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Newton Technology and the iWalk
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ive mentioned this before but...
...people seem more receptive now. my little imagining of an iNewton would be a little something like this (sorry im not in a list mood right now):
it should be a cross between a tablet and a pda. i carry little pads of paper around with me wherever i go and let me tell u, these are larger than most pda, but there is a difference they are longer but not much wider. take a look at your pockets they are typically deep but not wide. if the whole surface is an lcd then a long narrow iNewt would have a very large screen. heres another stupid idea... why not make it slightly flexible? just a tiny bit of flex would greatly increase its portability and comfort. a pad of paper in your pocket bends with you as you move a pda feels like a clunky brick in you pocket. a slight flex might greatly add to comfort. i recently read an article about a new sony laptop that had an lcd screen that could switch back and forth between indoor and outdoor modes (manually). the outdoor mode uses reflected ambient light to increase screen brightness (can anyone find the article?). an iNewt (every laptop/pda/tablet should be equipped with this!) with this sort of technology would ease eyestrain outdoors (im tired of peering at dim lcds). the ipod is great right now and i love actual harddrive technology but with ibm's pixiedust (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7801977.html) id like to see an ibm microdrive (article says 6gb in the 1inch square microdrive by next year!) in any iNewt. connectivity to your desktop is obvious but i woudl liketo see much more. i would like the iNewt to be a number of things in this respect: 1) an independant portable computer 2) a go between for data 3) a remote client for your desktop that both mirrors your desktop's monitor and accesses all the data and processing power in your desktop system. imagine for a moment you are a university professor. you have a beautiful mac in your office, the university has wireless access all over the campus, and you teach classes hold office hours and work in your office the lab and the field. you were in your office this morning and prepared a powerpoint presentation for class on your desktop, iNewt in pocket you headed to the lab to see what the undergraduate monkeys you have workin for you have accomplished lately. you are so excited about all the data the monkeys have produced you quickly download all the data into your iNewt and start talking excitedly with the kids while jotting notes down to you iNewt as fast as you would write to a clipboard. you suddenly realize you have office hours and rush off to the cafe on campus where you hold these informal sessions. as usual no one shows up for awhile and as you wait you wirelessly mirror your desktop (which has been synching with you iNewt all along since you havent left the campus's wireless network) and use the high powered system to analyze the data you had downloaded in the lab. as students trickle in you often use you iNewt to draw useful sketches and flow charts to explain ideas and even cue up webpages, movies, and still photos to explain and illustrate your ideas further. although the iNewt is long and narrow the view rotated 90 degrees to accommodate webpages better. you head off to class where you plug your iNewt into the projector (gigwire, usb2, or wireless whatever) and present the powerpoint presentation you created that morning but never transferred to your iNewt (didnt need to since it is always synching with your desktop). after class you head back to the office and take a look at the data that you started the machine analyzing hours ago. end of the day you head home leaving the campuses wireless network. you could pay for a broadband wireless plan but chose not to since your iNewt could stand on its own. stuck in traffic you plug your iNewt into teh car stereo and play your mp3 files (if you wanted you could use the wireless earbud head phones but your alone so no need). just then your cellphone rings. its one of those new ones where the bulk of it fits behind your ear with a hearing piece (that doubles as a mic) that fits in your ear like those old fashioned hearing aids. you glance at your iNewt which wirelessly synch with you cellphone to see who it is. you take the call since its your buddy you met at macrumors years ago. he has his iNewt with him so you point the iNewt's pinpoint webcam at yoruself and click the button to synch the cellphone call with the webcam so you can both talk and see your buddy (you are in the car who needs to look at the road?). you arrive home and finish your call with your buddy. as you pull up your iNewt recognizes your home wirelessnetwork and quickly synchs with your home computer automatically. you sit on the couch in front of the tv and mirror your desktop on your iNewt as you decide to write tomorrow's lecture notes and powerpoint presentation. as you work you play your mp3s on your desktop, mp3s on your iNewt, and cds in your stereo all in one playlist that plays over your stereo's speakers thanks to the idock that connects your tv, stereo, iNewt, and desktop. visuals play on your big screen digital tv. after work you feel like relaxing so you watch the mpeg of ferris bueller's day off you ripped from the dvd a friend loaned you. your imac perfectly plays the movie on your tv. before bed you transfer another movie to your iNewt so you can watch it on the plane trip this weekend. and so is your day with iNewt. i like what someone mentioned about packaging a iNewt with a desktop system. a remote control is to a tv as a iNewt is to your desktop (ok its a bit more). microdrive, bright lcd, airport AND bluetooth, newton hwr, a small webcam, wireless connections with computers, cellphones, etc.
a pda should be a great notepad and much much more. right now pdas arent even good notepads. a pda shoudl be a great independant machine but should also be able to take advantage (and help sell) the great processing power and storage of a desktop system. its so frustrating to be like two doors down from a powerful desktop setup and not be able to access it. i love my laptop. i got it mostly because i wanted to work from my couch. o sure i carry it all over work and back and forth between work and home, but i cant carry the thing with me everywhere. if i had a pda that could synch with my desktop i wouldnt need my laptop. so would such a product canablize the laptop market? a little, i still see a role for laptops but with such a pda around i think the gains would greatly outweigh the losses.
much more to say but ive ranted for far too long!
peace
...people seem more receptive now. my little imagining of an iNewton would be a little something like this (sorry im not in a list mood right now):
it should be a cross between a tablet and a pda. i carry little pads of paper around with me wherever i go and let me tell u, these are larger than most pda, but there is a difference they are longer but not much wider. take a look at your pockets they are typically deep but not wide. if the whole surface is an lcd then a long narrow iNewt would have a very large screen. heres another stupid idea... why not make it slightly flexible? just a tiny bit of flex would greatly increase its portability and comfort. a pad of paper in your pocket bends with you as you move a pda feels like a clunky brick in you pocket. a slight flex might greatly add to comfort. i recently read an article about a new sony laptop that had an lcd screen that could switch back and forth between indoor and outdoor modes (manually). the outdoor mode uses reflected ambient light to increase screen brightness (can anyone find the article?). an iNewt (every laptop/pda/tablet should be equipped with this!) with this sort of technology would ease eyestrain outdoors (im tired of peering at dim lcds). the ipod is great right now and i love actual harddrive technology but with ibm's pixiedust (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7801977.html) id like to see an ibm microdrive (article says 6gb in the 1inch square microdrive by next year!) in any iNewt. connectivity to your desktop is obvious but i woudl liketo see much more. i would like the iNewt to be a number of things in this respect: 1) an independant portable computer 2) a go between for data 3) a remote client for your desktop that both mirrors your desktop's monitor and accesses all the data and processing power in your desktop system. imagine for a moment you are a university professor. you have a beautiful mac in your office, the university has wireless access all over the campus, and you teach classes hold office hours and work in your office the lab and the field. you were in your office this morning and prepared a powerpoint presentation for class on your desktop, iNewt in pocket you headed to the lab to see what the undergraduate monkeys you have workin for you have accomplished lately. you are so excited about all the data the monkeys have produced you quickly download all the data into your iNewt and start talking excitedly with the kids while jotting notes down to you iNewt as fast as you would write to a clipboard. you suddenly realize you have office hours and rush off to the cafe on campus where you hold these informal sessions. as usual no one shows up for awhile and as you wait you wirelessly mirror your desktop (which has been synching with you iNewt all along since you havent left the campus's wireless network) and use the high powered system to analyze the data you had downloaded in the lab. as students trickle in you often use you iNewt to draw useful sketches and flow charts to explain ideas and even cue up webpages, movies, and still photos to explain and illustrate your ideas further. although the iNewt is long and narrow the view rotated 90 degrees to accommodate webpages better. you head off to class where you plug your iNewt into the projector (gigwire, usb2, or wireless whatever) and present the powerpoint presentation you created that morning but never transferred to your iNewt (didnt need to since it is always synching with your desktop). after class you head back to the office and take a look at the data that you started the machine analyzing hours ago. end of the day you head home leaving the campuses wireless network. you could pay for a broadband wireless plan but chose not to since your iNewt could stand on its own. stuck in traffic you plug your iNewt into teh car stereo and play your mp3 files (if you wanted you could use the wireless earbud head phones but your alone so no need). just then your cellphone rings. its one of those new ones where the bulk of it fits behind your ear with a hearing piece (that doubles as a mic) that fits in your ear like those old fashioned hearing aids. you glance at your iNewt which wirelessly synch with you cellphone to see who it is. you take the call since its your buddy you met at macrumors years ago. he has his iNewt with him so you point the iNewt's pinpoint webcam at yoruself and click the button to synch the cellphone call with the webcam so you can both talk and see your buddy (you are in the car who needs to look at the road?). you arrive home and finish your call with your buddy. as you pull up your iNewt recognizes your home wirelessnetwork and quickly synchs with your home computer automatically. you sit on the couch in front of the tv and mirror your desktop on your iNewt as you decide to write tomorrow's lecture notes and powerpoint presentation. as you work you play your mp3s on your desktop, mp3s on your iNewt, and cds in your stereo all in one playlist that plays over your stereo's speakers thanks to the idock that connects your tv, stereo, iNewt, and desktop. visuals play on your big screen digital tv. after work you feel like relaxing so you watch the mpeg of ferris bueller's day off you ripped from the dvd a friend loaned you. your imac perfectly plays the movie on your tv. before bed you transfer another movie to your iNewt so you can watch it on the plane trip this weekend. and so is your day with iNewt. i like what someone mentioned about packaging a iNewt with a desktop system. a remote control is to a tv as a iNewt is to your desktop (ok its a bit more). microdrive, bright lcd, airport AND bluetooth, newton hwr, a small webcam, wireless connections with computers, cellphones, etc.
a pda should be a great notepad and much much more. right now pdas arent even good notepads. a pda shoudl be a great independant machine but should also be able to take advantage (and help sell) the great processing power and storage of a desktop system. its so frustrating to be like two doors down from a powerful desktop setup and not be able to access it. i love my laptop. i got it mostly because i wanted to work from my couch. o sure i carry it all over work and back and forth between work and home, but i cant carry the thing with me everywhere. if i had a pda that could synch with my desktop i wouldnt need my laptop. so would such a product canablize the laptop market? a little, i still see a role for laptops but with such a pda around i think the gains would greatly outweigh the losses.
much more to say but ive ranted for far too long!
peace
Welcome back amitious lemon...
PDA PDA PDA...
Macworld is over (sniff, sniff)... and no pda, a ****** version of palm desktop, a new ibook, new imac... NO NEW POWERMAC... argh!
I thought this was gonna be the Macworld!
PDA PDA PDA...
Macworld is over (sniff, sniff)... and no pda, a ****** version of palm desktop, a new ibook, new imac... NO NEW POWERMAC... argh!
I thought this was gonna be the Macworld!
Newton is dead. It was already dead when Newton 100 was released! If there ever will be a new Apple PDA (what I really doubt) it definitely won't be a Newton. And I don't think anybody is willing to pay for licencing the Newton OS from Apple. The newest version is close to 5 years old!
I'd love to know the age range of those who keep saying an Apple PDA is such a bad idea... I'm starting to get the feeling that those who want Apple to "ditch the PPC, move to AMD and build cheap killer game playin' boxes dude" are the exact same people who hate the idea of a PDA. Heck I don't exactly blame em, when I was that age I had little use for a PDA myself...
A PDA done ala Apple would for the adults in the group be a huge success. I have a Palm and while I keep some stuff on it using it is so far from Mac-like it isn't even funny.. If Apple provide a better mousetrap I'd snap it right up and I have a feeling most Palm owning people here would feel the same way.
Sure, Palm might be the defacto standard but they were pretty much handed the title... While some of the WinCE devices might be better it goes against eveything in me to buy one... A Palm is on thing but a WinCE based device I don't see myself ever getting one (shiver).
Dave
A PDA done ala Apple would for the adults in the group be a huge success. I have a Palm and while I keep some stuff on it using it is so far from Mac-like it isn't even funny.. If Apple provide a better mousetrap I'd snap it right up and I have a feeling most Palm owning people here would feel the same way.
Sure, Palm might be the defacto standard but they were pretty much handed the title... While some of the WinCE devices might be better it goes against eveything in me to buy one... A Palm is on thing but a WinCE based device I don't see myself ever getting one (shiver).
Dave
English coloquialism:
In the US (I think it started as British) a fundamentally flawed product, which may sell well but has a core design problem is referred to as a lemon. I have no idea where that got started.
In the US (I think it started as British) a fundamentally flawed product, which may sell well but has a core design problem is referred to as a lemon. I have no idea where that got started.
Ages...
I'm 24....
in all honesty, I could very much benefit from the use of a PDA....I have a pretty busy schedule and often forget things I need to do.....
but I also know that we've been told by Steve Jobs himself that Apple won't be getting back into it.....
so with that, I stand by all of comments dismissing the idea because it's a complete waste of time to sit here and repeatedly wish and pray to the Apple Gods for a PDA...
just beating a dead horse I feel....
I'm 24....
in all honesty, I could very much benefit from the use of a PDA....I have a pretty busy schedule and often forget things I need to do.....
but I also know that we've been told by Steve Jobs himself that Apple won't be getting back into it.....
so with that, I stand by all of comments dismissing the idea because it's a complete waste of time to sit here and repeatedly wish and pray to the Apple Gods for a PDA...
just beating a dead horse I feel....
furthermore...
I honestly hope that Palm starts making a big comback and PDAs take off for them this year....I invested in them when their stock took a nosedive and am eagerly awaiting a generous return
I honestly hope that Palm starts making a big comback and PDAs take off for them this year....I invested in them when their stock took a nosedive and am eagerly awaiting a generous return
Age 24
I most certainly DO NOT think Apple should follow suit in the "cheap machine" arms race. In fact I think they would be doing exactly that with a PDA.
As eyelikeart illustrated above: Apple has made it plain that a PDA is not in their lineup, and whining about it just wastes forum space.
Yes a "real" PDA would be a good idea but in order to make it what it should be it would no longer BE a PDA. It must be a united PDA/Web-enabled PCS/Pager/OS X remote widget, this would be WAY more than a simple PDA and would justify it's own moniker.
I most certainly DO NOT think Apple should follow suit in the "cheap machine" arms race. In fact I think they would be doing exactly that with a PDA.
As eyelikeart illustrated above: Apple has made it plain that a PDA is not in their lineup, and whining about it just wastes forum space.
Yes a "real" PDA would be a good idea but in order to make it what it should be it would no longer BE a PDA. It must be a united PDA/Web-enabled PCS/Pager/OS X remote widget, this would be WAY more than a simple PDA and would justify it's own moniker.
Picture the din.....................
You're standing in San Francisco International Airport. 500 Assorted professionals are murmering in 6 different languages, while conversing, into their PDA's. Some have cell phones open too. Some particularly techie guys have their PDA's talking to their cellphones and vice versa. Suddenly a tablet looks real good.
You're standing in San Francisco International Airport. 500 Assorted professionals are murmering in 6 different languages, while conversing, into their PDA's. Some have cell phones open too. Some particularly techie guys have their PDA's talking to their cellphones and vice versa. Suddenly a tablet looks real good.
Re: Picture the din.....................
great point!
Originally posted by mischief
You're standing in San Francisco International Airport. 500 Assorted professionals are murmering in 6 different languages, while conversing, into their PDA's. Some have cell phones open too. Some particularly techie guys have their PDA's talking to their cellphones and vice versa. Suddenly a tablet looks real good.
great point!
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iWalk Videos, Fake or not?.
Hello, where I cand find the iWalk Movies?.......
I just want to see........ if are True or not.........
best regards,
Hello, where I cand find the iWalk Movies?.......
I just want to see........ if are True or not.........
best regards,