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Sports Illustrated tablet demo
December 3, 2009 | 5:45 pm
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By Paul Biba
Take a look at this demo. It shows much more than I could describe. All this is very nice, but what is the battery life of these supposed tablets? I really question if we have the technology to do this in a convenient and useful manner.
Thanks to F. J. Torres for the heads up.
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I wouldn’t worry overly over the hardware–both the Asus T91 and the Archos 9 TabletPCs can pull that off for under US$500. Pretty much any netbook could also do the trick, minus the touchscreen tricks.
My question is how is this electronic magazine constructed? Is it a multimedia ePub? Each issue a standalone application? Custom files for a proprietary reader app?
The how on the software side will tell us a lot about the how on the hardware side; what platform it can run on, what kind of DRM it offers, how it is priced.
Functionally, they seem to have the right idea; taking the magazine electronic is more than just a pretend-paper PDF. Some thought has gone into delivering something that combines the best elements of print, the web, and TV, plus new features and added value not possible with either.
Of course, once we know the how, we’ll know more about the business model and the cost…
Paul, that’s a very interesting vid clip, thanks for posting that.
One
thing i thought of when watching the video and also today while
reading google ceo eric schmidt’s recent wsj article on the death of
snailpapers….where he talks about in the future “flipping” through
his “news-reader device” in 2015 ….. actually, when we do that
‘action’ on our iPhones and news-readers and tablets of so-called
“flipping the pages”, also on Kindle and nook, we aren’t really
“flipping” anything. It’s much more like “pushing”…..or
“pointing”….certainly it is not flipping as flipping is now defined.
So do we need a new word for this kind of digital flipping? Don’t kill
me, just asking a question? I am not coining any new words this month!
Promise.
But that isn’t flipping. Can we call it “pushing the pages”
for Kindles and nooks, or “pointing the menu” on website menu screens?
I have no idea. But it certainly is not flipping. Flipping means
turning a page over, phsysically, moving the paper page from one place
to another, as we flip through magazines, read books and
snailpapers…. So? Any thoughts, wordsmiths of the world?
[and no, i am not flipping out over this, promise!]
Paul, that’s a very interesting vid clip, thanks for posting that.
One
thing i thought of when watching the video and also today while
reading google ceo eric schmidt’s recent wsj article on the death of
snailpapers….where he talks about in the future “flipping” through
his “news-reader device” in 2015 ….. actually, when we do that
‘action’ on our iPhones and news-readers and tablets of so-called
“flipping the pages”, also on Kindle and nook, we aren’t really
“flipping” anything. It’s much more like “pushing”…..or
“pointing”….certainly it is not flipping as flipping is now defined.this, promise!]