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Kirk dealing with |
...is that once you've got one you
Once you can also write on a tablet - the windows 8 tablet that I've been used has really good handwriting recognition - you also realise that the potential for this to be a go-to bit of kit in place of a notepad is enormous. However there is no way on earth I am going to start lugging around a lump like a 10 inch tablet that weighs the best part of a kilo to meetings out of the office.
Once you start writing on a tablet you also notice that the potential for sketching out ideas and even proper drawing is also immense but that the screen-space gets used up really quickly, even with pinch zooming and massive artboard sizes, so you need a really big tablet type monitor at your desk connected up to the graphics packages and a decently beefy CPU.
So what you need is a mobile for quick lookup and photos/snapshots, 7 inch for notes on the go, a 10 inch for detailed notes and hugemungous creative pad for the heavy lifting.
There are paper ways round this like the Moleskine/Evernote but what they really do is highlight the need for some kind of device that removes the pain of getting work into the digital realm but still allows a a degree of tactility.
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Wot yoo lookin at punk?! |
What we're coming to is the culmination of a trend that begins with laptops and ends up with a modular and partly wearable set of personal technology. We're heading towards a point where computing isn't just mobile but also augments reality and is on the person; Google glass is already happening and if they can solve that "looking like a prize idiot" problem I will buy one.
The promise of these devices is that they all work together to provide a digitally enhanced reality, the risk is that we will become dependant on them and because of their hardware nature they will proliferate beyond what's actually helpful.
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