Followup: iPad: The Star Trek Use Case

Mar 31 2010

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Several of you have pointed out to me that I’m not the only one who has noticed the resemblance between Apple’s impending device and Star Trek‘s ubiquitous portable data thingummies. Gizmodo points out there will be an app for that…

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2 responses so far

  1. I already have that app for my Droid. It’s available on the iPhone OS too. It’s called Tricorder and does a number of different things.

  2. Different app, although not too dissimilar an idea. The various Tricorder apps don’t really *do* all that much. This one looks to be making some effort to be minimally useful. Probably not VERY useful, but at least a little :-)

    The sad truth is that the LCARS user interface isn’t actually a very good one. It just looks cool!

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