Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
One of Apple’s first forays into the arena that we think of today as ‘mobile’ computing was the Newton MessagePad. As a pocketable, hand-sized device that was meant to be a a personal organizer, the MessagePad ended up being a long-winded failure for Apple, but it did plant some seeds for what would eventually become Apple’s mobile empire, including the iPhone and iPad.
I’ve been working on something on the quiet. Actually a few of us have been working on something. If you were at Edinburgh Coffee Morning or The Tuttle Club today you may have caught sight of this little beast in the raw. We’re calling it the PsiXpda, and we’re publicly announcing it today. I’m back in the hardware game! What, you never realised that I used to be in that? Ah well, nothing like hiding things in plain sight. Bet you thought my mentions of the ZX81 on Twitter were really about Clive Sinclair’s machine as well… Some specs? Intel
Before flying over to Las Vegas for Blogworld, I was looking at my carry-on bag and trying to decide if bringing my full laptop was a good idea. Would I really use it while I was travelling? While I was at the conference? In the downtime in the evenings and mornings? In the end I did take it, partly as a massive file storage for TV episodes and films to watch (via the PSP) and so I’d have a full editing suite if I decided to do any recording. How many media files did I transfer? Three. How much editing
A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying
