Personally, I am very much PRO tablet. I am a PC user but drool over Mac product design. I was extremely torn when i laid down a lot of cash for a top-of-the-line pc. I am an artist so it made it an especially tough decision. As I see it there are about equal positives and negatives for either decision... BUT, if Jobs were to set his boys to work on a tablet mac in the "slate" style, that was essentially the newest 17 inch powerbook G4 with the screen flipped over, I would go mac and never come back.
If Jobs really wanted to clinch the deal, he could find some way to make the "slate" style 17 in. powerbook G4 tablet wih an Oled screen to make an even thinner form factor. 😀 Just dreamin here.
BTW, I am very confused by the dimensions of this device, if it is intended to be some kind of tablet. It seems way too thick and way too small in length and width to be used to write on.
And finally... is it just me... or does a keyboard seem really archaic? There has got to be a better way. The thing I like about a tablet is that it is a more intuitive, or even intimate, way of interacting with a computer. As it is now with a keyboard and mouse you feel detached from the computer. If this means of interacting with a computer is explored and refined, i feel that in the not too distant future a mouse and keyboard will seem almost ridiculous. This is a post of mine from the recent voice recogniton thread that i feel applies here as well. It helps illustrate( ;0) ) some possibilities with a tablet.
"Ok, here is the problem... no one wants to write out all their emails by hand on a tablet pc, right?
Well, what if you used voice recognition and pen input together? Would both of these combined be better, or equivalent to typing?
Now keep in mind I have never used a voice recognition program so I don't know if they use a system like this or not.
So... here is what I envision..
Tablet pc using stylus for punctiation, either touch screen icons for comma, period, etc. etc.. Or you could manually write those puntuatationmarks in. This could also be used for odd(made-up) words or markings.
Now, VR is say 90% accurate, right? So how about if when you spoke each word, multiple words that were similar were displayed in a list below the words dictated? So you say "cat", the program types the word "chat" on the screen accidentally but lists several words that you could have meant underneath, in the order of probability. So, listed below Chat, is cat , flat, rat, spat, mat( these are just examples). So out of the list you would just touch the actual word with your stylus and it would be selected rather than the word accidentally dictated. This system still might be slow, I don't know.
Now, another idea I have that deals with background noise is a device that pilots use.... It is called a "throat mic". Pretty self explanatory right? It is a mike that is worn like a choker, you know those tight black band-like things that girls wear but with microphones built into it. This is used to get rid of the background noise of the aircraft motor. So why not use that for this application? I envision ultra sensitive mircophones built in these throat mics, so you could essentially whisper if you were around other people. This system might even be almost inaudible to someone around you at a coffee shop or at work or whatever. Now ideally this would be bluetooth enabled to get rid of those nasty cords. It could also have earphones coming off of the throat mic "choker" to your ears. I don't lnow if this could be made small enough to not look ridiculous while wearing it or not. Who knows, it might even beome fashionable! 😛
A more unusual idea, and one that I am not aware of being tried, is to create an entire language that is ideally suited for voice recognition. Does anyone know if this has been toyed with? Would there be any benefits to trying something like this? Or are the problems more so with the speaker rather than the language itself? If a language could be created that made inaccuracies almost nonexistant, it could become an international language shared by all countries. I know... this idea is little far-fetched. 😛"
If Jobs really wanted to clinch the deal, he could find some way to make the "slate" style 17 in. powerbook G4 tablet wih an Oled screen to make an even thinner form factor. 😀 Just dreamin here.
BTW, I am very confused by the dimensions of this device, if it is intended to be some kind of tablet. It seems way too thick and way too small in length and width to be used to write on.
And finally... is it just me... or does a keyboard seem really archaic? There has got to be a better way. The thing I like about a tablet is that it is a more intuitive, or even intimate, way of interacting with a computer. As it is now with a keyboard and mouse you feel detached from the computer. If this means of interacting with a computer is explored and refined, i feel that in the not too distant future a mouse and keyboard will seem almost ridiculous. This is a post of mine from the recent voice recogniton thread that i feel applies here as well. It helps illustrate( ;0) ) some possibilities with a tablet.
"Ok, here is the problem... no one wants to write out all their emails by hand on a tablet pc, right?
Well, what if you used voice recognition and pen input together? Would both of these combined be better, or equivalent to typing?
Now keep in mind I have never used a voice recognition program so I don't know if they use a system like this or not.
So... here is what I envision..
Tablet pc using stylus for punctiation, either touch screen icons for comma, period, etc. etc.. Or you could manually write those puntuatationmarks in. This could also be used for odd(made-up) words or markings.
Now, VR is say 90% accurate, right? So how about if when you spoke each word, multiple words that were similar were displayed in a list below the words dictated? So you say "cat", the program types the word "chat" on the screen accidentally but lists several words that you could have meant underneath, in the order of probability. So, listed below Chat, is cat , flat, rat, spat, mat( these are just examples). So out of the list you would just touch the actual word with your stylus and it would be selected rather than the word accidentally dictated. This system still might be slow, I don't know.
Now, another idea I have that deals with background noise is a device that pilots use.... It is called a "throat mic". Pretty self explanatory right? It is a mike that is worn like a choker, you know those tight black band-like things that girls wear but with microphones built into it. This is used to get rid of the background noise of the aircraft motor. So why not use that for this application? I envision ultra sensitive mircophones built in these throat mics, so you could essentially whisper if you were around other people. This system might even be almost inaudible to someone around you at a coffee shop or at work or whatever. Now ideally this would be bluetooth enabled to get rid of those nasty cords. It could also have earphones coming off of the throat mic "choker" to your ears. I don't lnow if this could be made small enough to not look ridiculous while wearing it or not. Who knows, it might even beome fashionable! 😛
A more unusual idea, and one that I am not aware of being tried, is to create an entire language that is ideally suited for voice recognition. Does anyone know if this has been toyed with? Would there be any benefits to trying something like this? Or are the problems more so with the speaker rather than the language itself? If a language could be created that made inaccuracies almost nonexistant, it could become an international language shared by all countries. I know... this idea is little far-fetched. 😛"
