1966: wireless, hand-held device for display & recording data
form and function.
(though the kindle should be exceptionally worried... it looks almost identical)
while we're at it... cell phone w/ push to talk:
more advanced droid
Posted on 08/25/2011 12:55:12 AM PDT by Wooly
FRUIT THEMED FIRM Apple's arguments that Samsung stole the tablet design from it have been debunked by the latter's lawyers, who found the devices in Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Apple versus Samsung tablet argument is keeping patent lawyers in sports cars and tailored suits at the moment and stopping judges from going on their summer breaks. Apple has argued that Samsung is aping its design and is fighting for a ban on imports, but Samsung has argued that you can see the design in 2001, a film that ironically starts with a bunch of apes hitting what looks like a rather large tablet.
2001 is a great film and we are always glad of a reminder, even when it appears on the Fosspatents blog. According to Florian Mueller, Samsung filed its defence against an injunction on imports last night, and included a screenshot from the film masterpiece that shows two tablets in use.
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One would think that there would be a better way to record the system numbers.
I don’t know.....a paper trail is always good. Hard copy.
I’m reminded of the occasional low-budget brilliance of the old Soviet space program.
NASA spent millions inventing the quartz watch for use in zero gravity. The Russians just used old mechanical watches which are immune to zero G.
NASA spent several hundred thousands of dollars to develop the “Space Pen” (which is cool.....I have one), as it’s pressurized ink cartridge was also immune to the effects of zero G.
The Soviets used a pencil.
There’s something to be said for both approaches, and I appreciate them both. NASA’s ingenuity, Soviet pragmatism.
They had hard copy from the computer -- Dave got it when he asked HAL for the "hard copy" of the AE-35 unit failure.
The problem is, what purpose does writing down numbers from a display serve? Especially on a multi-year manned trip to Jupiter? Is someone going to check those numbers later?
1966: wireless, hand-held device for display & recording data
form and function.
(though the kindle should be exceptionally worried... it looks almost identical)
while we're at it... cell phone w/ push to talk:
more advanced droid
You might also recall that on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001), Section agents were given the details of their assignments downloaded onto similar handheld devices.
Okay.
If that’s the case, the inventor of the positron blade lightsabre should pay up for using my idea.
Put this in Google’s text bar:
lightsabre “positron blade”
The first four are mine.
I’ll take cash. Thank you.
Didn’t Apple try to claim copyright for gui against MS widows but some Computer scientist had demonstrated it at Stanford.
Now who ever thought a quartz watch needed gravity to work right? Maybe this applied to the self winding watch with its internal pendulum that uses the wearer’s movements to keep the internal spring wound up.
Pencils in space are OK I guess, as long as you don’t mind bits of pencil lead floating around in the air. NASA had to worry about pressure differences that the Russians did not, because the US spacecraft used pure oxygen at one fifth atmospheric pressure, while the Russians mimicked earthly air and air pressure.
You are incorrect on both counts.
NASA didn’t spend zip developing the “space pen” and did in fact use pencils until a private individual presented NASA with a pen that was privately developed that would work in space.
And as brilliant as you may think the use of a pencil was, it was dangerous because broken graphite pieces are electrically conductive and pencils burn. Graphite is not something you want floating around in a space craft.
I don’t believe NASA developed the quartz watch either. NASA did qualify various watches made by various companies for space use but did not develop the technology themselves.
“i’m pretty sure Roddenberry invented it first “
Kubrick and Clarke spent a year working out the story, and Kubrick began pre-production in mid-1965, so both 2001 and ST-TOS would have been pretty close, but you make an good point.
Neither of the the posters NASA claims are true.
Like, they trusted the computers as far as they could throw them!
Xerox was the first with a graphical user interface “GUI”. I believe the guys from Apple were given a demonstration of it.
And the rest is history...
IIRC, the oxygen atmosphere led to a fatal conflagration in an early Apollo that never left the ground. Ordinary wood and paper wouldn’t have been welcome for sure, though making fireproof versions wouldn’t be hard either. Once out of Earth’s gravity, fire is far less of a problem because heat driven convection cannot occur (there is no “up”) and flames are self suffocating. But yeah, unless all air was scrupulously filtered those bits of graphite could short something out.
Although I think this is really about Apple being a pain in the butt, to try and gain as much market share as possible, I do hope that Apple doesn’t win this because there should be as many alternatives out there as possible.
What purpose? It makes for a good movie that people are still talking about decades later.
I did, they are not:
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Apple also stole the mouse from Xerox’s Palo Alto research center when Steve Jobs saw it demonstrated on a visit and to this day many people still believe Apple invented it.
They also don’t give Woz enough credit for apple’s early products. His work on their first CPUs was simply brilliant.
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