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The Tablet of the Future From 1994
http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007...aper-1994.html
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04-28-2011, 07:58 PM | #2 |
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I wonder if Apple will try to figure out a way to sue them for infringement too
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04-28-2011, 08:24 PM | #3 |
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Probably not. The tablet in that article isn't "magical" or "revolutionary." If it had been billed as such, Apple would enlist their Time Cops to go back and sue the pants off of Knight-Ridder.
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04-28-2011, 10:35 PM | #4 |
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I just saw this posted on netbooknews. Great video!
I like how large their prototype/mockup tablet is. I also like that they use a stylus with it. I like how the photo of the baseball game just starts moving and becomes a video. Right now, you would see a blurry freeze-frame from the middle of the video and big giant ">" in the screen, then when you press play you would have to watch some obnoxious, loud pre-roll advert. Wouldn't it be better to have still images instantly transform into moving images the way they show it in their hypothetical? |
04-29-2011, 06:26 PM | #5 |
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Wow, 2:25 of that video is amazingly prescient. Especially for 1994. They were a bit off about when this technology would really take off but only by about 10 years.
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04-29-2011, 06:48 PM | #6 |
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So much hope! Man, that things rad. I think a lot of people expected more from the 90's as far as our relation to digital "things" was concerned.
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04-30-2011, 11:29 AM | #7 |
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First, thanks for bringing that incredible site to my attention! Love it!
Secondly, the initial image on that video could be more what the Kindle-with-ads screensaver looks like. The images Amazon is showing now are all oh-so-tasteful, but come on...if the Kindle catches on as an advertising outlet, we'll see screensavers that look like your local supermarket ad (or worse, an ad for Fry's Electronics). |
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My take on it is that the 60's were particularly productive (Seattle's Century 21 Exposition and the like) but many of those ideas actually came from the 30's and 40's. The dreamer kids that grew up with Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and other sci-fi magazines in those decades were the engineers that were giving life to those dreams in the 50's and beyond. |
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All I know is they STILL haven't delivered my auto-drive vehicles. Closest is the current "parking assist" vehicles for those incapable of the mundane task of parallel parking...yawn...if you can't parallel park you should not be allowed to drive period. Plus you should be required to eat with a rubber spork with corks on the tines!! hahaha... |
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Then with the 50s - 70s we had the so-called "Atomic Age" in design and creativity. Again a booming era. Of course that led to the profiteering era, aka 90s - '1x decades. Genuinely I don't thing we are seeing much in the way of evolving product right now. |
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