Comments on: Stanley Kubrick imagines slates and tablets, 1968.

By: Bob Page

Bob Page — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:04:18 +0000

Chris Foresman wrote an informative introduction to the tablets of Star Trek for Ars Tecnica on 10 August 2010. The article features interviews with Star Trek production designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda and Doug Drexler. It’s fascinating that Kubrick and his team had come to the same conclusions about the need for a software-controlled interface.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago.ars

By: Cory M. Grenier

Cory M. Grenier — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:24:02 +0000

I guess we’ll see what kind of food they serve on Virgin Galactic! Regarding Lenovo’s latest tablet device at CES, viewers can check out the new IdeaPad U1 hybrid at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-hands-on-and-impressions/

The IdeaPad U1 uniquely has dual operating systems – Win 7 and Linux ‘Skylight’ and dual processors Intel CULV CPU and a Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU to allow the tablet to separate from a notebook PC base. Great article – Kubrick was a polymath futurist and one of the best film directors to date.

By: Bob Page

Bob Page — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:10:33 +0000

Sheji, agreed. The movie also contains a scene set aboard a Pan Am space shuttle, in which passengers sip food through straws.

People in the late 1960s probably expected food in outer space to look disgusting. There was Tang, and Space Food Sticks — kind of an interesting development story out of Pillsbury. I’ll attach a Space Food Sticks commercial.
Bob

By: Sheji Ho

Sheji Ho — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:32:08 +0000

Wow… that food looks more disgusting than your average airplane meals.

Sheji Ho
Beijing