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For He Dreamed Of An iPad — In 1981 In 1994, while running a lab dreaming up the future of newspapers, Roger Fidler starred in his own video demonstrating a prototype he cooked up that was remarkably like the iPad — black, thin, rectangular, with text and video displayed on-screen…. In 1981 Fidler published an essay describing the tablet future. “These units could have tactile controls,” he wrote. “When readers wanted to read the whole story, they would simply press the capsule or tease headline and the complete story would instantly appear on the screen.” Fidler even devised a fake plastic tablet, holding it up at journalism conferences to guffaws. His mock-up was rectangular and thin. “It just seemed so obvious to me that it had to be a touch screen,” Fidler said. “And it had to be portable. It had to fit in an attache case. It had to be comfortable to hold. That was the idea.” (Read More at WaPo) View high resolution

For He Dreamed Of An iPad — In 1981

In 1994, while running a lab dreaming up the future of newspapers, Roger Fidler starred in his own video demonstrating a prototype he cooked up that was remarkably like the iPad — black, thin, rectangular, with text and video displayed on-screen….

In 1981 Fidler published an essay describing the tablet future. “These units could have tactile controls,” he wrote. “When readers wanted to read the whole story, they would simply press the capsule or tease headline and the complete story would instantly appear on the screen.”

Fidler even devised a fake plastic tablet, holding it up at journalism conferences to guffaws. His mock-up was rectangular and thin. “It just seemed so obvious to me that it had to be a touch screen,” Fidler said. “And it had to be portable. It had to fit in an attache case. It had to be comfortable to hold. That was the idea.” (Read More at WaPo)

How many of these do we really need — per chance one to dream with?

How many of these do we really need — per chance one to dream with?

Let’s Call It The iTablet Roger Fidler and his team at Knight-Ridder describe an electronic newspaper running on what might as well be an iPad… except that their video was made way back in 1994. “We may still use computers to create information, but we will use the tablet to interact with print, video and other information,” the video says. (via TUAW)

Let’s Call It The iTablet

Roger Fidler and his team at Knight-Ridder describe an electronic newspaper running on what might as well be an iPad… except that their video was made way back in 1994.

“We may still use computers to create information, but we will use the tablet to interact with print, video and other information,” the video says. (via TUAW)

Waiting for someone to name their tablet The Moses shortformblog: producermatthew: This is the new HP tablet: The HP “TouchPad” will run Web OS, a Palm operating system, and will be offered in 16GB and 32GB versions. HP is marketing “true multitasking” and the ability to run Flash in an effort to compete against Apple. The tablet sports a forward-facing 1.3-megapixel camera and Beats Audio high-fidelity speakers.  Availability: Sometime this summer. Read more… This is the first real competition to the iPad we’ve seen. Look at this thing. It’s awesome. View high resolution

Waiting for someone to name their tablet The Moses

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producermatthew:

This is the new HP tablet: The HP “TouchPad” will run Web OS, a Palm operating system, and will be offered in 16GB and 32GB versions. HP is marketing “true multitasking” and the ability to run Flash in an effort to compete against Apple. The tablet sports a forward-facing 1.3-megapixel camera and Beats Audio high-fidelity speakers.  Availability: Sometime this summer. Read more…

This is the first real competition to the iPad we’ve seen. Look at this thing. It’s awesome.

(Source: matthewkeys)

(Reblogged from shortformblog)