Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet
Check out the video, it looks fairly sweet. My biggest question about a multitouch tablet with stylus is whether resting your hand on it when you write causes any trouble…I’d imagine they considered that, but I’m wondering how they’d pull it off.
Also, I hate when people rag on tablets for having styluses. What else are you supposed to use to write? I’m curious to see what Apple ends up doing—if they stick with the touch keyboard or concede to those of us who want to scrawl and doodle on a tablet with something more precise than a fingertip.
Entertaining concept video from 1987…reminds me of a simpler version of last year’s Aurora concept video by Adaptive Path, with the collaborative content sharing/creation.
I don’t know whether to be impressed by Apple’s forward thinking, or depressed that we don’t have it yet. The touchscreen only came of age in the past couple years thanks to the iPhone, but voice recognition hasn’t broken out past GPS systems. It’s crazy that something like natural language interaction is so difficult to perfect, when we as humans learn and utilize language so easily.
