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Watch Out Apple... Courier - Details of Microsft's Secret Tablet
- serhei 17y agoSort of reminds me of the Info Pad idea from a couple years back: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/05/desperately-seeking-info-pad.html http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/05/desperately-se...
- stcredzero 17y agoSuch an info pad would also be an ideal platform for taking my library of documentation, and my personally compiled tune-book. (Music notation.) The key here, is that there is a nascent market for a device on which users can compile self-generated content. Notes are such self-generated content. Moleskins and other kinds of journals and sketchbooks are another.
- NathanKP 17y agoI've seen this in the other new item here on HN. But this article has some interesting comments concerning left-handed usage. I wonder if the theme will be reversible for ease of use by left-handed people?
- shib71 17y agoWant.
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- msie 17y agoI am skeptical. I remember watching a demonstration of WinFS only to find out later that it was a Macromedia Director demo. Even if it was real there is some way to go before it becomes a product.
- GHFigs 17y agoFor a "real device", it sure does look like a bunch of concept renderings. I predict that this will be as revolutionary as "Project Origami".
- jacquesm 17y agoAgreed, if they had a real device I'm sure the video would have been shot in a different way than. This is simply an animation of what it could look like, but I highly doubt it actually exists. Otherwise why have a computer animated hand do the actions, instead of a real one. Or is this the new strategy, let's show something that looks like a fake when actually we have it. Any advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
- chaostheory 17y agoAnyone remember how cool MS Origami looked? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6381789873197028811 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6381789873197028811 Microsoft's commercials and reality don't intersect very well. History tends to repeat itself.
- anigbrowl 17y agoUmm, to be fair you can do most of that now. Take the bit with the photo guy who has the image preview, color wheel, histogram on his tablet; you can do that right now if you have a Canon EOS camera - as a matter of fact you can focus and twiddle the white balance etc. from the laptop without touching the camera if you want. I am looking at buying exactly such a system later this year (the camera does what I want, this computer connectivity is a bonus, albeit a welcome one). Not that Microsft gets all the credit for that, but they've had tablet-capable Windows for ages now, and I don't blame them for the time it's taken the hardware manufacturers to catch up.
- steverb 17y agoI did actually do some testing of some Origami devices when I was working for a large health care company. They were commercially available. Our issues with these always came down to battery life. I think current processor/solid state drive/battery combos make an all day tablet device workable now though.
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- GeneralMaximus 17y agoThis device might actually give tough competition to existing netbooks. It appears to be smaller and more portable than your average netbook, with the added advantage of having an interface designed specially for the smaller multitouch screen it sports. I sincerely hope this is real. We need someone besides Apple competing in the multitouch market.
- steverb 17y agoI believe that the renderings are based off of the "Codex": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049_U-0C9qU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=049_U-0C9qU No idea how old that video is, but the concept looks okay.