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What about Star Trek?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT
I've been wondering this for days, but I figured someone, anyone, must have
mentioned it sooner...

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What about Star Trek?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:04 PM EDT
http://www.zdnet.com/apples-ipad-design-patent-been-there-done-that-images_p6-70
00000404/#photo

In comments on a previous article, a poster mentioned a calculator (dunno what
brand), which reminded me of my TI-30-SLR+, great calculator, still works
perfectly after being dropped multiple times - yes it it a rectangle with
rounded corners :)

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What about Star Trek? Palm devices?
Authored by: BitOBear on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 03:35 PM EDT

Since Trek fans do track this stuff here is the Memory Alpha writeup of all the different variants and mentions of PADD devices in Star Trek.

Note that at least one "padd" was an existing portable light-table device for examining slides. It had just had several rubber feet stuck on it to look like buttons...

Most of the palm devices had one or more of the "design" elements before the i-nonsense too. And those were real.

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more image links, from google images
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 06:27 PM EDT
The Next Generation in the 80's had many good examples of "padds" being used much like a tablet is used today; carried around and poked at by a human finger.

check out these images to see the rounded corners etc.

What all of this tells me, is that design patents ought to be narrowly tailored to cover a specific product, but not cover every obvious implementation of a decades-old popular idea.

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What about Knight Ridder's Newspaer Tablet from 1994?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 11:05 PM EDT
http://youtu.be/JBEtPQDQNcI

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What About Samsung Origami Q1 EX?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 05:52 AM EDT
Granted it was a 7" UMPC (Ultra Portable PC), but it only
looks thicker because of that. It had Vista installed and
was introduced in January 2009. You clearly see where
Samsung was headed with this and as they explained, they
were already working on both the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the 7"
Tab in 2009(still just 3/4" thick, introduced in May 2010!
....but I'm amazed by the fact, that just because it's
Apple, they convinced the World, they didn't take design
ques from any other company.

What we learned in this trial though, was that Apple did
actually do exactly what they said they were doing. Looking
at competitors devices and doing market research. So they
weren't so Magical after all!
http://www.moveplayer.net/1629

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What about Star Trek?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 19 2012 @ 12:45 PM EDT
What about Space 1999?

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