Apple’s Oscal-staring iPad ad

by LCH on March 8, 2010

An Apple iPad commercial graced the Oscars last night. The ad did a good job of highlighting the various features of the iPad though I’m not quite sure it was or is as effective as the first round of iPhone ads.

Engadget has a few more tidbits on the ad here along with a copy of the video itself.

Oh…and when will the iPad first appear on store shelves? How about April 3.

In case you’re waiting for some Tablet PC commercials, well you’ll have to wait a bit longer. Maybe a future generation HP slate or even the Courier project will get some ad time. Till then.

Editing on an Apple iPad

What’s it like to edit, let’s say a slideshow, using the forthcoming Apple iPad? Is it easy?
Here’s a short video that gives an idea of what it’s like:

Looks like it’s nicely done.

Is the Apple tablet taking over search engines?

Real-time search has been the talk of search engine mechanics for a better part of a year now. So in the sluggishly fast paced world of Apple tablet rumors how do the big two search engines compare?
Searching for the generic term “tablet” in both Google an Bing, what shows up more frequently: breaking news rumors [...]

Robert Scoble: Lessons Steve Jobs has learned from the NEC Tablet PC

Robert Scoble nails it with his analysis of what Steve Jobs has probably learned from the failed NEC LitePad Tablet PC–which, in my estimation was one of the best Tablet PCs to date.
The LitePad was the second Tablet PC I purchased at the time and was the first slate form factor I owned. In large [...]

What happens if the Apple tablet doesn’t live up to its hype?

I know these are difficult words to ask for some, but it’s time to be asked:
“What if the Apple tablet doesn’t live up to its hype?”
What if Amazon CTO Werner is correct and sane judgment has been “suspended?”
What if this is all a masterful attempt at getting us to watch an announcement for…for…for…gasp…a new [...]

Join the Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC recall

Rob Bushway over at Gottabemobile is right on target: It’s time for Dell and N-Trig to work together to solve the numerous problems that the Dell XT is experiencing, namely false clicks, resume from sleep/hibernation issues, poor multitouch experience, and more. Quite simply the Dell Latitude does not work as advertised. And it definitely does [...]

James Kendrick on slates and tablets @CES

James Kendrick inks (literally): “None of the slates at CES can do this. None of them.”
He’s pointing out that slates at CES, seem to be touch biased and not ink minded.
The comments in his thread point out the ins and out of exactly what is a tablet and what is a slate, to no real [...]

Foxconn shopping slate design

Ryan Shrout showed off a Foxconn slate prototype on the Leo Laporte CES broadcast yesterday.
He didn’t have many details, except that it contains the latest generation of Tegra technology–presumably in order to enable full-speed video playback.
There appears to be touch as well as a bezel that’s thick enough to comfortably hold the typical USB connectors.
In [...]

Super fast projected capacitve touch from 3M

3M’s M2256PW 20-finger multitouch display is quite impressive. 10 ms update rate and smooth tracking. I give two thumbs up.
[Via Engadget]
OK, 3M, what about multi-touch “skin” on the display casing–which would be particularly useful for mobile and handheld devices?

Neowin quickly demos a Pegatron slate

Neowin has a quick video and some screenshots that show the Pegatron slate running Windows 7. You can see it here.
The video, though, gives a good idea how the 11.6″ screened device works:

No mention of weight that I can find. Still looking. Under a pound is a must for long term use if you ask [...]

Live.twit.tv manages CES bandwidth with Dell Tablet PC

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What’s [...]

Slick projection screen and IR touch detector

Engadget captures this slick Light Touch projector-slash-IR-touch detector system at CES. Simply cool. You need to watch the video:

Steve Ballmer shows off HP slate prototype

Tonight Steve Ballmer showed off briefly a prototype slate running Windows 7 from HP. No more details on the device itself, other than what Ballmer showed off. The device is about the size of a Kindle though it supports color, Windows 7, touch, an accelerometer, and of course, apps that run under Windows.
Steve suggests the [...]

Mary Jo sums up Microsoft’s tablet efforts

Monday Mary Jo Foley did a pretty good job summing up various tablet and touch efforts by Microsoft (http://bit.ly/7OyMMI).
First, she declares that Microsoft has already ceded the tablet market in part because of marketing. She doesn’t quite get the full touch idea either–no matter what the size of the display. (I’d argue that maybe she’s [...]

Should Microsoft back out of CES?

Should Microsoft back out of CES 2011?
Yeah, this may sound crazy, but maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to follow Apple’s lead of dropping huge industry events for more focused ones–at least in terms of an official, booth capacity. You can always send people along, have private or even public hotel suites [...]

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