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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 07:42 AM EDT |
Not to mention it is also the shape that fits in a shirt pocket. My Zaurus was
a little bit too big for my shirt pocket but was OK in my jacket pocket. There
was some slight shape differences between the pocket PC's palms and others. Who
bought the remnants of the also rans from this generation? It would be a shame
if a company goes under and all that remains in the legal landmines that they
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 08:48 AM EDT |
Why is corners rounded? To prevent people from getting injured by
sharp edges.
I am reminded of this anecdote Round Rects Are Everywhere! about Steve Jobs:
Steve suddenly
got more intense. "Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere! Just look
around this room!". And sure enough, there were lots of them, like the
whiteboard and some of the desks and tables. Then he pointed out the window.
"And look outside, there's even more, practically everywhere you look!". He even
persuaded Bill to take a quick walk around the block with him, pointing out
every rectangle with rounded corners that he could find.
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| Authored by: whitehat on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT |
Fortunately, it seems someone at Google is working on their
alternative to the
round-corner-rectangle design (which is
really a
flattened round corner cube).
Their design is involves a
solid of revolution obtained by rotating an
elongated super-
ellipse with exponent greater than 2 around its longest
axis.
It is a special case of three dimensional super-
ellipsoid. The superellipse is
also sometimes called a Lamé
curve and is defined as a product of a
mathematical formula.
It is therefore protected from attack by US based patent
trolls.
Google's contribution is to somewhat flatten
the 3-d
superellipsoid into a tablet shape. You can find a
better description of the
superellipsoid here.
The superellipsoid was originally popularized by the Danish
scientist Piet Hein.
Some people have
also called this shape a "superegg" -
probably with some implied reference to
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