The museum not only has a display area open to the public, but also has an archival collection of more than one million specimens taking up three floors.
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The iPad was clearly a more versatile device: it would provide color and full audio and video, while the Kindle could displayonly black-and-white text.
In the USB IF exhibit area at the CES I saw a high definition display that only had a USB cable connected to it that provided power for the display as well as a channel for the video traffic.