The potential for this to be used by businesses is enormous also.
One question, even after going to the article source — how is it powered?
My guess is it takes its power from the HDMI cable.
Real question is: what’s the power draw?
Make that low enough and a plethora of power options opens.
My first thought was this little gizmo could replace, at a cost less than the cost to install it, most if not all POS or business terminals, with very little there to have the possibility of failing, getting spilled on, gunked up from dust, etc. Wonder if an HDMI to VGA cable would work with this? Don't see why not - new life for all those old CRTs we're all throwing away.
Some people get trapped into thinking just education - make twice as many as you want for education, and sell the heck out of them to business users. Actually, considering it, make it a buy one give one type deal - corporates won't mind paying $50 per, and can brag about how they're supporting education, while saving themselves a heck of a lot of money just on power use.
If I had to guess, the form factor is very much like the mini cams, so, maybe a battery, rechargeable by usb. otherwise, usb powered in some way.