The iPad

[billybob476]

Yep - Trek does it again with predicting the future.

Makes you wonder if Trek predicted the future or shaped it.

[Bryancd]

Yep - Trek does it again with predicting the future.

And Apple does it again by delivering it to us!

[moyer777]

great article!

[Feathers]

A nice bit of history. It's amazing what people invent just to cut costs.

What we need now is a parallel unuiverse where the only difference from ours is a lack of Trek so that we can go and investigate whether these things would have come to be without Gene :)

[Feathers]

Oooh. Just read all that in the iPad thread!

I thought art was supposed to mimic life, not the other way around.

[X]

Oooh. Just read all that in the iPad thread!

I thought art was supposed to mimic life, not the other way around.

It's not the first time. Over head medical displays in hospitals were a result of TOS.

[Rico]

Not the first time by far.  Cell phones = communicators.  

(merging this with the iPad thread)

[QuadShot]

That's the truth for sure. Trek Tech is becoming reality on a daily basis.

[Ktrek]

I thought you guys might enjoy this video I cam across. It's an Ipad mini orchestra. The piece of music is actually pretty cool.

http://pogpog.com/v/the-ipad-orchestra/

Kevin

[moyer777]

Thank you Kevin, I LOVED IT!  I now have to wipe up the drool off the floor.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Thank you Kevin, I LOVED IT!  I now have to wipe up the drool off the floor.

Edit nvm.

King

[Rico]

This should add some fuel to Bryan's iPad love.  Article from "Wired" below.  And Bryan, I didn't know that you also ran Best Buy!  ;)

According to Best Buy Chief Executive Brian Dunn, the iPad has replaced around half of all laptop sales. Further, the little tablet is also slowing TV sales, despite the manufacturers' desperate push to shift 3D sets.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Dunn said that sales are slowing in general on bigger gadgets, and that the hot products are the iPad, e-readers like the Kindle, and digital cameras. Instead of upgrading televisions, many people are sticking with the ones they own and spending the cash on iPads and other things they don't already have.

But the biggest surprise is that 50% figure. It's an internal, Best Buy estimate, but proves what we at Gadget Lab thought all along: that Mom and Pop would switch from cheap, unreliable and hard-to-use laptops and buy the iPad instead, an intuitive device which covers 90% of their computing needs. When the iPad gets a FaceTime camera (and hopefully a video-capable version of Skype) then the only people buying laptops will be those who need the horsepower for work.

These crazy iPad sales are taking their bite out of Windows market-share, too, not the Mac's. Mac sales, which are mostly notebook sales anyway, continue to grow every quarter. This means that people are dropping Windows for the iPad. With the lack of any viable Windows-based iPad competitor, Microsoft should be getting very worried indeed: after all, the bulk of its business comes from bundling its OS with commodity hardware — the exact hardware that Best Buy has seen drop in sales by half.


Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/best-buy-chief-ipad-cannibalizes-laptop-sales-by-50/#ixzz0znPsfuk5

source:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/09/best-buy-chief-ipad-cannibalizes-laptop-sales-by-50/

[billybob476]

Bryan you've been holding out on us! :D

[Feathers]

Nuts. Even I'm starting to want one now.

p.s. Did you notice what Bryan did with his name there? Changed the spelling so we wouldn't notice. Sneaky!

[KingIsaacLinksr]

I'm not really surprised, I'm looking at the iPad for education now, it should be possible too....unsure.

King