Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad

Doofus writes "The Washington Post has a profile of Roger Fidler, who 'invented' the tablet computer in the 1990s, while working as a visionary for newspaper firm Knight-Ridder. He is now embroiled in the Apple/Samsung legal war, as an expert witness. Fidler admits that other prior art influenced him, such as the tablets being used as computing devices in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Prior prior art."

Knight-Ridder

[Nick Fel]

They also invented talking cars.

Re:when did UPS guys start carrying tablets

[Yvan256]

Of course he has. It's UPS, they drop things out of moving trucks all the time.

Re:GRiDPad

[stoofa]

Etch a Sketch. 1950s. That was prior art on many levels. Not that you could write PRIOR ART on it. It would be more like RBIQB_ABT.

Prior, prior, prior art

[wbr1]

The Sumerians and Assyrians were 'computing' on the cPad (clay tablets), long before any of this.

Re:iPad

[mspohr]

Apple invented rounded corners!
Apple OWNS rounded corners!
No one else can make a tablet with rounded corners!
Steve is a (rounded corner) genius!