Lenovo Product Engineer Ashton Kutcher 'Not Concerned' About Upcoming iPad Launch

[tmarks11]

Ashton Kutcher is a "product engineer"?

Give me a break.

He dropped out of college after one year in pre-engineering.

You know what you study your first year? Physics, Chemistry, and calculus. No real engineering courses.

Say what you will about him, but he does actually have an engineering degree. With that said, he clearly was brought on for marketing purposes not engineering.

You need to go back and look at his biography again. He claims he studied "biomedical engineering", but first year pre-engineering is first year pre-engineering. The specialized study comes after you get the basics.

You don't get a degree after one year.

 

[pnvgordinho]

The two things missing are a stylus and iOS running on it. Otherwise looks very nice for its price.

 

[AxoNeuron]

I'd love to see where Ashton Kutcher got his electrical engineering degree from.

The saddest thing about these celebrity endorsements is that they actually do work. People really do believe this...stuff.

 

[nickgri]

Ashton

Funny how all the so-called engineers got their panties all in a huff and cry "he has no degree or experience!" Well go change your tampons. Ideas come from people with imagination who can think outside the box that most engineers are locked in. Maybe the actual technical stuff needs the engineers but the brilliant creative ideas can come from anyone who has many years using and playing with the products or products to be.
Apple would be wise to allow ideas to come in from the outside and put them in the suggestion box for serious considerations.
Yes maybe most will be garbage-but gems will be there as well-right now they miss them.

 

[tmarks11]

Funny how all the so-called engineers got their panties all in a huff and cry "he has no degree or experience!" Well go change your tampons. Ideas come from people with imagination who can think outside the box that most engineers are locked in.

I have no problem with them calling him a design consultant, or words to that effect. Perhaps "celebrity design consultant", since that is what he is.

Engineer is a title that carries a significant message with it. Notice all the people in this thread who immediate assumed he had an engineering degree, rather than was just a tech enthusiast.

And what is your field of expertise, and how many years did you spend slaving away to earn the right to call yourself that?

Yep, I thought so.

Apple would be wise to allow ideas to come in from the outside and put them in the suggestion box for serious considerations

Please god, not more like Jony Ivy.

"I have an idea. We will make it RED."

"What is it Jony?"

"It is the essence of RED".

"But what does it do?"

 

[burgman]

Funny how all the so-called engineers got their panties all in a huff and cry "he has no degree or experience!" Well go change your tampons. Ideas come from people with imagination who can think outside the box that most engineers are locked in. Maybe the actual technical stuff needs the engineers but the brilliant creative ideas can come from anyone who has many years using and playing with the products or products to be.
Apple would be wise to allow ideas to come in from the outside and put them in the suggestion box for serious considerations.
Yes maybe most will be garbage-but gems will be there as well-right now they miss them.

Now i understand the Green Trolls in those great (brief) HTC TV commercials.
Robert Downey was a genius!

 

[Abazigal]

"And with the projector, users don't need to look for an HDMI cord or use AirPlay, because there's a "built-in 50-inch screen."



Oh so you mean all I have to do is find a good spot to put my tablet, on a flat, stable surface, in the middle of the room, and pray to god there's not a bookcase, or a fireplace, or window, or painting, or door, or an already existing TV in the room and away I go? Stick to "acting" Ashton

Not only that, but it also means that I can't use my tablet while it is projecting. With my iPad, I can let AirPlay run in the background while I perform another task like browsing an app.

I can see a use for this feature (you often give presentations and can't rely on the necessary equipment always being there) but this really seems like a niche market.