Interesting article on Tablet PCs enabling information rich field work. Mapping the Future of Field Geology - ScienceMatters @ Berkeley In 1818, William "Strata" Smith ushered in the modern practice of field geology with his publication of the first hand-painted, color geological map of England and Wales. Two centuries
My Granny used slate tablets in school. It appears Tablet is back although these (PC’s) are convertibles. The evening news reported on Project Chaos – a trial of tablet and other new IT technology in NZ public schools. It looked like they were having fun while learning lots, a good
Recently I blogged about digital design of Aircraft using the title “The end of paper flight?”. The odd thing is that many flights, especially in light aircraft, are totally dependent on paper – thick books of charts and flight instructions. It seems rather primitive to have pilots carrying hundreds of bits
My Granny used slate tablets in school. It appears Tablet is back although these (PC’s) are convertibles. The evening news reported on Project Chaos – a trial of tablet and other new IT technology in NZ public schools. It looked like they were having fun while learning lots, a good
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A couple of posts about Tablet PCs in my other blog may be of interest: Target Indy Race Team Technology - Scoble's behind the scenes video Air New Zealand's Flying Tablets
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This video review is a neat introduction to the Toshiba M400. It’s the first really grunty, maybe even part-time CAD capable, Tablet/Convertible Notebook. It has the processor power (1.8 Core Duo) but uses integrated graphics (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950) which may be a limitation. Intel mention
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jkOnTheRun gets up close with the DualCor cPC… jkOnTheRun: Sitting down with DualCor Technologies at the CES. jkOnTheRun: Sitting down with DualCor Technologies at the CES I had a great opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with DualCor Technologies' President and CEO Steve Hanley to review their
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Early attempts with Pocket PC’s for on-site CAD mark-up struggled to cope with memory capacity and performance limitations. DualCor Technologies, Inc have announced The DualCor cPC – a combination Tablet PC and Windows Mobile Hand-held device which promises to solve that by offering portability, connectivity and power. It uses twin
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jkOnTheRun has exclusive details about the DualCor cPC. It’s a combination of full power Tablet PC (XP) and Windows Mobile that looks like being the answer to my need to be connected, yet have the power to do real work without lugging too much hardware… jkOnTheRun Exclusive- Details emerge