Communications-enabled display console

A communications-enabled display console, comprising:

• a substrate having a viewing surface and a hidden surface opposite the viewing surface, and including a display zone and a border zone bordering the display zone, the hidden surface defining, in the border zone, a pocket;
• a transceiver module mounted in the pocket and configured to wirelessly send and receive data;
• and
• a hardware interface operatively coupled to the transceiver module, and configured to provide an image to the display zone.

A communications-enabled, interactive display console, comprising:

• a substrate having a viewing surface and a hidden surface opposite the viewing surface, and including a touch-sensitive display zone and a border zone bordering the touch-sensitive display zone;
• first and second transceiver modules coupled to the hidden surface of the substrate in the border zone, located on different sides of the touch-sensitive display zone, and configured to wirelessly send and receive data;
• and
• a hardware interface operatively coupled to the first and second transceiver modules, and configured to register a user input from, and to provide an image to, the touch-sensitive display zone.