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Once upon a time I was a Firefox fanboy. Screw IE, Firefox is tha BOMB! Firefox was fast and cool and had Firebug and was open source and was screwing over Micro$oft and YEAH! I loved it.

Then two things started happening. First, Firefox started feeling slower and slower with each upgrade, and the glut of extensions I had installed made Firefox feel bloated and hodge-podgy. I loathed closing Firefox because of the inevitable time consuming extension updates upon restart. Make no mistake: Firefox + Firebug + many other extensions have improved my software development life immeasurably, but I was also aware of the heavy tool belt.

Joe Moore (original Lonnon Foster)

(Oh, don't even start about running multiple Firefox profiles. It sucks. Nobody really does that. Thank you.)

Second, I stopped ignoring Safari and now Chrome. These two browsers are snappy, slick, stripped down, start quickly, and are (mostly) extensionless. Sure, they have developer tools built in, but next to a fully loaded Firefox profile they dim in comparison and productivity.

Now I run two browsers: my work browser and my everything-else browser. Firefox is my super-handy, sometimes awkward multitool that has helped me escape many tight spots. Chrome is a Spyderco Delica: simple, sharp, efficient, and opens with a satisfying snick with the flick of the wrist. Use the right tool for the job.

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-- Joe says: wow, it actually works. --

Ever heard of a small company called Light Blue Optics? Probably not. But it's companies like LBO that make events like CES truly worthwhile. Tucked away in a small suite overshadowed by the million dollar spreads owned by industry giants like Samsung and Sony is a tiny startup looking to attract the attention of OEMs with its full-color holographic laser projection technology. The Windows CE-powered Light Touch represents the company's very first effort to create an interactive projector that allows users to interact with the displayed image as they would a modern touchscreen display. Despite our skepticism, we came away suitably surprised -- impressed even. Granted, our hands-on was performed in a lowly-lit room on par with the lighting you might find in a fine restaurant. Still, the 15 lumens were effective at lighting videos and the touch sensitivity was far more accurate than we expected -- so good that we were quickly typing out phrases on the QWERTY with few mistakes (admittedly taking a reasonable amount of care to strike the right "key"). The projector only supports single-touch at the moment though multi-touch is just a software tweak away. See the video after the break and prepare to be suitably amazed at watching a laser projector create a touchscreen display.

Gallery: Light Blue Optics Light Touch hands-on