Portable Media Manager
- Capable of Video, Still Photo, and Audio capture (3 separate capture buttons on the top of the device).
- Jog-wheel-based media manager capable of organizing video, photos, songs and dictated audio into smart lists.
- Large internal hard drive as well as an SD card slot for removable media.
- Firewire or USB2.0 port and WiFi or Bluetooth for synchronization.
- Base station intagrates with a PC or a Home Entertainment Center for media purchasing and downloading to the device.
- Capable of transmitting audio on short-range FM radio frequencies and video/images on short-range UHF television frequencies for presentation on larger-screen devices.
- Possibly internal (or detachable) modules for Satellite Radio and Satellite TV reception with Tivo-like scheduling and recording functionality.
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Smartphone
- Exceptional communication device with minimal entertainment features (NO CAMERA).
- Cellular phone with wireless email capabilities, and exceptional personal information management features (schedule, addressbook, to do lists, notes, and financial info).
- Designed to do all information retrieval with one hand.
- Designed to do all lenghty non-numeric data entry with two hands on the slide-out qwerty keyboard.
- Minimal gaming features (card games, board games, strategy games etc -- NO 3D etc).
- Web content consumption via predefine information templates (NOT WEB BROWSING), and well integrated features that allow web content to interact with PIM applications.
- Wireless synchronization with the Tablet PDA or a PC
- Wireless headphone and microphone support via Bluetooth
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Tablet PDA with Detachable Keyboard
- Smaller than 8.5" x 11" paper (comfortably hold half a page of content as well as navigation and toolbar items).
- Exceptional personal information management above all else (schedules, contact management, finance management, memos, to do lists etc).
- Secondarily the device functions as a communication device (email and possibly video), document authoring tool, media viewing tool, web content consumption tool, eBook reader, and web browser.
- Minimal gaming features (card games, board games, strategy games etc -- NO 3D etc).
- No video-editing, in depth photo editing (although remedial red-eye reduction and brightness/contrast/rotation/cropping tools are allowed), powerful gaming or other industry-specific power applications.
- Hardware push-buttons for checking email, 802.11g connectivity, mute/volume control, and broadcasting media over FM/UHF channels.
- Hardware buttons use lights to show state (enabled/disabled) and then a digital readout to show more detailed and actionable information (number of new emails, WiFi signal strength, volume level, and broadcast frequency).
- Hardware buttons with OS-level integration for scaling on-screen content (font-sizes and image scales) for reading from different distances etc.
- Designed to do all information retrieval with one hand.
- Designed to do most information entry with just the stylus, an on-screen keyboard, and a detachable and reattacheble folding keyboard.
- Stylus modeled after Dr. Grip gel mechanical pencils and pend
- Multiple buttons on the stylus for thumb and index-finger pressing. Select button is under the index finger, Move/Drag buttons is under the thumb (to be used in conjunction with the select button, to create the illusion of squeezing and item to pick it up and then drop it). Elsewhere on the stylus are mode buttons to switch the stylus to markup (red felt pen) or highlight (yellow wide pen) modes via software integration.
- To increase stylus responsiveness, perhaps provide direct integration with screen memory with software post-processing handled after marks appear on the screen.
- Stylus tip is colored light that indicates the current writing mode (normal, annotate, or highlight)
- Hardware Jog-wheel and media keys (play, pause, FF, REW) on the left.
- Hardware interface device (perhaps a trackball) for task (application/document) switching during true multitasking scenarios.
- All applications are always running in the background, so there is never a notion of launching an application. There is only switching of tasks.
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Desktop Notebook or All-in-one Computer
- This is the ultrapowerful machine targeted at specific industries and geeks (tech, science, business, computer science, media production, desktop publishing etc).
- Video-Editing, 3D Gaming (same external controllers are home entertainment center), Powerful Photo Editing, Other Processor- and Memory-Intensive work.
- Wireless or Wired Synchronization with all of the other devices.
- Not designed for travel, but designed for relocation in a room.
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One-touch Wireless Internet
- Box with one button and one indicator panel that shows connection speed and status. Jacks for cable, phone line, or ethernet in.
- Purchase a box with service. Tell the seller your address, service provider, and speed preference.
- On first connect, box calls service provider and is then configured remotely via software.
- Secure WiFi service and internet Firewall
- Possibly free web hosting from the box with an internal hard drive and internal software for creating and publishing various kinds of simple web content.
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Home Entertainment Center
- A buyer purchases a box, a remote control, external game controllers and Monthly Service Agreement.
- Consumers still by a TV and an amplifier with speakers separately.
- Cable/Satellite TV and Cable/Satellite Radio
- Tivo-like scheduled TV and Music recording to an internal hard drive
- DVD-R(W) burning, CD-R(W) burning
- Plays CDs, DVDs, and GameDVDs
- FM radio and UHF tv tuner (to receive broadcasts from tablet or portable media device)
- External controllers (similar to Xbox console controller, flight joystick controller, wheel driving controller, classic wide arcade joystick controller, and wide keypad and mouse controller for first-person shooters.
- Possibly video and music on demand from service providers.
- Possibly ~2 hour delay for download of archived programs on demand
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