Googles Nexus 7 tablet discussion, reviews
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I've looked at 3 top hits to work out what the Q is.
It seems as if its sole selling point - for the price tag - is that it's made and designed in the US?!
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hiraethified
I don't need a tablet, although I've tried a few times to convince myself that I do. The Transformer may be the thing I end up buying though, not so much for its 'tabletness' but the fact that it's fast, flexible, small and has a touchscreen.
magneze
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Heh, sounds familiar.
I never browsed on the john before getting a tablet.
(Though my Masters thesis suffered interminable disruption when my phone got stolen, and I found myself unable to take a 15 minute 'toilet break' / brain break every morning, playing Gameloft's midnight pool in the smallest room. I spent about 2 days completely unable to write, until I went out and bought a PAYG near-replacement
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fractionMan
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You know what? I don't want to browse on the john. I fail to see how that improves my life.
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Kid_Eternity
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So the Nexus 7 is sold at cost to keep the specs high and the price low. Other Android tablet makers are going to love that! Apparently it went from an idea to being made in just four months which of true is an incredible turn around.
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hiraethified
I didn't say everyone would want to use it, but as the technology gets smaller and smaller, it becomes more persuasive and useful.
I don't think people particularly wanted to carry bulky mobiles about when they first appeared, but that didn't stop widespread adoption.
Crispy
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But the bulky mobiles quickly shrunk, along with their widespread adoption. You can now carry a small mobile phone and look exactly the same as you do without one (unless you're just wearing your underwear). For Glass to work, you *have* to wear glasses. And for it to be more convenient than pulling a phone out of your pocket, you have to wear them all the time.
Unless the majority of people want to wear glasses, however slim and sleek, then pulling things out of your pocket will remain un-quaint. There's a qualitative difference between the technologies in terms of how they're used and how you look when you're using them. I don't think parallels can be drawn.
Unless the majority of people want to wear glasses, however slim and sleek, then pulling things out of your pocket will remain un-quaint. There's a qualitative difference between the technologies in terms of how they're used and how you look when you're using them. I don't think parallels can be drawn.
elbows
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I wouldn't stretch that point too far, since voice control and videochats are stubbornly refusing to become the norm, I wait with interest to see if these things become normal one day or whether they are doomed to remain on the margins.
When speaking of the future generally there isn't much tech I would bet against, but I wouldn't be too confident about timescales either.
Today I remain haunted by the google video where that woman was trying to make her baby wear stupid sunglasses and they ended up below the babies nose. That bit should never have aired.
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hiraethified
Here's just a few compelling, better than tablet/phone/camera uses of smaller, Google Glass type devices: medical, dentistry, sports coverage, news reporting, accident and emergency services, reality TV, doorman, security, anything where you need info but both hands are being used (cooking, car maintenance, industrial work etc). The list goes on.
elbows
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Indeed, there are a large number of obvious applications, and probably a number of less than obvious ones.
However as I probably said here a long time ago, wearable computing does have the additional hurdle of the human sense of style. Google know this and have tried to make their glass as unnoticeable as possible, but it will remain a challenge.
An additional area of concern is that I don't think humans are going to react too positively to the idea that others may be videoing or photographing them without giving visual clues that they are engaged in this activity.
However as I probably said here a long time ago, wearable computing does have the additional hurdle of the human sense of style. Google know this and have tried to make their glass as unnoticeable as possible, but it will remain a challenge.
An additional area of concern is that I don't think humans are going to react too positively to the idea that others may be videoing or photographing them without giving visual clues that they are engaged in this activity.
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hiraethified
I don't think everyone will want to walk around with the specs on all the time, but as they get smaller and smaller and less obtrusive, I can see an awful lot of people being persuaded, if only for certain activities.
Having them built in to cycling specs, for example, would be awesome for navigation.
Macabre
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Asus had already made the tablet and it got rave reviews at tech shows, google approached them then so the 4 months was probably just legal fluff.
Kid_Eternity
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Agreed that along with Siri like computer interfacing will be what we all do in the future.
Kid_Eternity
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Ah that makes a lot of sense!
If Bluetooth earpieces are anything to by, they'll be twat indicators.
"I'm so incredibly mission critical, there isn't even time for me to take my phone out of my pocket".
"No you're not. Cock."
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FridgeMagnet
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Note that the solution to hands-free problems (sat nav, for instance, or security, or politicians needing facts and figures during a debate) has so far been overwhelmingly audio, for input and output - and reasonably successfully, because it doesn't overlay any distracting crap over your field of view.
The military do use HUDs.
The military do use HUDs.
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hiraethified
Google Glasses are voice activated.
FridgeMagnet
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Yes, but only for input. (Well, I imagine they have headphones as well.)
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