An escritoire is a form of cupboard with a large front door that opens downwards to form a writing surface, converting it into a writing desk. A cupboard is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery. ...
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I present a system called the Escritoire that uses a novel configuration of overlapping projectors to create a large desk display that fills the area of a conventional desk and also has a high resolution region in front of the user for precise work.
The Escritoire software is divided into a client that exploits the video hardware and handles the input devices, and a server that processes events and stores all of the system state.
The Escritoire is constructed from commodity components, and unlike multi-projector display walls its cost is feasible for an individual user and it fits into a normal office setting.
They are often strongly built of fine hardwoods like mahogany or walnut.
They were, in effect, the fore-times equivalent of a PDA -- that is, they supplied, to the traveller, many of the conveniences of carrying round an entire escritoire.
From them has come the concept of the briefcase not just as a carrier for papers, but as a portable writing place; and thus the laptop computer.
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