Outside the conference room, television screens featured reports from a range of networks, all focused on The Guardian's story.
Different screens featured different design cues; each screen was almost completely different.
Below the TV screen were two PC screens featuring the CNNMoney home page which was static, with nary a streaming-media image in sight.
Alongside the more curious "innovations" was the usual barrage of high-definition screens, feature-packed smartphones and hybrid "phablets", with matching marketing superlatives.
Some of the scenes projected on the water screens feature animation from the Toy Story films.
In front of him was the usual bank of screens featuring various camera angles from the set.
Each screen features an animation of an animal based on a motion capture technique pioneered by the 19th-century photographer Edward Muybridge while he was working there.
On phones and tablets, for instance, Windows 10 will slip seamlessly into the appropriate role, activating touch-sensitive gestures and all the small-screen features needed.
The entry level iMac with a 21-inch screen features a 2.7GHz quad-core Core i5 processor and Intel's new graphics standard (Iris Pro).
So far so banal, except that this screen features a red dot that, by some technological magic, tracks the movement of my eyes: I can place it where I want on the screen just by looking.
