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So Apple make the foray into the Tablet market with the release of the iPad. Looks more like a cross between an iPhone and a Kindle on steroids. Like seriously?

Also sounds like a Feminine Hygiene Product – I mean come on… Will it live up to the hype? The marketplace is so majorly full of laptops, netbooks, smartphones, homing pigeons with GPS capabilities…for fuck sake – when is it gonna end?

Apple's iPad. Bloody Hell...

Isn’t the fact that we are all on call 24/7 and expected to be constantly “on” enough already? What happened to reading a good old paperback? I don’t care if it makes similar noises when you turn the digital page, it still is never quite the same…

A major drawback for me already is that the device does not support Flash. Now come on Apple… so many sites use even Flash Lite to operate sites and aspects of sites, non-flash enabled devices in this day and age are about 6 balls behind the 8-ball. For a company so innovative in some respects, one can be so backward in others (ahem*cough* the cameras on iPhones still lag behind any other device with a 5+MP capability). Read the rest of this entry »

Ok so I would think that Security would be over you quick smart if you were flying around the airport (all puns intended) on one of these. However the concept is kind of novel. Made as a joint project with Samsonite and Micro Mobility, I think it could be further enhanced by adding a 2-stroke motor so you didn’t even have to push.

But that is just my personal opinion. It’s another one of those gadgets absolutely perfect for rich business types who don’t have time to walk places and are always missing their gate calls. You know, the ones they call for over the PA when the rest of the plane has boarded and the Captain is ready to taxi down the runway, but they cant cuz some wanker is MIA? Yeah…that

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