Whereas tablet PCs are full-blown PCs that contain all their components inside the casing of a notebook-sized flat-screen display, smart displays are light, portable display screens that connect wirelessly to a PC, so a user can interact with the PC away from the desk for reading documents or surfing the Web.
"We want to get the lead inside, so instead of chopping the pencil up perpendicularly and exposing just the ends, we strip the wood casing off the outside and expose the length of the lead, " says Litzen.