Posts Tagged ‘tablet computer’

Your iPad is History

March 3, 2011

Your iPad is History

What? You’ve got one of those old iPad slabs? Dude! Gotta get a new iPad 2. You can dress it up like a Barbie Doll G.I Joe with covers, docks, apps, stylus, adapters, cables  — even a real keyboard, just like a — like a computer!

 

Image (“Sir Thomas Chaloner with his iPad”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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U.S. Army Attack iPads

October 16, 2010

U.S. Army Attack iPads

The U.S. Army wants to buy a half-million-dollars-worth of Apple iPads. Which command? Fort Knox, naturally.

Mark Malseed and Jenifer Reinhardt tell all at OhMyGov.com

 

 

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The iPad Gets Sticky

September 9, 2010

 The iPad Gets Sticky

It seems like the iPad has been with us forever. Many early adopters have had one for weeks already, and couldn’t do … something-or-other without it.  The device has one slight design flaw, but engineers have finally found an elegant work-around:

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iPad: Beautiful, But Useless

May 21, 2010

iPad: Beautiful But Useless

Josh Belzman at MSNBC thinks the iPad is “Beautiful, but useless.”

“The iPad is too heavy. It’s awkward to hold and view in public. It’s fragile. It requires expensive accessories to protect it and extract more functionality. There aren’t enough killer apps, at least apps that do anything more than their iPhone equivalent. Its wireless reception is spotty and if you’re an iPhone owner, 3G access will set you back on top of your AT&T plan and give you all the same fits. The iPad does almost nothing your smartphone or laptop can’t already do and will cost you more to do it ….”

Other than that, he loves it.

“My iPad tryst: I craved, I caved, I gave up,” Josh Belzman, MSNBC.

Image (“Flora with Her iPad, after Rembrandt van Rijn”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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iPad: Exclusive Photo

January 28, 2010

iPad: Exclusive Photo

Awesome. Infinite flexibility. The only limit is your imagination.

iPad is a registered trademark of Kotex the Apple Corporation. So is the apple logo. This is parody, allowed under the Fair Use Doctrine.

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