Portable Video at USC

still image of a flash mockup of a possible virtual controller full screen iPod from Deviantart

So Mac360 (and others) are reporting on the rumors of a full-screen video iPod with the controller part of a touch screen. Gizmodo has some stuff on recent patent apps from Apple. Hey, as long as I get 16:9 (native) on my vPod, I'll be happy. Now they just need to embed a camera in it and a version of iMovie that works via the virtual click wheel. Yeah, that's the ticket...

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New patents from Apple, this time around a "tablet" device, and more importantly, a gesture-based UI. Tablets have been a miserable failure imho except for niche uses (e.g. we had a project with surgical slides that could be annotated for training purposes). But with the right applications and UI, things get much more interesting. Hrmpf.com has a nice write-up.

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