The device is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor (apparently housed somewhere else – Papertabs have to be plugged in to work), and Intel research scientist Ryan Brotman believes that “within five to ten years” most computers will look and feel like the Papertab, albeit with colour screens rather than monochrome displays.
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Interesting concept but I think in the real world it won’t be so neat.
So I want to read an e-mail, reply to it and attach a photo, then send the e-mail: I will need 4 tablets to do this. I think keeping to one tablet that can multitask would be easier.
And as for reading: my e-reader requires me to just quickly tap on the screen to page forward (if tapped on the right) or page backward (if tapped on the left); this seems like less effort than twisting the tablet around. And if I fall asleep while reading, my e-reader will eventually go in sleep mode itself while if I relax my grip on the tablet, I will be paging all over the place without realizing it.
Seems pretty cumbersome.
i’m hosed
i can barely see the surface of my desk
no way i have room for 5 or 6 ‘paper tabs’
I don’t see this as “replacing” current e-reader or email technology so much as I see it introducing the idea of a “digital desk” where information crosses the desk digitall and leaves it digitally with the capability of expanding viewable area for engineering applications, integrating graphic and language files, comparing data visually, etc. It isn’t ready for prime time, but this makes it sure seem closer. Watch Hawai’i 5-0, or NCIS — they have the digital desk at the command center that integrates multiple data fields that can then be “sent” to a vertical screen to share with a group. Getting closer to home?