Almost a year ago, in one of my first Techland posts, I said I liked the idea of tablets that were bigger than an iPad, which has a 9.7″ display. Maybe much bigger–like 17″. At Microsoft’s BUILD conference this week, the software behemoth unveiled a developer preview of Windows 8 (here’s my TIME.com column about it). And conference …
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Someday, There Will Be a Great 7-inch Tablet
With all due respect to Steve Jobs, I’ve never been convinced by his stance that 7-inch tablets are a bad idea. But I haven’t been able to mount a convincing case that he’s wrong, either.
The original 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab suffered from using a version of Android meant for phones. RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBookhad even bigger …
The Five Weirdest Pieces from MoMA’s New Tech Exhibit
A website that maps crowd-sourced data in a disaster. A digital character that giggles when you poke his belly. And a device that allows men to menstruate.
Those are just a few of the items that will go on display at Talk To Me, the Museum of Modern Art’s latest tech-focused show in New York City this Sunday. Featuring roughly 200 …
A Flying Car? Yep, and Now It’s Officially Road Legal, Too
Meet George Jetson, or at least the sort of flying car he might have driven if he wasn’t a haft-nosed cartoon and his UFO-style bubble-craft looked more like a smart car with wings. That’s it up top, an actual shot of its maiden outing on March 5, 2009 in Plattsburgh, New York, where a retired Air Force colonel put it through its paces …
Tablets: ‘Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?’
This article was originally published on Technologizer.
Thirteen ways an Apple competitor might answer a really difficult question.
It’s been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple …
Welcome to the Post-Post-PC Era
Over at TIME.com, my Technologizer column for this week is about Microsoft’s demo of Windows 8 last week and Apple’s demos of OS X 10.7, iOS 5, and iCloud this week–how they relate to each other and what they might mean for the future of personal technology. I refused to talk about the PC dying, but I did say that we may be seeing the …