iPad

Originally posted by Palynka
Isn't Luddism grand?

Most people don't need a computer. They have these super powered processors to go on the web and check out facebook or mail. The tablet format looks to me much superior for such people.

Listen flatlander, the ipad has a fatal flaw. You have to hold it with one hand. a computer doesn't need to be held. It sits by itself. You will find it very difficult to use this thing if you lay it on the table...if you hold it with one hand, you have to do everything else with your other hand.

Its justt not going to feel comfortable to the average user. try typing with one hand and see how long you last.

Originally posted by Palynka
Just a few years ago minority report had Tom Cruise using an interface that read his movements. Now we already have cameras that read your movements and allow you to use this as an interface. It's still crude, but it's here and it's probably only going to get bigger.

And this is similar. The format is just something that makes intuitive sense. Maybe this one knows any sci-fi film that featured things like these tablets? I'm sure there are some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_pc#History

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The following timeline list gives some of the highlights of this history:

* Before 1950
o 1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting.[14][18]
o 1915: U.S. Patent on handwriting recognition user interface with a stylus.[15][19]
o 1942: U.S. Patent on touchscreen for handwriting input.[20][21]
o 1945: Vannevar Bush proposes the Memex, a data archiving device including handwriting input, in an essay As We May Think.[22]
* 1950s
o Tom Dimond demonstrates the Styalator electronic tablet with pen for computer input and software for recognition of handwritten text in real-time.[16]
* Early 1960s
o RAND Tablet invented.[23][24] The RAND Tablet is better known than the Styalator, but was invented later.

* Late 1960s
o Alan Kay of Xerox PARC proposed a notebook computer, optionally using pen input, called the Dynabook: however the device is never constructed or implemented with pen input.
* 1966
o In the science fiction television series Star Trek, crew members carry large, wedge-shaped electronic clipboards, operated through the use of a stylus.
* 1968
o Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick imagines a flatscreen tablet device wirelessly playing a streaming video broadcast in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.[25]

Wireless tablet device in the movie 2001

* 1982
o Pencept of Waltham, Massachusetts markets a general-purpose computer terminal using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse.[26]
o Cadre System markets the Inforite point-of-sale terminal using handwriting recognition and a small electronic tablet and pen.[27]
* 1985:
o Pencept[28] and CIC[29] both offer PC computers for the consumer market using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse. Operating system is MS-DOS.

* 1989
o The first commercially available tablet-type portable computer was the GRiDPad[30] from GRiD Systems, released in September. Its operating system was based on MS-DOS.
o Wang Laboratories introduces Freestyle. Freestyle was an application that would do a screen capture from an MS-DOS application, and let the user add voice and handwriting annotations. It was a sophisticated predecessor to later note-taking applications for systems like the Tablet PC.[31] The operating system was MS-DOS

* 1991
o The Momenta Pentop was released.[32]
o GO Corporation announced a dedicated operating system, called PenPoint OS, featuring control of the operating system desktop via handwritten gesture shapes.[33][34]
o NCR released model 3125 pen computer running MS-DOS, Penpoint OS or Pen Windows.[35]
o The Apple Newton entered development; although it ultimately became a PDA, its original concept (which called for a larger screen and greater sketching capabilities) resembled the hardware of a Tablet PC.
* 1992
o GO Corporation shipped the PenPoint OS for general availability and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen computer (the first IBM model named "ThinkPad"😉 in April.[36]
o Microsoft releases Windows for Pen Computing as a response to the PenPoint OS by GO Corporation.
* 1993
o Fujitsu releases the Poqet PC the first pen tablet to use an integrated wireless LAN[37]
o The IBM releases the ThinkPad, IBM's first commercialized portable tablet computer product available to the consumer market, as the IBM ThinkPad 750P and 360P[38]
o AT&T introduced the EO Personal Communicator combining PenPoint with wireless communications.
* 1999
o The "QBE" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies wins Comdex Best of Show.[39]

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Originally posted by uzless
Listen flatlander, the ipad has a fatal flaw. You have to hold it with one hand. a computer doesn't need to be held. It sits by itself. You will find it very difficult to use this thing if you lay it on the table...if you hold it with one hand, you have to do everything else with your other hand.

Its justt not going to feel comfortable to the average user. try typing with one hand and see how long you last.

if you don't like typing one-handed, hold it with two hands and poke at it with something else.

Originally posted by zeeblebot
Stone 40,000 BC

FAIL