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Hi Jake-

I enjoyed reading your blog.  Your enthusiasm for your topic shows through and makes it fun to read.  As far as critical feedback; I find some of the entries to be a bit disorganized and there are quite a few grammatical errors that I found distracting.  You talk about including speculation in your blog but I'm not sure how that would fit into a paper that is a research paper.  I will be curious to see how this evolves.

I enjoyed learning about the history of multi touch and also the different ways that it works.  Personally, I still find that as someone who did not grow up with this technology I don't feel comfortable using it even when I can.  For instance I rarely use the four finger slide on my mac.  I wonder if they will be able to create more intuitive approaches to using this technology that will appeal to people like me.  In the meantime I do know I am benefiting from multi touch technology by holding down my shift key.

Jake Daly-O'Donnell

Multi-Touch Technology

Jessica Daly

Mother

2/22/10

14 More Tablets: The Notion Ink

More Tablets: The Notion Ink


    There is a new company creating a new multi-touch tablet called the Notion Ink. Notion Ink looks as though it was developed by people wanting to create one that would do everything people wanted the iPad to do. Amazingly, it was developed before the iPad came out, so the company must have just had some good luck.

14 More Tablets: The Notion Ink

Notes

Related Links:
  http://www.notionink.com/

• Notion Ink is a new company that will be releasing a new tablet soon
• The Notion Ink
• The Notion Ink is a tablet like the famous iPad, but with a few differences
• The interface and the way the user interacts with the device will supposedly be brand new
• In this video, the Notion Ink CEO talks to a reporter about his new device and explains his ideas and plans for the device (please note that the interface shown in the video isn't the final result)
• The tablet will have double the battery life
• Will output 1080p video instead of 576p outputted from the iPad
• Flash could also be enabled on the Notion Ink
• It will have a front facing camera for video chatting
• The Notion Ink looks as though it was made to do exactly what people wanted the iPad to do
• This could be the thing to get instead of an iPad
• What the Notion Ink lacks compared to the iPad
• 140,000 apps
• Will the Notion Ink be able to challenge the iPad?
• I believe so
• I think that I would consider buying an Notion Ink instead of buying an iPad
• Future Generations of the iPad could be better than the current version, but right now I would consider the Notion Ink

13 Multi-Touch, Now and the Future

    The past few weeks have been very busy in the world of multi-touch. For the most part, it has been the release of new products. Most of you must be wondering why I am telling you about all these cool products that you haven't ever seen or heard of before. I mean, here I am telling you about an iPad; but you haven't ever seen one in real life, have you? This is because, for the most part, you can't buy any of them yet. Well then, when can I buy one? The majority of these products I am about to tell you about aren't yet available to the public, and some will be sooner than others. Here are the publicly available multi-touch tablets: 

1. Apple iPad (available in March)
2. HP Slate (not yet available)
3. JooJoo (available for pre-order)
4. Dell Mini 5 (not yet available)
5. Camangi WebStation (available)
6. 'Google slate' (rumored)

    All of these multi-touch tablets are/going to be sold for under $500 which is excellent. Over time these prices will drop, but over time these products will improve; so don't be looking for a huge drop in price. The exact future of these products is very unclear unless you work for on of these companies. This is because most companies are very secretive, some are more than others, about their products with hopes to design something brand new and revolutionary that will be hard for other companies to beat or match. Now, we can take a guess at what we might see in the future. These guesses could be based on the company's history, its current projects, what its competitors are doing, or leaks from inside sources.

    Currently, there are some rumors going around about a new, multi-touch enabled Kindle from Amazon. This is based on some current news:  Amazon just bought a small multi-touch company. (A multi-touch company is a company that invents new forms of multi-touch like a new type of screen.) Another rumor going around is that Google will be releasing a multi-touch slate like the iPad. The slate would supposedly be running its new operating system called Chrome. Right now I am particularly sketchy about this one because it seems to be only based on the fact that Chrome has support for multi-touch input.

    Looking forward into the future, I predict that what we will be seeing is new changes / upgrades to current software. According to a Rolling Stone article, Steve Jobs, the C.E.O. at Apple, it's not hardware that is the most difficult to create, its the software. Judging from Apples constant goal to develop the next innovative product, Apple will be going for the challenge. Because everybody is copying what Apple does (for example:  the familiar, point-and-click desktop interface), everybody will be fallowing up on any new innovation at Apple. Another thing Steve Jobs mentioned, either in this article or the previous one, his goal is to improve the way we interact with computers. Multi-touch, which seems to interest Apple, will be able to improve and expand the possibilities for ways we can interact with computers and close the computer-human gap.

    If you have any questions ask me in the comments, or read my notes because I have a feeling they might help.

13 Multi-Touch, Now and the Future

Notes

Sources:

1994 Steve Jobs Interview

    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31896381/from_the_archives_a_revealing_interview_with_steve_jobs/print

2003 Steve Jobs Interview

    http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939600/steve_jobs_the_rolling_stone_interview/print

Related Links:
    http://gizmodo.com/5459308/slate-showdown-ipad-vs-hp-slate-vs-joojoo-vs-android-tablets--more-updated

• What multi-touch technology is available to the public?
• Tablet Computers
• The iPad (available)
• HP Slate (not yet available)
• JooJoo (available for pre-order)
• Dell Mini 5 (not yet available)
• Camangi WebStation (available)
• 'Google slate' (rumored)
• A comparison of the iPad against the HP, Google, Dell, and Camangi slates: http://katonda.com/blog/670/ipad-vs-hp-google-dell-camangi-slates
• How much of this is actually reasonably priced?
• All of them are under $500
• What can we expect to see coming in the next few years?
• Most companies are secretive, some more than others; therefore, it is very hard to tell exactly
• Does that mean that you have no idea what is coming?
• Its all speculation
• Guesses are based on:
• The company's history
• Current projects
• The competitors
• Inside people (leaks)
• So what are some of the current rumors?
• The Amazon Kindle, an iPad competitor, is rumored for a multi-touch upgrade
• Amazon just bought a small multi-touch company
• The Google slate
• An example of some of the really sketchy rumors (I am debating even posting this)
• The rumors are only based on multi-touch support in, Google's soon to be released, Chrome OS
• The future of the computer
• Apple is going to focus on upgrading its software not its hardware, and everybody is copying Apple (for example:  the point and click desktop)
• Adding multi-touch hardware will improve the user's experience and bring it to a level that's not in the reach of point and click (using a mouse)

iPad Hooray!!!

Jake - Cite your source(s) for 11 and 12 so I can give you credit - ! - and - Be sure if you cut and paste article sections into your response you put them in italics - or surround them with quotation marks. I like your review of the iPad - and I think that you may be right about its initially appealing more to the generation preceding yours - I would consider buying one - but I also agree that as the company continuesto market it, Apple will add functions,etc. that will make everyone want to own one - We'll see - The "cloud computing" term is one that I have heard of - and now I really understand what it is - thank you! Good work!