for storage backups for critical data.
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