Palm Pre Gets Spotted at TED 3
If you've never heard of TED, prepare to lose an afternoon or five to watching some of the most incredible lectures, talks, and tech demos you've ever seen. Examples: Malcom Gladwell at the peak of his game, Ze Frank at the cusp of his internet stardom, Multitouch's coming-out party, and learning why what you think will make you happy is, well, not (if you only hit one of these links, hit that last one). TED is an invite-only conference for innovative thinkers and other interesting and imporant people. Heck, it's going on now and Bill Gates spoke last week about Malaria -- he released freaking (uninfected) mosquitos into the crowd to show just how serious the problem is.
Anyway, bottom line is that exciting stuff happens at TED and this year is no exception. PrePoint caught the Tweets from folks at the show claiming they they got some eyes-on time with the Palm Pre from Roger McNamee (aka our hero). No details, sadly (they asked for no video), but the little guy is making the rounds and getting shown to the beautiful nerdy intelligent people. Now if it would only get released for us little people.
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I really dug that last link. I think I'll pass it on.
I look forward to checking out the others, later.
Wow! That "happy" link, I think, is the most interesting thing I've ever seen on the internet.
Last link was very interesting. But the multitouch video has me wondering -- how can Apple sue Palm (or anyone for that matter) when this guy admitted multitouch has been in development since the 80's. And the presenter himself said he worked for NYU and looked forward to seeing how it would be implemented by the companies/developers in the audience. If Apple holds the patent lock, stock and barrel, when does the innovation come? And how can they claim two finger stretching when this guys was doing it 3 years ago - at least a year before the iPhone came to being?
I think Palm went ahead with multitouch because the new CEO (ex-Apple) knew the same thing that video proved. And I hope Palm is successful. If so, that means we'll see some very exciting stuff in the near future.