{"id":2220,"date":"2010-03-13T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2010-03-13T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T08:14:58","slug":"iscroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/iscroll\/","title":{"rendered":"iScroll?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with tablet computers is that they&#8217;re too big and too light at the same time: Too big to fit into a soft and safe pocket, and too light to make a hard case feasible.<\/p>\n<p>So products like the iPad will probably break all the time unless people put them into big cases, in which case they might as well have bought a notebook.<\/p>\n<p>So I started wondering whether the solution would be to roll up the computer instead, and my father-in-law has now sent me a video that shows that I wasn&#8217;t the first person with this idea:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7H0K1k54t6A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7H0K1k54t6A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It looks like a great idea, although I&#8217;m wondering whether the outer casing won&#8217;t scratch the screen when it&#8217;s rolled up &#8212; I would have thought it needed to be soft on the outside.  I also wonder whether it needs to be so big.  An iPad rolled up wouldn&#8217;t be much bigger than an banana, I reckon, so it would fit into a jacket pocket or a lady&#8217;s handbag.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, however, this is just a design project AFAIK, not an actual product.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps somebody will make an actual product out of this one day.  If it&#8217;s Apple, they could call it the iScroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with tablet computers is that they&#8217;re too big and too light at the same time: Too big to fit into a soft and safe pocket, and too light to make a hard case feasible. So products like the iPad will probably break all the time unless people put them into big cases, in which case they might as well have bought a notebook. So I started wondering whether the solution would be to roll up the computer instead, and my father-in-law has now sent me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,159,107,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-en","category-gadgets","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}