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Tabs, Pads, and Boards (and Dots)

"It would be difficult to name a more influential article written in the last 20 years in HCI or Interaction Design than the late Mark Weiser’s The Computer for the 21st Century. One of the sections of the article that seem to have been forgotten (or at least under-discussed) is Weiser’s notion of the three kinds of products that make up an ubicomp world: Tabs (”inch-scale machines that approximate active Post-It notes”), Pads (”foot-scale ones that behave something like a sheet of paper (or a book or a magazine)”), and Boards (”yard-scale displays that are the equivalent of a blackboard or bulletin board”). Oddly missing from this list is something let’s call Dots: tiny, nearly- or completely-invisible devices that allow for control of objects in the room without a screen."

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The Gadget-less Bond

"The gadget that I want? The titanium skeletal structure and self-healing epidermis that James Bond obviously has been upgraded with. Or how else would he survive the insane beatings that he receives without so much as a slightly tussled hair and a few specks of blood above his eye?"