Smart Technologies Inc of Calgary, Alberta has launched Smart Writeboard, an electronic whiteboard that is touch-sensitive and acts as a display for projecting computer-generated graphics or video images using a liquid crystal display panel. The user can write on the whiteboard using a dry marker pen and the writing appears, in the same way that it is written, on the computer screen. This can then be saved, manipulated or printed, just as any other computer file would be. The Smart Writeboard can be linked to another board by modem, so users in different offices can communicate by annotating the same diagrams on their screens. The Smart 2000 adds a projection element to the Writeboard for projecting the computer image onto the board. Smart Technologies also has Smart Marker Software for presentations and training sessions, enabling the user to draw over live Windows applications, as well as Smart Notes for creating and organising presentations and Smart 2000 software, a desktop conferencing software package that works over standard phone lines, Novell Inc’s Internet Protocol Exchange, TCP/IP, NetBIOS and Banyan Systems Inc Vines networks. System recommendations are a Macintosh or 80486SX-based personal computer with 4Mb RAM and 120Mb hard disk. The products are being distributed in the UK via Focasel Ltd, London. The Smart WriteBoard costs ú4,620 and the software starts from ú125.