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Fictional and prototype tablets
Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; all helped to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience.[1] Examples include:
- Isaac Asimov described a Calculator Pad in his novel Foundation (1951)
- Stanislaw Lem described the Opton in his novel Return from the Stars (1961)
- Numerous similar devices were depicted in Gene Roddenberry's 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series
- Arthur C. Clarke's NewsPad[2] was depicted in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Douglas Adams described a tablet computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the associated comedy of the same name (1978)
- The sci-fi TV series Star Trek The Next Generation featured tablet computers which were designated as PADDs.[3]
- A device more powerful than today's tablets appeared briefly in The Mote in God's Eye (1974).[4]
- The Star Wars franchise features "datapads", first described in print in 1991's Heir to the Empire and depicted on screen in 1999's The Phantom Menace.
Additionally, real-life projects either proposed or created tablet computers, such as:
- In 1968, computer scientist Alan Kay envisioned a KiddiComp;[5][6] he developed and described the concept as a Dynabook in his proposal, A personal computer for children of all ages (1972),[7] which outlines functionality similar to that supplied via a laptop computer, or (in some of its other incarnations) a tablet or slate computer, with the exception of near eternal battery life. Adults could also use a Dynabook, but the target audience was children.
- In 1979, the idea of a touchscreen tablet that could detect an external force applied to one point on the screen was patented in Japan by a team at Hitachi consisting of Masao Hotta, Yoshikazu Miyamoto, Norio Yokozawa and Yoshimitsu Oshima, who later received a US patent for their idea.[8]
- In 1992, Atari showed developers the Stylus, later renamed ST-Pad. The ST-Pad was based on the TOS/GEM Atari ST Platform and prototyped early handwriting recognition. Shiraz Shivji's company Momentus demonstrated in the same time a failed x86 MS-DOS based Pen Computer with its own GUI.[9]
- In 1994, the European Union initiated the NewsPad project, inspired by Clarke and Kubrick's fictional work.[10] Acorn Computers developed and delivered an ARM-based touch screen tablet computer for this program, branding it the "NewsPad"; the project ended in 1997.[11]
- During the November 2000 COMDEX, Microsoft used the term Tablet PC to describe a prototype handheld device they were demonstrating.[12][13][14]
- In 2001, Ericsson Mobile Communications announced an experimental product named the DelphiPad, which was developed in cooperation with the Centre for Wireless Communications in Singapore, with a touch-sensitive screen, Netscape Navigator as a web browser, and Linux as its operating system.[15][16]
- ^ NewsPad depiction - 2001 A Space Odyssey on YouTube
- ^ "Did Arthur C Clarke invent the iPad?". Margaret Puls. Archived from the original on August 7, 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Star Trek PADD". Archived from the original on October 9, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "I keep wishing for a real tablet--one that would function as the pocket computer we described in The Mote in God's Eye".—Pournelle, Jerry (July 8, 2011). "Jerry Pournelle Is Back in the House". Archived from the original on June 14, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Richards, Mike (January 23, 2008). "Why the iPhone makes 2008 seem like 1968 all over again". Open2. Archived from the original on November 12, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Steinberg, Daniel H. (April 3, 2003). "Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay". O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Kay, Alan (1972). "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages". Archived from the original on March 15, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ US4389711A patent: Touch sensitive tablet using force detection Archived September 5, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ McCracken, Harry (January 27, 2010). "The Long Fail: A Brief History of Unsuccessful Tablet Computers". Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Technologies for the Information Society". Google. Archived from the original on November 23, 2016.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Editors Risc User Magazine. "The Story of NewsPAD". Risc User. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help); Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Bill Gates introduces Tablet PC". COMDEX. November 2000. Archived from the original on December 6, 2000.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Page, M. (December 21, 2000). "Microsoft Tablet PC Overview". TransmetaZone. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Kuhn, Bradley M. (2010). "Free software and cellphones". Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on September 16, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Ericsson, CWC develop Linux handheld PC". January 12, 2001. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Ericsson Forum - Infos and support". March 21, 2012. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
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