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More on the Jackito Tactile PDA
Roland Piquepaille writes "A week ago, I wrote a column about a new Tactile Digital Assistant (TDA), the Jackito. Several Slashdot readers questioned the existence of the product and thought it might be an elaborate scam. I also had serious doubts. But as both the company behind this TDA, Novinit, and myself are French, I decided to investigate and contacted the company. And I spent several hours with the CEO and the CTO. I told them about the mistakes they made in their early announcement and asked what kind of corrective actions they were taking to fix the situation and build trust in their product. I also discussed their vision of this TDA, the history of the project and its possible future. But more importantly, I used an early prototype. I don't know if this TDA will be a success, but one thing is sure: it's real. Read this interview for more details."
It's real! Hurray!
And their was much rejoicing. Yay.
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"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
A week ago, I decided to blogspam Slashdot. Several Slashdot readers called me out on it, and began to question the length of my penis. I also had serious doubts. But as neither my ego nor my hit-counter have been satisfied, not to mention I'm French, I decided to do it again. And I spent several hours concocting this piece of crap. I also discus my vision of using Slashdot as a personal popularity vehicle. But more importantly, I'm generating hits on my blog. I don't know if I'll be a success, but one thing is sure: Slashbots will buy it, hook, line, and sinker. Read this drivel for more details.
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Natasha, a 5-year-old black macaque at the Safari Park near Tel Aviv, was diagnosed with severe stomach flu with three other monkeys and slipped into critical condition two weeks ago. CRIENGLISH.com reported Thursday.
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isn't that spanish for michael jackson's baby?
Whats the big deal with this product? What is more innovative about this then say a crackberry? I mean black berry :)
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I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
But as both the company behind this TDA, Novinit, and myself are French, I decided to investigate
You misspelled "surrender."
add wi-fi capabilities, and rename it to Hackito, and your company will be a step closer to the PDA world domination :)
Well, so's Nigeria. And so's all that money I have coming my way from there!
what's cooler than being cool?!
A robotic Pam Anderson (with thigh-fu grip!). Now THAT'S tactile!!!
But at least he actually went out and did some work. Usually, he just writes clueless re-hashes of published articles.
How do we know Roland Piquepaille is real? Having a blog you like to link to from slashdot is hardly proof of identity.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but the PDA market (and Tablet PC market for that matter) isn't really going to take off (in the way it should take off) until we can give people more than the 72/100 dots per inch on the screen.
Its hard to convince people to completly drop paper when any standard laser will spit out printouts at 600dpi (or greater) yet the best displays are still only pitched at 100 dpi.
If you had a choice, which would you pick ?
The same applies to the sensitivity of the touch-screen.
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I, for one, welcome our new tectile overlord.
i can already use my fingers as a stylus on my iPAQ. i found that my pinky fingernail works great as a stylus. that being said, how is this new?
Looks a little strange. I do like the fact that they seem to let you customize it however you want, B&W or color screen, memory size, built-in modules. That would be pretty neat to custom build your own PDA just as you can custom build your own PC.
What does that mean? 60 times less? The reference is a device that used 9 Watts. One time less would be 0 Watts. (9 - 9*1 = 0) Does 60 times less mean the device yields 531 Watts?
Maybe he means one-sixteth. Hopefully this was the CEO talking and not the CTO.
Except, for a company behind it's release schedule it's bad form not to update your schedule on your companies website. It makes it look like you have a product, but aren't selling it.
He's got a valid point, Roland is just one hell of an annoying guy.
I'm not sure how well this company is going to do. Reading the interview it's clear that they're making huge mistakes marketing wise.
Hopefully they learn from their mistakes fast.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Or is it? Should I investigate whether this is similar to JBoss astroturfing? How do we know you aren't an employee (tongue firmly implanted in cheek)
meh
From the demo on their website, that this doesn't look like it would be easy to use at all. It looks more like a gameboy than a pda. Looks like you have to drag your thumbs on the screen to choose menu's and options. I know I won't be buying one...
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isn't it a bad idea to mention that you're french?
The submitter is a long known troll.. I don't trust this for one minute.
I can't believe that Slashdot would run this story without some type of vertification from multiple sources.
When it gets proven that this is a total fraud, don't say I didn't worn you.
...we'll have to change PDA to mean Patriot Digital Assistant.
Just kidding.
Just another day in Paradise
Details of this TDA has only been released by this Roland Piquepaille fellow who is a known fraud.
Until someone, say Wired, Anandtech, or Toms Hardware, gets a hand on this, there is no reason to believe any of it. He is probably a shill for the company paid to astroturf the company to attract investors to defraud.
You tell me. Where is the independent verification, where is the review by Wired or AP?
How do I know this isn't a shill?
did anybody else read that as "Tactical PDA?" Which then begs the question, what would a tactical PDA have as accessories? Stylus that doubles as a stun gun? IR port that doubles as a LASER weapon? Explosive batteries?
"Me fail English, that's unpossible." --Ralphie
Oh Great! Now we are at the point where we have NO WAY to distinguish between a GOOD SPAM and a REAL Bussines. This is one of the next big issues on the internet: Credibility. I know it has been an issue all along, but it is slowly moving more into the forground of the battles fought out in public.
who | grep -i blond | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
thumbs for a guy!!!
Right. This is July! There aren't any French people in France. Just Germans. The French are in Spain, half-or-more-naked, overturning tomato trucks.
...or at least, that's how it looks from here in 'murrica, where we milk our two weeks of vacation and wonder why Europe doesn't return our phone calls all summer. ;-)
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However, even if it's not a sham, it still seems like pretty shady business. Besides, how is it that only this Rolad fellow seems to know anything about it's existence (while of course having no ties to the actual company)?
I thought this was a tactical PDA. I clicked the link, fully expecting to see a PDA with a hardened outer shell and fully waterproof... Now that is something I could use... :-)
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Funny thing...not long after reading the original article about this PDA, I was at the city bus transfer station waiting for the bus...and I happened to see a fellow fiddling with something that looked a lot like that Jackito PDA illustration. At least, it had a similar form factor and the braille strip in the same place, even though it wasn't identical. So, I can't speak for the Jackito PDA--heck, I'm not even entirely sure that what the guy was fiddling with was a PDA--but I can say I've seen someone using something that looked a lot like the picture of that thing. Didn't get to ask him about it, because he put it away and went to catch the bus I got off of.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
...the submitter of the first story!
Way to go Slashdot. Those night school lessons in journalism must really be paying dividends.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I like PnP organizers. They're cheap, versatile, and nobody will steal them unless they want your data. I can drop mine, get it wet(ish), drill a hole through it, or leave it in the lobby overnight.
It will work right away and requires no batteries. It automatically intergrates with every single device I own. If I want to use it to email a contact, all I have to do is open my book next to a computer and type the email address I have written down into any email program. It is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. It will seamlessly integrate into legacy analog machines (e.g. the phone network) using the same interface.
I can even rip out a page and hand someone a note if I really want to. What's the PDA equivalent - giving someone the battery cover?
Best of all, they're a fraction of the price of the electronic versions. I can get an organizer for $0 (from my old University).
I've been called a bad example by other Engineers. "Wait, you're an Electrical Engineer and you don't have a cell phone or a PDA?" I just like paper. It's easier to use and works with any number of contacts. (How many of the "hundreds" of people in your PDA have you called this week? This month?)
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I did RTFA but I could not view the video (/.-ed probably) My Palm will do this. I usually use my fingertips for a quick search and don't bother pulling out the stylus. If app designers made buttons and scrollbars bigger, and the Palm had a bit more screen real estate this kind of interface would be more universal.
Well, more power to them if it's a real product. But who in their right mind is going to put down an advance? I have friends making a similar product and they way to get into this market is to get someone like UPS or a public utility's meter readers to advance-order 100,000 at a time.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
Possibly it was a hiptop? Or heck, maybe it was a Newton.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
last week when it was a reply to the orginal story.
Apple has never claimed not to be evil, they're just very stylish about it.
No...it didn't actually have a screen at all. Just a braille strip, and those finger controls.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
This thing is more than the price of a new Treo. $600? You've got to be kidding. No phone, no wifi, no camera, and you even pay extra for a usb cord. It's not clear what the OS is or whether it will play well with my computer (on the list of software is included "PC Synchro" but no explanation). It's not clear how the input interface will allow you to input more than a few clicks at a time -- not great for entering significant amounts of text. I like that you can choose your GUI, but with names like "Ghost," "Femina," and "Leather" (and no other indication besides the name of what the gui looks like) you really gotta wonder.
Sony released their LIBRIÉ earlier this year utilizing e-ink with a scren resolution of 170 dpi.
It's not 600dpi, but according to users does it look as crisp as paper.
The new screen-tech does apparently also save on batteries since it only needs power to refresh.
To bad it only supports Sony's DRMed books so far. Can't wait until one of these baibies (or the DRM-format) gets hacked.
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Since you operate it with your thumbs I hope it comes with a free bottle of Windex to remove the oils after every time you use it.
I personally tend to do the same thing, mainly because I like to write fiction and I never know when ideas will come to me, but there are additional hassles of keeping your pens and pencils sharpened, filled with lead, or filled with ink. You generally have to have a steady surface to write on (problem reduced with a good hard-backed notebook, but those are more bulky and there's still some instability of the writing surface. And because of the cheapness/ubiquitousness of paper and pencil, there's a greater chance of you losing it or bringing a different one, resulting in lost/unavailable data. *shrug* Plusses and minusses.
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
... while they seem to have updated some of the English language product pages to 7 processors (which, if you follow numerologists who might be among the class of subjects targeted could be a better choice as a figure - along the lines 6~incomplete 7~complete ;), their French page still tells us (at the time of this post) "Notre architecture électronique fondée sur un réseau de 6 processeurs cablés permet l'utilisation de plusieurs applications à la fois (multitâches) dans plusieurs fenêtres (multifenêtres), en temps réel, pour une convivialité maximale.".
Please also note that the French pages deliver quite different content. Interesting that with a product at the bleeding edge they never seem to have heard that cmsses came to life that are well adapted to deliver a more credible multilingual appearance.
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The truth is finally revealed!
Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.
The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam
The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.
Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the
Slashdot audience in exchange.
Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he
"wrote".
Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.
This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.
Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.
it's looks rather elaborate for a hoax, but then again.. a good hoax is.. :)
:)
the interface also looks useful.. especially if you are used to joypads
now the information on the website still look inconsistant to me.. and a bit odd.. only 150mw total usage? how would you power your screen?
or that bluetooth?
and what the hell is an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) speaker?
now this could be just marketing.. and they do allow creditcard info.. won't be my pda (bad text interface, how do you type on this thing anyway? if you're gonna type with your thumbs not many letters will fit on the screen) but could be an interesting idea..
this might all be bad marketin/planning.. I'm not sure
so let see some decent reviews by some known magazines.. that should take away any doubts
just to continue a bit: the machine offers a potential wifi interface.. but internetting what would you do with it? typing would be clumsy and websites would need to be optimised for the interface.. (the website really doesn't explain how to type) so if you have a pda.. but can hardly type on it.. what would you do with it.. ?
If it's real, it's way too expensive. The thing has comparable specs to a 1999-2000 Palm or Visor, apart from the screen size. The main CPU is a little slower, even, and the way they count processors the later Dragonball chips in the Palm have 2 or 3 all by themselves... ignoring the graphics accelerators that started showing up in the Sony Clie to support hi-res, built-in modems and other communications processors...
I don't see anyone but ardent Francophiles buying it because it's from France. Well, at that price that's probably a big enough market to keep them in business a while.
Is this a reference to Micheal Jackson's penis (jackson's mosquito)?
no one will want a B&W model. everybody expects color nowadays. ...
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how does the jackito do math? is it fast? can it replace my Hp 48 (dif, integral, vector)?
is it really going to have bluetooth? i hope so.
i'll buy if above is fullfilled and the mp3 playback quality is good.
good luck! a potential customer
p.s. usb might be a good idea too
Hmmm, okay, judging from the "demo" it's a touch sensitive screen that allows you to drag objects around using your thumbs? Sorry folks, PDAs have been doing that for *years*. It's called a touchscreen.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
.. but who was the marketing genius who put the words "Jackito" and "tactile" in the same sentence? Michael Jackson touching? WTF?
In Soviet Russia, Jackitov tactiles you1
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The truth is finally revealed!
Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.
The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam
The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.
Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the
Slashdot audience in exchange.
Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he
"wrote".
Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.
This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.
Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.
it makes me want to invent the stylus all over again.
What you saw was a piece of alien technology in use by the MIB. You're lucky you didn't ask about it or you'd have been deneuralized. As a matter of fact, they may track you down now because of this post. Which means anyone who read this today is also in danger of getting the 'flashy thingy'! Keep your sunglasses handy...
I can't wait to buy thse Los Souvenir Jackitos myself...
That would explain why you're sketchy on the use of the word "myself". :^)
Check out this one minute video...
...read the words "Jackito Tactile PDA" and immediately think of that pop singer who used to wear only one glove?
I'll leave it to your imagination what PDA might stand for.
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I can't believe that Slashdot would run this story without some type of vertification from multiple sources.
You must be new here. Slashdot runs any story, the verification comes from the user comments, some of which do come from multiple sources.
Short guide to Slashdot: download linked article but don't read, read the first 2 sentences of the summary, post a comment, read others' comments, re-read the summary, ignore the article.
-hadohk
I'am scandalized by the remarks I'm reading since two weeks concerning the advertisement of launching of the Jackito product. People don't take time to check before react. I personally handled and used Jackito. I also used its SDK and simulator, As a Scientist (Professor at Univesity of Applied Sciences - Geneva, Switzerland) I can say that Jackito is a revolutionary product. It's the concretisation of what we are calling "Disappearing Computing" (http://www.disappearing-computer.net/). Jackito is "humanizing" the computer systems by making them more integrated into people's day-to-day life. Its OS is a real multi-tasking and the hardware platform supports real parallel processing. The same program can use all the processors at the same time. However, the most important features of Jackito are not these technologies but the intuitivity carried out by this technology. We don't need to have a computer culture to use it. Contrary to other PDAs, Jackito can target mass-market. In November 2003, I found a Swiss company called TunACT (Web site not on line), which aims to develop and market mobile learning software for young people (5-15 old). After a deep study, we decide to choose the Jackito support as a hardware platform. With its touch screen and its multi-processor architecture, this device is more intuitive than usual PDAs. It also consumes less power while having several standard interfaces (serial, USB, memory card, Bluetooth, etc.). Such a device makes it possible to bring the required functionality to people who do not have access to ICT otherwise. We plan to purchase some 50,000 units over the next two years. Since it was considered as innovative project by the Swiss confederation, TunACT is supported (since April 2004), by the CTI start up institution (http://www.ctistartup.ch/). A research project is already in progress at University of Applied Sciences of Geneva (Switzerland) in order to develop E-learning solutions on Jackito platform.