GBTV #502 | Edge Motion, TheWrap, TechCrunch Tablet
Posted on: January 27, 2009
Posted in: Video
Posted by: Cali Lewis
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Emo Labs are working on something pretty cool called Edge Motion. It’s a clear membrane on your display that’s meant to give you better sound than we currently get with our notebooks. For a full explanation of the technology in play, visit Technologizer.com.
TheWrap.com seems to be a good source for people interested in the business of entertainment, both old media and new media.
I’ve talked before about the touchscreen tablet Mike Arrington and his team have been working on. They have a version that could potentially come to market at around $300.
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January 27th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Mike needs to make that tablet, for sure
:-)
January 27th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Cali,
Very cool episode. How did you do the background for this brief?
All the best,
David
PS: My show featuring you will air on ABC in St. Louis this Sunday :) I’ll email you the details!
January 27th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Whoa, that “screen speaker” sounds great. I would LOVE to see something on this for the iMac’s too. Anything to better the built-in world.
And yes, everyone will want the tablets. But I’m still a little iffy on it’s resourcefulness in everyday use. It looks too big to be “around the house” for something like a touch remote to control anything, and maybe pull up a quick email.
Just browsing might be ok, but w/ the ever growing need of flash and HD streaming, something this cheap probably will struggle to keep up. It’s one of the things I found killed my iPod Touch browsing experience, so many news sites and whatever have embedded video these days, and well, video podcasts and flash navigated sites.
But it’s a step in the right direction. Bring it on!
January 27th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
You are right, everyone will want one of those tablets. They need to bring it to market ASAP. I want one. Just hope it has a headphone jack.
January 27th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I *like* the touch screen tablet and the LEGO stand it’s rests on. ^..^~ Early adopter time for me! :-)
January 27th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
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January 27th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
One of my major tech hopes for this year is a light-weight, color touch screen tablet (with reasonable screen size) that I can use to read .pdf files. What I’m really looking for is a color Kindle, but I’m not holding my breath for that. Depending on its ability to join my home network, the Crunch Pad could be exactly what I’m wishing for. If so, I’ll buy it on day one.
January 28th, 2009 at 10:12 am
@Dave Peterson, my little Nokia N800 handles .PDF files well enough, but the screen’s too small and I have to touch-scroll from right to left to read an entire line of text. I’m hoping right along with you that the CrunchPad will resolve that with not only .PDF files but other document types, too. ^..^~
January 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Hey
Love the background!
January 28th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Geek Brief TV w video of the ($300?) TechCrunch Tablet: http://bit.ly/jGrJ – Maybe I’ll hold off on the asus netbook for awhile
April 15th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Hey, cool tips. Perhaps I’ll buy a bottle of beer to the man from that chat who told me to go to your site :)