Comments on: Exclusive: Apple iSlate photo? http://iconnectdots.com/2009/12/exclusive-apple-islate-photo.html Guidance, Insight and Ideas in a Time of Accelerating Change Tue, 22 May 2012 11:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: nothinggrinder http://iconnectdots.com/2009/12/exclusive-apple-islate-photo.html/comment-page-1#comment-11478 nothinggrinder Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:03:46 +0000 http://iconnectdots.com/?p=2350#comment-11478 August 28, 2009 Apple filed for patents on a new type of keyboard. This keyboard is a multi-touch keyboard with tactile feedback for users. "The invention is credited to Wayne Carl Westerman of San Francisco, Calif. The described invention would include drive electronics that stimulate the multi-touch sensor and sensing circuits for reading the sensor in a single integrated package." -Apple Insider This patent suggests that our predictions are correct. The supposed "iSlate" will not be a tablet but a clam shell notebook computer with multiple touch interfaces. One of these interfaces will include a dynamic tactile keyboard. http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/slate-theory August 28, 2009 Apple filed for patents on a new type of keyboard. This keyboard is a multi-touch keyboard with tactile feedback for users.

“The invention is credited to Wayne Carl Westerman of San Francisco, Calif. The described invention would include drive electronics that stimulate the multi-touch sensor and sensing circuits for reading the sensor in a single integrated package.” -Apple Insider

This patent suggests that our predictions are correct. The supposed “iSlate” will not be a tablet but a clam shell notebook computer with multiple touch interfaces. One of these interfaces will include a dynamic tactile keyboard.

http://blog.nothinggrinder.com/slate-theory

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://iconnectdots.com/2009/12/exclusive-apple-islate-photo.html/comment-page-1#comment-11432 Stephen Downes Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:30:31 +0000 http://iconnectdots.com/?p=2350#comment-11432 Pictured, of course, is the iOwa. Pictured, of course, is the iOwa.

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