Ultimate Digital Tool

Anonymous Patron writes “The Pepper Pad looks like coming close to being the ultimate digital tool, with keyboard, easily readable screen, touchscreen, stylus, headphone jack, microphone jack, sterero speakers, Wi-Fi, IM, browsing, photo album, media collection, and other sharing and collaboration tools. It even runs Linux! It is a 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations Awards Honoree in the Computer Hardware category. The blurb at
LinuxDevices doesn’t say so, but the screen is book page, rather than cinema oriented, so we could also be seeing the arrival of the first successful e-book reading device.”

January 10, 2004 by Uncategorized 2

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2 Responses

  1. shoe says:
    January 10, 2004 at 11:38 pm

    This would happen after I order my Pocket PC

    I see this after I order my pocket pc… and I couldn’t afford the Linux versions!(weird, not being able to afford Linux, huh?)

    That aside, this does look pretty cool, if a little bulky. As far as being an ebook reader, I find my problem with ebooks is just… it doesn’t feel right. It’s harder on the eyes to look at something on screen than on paper under any circumstances, and for some reason, my attention is not there when I have a gizmo in my hands… I am supposed to press and click while holding a device, not read.

    Would be great for reading the man pages on while you work on your server though!

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  2. djfiander says:
    January 12, 2004 at 12:18 am

    Re:This would happen after I order my Pocket PC

    Would be great for reading the man pages on while you work on your server though!

    Exactly!!!! This is why I buy computer books, and vent about the fact that my new multi-hundred $$ Palm doesn’t come with a print manual! You need to read the documentation when the computer DOESN’T work.

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