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24 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
The Tablet Universe 2011 Tablets appear to be stratifying in their segements: Apple iOS for the iPad; Windows (both Starter Edition on the loaw end, and the full Windows 7 Home Premium or Prefssional editions), and the specrum of Androids. Windows is not expected to be the leader, but does fill essential niches, especially for [...]
Sony Ericsson was named a Windows Phone 7 partner a year ago, but — like another we could name — seemingly scrapped plans to produce a device and chose another OS instead. Or did it? Pictures of what looks to be a Sony Ericsson prototype running Windows Phone 7 recently surfaced at Lizhecomb, and it [...]
Samsung might not have quite enough Exynos 4210 processors to sell a tablet of its own based on that Cortex-A9 dual-core beastie, but it’s found a few to hand over to Korean partner Hardkernel for this ODROID-A reference platform. It’s strictly a dev kit, and as such is unlikely to find its way to your [...]
According to a source at Microsoft, the company hopes to show off its new Windows 8 design for tablets by the end of its fiscal year in June. This person claims that Microsoft is taking a more Apple-like approach to interface design this time around, and will also be using concepts from the “Metro” interface [...]
Yanko Design specializes in the art of the conceptual tease, so I’ll just tell you right off the bat that the headphones (sourced from Yanko) you see here aren’t available for purchase…yet. Britt Ashcraft of Ashcraft Design brings the concept of ecologically responsible gadgets to our attention with the Ashcraft Aria headphones. Crafted with the [...]