Saturday, August 13, 2011

30 years of PC - enough?

Is it time to log off from the PC? - Telegraph

“While PCs will continue to be much-used devices, they’re no longer at the leading edge of computing...
IBM launched the 5150 on 12 August 1981, and it quickly established the look and feel of PCs in general. Dr Dean owns a third of the patents for it, and claimed he did not expect to outlive the idea. Now, however, he says that even his own main device is a tablet computer."



Jeff Bezos patents retro jets, and airbags, for telephones

Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder and CEO) patents retro jets, and airbags, for telephones • The Register