Tablet Computers, Surface and the future

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Well the tablets are coming think and thin. Its hard to imagine that the iPad was only launched back on the 27th Jan 2010 and since then we had the iPad 2 March this year. The iPad brought a lot of innovation since the tablets of old, but where is it going now? At the moment people would have to be wondering if the innovation has stopped and all we are going to see is the law suites over who had what first and owns the rights. :(

Well some companies are not just sitting around and to see some of the work that has come out in the area of Ultra-Notebooks, ie ASUS Ultra-notebook and Dell's Ultra with Optical Drive and Samsung Launches a Series 7 Chronos Notebook. These are quite exciting and quite powerfull devices. But the question is how much longer will these types of devices be around?

Samsung Series 7 CHRONOS Notebook

ASUS Ultrabook UX21

Mac Air

Dell XPS 14z Notebook

The other day I came across some more interesting video's produced by Microsoft in the area of surface technology. In many ways all these new tablet and smart phone devices are becoming thinner and more intergrated into our everyday lives. The video from Microsoft shows some of the direction where this is going and that the phone will be come more and more an everyday device with respect to communications, ticket, wallet and media communications device.

What is shows is that the technology will become more transparent. Yes physically as well as the product itself with respect to what it is to what does it do. More and more we are seeing people and their interactions with the technology become more intuitive. The technology is starting to fad and the functionality is all that is important. For our generation we will talk about the bits and bytes and what the underpinning technolgy is. But for our children and their children it will be a topic of the past.

My best example is with my own daughter. She has Down Syndrome but that does not stop her from engaging in the use of technology. Her school issued all the kids in her class for the last three years with MAC notebooks. Being a longtime PC user it has been foreign to me. But I see my daughter doing thing with that laptop that I have know idea how she has done it. She obiously learnt things at school, but she customises the user interface and how she works with it from her own knowledge to the extent that her school IT department are struggling to manage the device. :) (Smart Girl)

Our Smart Kids

More and more our exposure and experience with technology will be form an experiece perspective and the underlying technology will be a minor concern. People are more interested in what experience they can have with the technology. It either performs and is purchase or not, bring on the future

The Future is Here!