Tech News: Apple Tablet

For January 27th (US time), Apple announced a big conference. It is expected that they will announce their secret tablet that they have been developing for the past 5 years.

I've been following rumors going around during the past 3 months and i will try to summarize a little bit what is going on and why I thought worth talking about it.

Please note, that even though i Think Apple had good ideas, i'm not an Apple Fanatic. I only appreciate good Design, Build quality and New technologies. Apparently fit seems only few companies still have an R&D (Research and Development) department. Most of the computer manufacturer out there, wait to see what comes on the market and copy successful ideas.

The Tablet concept is not new, and past attempts to sell tablet PCs by various vendors, so far, miserably failed. Just few units were sold.

What kind of things, from heard rumors, can we expect to come to life with the new Tablet? Apparently, what was rumored is that "You will be surprise on new ways to interact with the tablet", "the tablet will have facial recognition to recognize who is using it", Apple acquired a while back a company called "Fingerworks" that found new ways to use hands and fingers for gestures, recognizing not only fingers, but even your palm, and many other features.

What I found interesting is the name. People monitoring the internet, found out that Apple acquired a domain name under a third company name which was called "iSlate". After the rumor came out, amazingly, every other computer manufacturer like HP or Microsoft, started calling their tablet "Slate Tablets" during their presentations at the beginning of January. This might force Apple to change their product name...

You can read more about the upcoming tablet here.

What is sure, is that it will bring some new interesting features and we will see in 2010 many of this kind of tablets come on the market from different manufacturers.

So, stay tuned and while waiting for the 27th of january, I found a video (fake of course) but that shows how the tablet could look like and how you could interact with it...