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Sony's Wireless Webpad
John Jorsett writes "cnet news has an article about Sony announcing the Airboard, a wireless web pad with a 10-inch touch screen that also doubles as a television and a remote control for other appliances. The Airboard will be introduced in Japan on December 1. Interesting, but judging by the picture, it's not entirely flat, so it will be more of a counter-top appliance, rather than a knee-top."
It's funny, because there's nothing revolutionary here. Combine flatscreen with touchscreen, wireless internet and a TV. And yet somehow we seem to be getting so much closer to the way that computers look in science fiction like Star Trek and Earth: Final Conflict. Dunno if there's any signifigance there, but I suspect in 20 years our TVs and computers (and other electronics) will all look and function pretty much just like this, and we'll look back at the huge clunky boxes that we used at the turn of the century with amusement.
I've emailed Rob my apology for my contribution to this duplication. I say that I'm more to blame than he; if you've ever been involved in maintaining a web site, much less one the scope of SlashDot, you'd know how easy it is for things to get by you. I can't even imagine what it must be like for the SlashDotters. So take your shots in my direction and cut Rob some slack.
I heard that cnet news has an article about the same Sony Airboard, which is a wireless web pad with a 10-inch touch screen that also doubles as a television and a remote control for other appliances. The Airboard will be introduced in Japan on December 1. Interesting, but judging by the picture, it's not entirely flat, so it will be more of a counter-top appliance, rather than a knee-top.
There's also an article on cnet about the same thing
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The hackers have set up a back door and they are posting redundant articles. They have also been rumored to be posting trolls, impersonating Bruce Parens, and changing the spelling of random words.
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Think about the people you know who have the money to buy not only the appliance, but the various Sony gadgets that the thing is supposed to control. WEGA TV - $1'000+, DVD - $400+, sound system - $1000+. Do you really think that, first, those people constitute a large enough market in the US and, second, they aren't already fully connected and would cringe at the lack of expected functionality in the Sony device?
This webpad shit is DOA, just like WAP, committee designed by a bunch of Finnish cokeheads who had the galt to believe that people outside of their insignificant socio-economic circle would be willing to pay exhorbitant rates to daytrade and check the delay on that connection at ORD.
Honestly, there are several basic facts that idealab whiteboarding motherfuckers should get into their heads:
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Are you kidding? Rob wouldn't want to mix booze with whatever the hell he was hopped up on when he posted this article. Yeesh, you'd probably kill the old boy.
What? Are all moderators (besides myself) humorless bitches? Redundant isn't the proper moderation for this.
Jeez. Only 150 points or so left to go before I'm under the threshhold. I don't mind that I'm going down, just put me in the right category, 'kay?
Hint: This one's not a troll, nor is it offtopic. It's FLAMEBAIT. End of lesson. I'll post it at +1 to give a couple moderators a chance to get an education.
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You're absolutely right. Why don't you create a competing service and run it to your liking? Clearly you're someone who never makes mistakes, so it would be great, I'm sure.
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I've got it! Combine the functionality of a finger-tracing capacity with the knolwedge base of riffs from your favorite band, and you can convert your "Airboard" into an "Air Guitar".
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And yet, they still get 1,000,000 hits/day.
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...this one would deffinitely get a (-1, Redundant).
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Posted by timothy on Thursday September 28, @11:37PM
they both link to the exact same article.
OK, the previous article on this is STILL ON THE FRONT PAGE.
Guys, proofread. Fact check. Communicate among yourselves. Read your own site. Spell-check ("Wiresless?").
This, right on the heels of the default-password crack... well, as the dandruff commercial used to say, "that little itch should be telling you something."
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The 'countertop' comment was mine. You might be right, but it looked fancier than the docking cradles I've seen for other devices. When the thing is shipped, it'll be interesting to see who's right. I've thought web pads were cool ever since I saw my first picture of one. If it's truely flat, I wouldn't mind having one.
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We didn't get enough page hits from that Sony webpad article last night. In fact, it was pretty damn pathetic. You guys better do something about this. Otherwise I might have to write that scathing article about VA Linux, Andover.net, and CowboyNeal being in bed with Scott McNealy.
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