What we now think we know about this board:
Multi touch
Gesture recognition
Short throw projector (obviously)
No pen required (yay)
You can multiplayer.. Player 1 would use pen. Player 2 would use finger(touch), obviously no gesture recognition with the pen. Player 3 stays at home.
Possible uses for multiplayer other than Powerpoint? Not many yet. All On-line services only support one controller as far as I am aware. Scholastic has something out though which is for multiple controllers, this might work?
Looking forward to seeing the new board, and having one on the stand at Bett11. We do indeed have Story Stage (www.scholastic.co.uk/storystage) which works with four children on the same pc, and it works incredibly well for collaborative learning. As soon as we can test it on the new board we will!