Week-End Special Part – X

Hello Everyone,

Here we are with our 10th week-end special (little late though)!

It’s really interesting to go back and see,  how we have come together on every Saturday with some expectation from this blog. It’s been a live documentation of the Adam Coming to life!

Let’s start with a few updates:

  • An additional section on the website is up (I was waiting for this section to go live before clicking on the publish button for this blog)! We have been listening to you and making the required changes. Hope you like the new one too! Here is the link : www.notionink.com/features.php
  • Calendar has Entered Beta phase, now it supports contacts management, quick “add-event” (only 6 taps for extremely detailed entries)
  • Fonts have improved, and there is no  color banding (we solved this issue some 4 weeks ago, but were waiting for some time to give an update on this, some more details given below).
  • On FCC, you guys are following much better than us! One heads-up. Earlier we wrote down all the tests which FCC and CE will do and performed them in-house in our labs. Adam passed all the tests, so expecting glitch-free certification.
  • There is a LONG LIST of items and tasks one needs to do to get the online payment gateways. We just cleared all, so before time it will be tried & tested and will be available as the default payment option for everyone.
  • Panel Engine is in beta since long, multiple instances of application was the last we were testing.
  • Now Programmers can do more with CPU Hot Plug feature enabled by default!
  • LiveShare by cooliris on Adam! (some more details given below)
  • More Document Format Supports (See Below)

I hope many of you have seen “The Prestige”. There is a scene in it there where Christian Bale shows his wife a “bullet catch” magic. It looks incredibly intriguing till the point he explains how it can be done, and from there even the magic looks trivial. We don’t do these many things in a week, it takes months and sometimes quarters to finish applications and develop mature relationships. I can’t explain all everything in one week as well, so will keep this tradition of sharing something every week.

The Calendar

Calendar Application in Quick Add mode

While designing for touch screen devices we need to understand that irrespective of how well we design the keyboard (more on this next week, we have 4 variants!) people won’t like typing a lot. And if in this case you need to enter a Calendar Entry, the fields you’d need to fill up, will be just too many!

We integrated your contact list with the Calendar and entered a list of all possible events (with grammar! 🙂 ), all scrollable, and now in 6 taps you can save an entry like “Meeting with Nikolas Tesla in Missouri on 10th July 1856 : High Priority”. Things are changing because of “touch environments” as we can see in applications, but to see how you can interact with wireless technology is yet to come,  and you will have to stretch your imagination a lot!

The Fonts

I haven’t done any formal courses in typography, but I really love fonts and designs which can be created using fonts (like the word cloud). My first presentation to our investor was made on “Prezi” (we are trying hard to get them on Adam, but I think it will take a little more time). Android was designed for phones which in general have higher DPIs and expectation of spending long hours of reading is less. If you take any Android tablet (who has not done R&D on font rendering and most out there fall in the same) you will see that on bigger screen the rendering is really embarrassing. The font hinting is not perfect, and sub-pixel rendering kills whatever sharpness is there in the portrait mode (where the pixel orientation changes physically). Anti-Aliasing do work, but text will not be as crisp. We have spent night-outs fixing and now we finally have. Its beautiful now and better than the rest out there (Android Tablets) but there is still some improvements which have to be done. (I am little out of time today, but will post the images next time).

The FCC

You all have been following up with FCC a lot better than us here! 🙂 I would let you guys tell us that we have got the same! To ensure that we do get it in time and without any glitch we designed an internal test plan replicating all the tests which FCC labs can perform and ensured that Adam will pass all (same for CE).

The Payment Gateway

Ideally this should have been made available to all the EAPs as well. But the devices are not yet certified and can’t be “sold” as such. That is why the agreement sent to them said ‘its been licensed till we get certification or launch’ and after that they own it. Some laws prevent direct payment gateway solutions for licensed products and that’s the reason of direct wire transfer. Having said that, it’s really sad that the selected ones are not following the Confidentiality Agreement they have signed. Four EAP applicants have already been dis-qualified on the grounds of information disclosures. My investors are really angry at me, and now suspect that before the release in the market, all the images and reviews will be out. I am hoping against it, lets see.

The Panel Engine

Few applications will require multiple instances (have you heard of this on other non-PC devices?) for better functionality, like File Browser for faster file transfer, web browsers in incognito modes, etc. Hence, Panel Engine will support multiple instances.

CPU Hot Plug

This topic will interest geeks more, so I won’t write much about it, but would like to share the fact that its supported and you can do some cool power optimizations. On low battery (and one more area where we are awaiting patent) we are already using it.

Liveshare by cooliris

Liveshare from cooliris

Real-time collaboration is missing in events, there are multiple applications for various tasks and sponsorship exposure is limited. That’s what Liveshare might change for you. And with the special camera design on Adam, you can definitely do a lot more! You can find more here!

The Format Support

I read a lot of comments on “what all file formats and languages will be supported?”. The Office suite supports 35 Languages, all major formats (including docx, pptx, pdf, etc) and zip files as well. Its pretty handy when it comes to business. We might do some custom templates for you, so it becomes much easier for you to create production quality documents, faster.

When Programmers are not programming they design! 🙂

The Canvas

You see here the screen shot of the opening page of our photo editing + paint application. The launch screen shows the last art you created. There is a reason why we merged photo-editing and paint. We saw a lot of repeating components and felt the need. Did we tell you it supports layers as well? (We are also working on different brushes for you, specially the ones you see in HTML 5 Canvas examples)

Layers was little difficult for us to implement because of native Android’s memory management (it’s not build for Photoshop kind of applications). We have done little optimization on the way we are handling layers here and you can really do wonders!

Something about Notion Ink and our vision: We believe we are at the transition point where machines will do a lot more for us than we expect them to. Media, office suits, video telephony looks completely trivial as soon as our mind starts imagining the future. We can see developments all around and many firms are striving to integrate the latest, but that’s not what Notion Ink is all about. We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology (both are wonderful yet works quite differently), but everything takes time to reach maturity and production quality. I spend hours looking at the recent patents and if you also do so, you will be as excited as I am, by just adding little extrapolations and imagination.

Notion Ink is about bringing that ‘future’ faster towards us (but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries). Its time we start making intelligent machines and companions which can help us do more, learn more, than just creating copies of hot selling products (I wish I could exactly share here what I meant, but..). That is why Adam is not a tablet, it’s a seed for us, the first one which will help us lay the grounds for what is yet to come. I have designed the complete blueprint of an application called “Bliss”. You will find its components and traces on Adam and I think it will help us change our expectations & experiences from the machines we interact with.

(I apologize for being little mystic in this post, but I want to point in the future, back to this post and tell you that I shared a secret and  hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes! 🙂 )

With Warm Regards

Rohan Shravan

2,884 thoughts on “Week-End Special Part – X”

  5. Kewl, came in just before I head off to work. Will read on my cell on the bus 🙂

    Glad to hear of the work being done on the fonts. That will really help the e-reader and PixelQi functions.

    Can’t wait to see what the rest says =)

  9. Here we go again – some hints, some facts, many items unmetionned. But Rohan keeps his promise to send weekend specials. The more I know about adam, the more I love it – the same with my children.

    Best regards, Thomas

  13. Thanks Rohan
    I have stopped going anywhere on Saturday 🙂
    because I cant browse WHILE ON move , you see I don’t Have my ADAM 😀

  14. Finally….Just one comment… The Blue background on the features page is not in consistent with the other pages on the site. I would expect all the pages on the website to be consistent.

  15. A lot of interesting information there, makes me kind of sad I dropped out of the EAP1 ordering program due to lack of e-mail response.

  16. Am I the only one who wonders why you guys are spending time developing apps? There are a ton of apps out there… google has calendars, etc. I’d rather see a device sooner with a nice interface, good performance, etc. than a fancy weather widget or calendar or a new way of file browsing. Those things are cool. But that’s not what you’re selling to me (and I doubt most others). We want the hardware you promised with android. The apps we can add and get excited about later. Get the product out the door and then incrementally improve it.

    Really, I can’t imagine anyone would rather have a delay (and the lost in sales associated with it) and trade all of that for an animated weather block, file browser, and yet another calendar application.

    I’m not a hater. I’m a fanboy. Sometimes your best friend needs to be your critic.

  18. Hi, we are not spending time in creating apps. We are using the “time to launch” for developing them. They will go to the developers and they can build up-on them! Where else can you find examples of 1024×600 resolution apps for Android?
    Regards

  20. Oh man i can`t wait any longer to get into my hands. And a good calendar ist maybe just a small app, but soo important. This is one of the apps I ym using the most, but only if its not frustrating me… And I like what I`m seeing here…
    The only problem with the Saturday updates is that my life stops every saturday for a few hours until the post is here and i read it.

  22. i agree with chris , sometimes i feel adam will take maybe 1 more year just to make some cool applications. and yet again we are playing some hide and seek here and now the entire game of guessing will start again , carry on hope like me many others wont lose intrest in the product.

  25. bootloader will be uboot, or a proprietary one?

    Can I use adam like a … uhm tablet (wacom bamboo) for draw on external monitor’

    thanks

  29. Is the Back track pad still present?? Oh god, let it be yes! Pls reply Rohan!!!
    im getting desperate here!

  33. @Rohan,

    The feature page cites “SD card” in words while the picture of a micro SD is shown. It can create confusion. Needs correction.

  35. the part where he mentions that 4 EAP participants have been disqualified for breaking the confidentiality agreement, anyone knows who these people are?? and what information have they leaked?? cause i cant find anything else out there other than what Rohan keeps updating here……… any ideas, anyone?

  37. Doesn’t the image for ‘Tranflective Display’ looks like a render?
    The bezzle width is not uniform.
    You should post an actual picture at this stage.

  38. thank you rohan! but i think you leave us alone on some points:

    – is the backside-trackpad in? why isnt it on the specs-page?
    – we need to see a video of the device! calender is cool, mail`d and all those things, but we need to get a feeling of the adam. and the last real video of an adam is month ago. why do you hold it back for so long?

    thank you anyway, nice to here from you! 😉

  43. Dear Rohan,

    Thank you once again for your updates. Most of us here REALLY REALLY appreciate them, and many of us are long term supporters and will be into the future.

    Thanks for not setting the bar low and just pushing out some half-baked Android-based ipad wannabe. Once again I want to reaffirm that you are pushing the boundaries and it is so exciting to see the innovation.

    I am so sorry to hear that some of the people you trusted in the EAP have let you, your investors and in a small way all of us down. Keep up your faith, we are keeping our faith in you!

    The new page on the website is excellent, in excitement, info, and appearance. I just had to read it before posting here (which is why I am about 50th or something by now!). Speaking of which, the mere fact that it is nearly impossible to be the first response out (huge congrats to Greg) should be a great encouragement to you – we are just hanging on every word, and of course hanging on getting adam for ourselves.

    You da man!,

    Phillip

  44. First impression
    >features site looks cool – a lot information that we had hoped for, looks good to the eyes as well/
    as someone pointed out, just that the background is not consistent with the rest of the pages
    >If Nikolas Tesla jul 10 1856 was supposed to be ur hint (unix time stamp), well we had deciphered it already.. if that is not the clue, well, we need to scrutinize ur post further..
    great work…best wishes..

  45. Seems the mystery feature has something to do with 3D gestures…
    … which also works at night … So we will probably have an IR “lamp” which illuminates an area where we can perform a gesture which can be caught by the IR capable camera. Yes, sounds good.

  47. Great post.

    still not sharing the hidden sensor 😦

    about the secret you shared with us…..
    “We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology”
    I suspect you’ve implemented something like apple’s 3D touch..isn’t it?

  48. @Chris

    Post after post, Rohan has been emphasising the fact that they are out to give us a totally new experience, not just hardware!

    See, this is not the last black-Friday on the earth neither is the Christmas going to be the last one. What’s the hurry man?

  49. @Rohan,

    The features page needs more work… The TV image is Overlapping the links to the Design/Features…..

    Also the details of the selected option in the features page should be centered on the page. Rightnow, there is a confusion on what feature we are seeing

  50. A few developers have been complaining, that they can only pay by wire. They wrongly assumed that this would cost them 100 dollars to do so…
    On a different note: I wouldnt mind paying 100 dollars more to get the adam early. Rohan, I happily accept the adam one of those 4 eap developers wont be getting… 🙂

  51. please tell me you are not going to spell the program as cum paint Rohan. This word cum is the word in America that we use for semen…

  53. Smart to leave a 🙂 instead of a claim to be first, which kind of looks, well, you know, if you, like, aren’t. I left some extra props to you below.

    By the way you do realise its 6:40 or something in the morning where you are, get some sleep man!

    Its quarter to 1 in the AM here, so I should shut my mouth.

  54. @Rohan

    This is awesome. Your implementation/ visualization of potential of this device is likely to fulfill what I have craved for. Looking forward to more exciting times.

    I am looking beyond the obvious……..(with mystigue!!!!)

  56. Hmm…I find it curious that the features page doesn’t say Pixel Qi. Other than that, kudos for improving the website so much from its initial version, particularly on language. Some more nits to pick, but I won’t.

    I wish to echo what someone above said: please release Adam when the hardware is ready and tested and certified without any delay. You can incrementally upgrade the software features. But, you know this already.

    Well, can’t resist picking one nit: ‘favourite cafe’s wifi router’ sounds better.

  59. Hello Rohan,
    in every blog hundreds of people ask for real photos and/or videos. Why do you ignore their request?
    If you cannot publish them for any reason, please tell us, but don’t ignore your fans.

  60. It’s the same thing ever week : Should I wait for Adam ?
    And every week, when i see your update, i’m conviced that i should wait, because adam is gonna be perfect.

    Thank for the update, can’t wait the preorder.

  61. Thanks Rohan for the information.

    For me there are some apps that are the base of a tablet such as office suite, ereader and similars. For this reason I prefer applications adapted to screen resolution and working properly. If I need to await a little bit more to have the best in my hands then I will do it.

    I suppose you know the “big success” that Toshiba has had with its Folio 100, isn’t it?

    There is no second opportunities for a first impression.

  62. I think you (and I) have been imagining a very colourless website, based on how the general links (index, about, contact…) look.

    But now, look closer!

    The design page we all have seen offers a very different background colour, that ,in my opinion, very well fits its content. The blue BG on the feature page is debatable, but as the pictures are much more clourful, somehow fits.

    I expect new additions to the page to have different backgrounddesign.

    What do you (all) think?

  64. Back to Nikolas Tesla.

    According to http://www.crystalinks.com/tesla.html, in 1893 Tesla presented one of his inventions in St. Louis/MISSOURI (see Rohan’s explanations about the calender):

    “Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in 1893”
    “Tesla also investigated harvesting energy that is present throughout space.”

  66. God bless India. The adam is the best device that will appears on the market. Many italians wait for this device. I hope that I got one as soon as possible, by Christmas?

    good job

  67. Rohan, sorry but a slight correction.

    The Wifi is 802.11n, website incorrectly says 801.11n on features page.
    ……………….^……………………………………..^………………………….

    Phillip

  68. Hot plugging seems to allow for processor cored to be taken offline when not in use, hence saving power.

  69. “Meeting with Nikolas Tesla in Missouri on 10th July 1856 : High Priority”. Things are changing because of “touch environments” as we can see in applications, but to see how you can interact with wireless technology is yet to come, and you will have to stretch your imagination a lot!

    but i guess this is the clue …wireless technology, stretch your imagination…

  70. @Suresh

    Common guys, atleast assimilate some of what Rohan is trying to convey. Lets not waste our energy and time to trivials.

  71. I repeat my question from latest blog update
    what’s up with this 8GB memory?
    also have you been thinking of additional stylus for this tablet? stuff like painting getting done a lot better with stylus than fingers, also it have to recognize that you are using now stylus so will ignore accidental hand touch when painting/working with it

  73. Well, the secret sensor/feature is likely not to be shared with us until launch.
    Rohan himself pointed that out in an interview, and will have his reasons!

  77. most slang is not in there. i figured when he addresses the error he can delete my comment and correct his post, unless wordpress doesn’t let him use the edit feature either…

  79. The website is stylish and detailed now! apreciate the designer for chosing elegant colors!

  80. very nice indeed ! I think you don’t need to spend anymore efforts on website. It’s pretty good enough for newcomers. Also thanks for clarifying the doubts regarding the payment fiasco raised by Pierre. I hope your investors can understand that when you collaborate with so many people, it is very difficult to keep anything under the wraps completely.

  82. Hi Rohan ,Rohith , sachin and other team members
    I understand that all your team is doing so well. But you are missing Christmas sale (I hope I will be proven wrong.)

    But I wish you could have released Adam by now. In that case you would have been unbeatable company for next ten years. (I am sure you still will reach commendable position.)

    There is no need to convince us , followers. (I would buy even if you release it for 2011 Christmas!! and possibly all your updating devices, eve and their children – you name it!)
    But you are loosing a big opportunity. Please dispatch within 17th of dec. I don’t know how!!

    Yours
    Shiva

  84. Rohan please change this quickly in your post or you are going to have bloggers making fun of your product around the world. It might even get you on a few TV shows…Late night comedy that is.

  85. @Chris

    Lets not miss what Adam has to offer. (you may never know you will be repentant of missing the experince)

    @everyone

    A little emphasis here : Adam has a huge market globally (even discounting Indian and Chinese Markets). So DONT BE WORRIED ABOUT LOSE OF SALES. Lets have a little less myopic view of whats going on.

  86. i think Rohan is smart enuf to leave us a hint along with few other stuff which will ofcourse confuse us…we just need to take a right pick

  88. I will be incredibly amazed if the Tesla theory proves true. These hints are so well thought out!

    It’s sad that information was leaked out, maybe the original email should have contained the NDA.

    I am so proud that there is a company out there that is willing to raise the bar and not just create a copy of something thats working in the market *cough* galaxy tab, playbook, insane amounts of chinese knock-offs. Your hard work will surely pay off once Adam goes to market, and will pave the way for the success of future products.

    Exodus Apps update:
    We have chosen an application concept that we will develop and hopefully have ready the day your Adam arrives at your doorstep, which shouldn’t be long now! 🙂 We are also preparing to incorporate, and also hire our first employee! We are looking for someone local (Ohio, USA) but if you’ve got the skills, shoot us an email and maybe we can work something out for those outside of our area. Details will be available on the http://notionaddicts.com forums soon.

    Regards,

    Aaron Blankenship
    Exodus Apps

  89. cum is latin for “with” – I’ve often seen it used by Rohan and others from India .. seems that in Indian school it is taught on a regular basis.

    But the meaning you mentionned – very interesting! A problem for worldwide websites.

    Regards, Thomas

  90. I don’t agree. Imho a selection of pre-installed apps with a coherent UI is essential for a new kind of device like the Adam. It’s one of Apples keys to success, to deliver not only a piece of hardware but a whole concept, including a set of apps for the basic use cases and an appstore to provide a Simple-to-use platform for Brunhild the developer and the user together. I prefer my Adam to be able to perform the basic tasks from the first day on instead of having to wait until the first developers are able to deliver their apps. Besides i prefer those apps having an unique UI and Worklflow.

  92. I tend to agree with Rohan here as much as my anticipation is an all time high (I kept having DREAMS of going to Adam’s launch, holding the Adam…. not in a creepy way) to a point that I am as frustrated as the next person who wants a order page.

    As an engineer in a research institute, time and ‘the moment’ is crucial to launching the latest findings/discoveries. But we can’t get a half-arsed paper out just there. Crucial counter-checking and peer-review is needed. And Rohan is not doing a bad job at keeping us informed (and guessing) while protecting the interests of his team, who are pursuing the same dream as he is; If not, betting their careers on the same.

    I guess is that for anyone who has been with us for the past year here, should feel that NI is doing things that not many corporations and big tech names are doing much these days – feeding in crowd-sourced ideas into a name that stays with you and not be the next year’s e-waste. So as much as I would throw in a fist into those critics’ face, I do understand I shouldn’t because they are used to been exposed to the mainstream marketing methods. They simply cannot grasp what NI is doing here simply by reading a post or page from here and there and then regurgitating those words and do a mind dump.

    Patience, my fellow people. The wait is almost over.

    J.N

  93. I think NI intend to share hidden sensor before launch(very soon)..alteast that’s what I expect after seeing this comment on the techspec page source
    “For any sneaky fellows looking through the code, heres a tidbit for you, theres a very awesome hidden sensor we’re gonna be revealing soon”

  94. Wow!

    I woke up to no update.

    Finished breakfast – still no update.

    Walk the dogs – updated and already 82 comments!

    Thanks Rohan.

  98. yes, please mention it and how you can use it on any carrier that uses a SIM card. Although I will not be using this feature. I will be using my phone as a WIFI access point so I dont have to pay for another data plan

  99. I think he told us investors are already on their edge, i am pretty much sure that UI images won’t be made public until the product is released.
    A lot of real photos have already been posted in previous posts.

  100. I hope some venture publisher take up publishing this blog for posterity.
    Great detective job the fellow fans did. I’ve never had such a lesson as this in human potential, imagination, creativity, insults/responses, moderation/arbitration and so on…

    Shall we say NOTION as in inNOvaTION and INK as in thINK !?

    Luv,
    Rom

  102. Again thank you for restoring my faith in adam. My birthday is in Feb, maybe a present?? But I would like an early present ;>).
    Re: 128 GB. Is that internal storage? If so does that mean adam comes with a 8 GB card installed which the user can upgrade to a bigger capacity card?

  104. I am very intrigued by Rohan’s comment on Bliss: “I think it will help us change our expectations & experiences from the machines we interact with”. What might these machines be? Machines other than computing/communications devices? Obviously, the machines need also be capable of communicating externally, so I still can’t drive my tractor using Adam, presumably.

  105. features page is looking good But why You have missed OUT BACK TRACK PAD 😦 .
    Now I have started doubting you ROHAN have you removed this feature from ADAM.
    Or better have you made it some kind of removal REMOTE TOUCH PAD 😀 to control adam while sitting on chair MAN !!!
    Please tell us about it WE already have One “mystery sensor problem” to solve . Don’t be so Mean 🙂

    Also, why SPEAKER WITH STRONG BASS and LONG life BATTERY is not listed in features?

  106. Yes, it is taught in schools. So are other words which carry different meaning in the US.
    Examples:
    A) Rubber – it is a common word used to refer to an eraser in India. It was not uncommon for an Indian employee to arrive on US shores and ask a lady employee for a rubber without knowing the implication.
    B) Fag – a cigarette in India and the U.K. Try asking “do you have a fag?” in the US.
    C) Mongoloid – taught as part of Geography syllabus in India. I have personally used it once. Luckily the other person(an asian) did not loose his cool and corrected me.

  108. Yes but it is still not clear.
    I have a few doubts here
    Is it the max size of usb drives supported?
    Does that mean we cannot add external usb hard disks ??
    Cards of that memory size are very expensive specially micro SD.

  109. what hapened exactly on that day ? was he born/ presented something/discovered? if one of the last two- it gives more clue

    shiva

  110. Thanks for the ‘Mystic’ part of your post Rohan! I like your vision and your passion. I like that the Adam is like a seed. May the tree grow.

  111. Great update! I was worried a few hours ago thinking that we wouldn’t see a weekend update.

    Tks for sharing all this, I hope that FCC goes smoothly and fast!

  112. @Rohan, with every post I learn more and more that you really pay attention to all the details. I can’t wait to get my hand on an adam!!!

    One thing for sure, adam is already a second generation device and it hasn’t even made it to market yet. I prefer having to wait a little while rather than to be disappointed with a device when I get it because it was rushed to market. But with that said. Please hurry! (Actually I know there is not much you can do yourself but wait for FCC, etc so you can start shipping.)

    @Phillip… It was 6:15 and I’ve been up for a while. I have some work to do today. And getting to browse through Rohan’s post before I leave will make that work go by real slow since I want to get back here and take part in the discussions.

    @Sowyma, I’m still missing the Tesla connection, but maybe I’ll get it someday…

    For those who tease about creating a comment place holder (because they actually wish they were first 😉 ) I think it was my turn to be first today! 😀 I was second last time and third the time before that… The only way to do any better is to have Rohan let me write the next post. LOL

    Well, off to get my work done. I’m looking forward to reading all your comments when I get back…

  113. hi everybody. i think the secret Rohan is talking about is the 3D touch technology on adam. i got the clue from what Rohan said, “We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology”. what do you guys think..

  114. The mystery feature/sensor is 3D touch. Which was mentioned before. And because of the infra red it can even work at night with the use of the camera that has an infra red sensor. A lot of people would want to have 3D touch, being able to make gestures and movements in multiple planes. This is also consistent with the panel application and NI concept of multi-tasking. If NI had such a feature, they would want to keep it top secret until the product was released. Think of what happened with the iPhone 4 when it was being released and gizmodo. With the iPhone 4, Apple when through such great lengths to keep it on the hush, and that was just a product upgrade. In NI they a bringing an entirely new product to market. I know some people are frustrated with the release dates. However, if one thing is not perfect or near perfect at launch then how is the Adam going to eat the apple [sorry for the bad joke]. Other products that were launched recently, by bigger names, have since died. They were plagued with bugs, or lacked R&D to really create a new user experience. I think NI is doing things they way they should be done. I am just happy to be a part of it.

  117. Tesla used to give a demo in a room and literally have lightning bolts all around him. He used to interact with this high voltage electric field. Could the adam have some sort of an electric field “RF” around it to help in locating objects and gestures.

    …………………….Tom C

  118. Looks like NI’s investors are either lame or new to investment business (sorry for any disrespect). NDAs are nothing but a piece of paper which stands nowhere in most US states. These are the risks you have to live with in real world but make arrangements to cover it. This is Risk Management 101.

  119. The trick, these days, in using English for marketing purposes is to use a kind of a neutral English, closer perhaps to the American version. So although the British-Indian spelling ‘favourite’ is fine, words like ‘cum’, which is quite common usage in India and commonwealth countries, might throw others off. Same with ‘matt’ vs. ‘matte’. The former is perfectly fine, but when you say ‘I love Matt!’, it raises hopes in some Matthews out there, which you may not have intended. So, better to use Matte, etc. Anyway, good to see that all constructive criticisms in this forum are being heard.

  120. i guess you will know it if have read the previous blog entry of Rohan and the discussions going there..
    the code on the website is a hexadecimal, u convert it to decimal- it is a unix timestamp and indicates 10 jul 1856 when Nikolas Tesla was born.. Many people in this blog had deciphered it .. and have come up with many conclusions..just need to fit in the pieces together..if what i am thinking is rite..

  121. thank you for making the correction in your post. Now if only I could delete my own posts…

  122. So is anyone a Patent Attorney that can give us some more info on the pending patents? (Maybe the secret sensor)

  124. I am sure Rohan is not referring to prestige just to explain how the magic is trivial if the secret of it is revealed…it seems out of place
    In the movie prestige Tesla has a big role… he is the inventor … Nolan shows how Tesla conducted electricity thru ground… and he is makes one device for Jackman ..
    now we have to connect the dots

  126. PS: Somebody please do some research on Apple’s 3D touch technology while I’m gone. We may learn something about the adam by figuring out what Apple has in mind…

  130. @greg
    Well the the code is a unix time stamp which points to Tesla’s bday .. and it may be related to some wireless technology that he is talking abt.. not very sure..

    btw.. as u said, with every information regarding adam, you fall for this product all over again…..I wouldn’t mind waiting.. i would be happy to have a nice b’day present when it releases in India by Feb atleast !

  133. Sri:

    > See, this is not the last black-Friday on the earth neither is the Christmas going to be the last one.

    Strictly speaking, you don’t know this.

  134. I agree.
    While talking about vision, Rohan wrote -” We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology”
    Talking about “vision” in the end of post is not normal. I think mystery is definitely related with 3D/ gestures. In entire post Rohan used italics at only two instances which are “forced” and “future”. “Forced” dierctly leads to “3D”. Rohan tricked us with use of italics (I shared a secret and hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes!—–indicating visual hint)

  135. This reminds me of how the light is slowed down _considerably_ by the thick magic in the disc world.

    This effect nicely shows how huge this feature really is.

  137. the 128GB is under the SD card section, so you can stick a 128GB micro SD card in it for additional memory. Former sites have said the tablet would offer an 8GB or 16GB internal HD option. that is fixed and not easily modified. However, I would love it if the adam tablet disassembled and reassembled easily enough to allow us to modify it’s internal components and upgrade them. For example: I would love to be able to increase the RAM and the HD size with proper every day components that I can purchase from newegg.com

  138. Oh yeah.. we have to connect all the dots..”Tesla, Prestige..wireless technology… touch interactions, extend your imagination”.. we have already connected Tesla to the code.. a little more research is needed for the other aspects.. but i guess we have already discussed in the previous post.. we need to dig up..

  141. Easy disassembly seems far fetched since holes for screws are not visible in the shots.

  142. this is very true. You are always going to get applicants that are actually employees from other companies like Apple, Acer, etc applying to get their hands on your products so they can reverse engineer them and modify them enough to pass patents and republish the product as their own. Patent laws only require products to be modified slightly to be classified as different and get relaunched. Even though it is illegal to reverse engineer a product in the US, it still happens in the global marker and a modified product is released under a different name.

  146. I like Rohan’s analogy of the magician (I haven’t seen the movie). It tells me that the mystery feature, while possibly very innovative, is something relatively easy to implement, if you know how it works. All the more reason to keep it tightly under wraps so that the competition doesn’t front-run you, and until such time you get your patents all water-tight.

  148. Is there such a thing as a 128gb micro SD card? I don’t think they exist. And I don’t think that’s what is meant by “virtual memory” ….

  151. But that would still leave a gap.

    At _best_, you will have 64GB of microSD. 64GB to go.
    8GB of internal storage. 56GB to go.

    I do not think that this would incorporate USB storage…
    Therefore, the remaining 56GB would have to be internal storage.

    _Conclusion: There will be a 64GB storage (option).

  152. @Christian Kramer

    I am betting we will forget apple and so called ipads once we get Adam.

    Try to stop thinking conventionally. And I am repeating again “look beyond the obvious”. Try to recollect the ogriginal concept of a tablet. Rohan is trying for Adam to be a device beyond the concept of tablet. (I know it sounds dreamy, but logic tells me their execution points towards that)

    *my addiction: what the future holds with an adam/adam like in my hand)

  155. My first post here. I’ve been following the site for months and eagerly await Adam’s release. Dumb question: Will we be able to sync the Adam calendar with Google Calendar?

  156. Rohan,

    Thx for the update. As the countdown has started, the patience seems to be running out, as you’ve mentioned, don’t hurry just to show the world a half baked product. Take your time, and let this not be the only christmas where adam will be talked about.

  157. On July 10 1856 Tesla would have been one day old. So that would have been some meeting……………….Tom C

  158. Hmmm. Just a random and silly thought. Will there by any accessories for adam?? And anyone knows if it will ship to Singapore? Please do! Really looking forward to owning this device

  159. NOW, thats what I call a weekend SPECIAL. Lots of read-worthy information about the progress and vision of NotionInk. Really excited about the unrevealed/partially revealed features. Thinking of how to manage my budget to accommodate Adam whn it comes out.

    Thumbs up for the updated site. But I still feel you can put more info in features page. Like backside trackpad, loud bass, mystery feature, genesis etc. Features page might be the most hit page on the site. So make it as appealing as possible.

  160. You mentioned the office suite supports all major file formats. Does that also include odf formats?
    What would also be nice is supporting LaTeX and being able to show a source (plain text) and wysiwyg editor side by side updating each other on changes. (I believe this doesn’t exist yet, not even on pc, but it would be freakin’ awesome). Also, you could do the exact same for html, although I believe that does already exist.

  161. @Greg,

    http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/06/apple-introduces-the-incredible-shape-shifting-device-interface.html

    This patent gives the technology for the user to get the actual feel of a real keyboard while using a touch screen keyboard. 3D touch/haptic feedback via touch screen etc looks like similar buzz words.

    And definitely NI has something up it’s sleeve in that regard. That’s one thing that no mobile device has for now. “DarkWinterNights” was the first to talk about haptic feedback in these blogs. But many didn’t pay attention and a few make a mention of haptic feedback now and then. He’s missing in action these days.

  162. Hi Rohan, thanks for the news.

    The first look was good and now I will make a closer look 🙂

    And my next post will follow 🙂

    Cheers,
    Harvey

  163. Nikolas Tesla + missouri + prestige + wireless technology + touch screen

    In St. Louis, Missouri, Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in 1893.

    well dots seem to connect

  164. About the formats: It’s great that the Adam can handle docx, pdf and even zip! But what I really need is the support of rar (archive file format). I have often splitted files in many rar-archives and I need to extract them.
    I would love to do that with the Adam. Hope you can manage this!

    Or is there any Android app (which the Adam can use) that supports rar-extracting?

  166. @punit

    My suggestion is that : please lets not hunt confidential information. To me it feels like stooping low and hitting Rohan and NI below the belt.

    Whats the point when you are going to know everything in time?

    *just my opinion. No intention of flaming anyone*

  167. Hi Rohan!

    First of all, hope to clear the FCC soon. good that in the house tests, Adam has passed, and i hope that the test reports are well within the FCC red boundary. So battery heating and exhaust stuffs are working.

    Did you also check the 3G things etc.?

    Very nice updates about the apps. really looking forward to it.

    payment methods for us are entering beta- that is very nice.

    yeah! please post some photos about the font contrast enhancements.

    The WEBSITE FEATURES are GREAT. again hats off to design team. The pics are very nice and big in size. The details are nice written and very thoughtful-Only thing is

    PLEASE MAKE THE FONT SIZE LITTLE BIGGER for the DETAILED EXPLANATIONS. and also if possible for the MENU buttons- JUST a LITTLE BIG PLEASE!

    All the best for this week work.

    regards!

  170. Rohan,

    The website needs some work. Here are few suggestions from me –
    – The reading area should be clear and not have any patterns behind it. This will allow easy readibility.
    – The font is too small for reading. Need to increase one or two levels.
    – There is a lot of overlap on the menu fonts and title fonts.
    – The graphics and text placement are too close in a lot of places.
    Cheers
    Srinivas

  171. +1
    I AGREE
    While talking about vision, Rohan wrote -” We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology”
    Talking about “vision” in the end of post is not normal. I think mystery is definitely related with 3D/ gestures. In entire post Rohan used italics at only two instances which are “forced” and “future”. “Forced” dierctly leads to “3D”. Rohan tricked us with use of italics (I shared a secret and hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes!—–indicating visual hint)

  173. Can Pranav (Sixth Sense) & Rohan merge. So we can get NOAH. The ADAM is the seed of generations to come and NOAH is the embodiment of the next generation of computing devices.

  174. I just noticed that the “sun” in the features pages “adaptive display” part is the adam slogan itself!
    Very cleverly implemented!

  175. Re: 128 GB and disassemble adam — I think I read somewhere that the batteries were user replaceable (not positive about this), if so a replaceable micro sd card may be in that area????

  176. I’m waiting for Adam every day! But please, have someone polish your English in the final product. Your posts are not the best example of English usage, and so are some parts of the main website.

  178. I’ve been racking my brain thinking on what sort of sensor you could have added. Before this post I thought it might be some sort of 3D position gadget. This post encourages this guess. Think this could be neat. For instance, zooming by moving a hand towards or away from a area of the screen…

  179. Insanely Awesomely Mentalabulously Fantasialy IMBAly Mind blowing TABLET

    i will one day come down to Bangalore & take a big board which has to be hold by atleast 2 guys & Draw/Paint “ADAM” using some vivid colors & do something different to show the Difference between this ‘Seed’ & the other Tablets

    \m/

  182. Inevitably a few nits on the otherwise excellent new webpage:

    The font for those center explanatory windows is way too small under my Firefox 3.6.12 under openSuse. It looks good under Opera, and somewhere in the middle under Konqueror.

    Couple of English glitches:

    (nVidia) – “in the middle of a boss fight.” I’m not sure what a boss fight is. I’m not a gamer, so it might be a gaming term; otherwise I don’t know.

    (transflective screen) – survey info. is that e-reading is the most popular use of a tablet after internetting, but you don’t make it clear how good Adam will be for this purpose. It’s not even clear that you can use the tablet in sunlight. This is a very important feature (the most important for me) and should be front-and-center, not vaguely hinted at. (The words “Pixel Qi” will help, some, for those who want to do further research, although they might not grab many people in

    (HDVideo) “minus the battery drain” – it’s powered through the hdtv connector? I don’t know anything about this stuff, but probably most of your customers don’t, either.

    (wi-fi) “It sports the new Wi-Fi frequency specification, 801.11n” – should be 802.11n, and there definitely shouldn’t be a comma there (sometimes commas are optional, but this one is wrong)

    “the in-built Bluetooth and Wireless helps you” – should be “the built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi help you” (3 corrections there)

    (sd) – “Who wouldn’t want their entire movie library on their tablet” – made me laugh out loud; first thought was, “What happens if my mother finds it?”

    “the Internal File Browser Sniffer” – Without your previous post, I wouldn’t have understood that “Sniffer” is the name of the internal file browser. Maybe something like “the internal file browser, Sniffer,” (surrounded by commas)

    “fully-portable” – delete the hyphen (sometimes hyphens are optional, but this one is wrong)

    This whole section is a little unclear in one respect – where does the 128 gb memory come from? Is that just someone’s flash drive?

    Adobe Air and Flash – see, everybody, Rohan does know some things we don’t. This should be a big selling point against iPad, and none of us thought to mention it in our list of suggested corrections.

  186. @bruce – all of our hair. Picture Tesla with lightening bolts all around him. You think our hair is going to stay intact through all that.

    Oh – I know what the mystery feature is. We’re all going to get special Notion Ink tinfoil hats! Nice!

  187. Also,
    “menagerie of compatible devices” would be better as “myriad compatible devices”. A menagerie is a zoo!

  189. According to Wikipedia largest micro sdhc card is 64 GB.

    The meeting with Telsa gives away the secret feature — time warp!! ;>)

  190. I think the features page looks better than the rest of the site. The blue background gives some life to the content. Everything in dark greys makes a very depressing appearance. I’d advise to change the rest of the site co match the features page.

    On a side note. I noticed that on pictures/renderings of Adam where there is GUI visible it also is in a grey colour scheme. I suppose it’s because of PixelQi display – so the GUI would look consistent in colour and colourless modes. I hope it’s not the final version and there will be some more colours, some more life. The colours don’t have to be vivid, pastel colours (like those on new features page) will look good in colour mode and in colourless mode they’ll transit to light greys. I think most people won’t even notice the transition 🙂

  191. @Bruce:
    I do share the opponion, that just copying what Apple did is absolutely the wrong way – most of the companies now releasing an Android Tablet are making that mistake and i’m glad notionInk does not so and comes up with something refreshing different. BUT, not to copy something does not mean not to see it’s benefits and learn from them. What’s the use of just doing something wrong just for beeing different from a competidor who’s doing it right. So trying to copy Apples concept and philosophy may be wrong, but that shouldn’t keep notionInk from coming up with an own concept an philosophy – that is expressed by a basic set of preinstalled apps.

  192. Very good presentation of the features. Nicely designed page. Good work NI!!!

    8 different processors (For specific functions) in addition to the dual cortex A9 cores. Amazing!!!

    And still being a battery sipper. NVidia have definitely done their homework well. And NI with it’s well customized apps/SDK/OS will use and extend it to their limits for delivering exceptional performance/user experience.

    1GB memory + 1GB SLC should be listed separately too. Those are killer features.

    Transflective display for brilliant clarity and readability in the widest possible range of ambient light conditions. WOW!!! eReader in night mode too, I guess 🙂

    1080p HD video through the HDMI port. But the image is teasing doing a wi-fi thing. Any surprise feature there, Rohan?

    WI-FI feature has a typo: It says 801.11n. It should be 802.11n, right?

    MicroSD or SD or both? Please clarify.

    Storage capacity expandable to 128GB is very good. Is that in addition to the on board storage? What are the default on board storage capacities available out of the box?

    USB/Mini-USB — Very very nice. And the ability to power other devices that charge via USB. WOW!!!! That’s a first for any mobile device as far as I know.

    Why no mention about MiFi capabilities? That’s a good feature and widely used by many.

    Samsung Galaxy tab looks like a kid’s toy in comparison. I think it really is and that thing sells 600,000 in a month with that ridiculous over pricing.

    NI and the investors, get ready for an overwhelming demand much more than what iPad received (which was way more than what apple expected)

  194. “Notion Ink is about bringing that ‘future’ faster towards us (but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries).” That is a very bold, patience, “march to a different drummer” outlook! Mr. Rohan I am truly impress with your vision on how things should be done and not just get it done. Sir you will find success in whatever endeavours you set upon in your life, if you keep that outlook.

    If I had a choice of owning an Adam or meeting you I would choose meeting you.

    “”we are here to stay for centuries

    Tony

  195. On second thought, I wonder if an IR sensor would work in sunlight. The IR sensor of the Wii at home goes bonkers if I open the curtains. Maybe some other electromagnetic sensor for the same purpose. Someone suggested an RF field below.

  196. Thanks for the update, the features page is very informative. Only thing which I felt is missing is a hands-on video which would make my day today 🙂

  198. hi
    thanks.
    (i follwed whole discussion in last post. i knew it relates to him. i missed it was his birthday. i thought he may may have presented some scintific paper on that day. )
    so radiocommunication is the clue.

    from a website–

    radio signal is transmitted by a radio broadcast tower.
    radio contains an antenna to detect the transmitted signal, a tuner to pick out the desired frequency, a demodulator to extract the original sound wave from the transmitted signal, and an amplifier which sends the signal to the speakers. The speakers convert the electrical signal into physical vibrations (sound).

    can adam have DEMODULATOR?
    i dont know what is exactly is that!! but now thatcan communicate between radio like devices…
    just a guess

  199. I don’t understand if this stuff is as innovative as advertised why they wouldn’t want to preview it or advertise it. I don’t understand why an investor wouldn’t want to advertise.

  200. Um, there was that flood thing that killed everybody on the planet.

    Just what are you trying to say here? What would that do to NI’s customer base?

  201. Rohan, I really look up to you. Your vision is inspiring. A company with a leader like you is definitely “here to stay”, as you said in the post.

    As far as Adam is concerned, I will wait for as long as it takes. As Greg said several times, we have complete faith that you are trying your best and most importantly, trying to do the right things. I don’t care if it’s January or even late Q1, I will wait because I not only love Adam for it’s amazing design and philosophy but also for it’s journey from a vision/idea (that we all can relate to) to a real product.

  202. The Tesla reference could be wireless charging built in. Max size micro SDHC card you can get right now is 32GB, so that would suggest a 96 GB built in memory option. For those of you who are curious, here is a link to the lecture that Tesla gave in St. Louis, Missouri, titled, “On Light and other high frequency phenomena”:

    http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1893-02-24.htm

  203. if ir lamp is there – it is next to camera – so that it can move 185degree as well…………..

  204. @kamal
    If that was all that was needed i would have gone to their office and would be typing this from a adam instead of a stupid nokia :p

  206. Thanks for the update Rohan! Love how the site is looking.

    In regards to Tesla & the movie The Prestige as mentioned by Rohan, I do recall a scene where they are standing in a field and Tesla lights up a field of light bulbs wirelessly. Perhaps Wireless charging capability built in is actually the hidden sensor we have all been trying to decipher and the other things such as the 3D touch are merely features yet to be revealed as they could relate to other known about hardware components. I’m probably way off base but thought it worth mentioning, especially because of the clue dealing with it working in the dark.

    Thanks Rohan & Notion Ink for supplying us with this task to help us stave off our desires until the Adam arrives!!!

  207. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

    Dude that was awesome!

    I’m reading this and that and scanning and BAM there’s you with your “first”.

    Thanks man, made me laugh hard.

  208. I second that, having spent way too much time in grad school messing with TeX. Being able to read postscript files and being able to write in TeX, and see its output in .ps or .pdf would be awesome for academics in Science and Engg. I can see Adam sitting under the tree of knowledge when suddenly an apple falls on his head, and having bitten it, has an Aha moment about gravitation, and proceeds to write a paper about it, all in TeX, and then sends it off for publication by email and then collaborates with colleagues live on video. Sorry, getting a bit carried away…

  209. is not a ZOO!
    “windows”, “desktop”, “folders” – “web page”, “wall”…… Without metaphors that reference physical things, technology would be even more confusing than it is.

  210. Investors don’t think the way people do; they have too much money for that. They’re thinking about things like keeping secrets until the last possible moment from NI’s competition. I’ve seen similar behavior from other investors. Sometimes the investors are right, incidentally, and we shouldn’t discount the possibility that they’re right in this case. Unfortunately, one characteristic of the hyper-moneyed is that they don’t learn from their mistakes. But I don’t think it makes much of a difference in the present case.

  212. @Everyone
    By this statement from Rohan “We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology (both are wonderful yet works quite differently)”

    I think the mystery feature is something similar to Apple’s 3D touch technology(i don’t know what exactly it is), implemented in a different way by notion ink….

    any ideas??

  213. taken from link provided by paulikxp at 19:22

    “The single strangest invention Tesla ever proposed was probably the “thought photography” machine. He reasoned that a thought formed in the mind created a corresponding image in the retina, and the electrical data of this neural transmission could be read and recorded in a machine. The stored information could then be processed through an artificial optic nerve and played back as visual patterns on a viewscreen. “

  214. btw all this talk about copy editing is making me nervous about my posts. theoretically i am a native english speaker as most middle class south indians are, but you guys are giving me the shivers. Looking at a particular lizard here.

  215. What I am wondering is which wireless bands are included. Most devices out there still only deliver 2.4Ghz while that band is completely swamped. The newer 5Ghz band provides a much better connection and speed!

    Hopefully the wireless chip in the adam can be used on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, that would definitely be a big plus! Also, it would make the product a lot more future proof!

  216. hey sorry Narada, after posting I scrolled back down and saw your post, didn’t mean to copy you! Great minds think alike!

  217. @christian Kramer

    Therein lies the difference. How can we be sure Apple’s execution is the only best? I am saying execution because the philosophy is similar in both, the conceptualisation, execution and policy (closed versus open) is different.

    IMHO Apple’s approach is ONE of the successful. We are still waiting for another one. And I am betting on NI’s. (there are still rumblings of disgrunt with Apple’s approach to Ipad/ tablet computing as such)

  218. “Happened in front of your eyes” I am also in agreement about this particular line… with emphasis on “in front of” as opposed to “below of”. A wave of the hand to turn the page in a book as opposed to dragging your finger across the screen.

  219. Is pixel qi still there or has it been replaced by notion ink patented transflective screen? Site does not mention pixelqi and mentions patented technology

  220. There’s no real wysiwyg editor for TeX because you’d have to do some sort of continuous compilation, which is a pain; also the whole concept of TeX/LaTeX is the opposite of wysiwyg. But I’ve used both LyX and Kile and find them both rather pleasant, even though they’re not exactly side-by-side source/wysiwyg. I usually use emacs for my TeX work (source only) because I like scraping my knuckles on the bare metal.

  222. there is this particular ted talk that i can’t place now which used a hacked wii controller to enable a 3D desktop /working environment which was really cool. Except u needed to tape a wii mote to your head. So using ir image recognition would enable the same input to the device :D. Maybe thats why rohan cant share any pictures/videos at all of the ui :p.

  224. Gecko wasn’t talking about blog posts. He was talking about NotionInk website and the grammar there. So relax. Nobody’s yet been eaten by this lizard 🙂

  225. I cannot imagine “future” and “tablet” without palm rejection and proper stylus/digitizer support. Many people here think that the secret sensor is an infra red transmitter but is it really a feature? Does other devices lacks this feature? No! IR has limited applications and even TV remotes are going be to replaced by ZigBee/Bluetooth equipped devices. Secret code points to Nicola Tesla, which suggest something related to radio waves. It certainly is not a electromagnetic energy harvester nor fotovoltaic cell, those technologies provide way not enough energy. Induction might suggest active digitizer which is highly desired by customers but Adam doesn’t seem to have a proper locker for a pen! Today there are at least few technologies allowing implementation of stylus support using capacitive technology. I am really confused.

  227. Reposting a portion for your benefit (From my reply to Greg’s post at the top):
    http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/06/apple-introduces-the-incredible-shape-shifting-device-interface.html

    This patent gives the technology for the user to get the actual feel of a real keyboard while using a touch screen keyboard. 3D touch/haptic feedback via touch screen etc looks like similar buzz words.

    And definitely NI has something up it’s sleeve in that regard. That’s one thing that no mobile device has for now.

  228. jayanth, at least you haven’t been through the American educational system, which is more of a baby-sitting service than anything else.

    rk:
    > Nobody’s yet been eaten by this lizard

    Nobody here is a cricket.

  229. Glad to see the features section! Stands out with color and does a great job of highlighting what makes adam’s hardware exceptional. Nice job

    +1 to gecko’s edits (except for boss fight- i’m a gamer so i get the boss fight thing)

    Additional concerns: the green light in the “Seamless Connectivity” section is not necessary; the wireless and Bluetooth symbols communicate the idea visually without the green. 3G? The yellow on the Adobe Air+Flash also seems a bit odd.

    The language in the design section is now very clear and effectively argues the case for adam. Very nice!

    Calendar: looks like you’ve made some nice innovations there- the less typing on a tablet the better!

    Fonts: glad to see you guys are working on this, it’s the little things like this that make a product a joy to use

    Panels+Formats: excited to see full file compatibility; yet another sign that you guys at Notion Ink are serious about making the adam a true standalone computing device.

    Still waiting for more info on the UI and apps+content. A “design” or “features” like section would work well for each of those, but you may have something more interesting in mind…

    Still hoping for 360 view + color choices!

    This may have been answered already, but will adam be compatible with all android apps and have easy access to the android marketplace? (for example, could i use the android Kindle eReader app on the adam?)

    Best of luck!

    -ptf237

  230. –>there definitely shouldn’t be a comma there (sometimes commas are optional, but this one is wrong)

    There should either be commas both before and after the 802.11n because it is already identified/named as the “new Wi-Fi frequency specification,” or no commas at all because the phrase “new…specification” is too vague. I suppose it depends on the person writing the description. 🙂

  231. Thanks, bruce. Gaming is something I don’t understand very well. Somebody here mentioned that sunlight messes up the IR remote in their wii, which just confirms that gamers are supposed to stay in their basements.

  232. Rohan,

    the pictures drawn on the canvas has very sharp lines? is it a stylus?

    is it drawn on the adam itself- i hope?.

  233. I think (my opinion), that this is due to Notion Inks own geniue efforts to make that screen excell.
    Namly new developed matte screen that is scratch proof, prevention of light from the screen being diffused to much (green specks), placement,…
    Just PixelQi (underlying tech) would not do justice to NIs own (patented) efforts.

    A screen is Display, TouchTech, GlassScreen, placement, …

    Have Fun!

  234. Hello Notion Ink and Adam team,

    Among all the features of the adam, there is one “feature” I prize very highly. That feature is these Week-End specials from no less than the CEO Rohan himself.

    Through his posts, he has educated many of us as to what is the “cutting edge” of these devices and what can enhance the user experience.

    As many have said already, I too look forward to the “Saturday Post.” What other product is out there whose CEO himself/herself whets my appetite regularly to learn more and eke out more from the product I will be buying!

    Cheers Rohan and Notion Ink team, you have redefined what companies should be all about.

  235. Not just *any* book by Terry Pratchett, but ‘The Light Fantastic’.

    For the non-initiated: The Light Fantastic from the title is an 8th colour of light that exists on the Discworld as part of their rainbow (see also the background on the paint app) of colours, which is visible as a by-product of magic happening…

    So if you were looking for further proof for the ‘Infra Red’ theory of mystery sensors, I guess there you have it!

  236. Rohan,

    the new webpage looks good..

    Wish you the best to stay true to this vision
    “Notion Ink is about bringing that ‘future’ faster towards us (but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries).”

    Cheers,
    Arun

  237. You will just have to wait I while longer

    It will released in the USA first followed by India in a few weeks and more countries to follow

    It will be online from the start. So if you don’t buy online or you want to hold it in your hands first in a store then you have to wait a while longer. I will be pre ordering the moment it goes on sale online

  238. Nice hyping methods Rohan!!! 10 DECEMBER I expect some extra news… 😛 (seeing the binary code on the website, looks like a count-down… ) Will it be the revelation of the ‘secret sensor’??

    Anyway, can’t wait untill the adam is available. I’ll be ordering ASAP!

  239. I have a question to the community. What is going to prevent Apple or anyone else with deep pockets to step in the day before release and file a patent infringement lawsuit (without grounds, you can take some one to court just for the sake of postponing the release of a product in the US)? This would prevent any sort of release this year or early next quarter and hurt a newly emerging company like this to the point of depleating their assets and bankrupting a company…

  240. delicate matter here – commas often are and I will avoid them in this post except for illustrative purposes in deference to their delicacy

    right:
    “the new Wi-FI specification 802.11n”

    right:
    “a new Wi-Fi specification, 802.11n,”

    barely ok:
    “the new Wi-Fi specification, 802.11n,” (commas are unnecessary because you really need the “802.11n” in there and the commas break up the flow of the sentence)

    wrong:
    “a new Wi-Fi specification 802.11n” (commas are necessary because “802.11n” is not grammatically needed, unlike in the previous sentence, so you have to set it off with commas)

    The “barely ok” alternative follows the textbook rules – I guess – but it reads so awkwardly that I wouldn’t use it. Also it’s good to conserve commas because we don’t want to run out.

  243. Input/Output Ports

    * USB 2.0 Host x 2
    * Mini USB
    * HDMI
    * Micro SD slot
    * SIM Card slot
    * DC connector

    Says enough I guess. Sim slot is most likely for 3G connectivity.

  244. He could just be referring to the extra storage space you get when you attach an usb drive?

  245. searched for nikolas tesla, missouri on wikipedia
    this is what i found “In St. Louis, Missouri, Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in 1893”

    it was,i guess,the first radio transmitter.so maybe the sensor is after all a proximity sensor 😦

    IR and Induction charger sounded much better

  246. Hello Kamal,
    I am sure that had Notion Ink got into the distribution business (like Fedex, UPS or even Mumbai’s famous tiffin carriers) or into the chain department store business – risk free delivery in Mumbai and elsewhere would have been a top priority.
    However the launch timing, the huge holiday season looming in the west and CES are opportunities not to miss.
    You can rest assured that Notion Ink will be very considerate.

  247. > What is going to prevent Apple or anyone else with deep pockets to step in the day before release and file a patent infringement lawsuit

    Nothing. As a lawyer friend (this sounds like a contradiction, actually) says, anybody can sue anybody for anything. But they’d have to get an injunction to prevent NI from selling, and that’s rather more difficult, and they’d risk a countersuit of major size (for tortuous interference with business, and I don’t know what else), plus it would be a public-relations nightmare. Apple has shown itself to be very sensitive to this last.

  249. “It was all in front of you”… that drew my attention to the small ad of adam where you see the girl (i am guessing by the hand) unfolding paper “panels” that gives an impression of gestures. i agree that its not a new tech but I have never seen this in any handheld or computer (net/notebook, etc) only wii and xbox kinect have this kind of stuff.

    185 degree swivel infrared camera can do that in day and night.
    It makes perfect sense to me.

    Any thoughts?

  252. > also it have to recognize that you are using now
    > stylus so will ignore accidental hand touch

    Might be a prejudice, but active digitizers (which is the only way I know to get what you ask for) are expensive, aren’t they?

  253. Hey liking the new website, looks great and appealing, looking forward for this tablet, will buy one when it’s released, if I like it enough I’ll purchase around 600 for the company when supply meets demand. Keep up the great work, you’ve came far from just an idea to a device with an interface and won’t even think it’s android from touch and feel.

  254. [quote](transflective screen) – survey info. is that e-reading is the most popular use of a tablet after internetting, but you don’t make it clear how good Adam will be for this purpose. It’s not even clear that you can use the tablet in sunlight. This is a very important feature (the most important for me) and should be front-and-center, not vaguely hinted at. (The words “Pixel Qi” will help, some, for those who want to do further research, although they might not grab many people in[/quote]
    I have some OLPC XO1.5 laptops which also have a PQ transflective screen. I can use the XO laptop VERY well for reading. In fact, the more light (sun) is getting on the screen, the better you can read it.

  258. @gecko tinfoil hats is not a feature but the accessory which NI will force us to buy. This is their evil plot to make money.

  259. Hmmm….many moons ago, I recall using a TeX compiler which was available only on Macs which did near-wysiwsg ‘Flash Mode’ compilation. I think it was Textures. It was a really pleasant piece of software to use when endlessly tinkering with a paper.

  260. I don’t think this 3D desktop environment is the 3D Touch indicated with Apple here.

    Bumptop has been acquired by Google. We expect that Android may adopt this type of UI in the future.

  263. I just went by subramanya arcade, where their office is situated..
    its very calm and quiet from the outside… prbly very busy software engineers working on tight release dates burning midnight oil even on weekends…
    strangely i dint see the notion ink logo or the company name outside… it would look cool when they install the logo on their building, which is right next to IBM..
    wait IBM cant be the investors…or can they?

  264. To extend @sashi @ 19:52 and @sowmya @ 19:59 about nikola tesla & the movie The Prestige… this is my guess…

    I think the unique sensor is connected with both Nikola Tesla and the movie prestige… in the sense… just like nikola’s machine could create a clone of an object…. in notion ink’s case it is the opposite… an 3d object (like the user’s hands) in a 3D environment (like space) can control button, events on the notion ink… (similar to microsoft kinect)

    It could be possible… using the camera and this sensor (compared to multiple cameras as in kinect)

  265. There are many marketing issues that have prevented the success of a product when it is sold in a country that is not where the product was made.

    some clips:
    ” Failure to behave within the prescribed norms may lead to sanctions, ranging from being hauled off by the police for indecent exposure to being laughed at by others for wearing a suit at the beach. (4) Conscious awareness of cultural standards is limited. One American spy was intercepted by the Germans during World War II simply because of the way he held his knife and fork while eating. (5) Cultures fall somewhere on a continuum between static and dynamic depending on how quickly they accept change. For example, American culture has changed a great deal since the 1950s, while the culture of Saudi Arabia has changed much less.”

    “Cultural lessons. We considered several cultural lessons in class; the important thing here is the big picture. For example, within the Muslim tradition, the dog is considered a “dirty” animal, so portraying it as “man’s best friend” in an advertisement is counter-productive. Packaging, seen as a reflection of the quality of the “real” product, is considerably more important in Asia than in the U.S., where there is a tendency to focus on the contents which “really count.” Many cultures observe significantly greater levels of formality than that typical in the U.S., and Japanese negotiator tend to observe long silent pauses as a speaker’s point is considered.” Coca cola for example had many issues in countries that didnt purchase product because they were red. Some cultures consider red the color of death, so why would the purchase a death drink?

    “High vs. low context cultures: In some cultures, “what you see is what you get”—the speaker is expected to make his or her points clear and limit ambiguity. This is the case in the U.S.—if you have something on your mind, you are expected to say it directly, subject to some reasonable standards of diplomacy. In Japan, in contrast, facial expressions and what is not said may be an important clue to understanding a speaker’s meaning. Thus, it may be very difficult for Japanese speakers to understand another’s written communication. The nature of languages may exacerbate this phenomenon—while the German language is very precise, Chinese lacks many grammatical features, and the meaning of words may be somewhat less precise. English ranks somewhere in the middle of this continuum.” – this quote might help define some of the frustration people have been having with updates that dont spell out every little detail.

    “Language issues. Language is an important element of culture. It should be realized that regional differences may be subtle. For example, one word may mean one thing in one Latin American country, but something off-color in another. It should also be kept in mind that much information is carried in non-verbal communication. In some cultures, we nod to signify “yes” and shake our heads to signify “no;” in other cultures, the practice is reversed”…”Because of the potential for misunderstandings in translations, it is dangerous to rely on a translation from one language to another made by one person. In the “decentering” method, multiple translators are used. The text is first translated by one translator—say, from German to Mandarin Chinese. A second translator, who does not know what the original German text said, will then translate back to German from Mandarin Chinese translation. The text is then compared. If the meaning is not similar, a third translator, keeping in mind this feedback, will then translate from German to Mandarin. The process is continued until the translated meaning appears to be satisfactory.” Just a few of the many differences we all have from each other but the proper research can make or break a company.

    This is Notion Ink’s first product and they are based in India producing a global product. Do you have a marketing department addressing these concerns? As of right now, Rohan has been it as far as we have heard. Have you considered getting in contact with a marketing consulting firm before your release in the US? Many of us geeks that follow this blog can be very forgiving when considering cultural issues like this in a product, but the main stream and the media may not be forgiving. Especially if you are trying to produce a product that is trying to catch the mainstream like Apple has. It has to be culturaly acceptable for all possible decision makers, kids, parents, students, professionals, etc.

    Information taken from this site: http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/international_marketing.html

  267. Several of us have made comments about the need for proper, neutral English. This is critical for ‘public’ information like their website. This blog, on the other hand, is far more informal, so I have no problems with Rohan just writing whatever he pleases as long as he manages to communicate, which he does, except when he intends to be cryptic. I am sure his standards will be a bit higher even for blogging, considering he is the CEO of a company that is (will soon be) generating lots of buzz and anything said here will be picked up/apart by mainstream media.

  268. Uhh, this will be my first post, and i havent been keeping up with all the hidden back stories, but this is what ive got.

    On the Nikola Tesla hints: I third the idea of wireless charging (you guys can skim for the other to comments about this) One of Teslas dreams was to make everyday objects run wirelessly, (hey, im just trying to stretch my imagination)

    As for finding every little hint in the post: In some of the other comments, i read that the only italic words were “forced” and “future”. well…. you missed one. The word “cloud” is in italics. just throwing that out there. hopefully someone reads this and notices it too

  269. I would not be surprised if this was it, after all that is what Microsoft and Sony have done with their consoles, the camera can pick up on your motions and react to them as a user interface.

  271. I don’t know about you, but for me my adam will have 320+GB on day one ;D

    Velcro+Seagate FreeAgent Go. Woot!

    (Might have to buy the 1TB version to make it even better)

    LOVE USB ❤

  272. FCC Compliance and Certification Made Easy

    The FCC under rule part 15 tells us that most electronic devices need to either be verified to not cause harmful emissions or need to be certified to not cause harmful emissions.

    The difference between Verification and Certification:

    Verification:
    The verification process is typically the creation of a Declaration of conformity stating that the emissions limits are within the FCC Part 15 rules. Devices that are not intentional transmitters would typically get a FCC Part 15 Declaration of Conformity by submitting their device to an accredited Test Laboratory, having the device tested, and then receiving a test report and Declaration of Conformity.

    Certification:
    The FCC has decided that all devices that are intentional radiators, in the governed frequency spectrum, must receive a certification. This is a slightly more complex process where an accredited Test Lab typically will test the unit; the completed test report must be submitted to the FCC for approval.

    The complete FCC Certification process will typically follow these steps:
    1) The manufacturer will authorize the Test Lab to apply for a FCC Grantee Code.
    2) The manufacturer will receive the Grantee code from the FCC.
    3) The Manufacturer will submit their device to an accredited Test Lab for evaluation.
    4) The appropriate testing will be performed, per appropriate standards.
    5) The Test Lab will create a test report which details the tests performed, results and equipment used.
    6) The test report, along other documentation, will be submitted to the FCC for approval.
    7) The FCC typically takes 8-12 weeks to respond to certification requests.

    Optional steps in the process:

    Confidentiality:
    The manufacturer may request Confidentiality of the information from the FCC. This usually involves an additional $155 filing fee. If Confidentiality is not requested, all documentation will appear on the FCC website at the time the certification is granted. With the optional fee, the manufacturer can typically eliminate all design documents from this posting process.

    TCB – Expediting the process:
    Due to the 8-12 week delay in the certification process, the FCC realized that a more expedited process was needed. They have authorized several private organizations to issue certifications. There are some types of devices that still must be submitted to the FCC, however in most cases, devices can be approved via a TCB.

    Submitting a grant request through a TCB can significantly improve the time frame for obtaining a certification. In most cases, it only takes 1-2 weeks to obtain an approval from a TCB.

    ———————————————————————————————————————

    Rohan,

    Based on the above 7 steps for getting FCC certification, I guess Adam should be at least in Step 4. Can you please confirm?

  273. all this conversations about a tesla coil, someone or Notion ink itself needs to include an App that replicates one on the screen of the adam. It can interact to your touch and follow your hands. It would be a great gift if this could come with the adam. I think we could all appreciate this small addition.

  274. Just a general comment, since Rohan & Co. are fans of the golden ratio which, for those who don’t know, is more than just a Greek aesthetic principle. The golden ratio turns up in Fibonacci series, which are observed all over nature, from leaf patterns to the curvature of sea shells.

    Take a look at the recent issue of National Geographic which has a fine article about Antonio Gaudi’s cathedral in Barcelona. Gaudi was inspired by geometric patterns in nature which he managed to integrate with perfect engineering. Together with Tesla (possibly), perhaps Gaudi can also inspire you folks at NI.

  275. Tesla also investigated harvesting energy that is present throughout space. He believed that it was just merely a question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

    I keep getting stuck on believing it has to do with power, like wireless battery recharge or something, but what has it to do with still being functional in the dark? :s

    Tesla defenatly points us to alternating current. Cause that is the main subject he was doing inventions on.

    this also leads us to some new inovations on alternating current, like http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/10/philips-claims-first-ac-powered-oled-module-points-the-way-to-c/.
    Something that has to do with light and alternating current, but how could something like this be implimented on our baby ? :s

    again stuck …

  276. So we get a ir and fm radio? 😉
    Saw an rumor off the next ipad2 but here again Apple doesn’t do it right.
    When i type this on my iPhone 3gs then i think why does Apple do not make a device like a big iPhone?
    Then they would have a winner.
    But on the other hand who wants to be a slave off Apple?
    Thus my interest goes to NIA witch have all the hardware to be a succes.
    Rohan when u really pull this off nothing else out yet come close.
    So the big companies like LG, Samsung, Sony etc can watch how it’s done right.
    Like everyone here we hope that all going well and hold our baby very soon 🙂
    best regards,
    Mr T

  277. I think we can guess that the sensor/feature could be related to electromagnetism.. it could charge the device or it could be like kinect .. but will never be able to tell that for sure until the device is launched

  279. if this is the case, we could only expect it will be working even better with fine tip stylus, considering as an artist, they usually do not use fingers that often to create…

  282. > He reasoned that a thought formed in the mind created a corresponding image in the retina

    Wow. That’s like my thinking about lunch creates food in my stomach.

  283. Would love to see this be DLNA compatible. It already has WiFi, so why not include the drivers (not sure if there are licensing fees) so that we could wirelessly connect to newer tv’s and media players instead of having to use an HDMI cable.

  284. Indeed, you are right. However, it looks like they have obtained the services of someone with a definite flair for language. I liked the bit about ‘window to everything under the sun’, although they could have made the implicit ‘can read in broad daylight’ message more explicit. And I also agree with you that ‘menagerie’ is a charming usage, again showing some flair. So, I leave it to that professional to keep refining the language. If I find something others haven’t already mentioned, I will be sure to do so.

    In the ‘storage’ section. I felt a colon would add more punch to “and there you have it: a fully portable, pint-sized…’

  285. there were styluses created for ipads and ipads, ignoring hand touch while using them
    still these were unofficial and beta test products
    but would be looking forward for 50$ (or possibly less) for additional stylus

  286. another explanation of the sharp line is that when the drawing was created in the full screen, those lines were not that thin. Once it got zoom out as showing here, it seemed amazingly fine. it is hard to imagine with just finger, one can draw such fine line.

  287. I think there are softwares that can do this in android at the moment.. I don’trecall the name at present. but I am sure there are some in market

  288. Am viewing this blog on an actual iPad. I am really excited about the Adam, but find I am increasingly worried about the display size of the Adam in comparison to the iPad. Could someone please address the issue of size in detail, beyond the issue of aspect ratio? In a previous comments section I raised this issue, and pointed to a visual workup I did of the Adam display superimposed over that of the iPad (http://www.thebadduke.com). Contrary to some previous posts, it seems the iPad does use the entire display area for such things as reading and annotating PDFs,etc. I’m concerned about the narrower space on the Adam. I’d really like to hear about display size on it. Thanks,
    Jon

  289. @Paritosh

    The framework for the disassembly of the device to my understanding involves screws that are non-visible inside the battery compartment on the edge of the device as well as some smaller ones on the back. 😉

    Time will tell!

  290. @ Raul
    I think that back trackpad is there! Rohan said a few words about apple’s 3d touch in his post, I bet its got to do something with the back trackpad!
    🙂

  291. I think its the difference between knowing the colloquial vs rules of grammar (pronoun, preposition, past participle etc). Also, since his posts are the main form of communication – people get really nit picky (sloppy writing is directly reflected on to the person in the native english speaking countries).

  292. I certainly hope so…

    I use Google calendar religiously; if the adam one doesn’t sync across all my devices then I unfortunately would not have much need for it. :\

    Hopefully Rohan will update us on that inkling of information in next week’s post. 🙂

  293. Mmmm… I just stumbled upon rohan mentioning the movie “The Prestige” ( “I hope many of you have seen “The Prestige”). It has been some time since i saw it, but i remember that one of the magicians in the film actually met Nicolas tesla in missouri and wrote a note like that into his diary which was later stolen by his rival… Maybe i should watch that movie again this weekend…

  297. @manoj, good observation.

    @lxt11,

    On ipad there are few apps to take notes, doodle that allow the user to zoom into section and write,draw etc and then zoom out. As in map notes where the app allows the user to map their thoughts, ideas etc.

    Once zoomed out, the user can see a bird’s eye view of things. Laid out in a neat way. May be Adam is doing something similar.

  298. Your ‘Philosophy’ section still needs a lot of reworking. I know what you are trying to say, but you are not communicating. First, I don’t quite see that all of modern design is spanned by the three axes you mention, but be that as it may; ‘school of inspired geometric that we draw from’ sounds awkward. I like the pun (intended) on ‘draw’, but s. of i. g. leaves me puzzled. Also, intuitive symmetry that follows arithmetic harmony is a bit of gibberish. Also, although ‘retro’ is not the same as ‘retrograde’; the latter is pejorative, while the former is usually associated with style. Altogether, too many words. Reduce. Simplify. Clarify.

  300. I disagree about the blog posts. Rohan’s English is fine – it’s clear and fluent. Blog posts are supposed to be personal, and personal languages inflections are part of the charm.

    The website is another matter; it’s not supposed to be personal. It has to represent the company, and the image the company wants to project is not just one of enthusiasm and futuristic thinking (they’re very good at that), but also competence and attention to detail, including linguistic detail (they’ve had some issues with this).

    So, the reason I disagree with you is that you’re wrong, at least about the blog. If you weren’t wrong, I wouldn’t disagree with you. QED.

  301. Awesome Post!!!!!

    Okay, i’m going to play the suspicion card here.

    Why isn’t the back track pad included in the features page ? I mean if the camera is there surely the track pad should be there.

    Btw, in the features page under the HDMI explanation… I don’t think you should say “our tablet” instead, “your adam” would sound better.

  302. little edit:

    this in good example of stylus, it just need button on it
    and probably some good soft, like he shown but would make possible to create fast acces buttons on side that can be used with fingers
    my pal, when drawing with his normal REAL tablet having one hand drawing stuff, while operating keyboard with other to change between options

  304. so does the Tesla reference confirmation mean that there is a sensor that can track your finger as it moves above the screen? Does that make my ‘hair-raising’ comment close enough? 😉

    (posting from mobile, haven’t read any of the comments here)

  306. Rohan & NI…. Thanks!
    When I read ur post earlier today, I couldnt stop giggling like a child! i was awed!
    Thanks for making it clear what Notion Ink is all about! Although most of us here are with you and NI… when we (I) see too many of these negative comments and the release date related comments, we (I) also start thinking that way…. It takes a note from Greg, Sowmya and some humor from Gecko (Your “hold on to your breath” comment was just superfunny!), Phillip et al, to remind everybody that we are looking at something big, just not a mere competitor trying to make a quick sale. Your post today just put those words in concrete…. you are here to stay and what you guys are trying to bring out is going to be BIG and different! a “seed” like you say! You nailed it with your post today! I am in for the long journey! A comment in your previous post did it for me… when someone said something about missing the boat…. the reply came something like… what boat, Notion INk is launching their own f***ing Ship! (yea there was no abuse, but thats how i read it 🙂 )
    Anyway, your website is much improved and I say thanks to all the addicts here for all the notes and recommendations. Its finally something I can start sending links to all my friends!
    And yeah this is just my second post (1st post… I couldnt resist your reference to Pink Floyd SOYCD) although I have been following this for months now, and have read every bit from start to end!
    I say good luck to NI team and may your dream see the light of the day… and back to you… “Shine on….. you crazy diamond”!

  307. May be because if we have a normal SD slot, we can use the mini and micro with an adapter.

  308. @emelao

    I know I’ve been counseling patience, but June is a bit much. Could you maybe move your birthday up a bit?

  309. I think Narada and others above are on the right track with the Tesla reference. He was all about free power to the world by wireless means. There have indeed been substantial advances in recent months for induction resonance charging at a distance of 1-2 meters with efficiencies approaching 90%. It would not be a stretch to imagine the Adam having such a charger that could keep the device wirelessly ‘topped up’ at a distance while resting it in your lap or whatever. One must admit that that would be a fairly interesting innovation, as long as the safety issues have been addressed…

  310. So nice to see companies and designers with vision out there, really worth supporting and getting behind!

    A couple of suggestions for your new features page, just basic English stuff:
    Processer: The last sentence “…we’re talking about a truly immersive gaming that won’t drain your battery in the middle of a boss fight.” has a small mistake since gaming isn’t a noun. Would be better as, “…we’re talking about a truly immersive gaming experience…”

    On the screen page not sure why you’ve included the refresh rate of e-ink screens. The Adam doesn’t use e-ink so including technical details of it could be a bit misleading, especially for people reading quickly. I’d suggest either putting in the refresh rate of the Adam’s screen for a direct comparison or removing the e-ink reference altogether.

    On the storage page the last sentence states “…pint-sized PC powered by the latest low powered technology.” I know your meaning is that it’s energy efficient technology but how this sentence sounds (and what it technically means) is that the Adam is powered by technology that, while new, isn’t very powerful (ie cheap or poor quality). Better would be to state, “…pint-sized PC powered by the latest energy efficient technology.”

    Hope that helps a bit. I do English proof reading for a publication here in China and these little details really make a big difference in leaving a positive impression on readers, especially native speakers, for whom the first connection will probably be the quality of the presentation as a reflection of the quality of the product.

  311. Thank you very much for the info, RK. You know, when I first saw this image of the post, I was so convinced that there got to be a digitizer, there is no way to draw sth like that w/o it. Rohan just not saying it instead he showing a pic…

    until manoj’s post came up and Rohan’s replied, now your respond… my hope got killed, man! 😦 x 🙂

  312. Rohan’s quote: “I spend hours looking at the recent patents and if you also do so, you will be as excited as I am, by just adding little extrapolations and imagination.”

    This certainly refers to a patent application/s from NI that will give us clues about the secret sensor!

  313. Rohan’s reference about 1000 threads at this blog threatening to kill and demanding for Adam:

    Was it a tip of the hat to the bloggers here? 😉

    He was talking about timeline/deadline and there are situations when the product has to be kept under wraps and released at the appropriate time. Interesting point.

    But we would like to know more details. and by the way, why is patenting taking too much time? It should’ve been done by now for we’re hearing about this for a long time.

  314. + 11 for “your adam” !

    Even if its just because Rohan did announce: “It’s not goint to be a tablet!” (not literally)

  318. @lxt11, Don’t worry. Even if there’s no active digitizer we still can use capacitive stylus. Many artists are doing that with iPad. Check out reviews for Box capacitive stylus at amazon. And Adam’s capacitive touch screen will allow such styluses to be used for not taking, drawing.

    And who knows, NI might relent and give adamholics or adamenters a digitizer stylus. 🙂

  320. It’s funy that I actually talked about ‘The Prestige’ (one of my favourites) in the last post and suddenly, this post has a mention of it!

    *from Wikipedia*
    ..Borden gives Angier one word, “TESLA”, and suggests that it is not merely the key to the transposition cipher of Borden’s notebook, but also the key to the illusion…

  321. Again, I think your ‘Curve’ section could use some reworking as well, so the following suggestion is offered in a constructive spirit. I personally would have used a phrase like ‘pale parabola of joy’ in describing it, but you have a product to sell, and I don’t.

    “There’s often one stand-out physical factor that sets a product apart, like Adam’s signature cylindrical curvature. It adds a practical dimension as well; you can hold it as comfortably as you’d hold a folder: the curve helps you get a grip that’s ergonomic and evenly distributes weight, without straining your wrist. The curve offers an advantage over the standard tablet, as its 3-degree elevation lends it a natural viewing angle. What’s more, the cylinder stows away easily-replaceable batteries, provides rotational housing for the swivel camera, and serves as an excellent location for the stereo speakers. The result? Design that’s comfortably, intuitively elliptical.

  323. Another interesting update. The wait continues. Speculation continues. My gut feeling has not changed, Adam is the device I want to acquire. I think it is important to remember that no one device can be the answer to all ones geeky dreams. Years from now we will look back and smile at how we were so excited. Hopefully Notion Ink will still be keeping us tuned in with new devices and technology. In the present it does appear that their desire is to give us more then Apple and the many other competitors that are vying for our attention. We wait to see, touch, and feel Adam. To explore it surfaces, know it’s quality. To analyze it’s performance. We await with the excitement of a child at Christmas. Will everyone get everything they want? Probably not, but just as the Mick Jagger sang so many years ago “You can’t always get what you want
    But if you try sometimes, well you might find
    You get what you need

  325. Size thing — is the notion ink adam’s screen really “tiny”? I would really like to see an “unboxing”-style video that shows the adam in action. Is there one? What’s the situation for reading/annotating pdfs? Thanks !

  326. Hey Giovanni,

    God bless Italy too. India has a little Italian lady doing her bit in India – and might I say, with a good degree of success — Sonia.

  327. Also, wouldn’t ‘aircraft-grade’ sound better than ‘aircraft-worthy’? The Adam curvature looks like an aerofoil, so I can imagine myself putting several Adams end on end and trying to fly off my roof. I hope it would then be aircraft-worthy!

  328. Will there be any portable bluetooth keyboard accessories available for the adam? I’d love to have something like this : http://www.amazon.com/Stowaway-Ultra-Slim-Bluetooth-Keyboard-Handhelds/dp/B0002OKCXE so that I could occasionally type longer documents. It could also be useful for controlling the device while it’s attached to a TV.

    I’m sure you’re busy with actually producing the adam, but it might make sense to give the size specifications to another company as see if they have interest.

    Thanks,

    John

  329. i think we have already seen the 3D gesture in the teaser video released for adam. “Turning the pages like we saw in the video” is’nt that a 3D gesture !!!

  331. Hey Rohan…Thanks for the update…Its the minute details that keep us hooked..and one fine day..I’m going to be the first person to post…cheers!!!!

  333. About the file formats: Will The Office support the common djvu format? I believe this is a must.

  335. Did you try to get into the building bypassing the security?
    I did think about trying to go to Notionink office as a visitor (obviously uninvited visitor). We may get a glimpse of Adam in some of their engineers hands.

  337. The key to this post “(but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries)”

    I agree with you Rohan, This is about building a long term business and not rushing out a product in order to capitalise on one holiday season when you have many many more. I’m very proud of the fact that you are sticking to your guns and not giving in to the pressure.

    People need to understand that with Investors involved this is just as much about ensuring they are happy and continue to back you and at the same time providing your users with what they want. It is a tough balancing act and I would like to thank you for the hints you have been dropping to us.
    I’m extremely sorry that your investors are angry at you, people should respect the fact that they have signed an NDA but with the hype around this product, I expect nothing else from them.

    I would like to give you positive feedback on the Calendar and ensure that it is optimised for the touch experience, but doesn’t it seem too crowded? with that much information on screen? It maybe an idea to seperate in to two dialogues one detailing the event and the seccond detailing the time/reminders you would like to set?
    The second hint is a good one. Apple’s 3d Touch can be seen here!

    “http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/05/apple-patent-application-points-to-3d-multi-touch-manipulation/”

    It combines well with the IR Theory and using the Camera for depth perception. Love the thought if it and can’t wait to see the implementation.

    Finally, I’m with Prakhyat Singh on this, I’m in awe of NI, You, how far out of the box your thinking is and how much imagination this device is using. i want to encourage you to keep going! The Adam was originally my addiction and now its the story. The story of Notion Ink.

    p.s. Sorry for the wall of text.

  342. I guess the backside trackpad is gone. Its missing in the recent specs too.

    Apple has already patented it.

  343. > keep the device wirelessly ‘topped up’ at a distance while resting it in your lap or whatever. One must admit that that would be a fairly interesting innovation, as long as the safety issues have been addressed…

    It’s also possible, if we’re dealing with ac current through the air, that the Adam will have an electrical-execution app, in which case there are no safety issues (except maybe not being deadly enough). This may be the reason that they’re launching in the US first.

  344. @gaia1960,

    I think one of the more important doubts (the one started by the log post on Pierre’s lab) was explained extremely well. and every week the specials contain more info then the one before. I don’t expect Rohan to disclose all info yet; why ? because every week a few days after the last post there are people that start to impatient …. no matter HOW much info you will feed them, they will be hungry for more. Better save some to feed them later.

    @Rohan,wouldn’t be a good idea to feed less info more often?, I mean every day (or every other day) a small(er) blogpost. the total amount of info per week could be more or less the same as for example todays, but at least the would be something new to talk/think about.

  347. Adam has 4 variants of specially designed keyboard… Thats awesome news. Thanks rohan for everything. 😀

  348. So I had a dream last night I felt I should share with the rest of this blog.

    The Adam was released and all, but I think I had a little too much last night for it to be a coherent dream if you catch my drift. 😉 Anyway, the device was plugged into my TV and I was sitting on my bed. Instead of getting up to change it, I gestured at the camera from where I was sitting, and the Adam turned on. From my bed I could manipulate the controls and it picked them up.

    Just wondering if that helps with figuring out the mystery sensor. 😛

  355. Well, I certainly think it has much a do with Tesla and 3D gestures (touchless, of course!). HOwever, you don’t need the cam for that, nor IR tech… ultrasonic sensors will be able to grab gesture info throughout adam if placed under the screen. (EllipticLabs is the company developing this tech!)

    JCP

  356. Been a silent spectator of the blog/forum since months, and really meta excited about the Adam. The last time I was this excited about the launch of something, was Harry Potter’s last book 😛

    The Tesla reference was fab!

    You are totally making us earn the adam! 😀

  357. Lawyers generally will not file a suit without some kind of evidence to back up the claim. In this case, it is clear that the Notion Ink team has been working on their own hardware and software R&D (this blog is counter-evidence to the claim that they infringed.)

    Apple would not want to be accused of “abuse of process” or malicious prosecution, as the penalty Apple Would pay for that would be very high. The elements of a valid cause of action for “abuse of process” in most jurisdictions are: (1) the existence of an ulterior purpose or motive underlying the use of process, and (2) some act in the use of the legal process not proper in the regular prosecution of the proceedings. (More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_process )

    This is not to say that someone might not do that, but it would not be wise. Besides, why wouldn’t they have sued other tablet makers who already have their tablets on the market??

  359. @Paritosh
    I am not sure about apple but motorola intorduced the backside trackpad in its Backflip – Mobile phone…

    motorola would have already had patent for this… that is for a mobile though.. not sure how patents are issued (whether patent is specific to hardware – Backflip mobile phone in this case)…

  360. All real life events are shown on the calendar image posted by Rohan, For example

    1) Anniversary of Priyanka Rodrigues. This refers to Andre’s actual anniversary (February 1, 2009).
    2) It also shows a conf call with Aravind, who is also part of Notion ink and already referred by Rohan in previous post for the work on new website.

    Interestingly the calendar also shows a invitation to Misty on July 2006. I am suspecting its a small typo and there might have been a meeting with none other than “Pranav Mistry”

    Any comments on this Rohan?

  362. Pixel Qi is a ‘thinking’ LCD technology that can switch to three different modes by controlling the backlight. In regular (transmissive) mode, it functions like a conventional LCD. The transflective mode is enabled by turning down the backlight and allows high visibility even in direct sunlight unlike conventional LCD screens which go black or dark. Turn off the backlight completely and it becomes a reflective greyscale epaper display similar to the EInk displays on ebook readers like the Kindle. The combination of modes allows the screen to save substantial power and battery life (the company claims that in reflective mode, the display saves upto 80% compared to conventional LCD). What this means, is that the Adam can double up as an ebook reader and a tablet. Also, it should offer a way better outdoor usage experience than current products including the iPad.

    🙂

  364. That would be a hassle for Rohan. He has work to do between his blog posts. Best to give us his weekly updates.

    The good thing (IMHO) is that he will only have two more weeks (I hope) to post updates before the Adam is released.

  367. @Groundsit,

    I mentioned about trackpad/touchpad at backside of tablet, not frontside of Laptop

    I am not sure but the laptop trackpad is from Synaptics.

  368. it’s the end of november!!! it was not supposed to be released in November????????????? cant wait anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i do need a reply on this pliz or i will go buy an ipad, you are losing customers, you have to keep a prosmise!!!

  369. @Rohan, just observed that the adam specific links are now displayed on the “About” & “Contact” pages also. I had suggested this in my comments. Hope our comments are helping you a little.

    Feels so good to be part of ADAM 😀

  370. The sensor is an antigravity stuff. Probably NI got some antimatter generated from CERN this month. 😉

  371. i like the new features part of the site, but iv noticed a problem.
    on my 24′ inch screen on my desktop the features and design look great, but on my laptop, only a 15 inch screen, the design and features words and pictures overlap other parts of the website, its still readable but you cant see a few words and you cant see 100% of the pictures

  374. The livescribe pens are IR. It’s a big – if not entirely direct – competitor Adam’s demographic as well (students, people who want a productivity device and not a media consumption slab). Lucky for Notion, the tech has some major issues. I’ve been using one for almost two years now, and it’s come in handy often. For all its benefits, it tends to generate clutter if you’re actually managing 3-4 subjects. Plus, the pen lacks pressure sensitivity, a pencil option, touch compatibility on it’s desktop application, and has been sluggish with updates in general.

    Still, it’s come down to a reasonable price and probably works great for most people. But the more I’ve ended up using mine, the more I find myself wishing it could all be done on a tablet in the first place.

    If the easter egg here is an IR sensor, it may allow the Adam to augment its touch recognition to a degree of handwriting accuracy comparable to a Livescribe pen – possibly even deducing the angle of a stylus. While tablets “seem” to have this functionality, it’s pretty rough trying to fit more than 6-8 lines of handwriting onto one capacative screen. With this feature we could be looking at fitting 20-25 like a standard wide-ruled notebook. Cross-referencing motion capture is what all the console makers have done recently (one way or another) to improve on the 1st gen Wiimote. It wouldn’t be too surprising to see tablets take their lead in this respect.

    The offscreen gesture capability paulikxp mentioned is a pretty wild thought too. Though not seemingly a key feature, having a commands such as “picking up” an icon with a pinch, “pulling it” up offscreen (i.e. icon goes transparent, the hand’s general position is now tracked by IR exclusively) and then dropping it to a destination could be a bit more fluid and consistent than a standard drag and drop. Plus you could pop open a destination window, or close a window that’s in the way with your other hand while the first is still acting as the clipboard. Not that there’s anything too frustrating with good old drag-and-drop, but I can think of plenty of cases where some IR help could make the process less acrobatic.

    I think for all its potential and the relative difficulty Rohan would have had explaining the feature at early stages, compared to the relative payoff it would provide as a more passive feature, this sensor is a safe bet.

  375. Ok I haven’t read all the comments yet, roughly half way now but I do want to share some thoughts. (I am not logged in on wordpress now, creativeme2k10 is my posting name normally)

    Rohan said:
    “That is why Adam is not a tablet, it’s a seed for us, the first one which will help us lay the grounds for what is yet to come. I have designed the complete blueprint of an application called “Bliss”. You will find its components and traces on Adam and I think it will help us change our expectations & experiences from the machines we interact with. ”

    Why the code that points out to Tesla his birth date? Why not to one of his inventions or achievements, if that was what Rohan wanted us to think about and consider?

    It seems that Notion Ink is all about laying the ground rules. It has the potential of becoming the next Apple (before that it was Microsoft), with one huge difference.. they are all about technology and not marketing. All about technological (application) revolution.

    I think you’ve already figured out the hidden sensor bit, for as much as Rohan is letting on and can indeed do so. His entire post is dedicated however to a long term approach. Stating the obvious, in the face, that we need to look beyond the Adam and realise that the parts of blueprint (Bliss) that comes with Adam will show Notion Ink how to move on from there in improving their product. Hence the unusual approach that they have in working so close with the public (us).

    Rohan is eager to find out if the Adam can do for the world what it is meant to do. Change it.

  378. plz take a look here:

    h**p://www.notionink.in/features.php under it says:
    Got an HDTV? Plug the Adam in through the HDMI port provided, and voila, you’ve got your own media centre that plays just about everything, “minus the battery drain”.

    Now howcome there’ll be no battery drain whilst watching movies on our LCD/HD TV through HDMI.
    Something here is definately linked to the Tesla concepts!.

    🙂

  380. I’ve been following your blog and website from the beginning. I’ve never put a comment but today thought just mention one small thing. I guess it must have been talked by other visitors as well.

    I’ve looked at the specs on new website and most of the hardware is latest and greatest. But I was disappointed by camera. It’s a great design to have a swivel operation to cover different scenarios but when in the market mobile phones have 5.0 MP (some 8 MP) cameras, in these times you are launching a device with 3.2 MP.

    I appreciate you for creating a blog and connecting with all range of people from developers to customers and applaud you for bringing such a device to reality.

    ~RS

  381. Well, safety is still a legal issue, as electrical execution apps will need to avoid ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment. I believe when the Governor of Texas was asked about this forthcoming app, he did use the word ‘humane’. He went on to say that he also expected the app to be Green. Thus, it would draw this ac current only from non-fossil fuel sources and, once the user is dead, detect falling body temperature using the IR sensor and shut itself down, thus conserving power.

    Another app avoids bad hair days by imaging the user using the swivel camera, detecting bad hair, and then manipulating the electro-static field around Adam to shape the hair back properly. Bald people merely get a discount.

  382. plz take a look here:

    h**p://www.notionink.in/features.php

    (1080p HD Video Output through HDMI) under it says:

    Got an HDTV? Plug the Adam in through the HDMI port provided, and voila, you’ve got your own media centre that plays just about everything, “minus the battery drain”.

    Now howcome there’ll be no battery drain whilst watching movies on our LCD/HD TV through HDMI.

    Something here is definately linked to the Tesla concepts!.

    replace ** with tt

    🙂

  385. Its called Palm Rejection

    Take a look at the asus T101, I was going to get that until I found the adam.
    Also there is an app for ipad called penultimate with palm rejection, I hope something like this is included so that you can take notes.

    🙂

  386. Hey guys, I might not be able to meet you in Missouri… Gotta fly back to Serbia, my dog is sick. I’ll let you know, k?

    May the power of magnets be with you!

  388. Just release Adam now. Be fruitful and multiply. Populate the Earth in no time!….oh and we’re going to need Eve to do that, 😀

  389. @ Rohan
    Hi, You have answered my question I was about to ask ! I am not a tech. person… If such precise strokes can be made…I reckon that there has to be an active digitizer which supports capacitive touch like N-Trig or Wacom. anybody ??

  391. IR, RF, visible light, X-rays and the like are all forms of electromagnetic radiation. An “electromagnetic energy harvester” could mean any piece of matter that’s being heated up by incoming waves of energy. IR has certainly proved limiting for outdoor laser tag and TV remotes, but for reading gestures between a hand/stylus and a screen a few inches away, both are viable candidates. Both would also work well in low light.

  392. I would stress that the diplay itself is dumb.
    Notion Ink (itself?) developed the intelligent software to read an sensors output and interpret the lighting conditions, consequently controlling the screens modes.

  393. The code on the site looks a lot like Hex code, and a quick spin of a hexadecimal converter brought about the following number: 3,581,020,800. A quick trip to Wolfram|Alpha lets us know that 3,581,020,800 miliseconds is equivalent to 41.44700, or 41 when rounded down. If thought back to the daily countdown timer and figured out that January 4th is 41 days from now. What else is on January 4th, you say? Of course, it’s CES.

  394. The above calculations are not mine as me not a geek :), found it on net although not able to put the link in here coz when i put that link in here then my post doesn’t get published here, meebe that site is blocked here 😦

  395. @ Sowmya
    Rohan says that the picture was drawn by hands… so such precise strokes are possible…I reckon that there has to be an active digitizer which supports capacitive touch like N-Trig or Wacom.

  396. Hi,

    just a few things,

    @Rohan I love the website updates, cant wait for software and genesis to come along.

    @Everyone:

    Relating to the code, and the “hint” in this blog post, im sure we all picked up the mention of Tesla’s birthday in the calendar section, which is what the timestamp / code resolves to, but (someone else may have already said this, but as far as I can see they havent ) what about this as the hint?

    “The Panel Engine

    Few applications will require multiple instances (have you heard of this on other non-PC devices?) for better functionality, like File Browser for faster file transfer, web browsers in incognito modes, etc. Hence, Panel Engine will support multiple instances.”

    Is it me, or has Rohan been going on about how this mystery feature is not included in any other tablets, or maybe any “other non-PC devices?” My thought is that the mystery feature is related to that, also, not a lot has been said on it, which makes me think Rohan is witholding information…

    It might be that this is somehow linked to Tesla, but I may be barking up the wrong tree…

    Still, I cant wait for the Adam 😀

  397. Apart from that.
    Rohan mentioned Tesla in his post, thus the HexCode being a Unix timestamp _exactly_ pointing to Teslas birth can not be a coincidence.

  399. thanks again for a very informative post, Rohan
    when you folks get a chance could you fix the redness on the hands (guess its something to do with light effect?) in the 2 videos on the site…

  400. If you choose a tool with a small tip you will only draw a thin line, probably with the middle of your finger tip. It’s the same when you’re writing with the on-screen keyboard: not the whole finger print is used but only the center or which part touches the screen first.

  401. I would like to know about the Adam’s 3G connection. Have they announced what carrier will provide the network, or if and/or what the monthly fee would be? Thank you for any information regarding the issue.

  402. @ Rohan, sorry but one issue and one nitpicky statement from me.

    1) Issue: The new features page is excellent, but the navigation is counter-intuitive. Instead of clicking on the items on the side of the one you are looking at, you HAVE to click on the small navigation bar on the bottom. This had me stumped for a second before I tried it. (I had not even recognised the buttons on the bottom as (yet another) navigation bar.
    Proposed solution: make the large pictures themselves navigational items.

    2) Nitpicky statement: Although I adore the new proper English sentences. I had to chuckle about “The Adam is you window to everything under the sun, and we have taken a lot of care to ensure that the display reflects that.”
    The meaning intended is that “we reflect” that “the adam is your window to [everything-under-the-sun]”.
    The meaning I perceived is “we have taken a lot of care to ensure that the display reflects” “the sun”.
    The sentence which is posted is semantically 100% perfect, but reading it a bit too fast might lead people to believe that the adam has a very shiny glossy screen which reflects all light there is, and this is by design.

  403. At this point, I either expect the ADAM to be an amazing tablet, or crash and burn under the heavy expectations/ hardware insufficiencies.

    For my sake, Notion Ink’s sake, and the sake of my wallet, I hope to God it is the latter.

    Also, Rohan, if limited amounts of ADAMs are available in the first release, do you know how long it would take to ship out the next batch?

  405. So, how about USB networking? Since my phone can do USB tethering and Adam will provide my phone with power, USB networking will be my preferred method of getting on the network.

    Les

  407. I think you do not understand the picture.
    The different lines can be scrolled up and down with one finger.

    It shows only one reall life event being set up by scrolling all the ‘bars’ to the correct values. The other ‘events’ are just the next thing on the circular bar.

  408. I recall hearing awhile back that NI would be offering discounts to students… was it ever mentioned how much of a discount?

  409. It might be stupid, but after seeing the clues, tesla, 3d touch, wireless and Rohan’s immediate response to the question abt the paint app makes me feel the sensor is indeed a 3d gesture detector which makes adam fingerprint proof too!! I have a feeling the image for paint app was not drawn on.the surface, but in front of adam in air!!! With the use of IR now it might be working at night also!! Imagine the use of this in presentations and the way we interact with the device!!!
    Came out from.bed to write this. let me sleep.peace!!
    Jai

  411. smells like trouble:-)

    Rohan, we hope that your lawyers/patent specialists at NI are aware of this apple patent. Nice find Vijay.

  413. “The Adam is your window to everything under the sun, and we have taken a lot of care to ensure that the display reflects that.”

    Admire the pun and move on.

  414. We never heard from our buddy on price, discounts, expected release dates yet. Those investors and lawyers GRINDING TEETH 😉

  415. The website improvement is really quite remarkable! This shows great attention to detail, to feedback, and your desire to make a product that impresses – it gives me even more confidence in adam….

    Really, this site now is clean, brief and to the point, highlights the amazing specs/features, looks classy and original.

    WELL DONE!

  417. Ya that makes sense Ejal. And the list of names must be from contacts or something.
    I think I imagined a little too much… 🙂

  420. It would be nice to have a bit more clarity about the on-board available storage capacity. It seems to me that it might just be 8GB, leaving us the option to add as much GB we can afford (micro SD & flash usb, the first being very expensive and the latter being very unpractical). I hope I am wrong.

  422. Once again, just fantastic. And now with the Features on the website, it becomes possible to reach beyond the geeks and the true believers, so I added a new post on my blog (in French)… Let’s roll!

  423. Wow – wonder what the price tag will be. Hope Adam can use the micro sdhc card. I think that will be only way to get 128 gb.

  424. @Rohan, I am looking for a tablet that I don’t require to upgrade for the next 2 years (including adam 2). Apple does wants to you upgrade after their every new release keeping existing customers left behind and increasing their sales. How dependable will it be even after releasing adam 2?

  425. I could only wish for a 5 MP camera ar better. 3,2 is a bit outdated. I have it on samsung tab that is great, but not as a photo. Also I wonder – will there be a strobe with the camera?

  426. @Pratik, and only one christmas left :(. Lets meet on Mt. Everest or at Mt. Elbert (Colorado 14’er).

  427. FM Transmitter ? I think its easier to fit than wireless charging or “Kinect” and will not cost anything extra. And Yes waiting for Preorders to start. Why dont NI launch Adam First in India than Other countries, At least We will feel proud.

  428. My adam will have 1TB HDD + 320 GB HDD + 8 GB Pen drive + 1 GB pen drive + 3 *4 GB SDHC card + 8GB SDHC card on day one.
    woops, sorry apple I can’t use so much on iPad 🙂

  430. Rohan & Co.,

    I will belabor the Antoni Gaudi connection a bit with some quotes from the NG issue of Dec. 2010, so bear with me. It has connections to your stated ‘Philosophy’ although in a way that perhaps undermines the design antipodes you have set up: i.e., organic, retro and geometric. I submit that geometric is organic and organic is retro, as Gaudi realized, and as the golden ratio->Fibonacci->patterns-in-nature connections reveal.

    The article opens with a quote from Gaudi. speaking about his design for the Sagrada Familia cathedral (which, incidentally, I have visited and admired). ‘My client is not in a hurry’. He was talking about God. Construction started in 1883 and will finish, perhaps, in 2026. So Adam is well ahead, although, to echo Rohan’s comment, will hopefully still be work in progress in another 143 years. Of course, I do hope you release Mark 1 sooner.

    Another line from Gaudi: ‘originality is returning to the origin’; in his case, biomimetic design. He was a pious man, so he also meant, reflecting God’s work; i.e. nature.

    “For Gaudi, form and function were inseparable; one found aesthetic beauty only after seeking structural efficiency, which rules the natural world. ‘Nothing is art if it does not come from nature’, he concluded.”

    “…the facades of the Sagrada Familia are based on the golden ratio, the geometric proportion behind all aesthetically pleasing art”.

    So, Gaudi was organic, but also deeply retro and, of course, intuitively geometric, basing his intuition on how gravity determined optimal structure and then inverting these geometries for his designs.

    Anyway, hopefully this helps you articulate your Philosophy part a bit better — of course, assuming that you hadn’t already digested all that Gaudi and his ilk had to offer when it came to engineering design of the aesthetic and optimal kind.

  431. @ Krämer

    Yea prestige did have tesla in it. I think Adam’s gonna have teleportation feature built-in. That would be handy, and none of the tablets have it yet.

  432. maybe Rohan already knew about this and that is why he has labeled that under the micro SD section?

  435. I have no problem if the answer is “I cannot show you because…”. But if an information is requested so many times, the people should get an answer, even if it’s not what they expect.

  437. I am well aware of the former.
    Just interested in how it would work..
    But, I realize that reading a few hours would probably the better idea 😉
    Patent laws..

  438. I’m convinced the secret feature is wireless charging. Just look up the presentation by Tesla in Missouri, as Rohan mentioned.

    That would be nice; as soon as you enter your office/home ur Adam will start charging automatically.

    Cool!

  442. According to my calculations of comment-growth over the past 10 weeks, when exclusively analyzing the week-end specials, there should be 2,121 comments on this post, 2,802 on the next, and 3,577 on Week-end Special XII. This does not account for any other factors such as population density or provocativeness of information contained within the post. Let us see how well objective mathematics truly works 🙂

  443. Its 2.30 AM here and I’m still dwelling on the blog posts … It’s like being glued 2 a fast paced Science Fiction… I m thoroughly njoying it … THANKS EVERYONE ..

    I hope, by december 9 all the twists and knots ll be unwind-ed …

  444. @abhi: Yes, that’s what i thought – but the side-effect from the teleportation Feature in “Prestige” (don’t want to spoil here) could become problematic 😉

  445. yeah the keyboard’s the first thought that came to mind, but then on the chassis I couldn’t figure out how the adam might have it?
    as for the waiting, i’m so ready for the tablet to be in my hands. i’ve written so many apps with the Adam in mind (I just hope they’ll run on the adam). so far i’ve only got my iPad to test them on. @Rohan can’t wait, i’m so close to knocking on your office door 😉

  447. Deep pockets!….hmmmm!!

    Who could have a deeper pockets than that of the “Reliance” Ambani.. backed ‘Notion Ink’ they them selves? the richest Billionaire’s backed firm.

    It’s no surprise to hear Rohan say all this with so much confidence, though it may sound mistic.
    He dares to speak stuff!… Apple happens to be just another big fish in the ocean…they will face every once a while. But petty little things like these, come & go.. & wouldn’t even effect, a tiny speck to the NI’s strong foundations. While they(NI) r here to stay much longer 🙂

  448. “I can’t explain all everything in one week as well, so will keep this tradition of sharing something every week.”

    Why not share a release date? 🙂

  449. I agree with Otaq, I love the features page the way it is 🙂
    Nice job on the page, its starting to look really polished.

  450. Basicly your point is valid.
    Regarding marketability, your point is (sadly) valid.

    But, we have to remind ourselves:
    1. This is primarily a webcam. Did you ever have a webcam chat with 3.2MP or even 8MP? very, very unlikely
    2. If this piece of electronics and glass (and plastics) will prove to have superior image quality, I gladly sacrifice a few pixels.
    3. You know, 3MP is normally _2000x1500_. I do not know any sensible screen that sports that resolution…
    4. 3MP is perfectly fine for you standard 4×6 print. Causual shots for the web need even lower pixel density… At that point general image Quality (lens! image processing!) is much more important than sheer pixel madness.

    In the past, many manufacturers have proven that 12MP may be _less_ good than 6MP in their models.

    Its not just about “who got the biggest MPs”. In fact, the greater the MPs, the smaller the individual pixels are, resulting in a lot of problems like much less light sensivity, noise, bleeding and much more.

    Do not get me wrong: I love technological advance. Give me more megapixels _without_ compromising quality, and I will gladly take it!

    We will have to see what kind of quality adams Webcam will provide.

    Have fun!

  451. everyone has a track pad, just because you put it on the back does not make it an infringement on someone else’s patent. The apple Ipad patent isn’t just an ordinary track pad on the back, it is an entire panel track pad on both sides. Nothing should be able to prevent notion ink from putting a track pad on the back of their tablet as long as it is one that is the style of one’s already on laptops, if it becomes something like an entire panel then it might be an issue.

  453. haha, I think when my child acts like this I place them in time out and ask them to come talk to me when they are ready to have a civilized conversation 😉

  455. ha! ha! ha! LOL 🙂 chris i like your humerish blunt approach! i’m with you in this..
    was expecting to extract an answer from Rohan. Its getting frustrating day-by-day as the launch date gets closer & the comments keep increasing here forever.
    And to watch all these sidelined stuff…rather than our core focus “adam”.

  456. didn’t citizen released a watch a few years back that charged itself based on the movement? each time the device moves the kinetic energy gets converted to electric energy…
    but what does that have to do with working at night?

  459. especially if you plan on using this device for video skype calling, etc, a larger megapixel is not used, your high end cameras on phones are actually minimized because you can’t stream 8 mega pixels over a cell network. 3.2 is perfect for video calling and video taping, most of us will have a camera that you can connect to the adam. I have a Nikon D300, I would love it if I could connect the Adam to my camera and use my adam to change the settings of the camera and control it’s shots from the tablet and NOT the camera. This is in our future!

    Will you be carrying the adam tablet with you everywhere you go to take pictures? no, it is too big to be considered your full time camera, you will have a pocket camera or phone camera with you at all times. But you will have the adam tablet in your car or hotel room to brows, edit and post pictures to facebook 😉

  460. My thought exactly, If we could just get a narrowed down range I would be very happy. I do not expect to get it this year of course but if we could get something like feb-march or w/e it would go a long way towards keeping me sane.

    If we could get confirmation of price that would be great too. I have heard a bunch of things from different places but will only trust it when i see it here.

  461. We do not have confirmation as far as i know about the market but many people seem to believe that it will have market access.

  462. wow – now thats gonna make Rohan release it in November, just to stop you from buying ipad!!
    Dude, if you need an ipad now, you should go and buy and ipad now!

  463. Ok, only one thing. I know who ever created it has a reason, and a reason they believe it SHOULD be there. But why really? Get rid of the yellow-green glow on the new feature page under the connectivity tab. Its just a distraction. Otherwise; great job. Love the direction of the website over the last few days. Every correction made was the right one. Some little things remain but I wont nitpick. Great job to NI and the designer for a website I actually feel a little more comfortable forwarding friends to.

  464. I’ve found the news about getting the font rendering correct one of the best parts of today’s post. It’s a total shame to see these other devices with either horrible typography (pretty much anything Linux based) or Apple’s rendering which I find too soft without a massive dpi (like the iPhone 4). Microsoft’s is nice when displayed in ideal conditions, but it’s not aware of rotation which makes the subpixel rendering poor for a tablet.

    If the text rendering is truly optimized for the effective 3072×600 resolution in reflective mode and the Adam gets Pixel Qi’s latest display tech, it should look stellar.

    P.S., it seems that the site map link at the bottom is unclickable on the Features and Design page.

  466. Would be cool if the secret sensor was linked to the camera, where hand movements would control the device…

  467. Rohan has told us repeatedly, week after week, that he can not publish much of this till release; emphasized by investors’ concerns and anger. He can’t take risks with those investors at this point and in this economy, esepecially after investor difficulties and delays earlier this year. As Gecko eloquently points out, those investors are making business decisions, not technology or public relations decisions; hopefully good ones. And, the more unique and visionary Adam turns out to be, the more likely they are to guard final info as closely as possible. I’m sure their announcements when made will be heard round the world. Rohan has not ignored these requests; people may just not like the answers for now.

  469. nice update… but still leave us in expectation for another week. Winter is coming, it snows now in Europe and we don’t have our Adam to browse in our beds. Tough times are coming. Just to release my shopping anxiety and keep some money for the ADAM I ignored black friday. Just one gadget here and there, but nothing extraordinary. Bring the warm ADAM soon, it is freezing here.

  470. Please tell me the Canvas app has a built-in screen-recorder to support speed painting. Maybe you could have Nico di Mattia doing a few guest sketches….for your live demo 🙂
    link – http: // nicodimattia.wordpress.com/

  471. love the fact that rohan used the pink rabbit as a reference for ideas that are difficult to understand…

  472. the screen aspect ratio for the adam tablet is very different from everything else on the market, the OS is a custom version of android and everything else is custom. Stuff has to be made so that it will utilize the entire screen or else it will look stretched, or it wont display at all.

    That being said… I dont think it will take but a couple of weeks before someone comes out with a conversion app or something that blacks out the parts of the screen not being used and runs a cell android app on the adam just like it would on the phone. People have criticized Ipad for not forcing developers to make custom apps for the Ipad and allowing the device to run apps in just a blown up scale. But this is essential and something that must be accepted. It is an easy fix to an issue of a new product coming to market with little apps available. This must be done until programmers have enough time to develop apps with these new aspect ratios.

    My personal belief is that the unstandardized aspect ratio may cause the adam more harm than good. It is very hard for developers to make a custom product for each different device. Look at all the problems the developers of “Angry Birds” are having over the different versions of Android OS.

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20023199-264.html

    The program only runs on higher end versions of the android operating system and wont on lower versions. They have to customize the product for the other people and this has resulted in those customers not having access to the app until years after everyone else. When you create a product it should utilize a standard aspect ratio so products that are already developed have one less thing to worry about when publishing for your device. Lets see if the adam 2 maintains this different aspect ratio…

  474. Congratulations to Rohan and all team at inNOvaTION thINK!! Great update, thanks for it!

    I hope the “SD” would really a SDHC compatible full size (not MicroSD), this is a great new for me (I normally use the SD cards from digital cameras)…

    And about the extra mistery feature, I would like very much if it would be the “Haptic Keyboard” that gives you the real feel or near that of a phisical keyboard, it would be great!!

    About this, Microsoft are working (and make patents) about this technology too:
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19776-microsoft-develops-shapeshifting-touchscreen.html

    Thanks all for your comments, I like very much reading here, sorry for my poor english, I cannot explain well my thoughts a lot of times…

    PD: Are here some more spanish people like me? Please tell me other sites where you post in spanish to comment about the great ADAM in spanish (forums, spanish blogs,…)

  475. If you don’t get an ADAM in time for your trip, well, you can always please yourself with the ADAM facade made from the DVD covers as shown in the previous blog comments.

    No one needs to be disappointed anymore 🙂

  478. Look at the screen of about any netbook currently on sale and you will see just what is the exact size is of 10″ 16:9 screen.
    As written before,
    – 10″, 16:9 is the only size available for Pixel Qi displays
    – 16:9 is the normal aspect ratio in Android
    – 16:9 is the only aspect ratio where you can divide a landscape display in three vertical panels with the same aspect ratio (used in eden)
    – 16:9 is much better for movie/video, paperback size books and correspondence much better to the shape of human vision.

  479. Ok, but you won’t walk through the city and take high quality pictures with your Adam, will you? It’s enough to see people talking to themselves walking around (yes, they have a wireless headset) but to see others taking pictures with a tablet PCs.. Pfffffffft….
    For that you will have a good camera in your phone or seperately in your pocket.
    Or are you probably using your Galaxy Pad as a phone while holding it on your ear? Must look very funny 😀

  481. It is binary countdown which has been confirmed by daily changes. The countdown points towards December 9th.

  482. Oh, thanks Wouter and Greg; I noticed the book reference, sure it was no accidental post, but been so long since I read that book; now I need to re-read 🙂

  483. I’m pretty sure that 95% of the existing apps will run on Adam. For “old” apps which are not designed to run on higher resolution screens there will be the three-panel-view, through wich you get a resolution of roughly 300×530 pixel for each panel. This works in landscape mode and it’s not known so far what will happen in portrait mode.

  485. I am pretty sure that it is still micro sd even though I agree if it was SD it would be better. SD cards are much cheaper

  486. tinyurl.com/2bmtjpn

    It is only an application for it as I haven’t been able to figure out if it was accepted or not.
    As for “how can every notebook have a front side trackpad”, because it is on the front (which had its own lawsuit fiasco) where as apple’s patent(application) is about giving input info on the back of a media device(backside trackpad) which then displays an output on the frontside of the device.

    Like I said though, I’ve only been able to find the application.

  488. @gecko

    The largest capacity microSD (actually microSDHC) card I’ve see ins 32 GB. But it is slower (class 2 / class 4) and relatively expensive. Unless they make them fast and prices drop, I’ll stick with 16 GB cards.

    And if my info is correct, microSDHC is limited to 32GB. So a 64 GB card would have to be a SDXC card, which is a upcoming format with a capacity of 2,000 GB (2 TB). I’m not sure that format will be supported on the adam though.

  489. @sim… Thanks of the link. I stand corrected. That will be cool, but I bet it will also be way too expensive…

  491. I already asked for odf in another post but got no answer yet… :-/ I really hope that they will support odf as it is the most used format here at my university in Germany!

  493. I was going to ask the same thing. I am hoping for Google calendar and contacts integration. Or a way to import at the very least…

  494. Same goes for the yellow glow on the “Air/Flash” portion. Its a distraction, not an improvement.

  496. New Oxford American Dictionary and Websters both agree:

    Menagerie: Collecion of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibiton

    Alternate Figurative meaning: A diverse collection of people or things …

    Just my thoughts:

    Seems to accurately describe both this blog and the application on the website. While I agree with most “nit picks” that website needs to be accurate, factual and professional, I’d hate to lose all the quirks and charm inherent, to become completely sanitized and boring. Glad to know what a boss fight is; don’t spend much time in basement playing games …

  499. I still have wireless G in my home but want to replace with wireless N (adam being the driving force). I think you have to have a dual band wireless n router for both 2.4 and 5 GHz support, right?

    I’m just starting to research which wireless N router to buy (so far considering the D-Link DIR-655, but it is not dual band) so if anyone has a N router they love, please let me know…

  500. > the screen aspect ratio for the adam tablet is very different from everything else on the market

    Galaxy Tab same aspect ratio and same resolution (and has market access)
    Archos 101, Viewsonic G-tablet and every othe 10″ Android tablet have the same size, aspect ratio and resolution.
    And the aspect ratio (both in full screen as in 3 panel view is very close to about every android phone ever made)

    >the OS is a custom version of android

    So is motoblur, sense ect…

    > and everything else is custom.

    Tegra2 is getting pretty industry standard for Android tablet

    > Stuff has to be made so that it will utilize the entire screen or else it will look stretched, or it wont display at all.

    As said aspect ratio is the about the same as on Android phones and tablets…And in 3 panel view the aspect ratio is the same (but in portrait instead of landscape).

  504. > I thought dec 9th is when 0 will be hit

    If Rohan has a sense of humor, he will say nothing on Dec 9, when the counter reaches 0. The next day, the counter will start incrementing again at 1. I hope Rohan doesn’t have a sense of humor.

  505. Filed by Samsung July 9, 2009.

    Add to it the only mention of “India” is this:
    “[0001]This application claims the priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.119(a) to an application filed in the Intellectual Property Office of India on Jul. 9, 2008, and assigned application Serial No. 1668/CHE/2008, and to an application filed in the Korean Industrial Property Office on May 19, 2009, and assigned Serial No. 10-2009-0043472, the contents both of which are incorporated herein by reference. ”

    I’m going to say coincidence,

  506. @mhasija

    As per your battery drain question…

    The reason is because you can turn adam’s back light off when watching a movie on a big screen display connected to the adam via HDMI. There will still be some battery drain, but not much when compared to watching a movie on the adam and having the back light turned on the whole time.

    At least that is how I interpret what is being said.

  507. With all due respect, Alex, if you truly NEED a tablet NOW, you can and should go buy an ipad; plenty of people around the world have.

    Purely personal, I desperately need a tablet, but an committed to seeing Rohan, NI and Adam through. Rohan did not promise November release; he has promised an awesome device beyond a mere tablet, built with quality and integrity, and I’m looking forward to its launch, WHEN READY.

  508. Greg:
    > The reason is because you can turn adam’s back light off when watching a movie on a big screen display

    Oh, duh. I didn’t get that, either. But it’s stupidly obvious, and Greg has a genius for that kind of thing.

  510. I loved the whole post Rohan…

    And I’m especially curious about your closing paragraphs. Not just about Bliss, but also about where you said “its time we start making intelligent machines and companions which can help us do more, learn more, than just creating copies of hot selling products”.

    I picked up on the word companions and immediately thought about Eve.

    Now I am wondering if Eve will be a companion product (accessory) for the Adam, and if so, what will it be? Well, who knows, but I’m sure I’ll have to have it!

    Thanks for taking time from your busy schedule once again to keep us informed. It must seem like no matter how much you share with us, we always want more. Well, that is true; but it does not mean we are not appreciative of what you do share with us… Thank you!

  511. Well kind sir, if I would place a bet on which guess makes most sense, yours would be it.
    Cool.

  514. Rohan and team, great job!!!

    Love the features page. I had to take a little break. Is there a way that I can get a doctor’s note for this week? I didn’t get any work done last week while working at home following the blog religiously. 🙂

    Can’t wait to order it.

    Keep up the good work!

    Mike

  516. Tesla reference points to Near Field Communication, and it might mean NI Adam is a Gingerbread rather than a Froyo.
    Links: goo.gl/LEWZV

  519. If I can’t get hold of an Adam in Canada or US by Christmas, I will have to add Bangalore to my itinerary during my India vacation.

  520. well an insignificant observation 😛 Is it possible to control camera’s angle through software or a dedicated switch, as messing around with the camera physically might leave finger imprints.

    Good Post Rohan 🙂

  521. Hi Rohan,

    Great post! Really well done for the website and the updates.

    Could we see Adam in action – I am particularly interested in seeing how responsive is note-taking!!!

    Please could you show us : )

  522. It would be great if you could hold the adam in front of you and it would take panoramic pictures by automaticaly rotating the camera.

  524. @elmelao Q.E.D. = Quod Erat Demonstrandum
    A general latin term in mathematical theories… states literally “what had to been proven” and means “the statement was proven in logical terms”

  530. Thanks for the reply!

    Even with fingers and some brush selection, if i can do something like that.
    perhaps it is good to take notes using the paint app itself.

  531. excuse me, but have you had any experience of investing 20-30 million dollars?
    oh you run a billion dollar industry…….

    ….no?…..then ……

  534. This is a lovely update.

    Enough with the screenshots..I want to see the UI in action on video.

    Thanks 🙂

  535. @Rohan

    Under the “Design” section on the website, the “Camera Placement” wording is not centered on the white ribbon. Also, the picture showing the camera placement is hard to see.

    Here’s a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qm6HK.png

    By the way, this occurs on 2 of my computers (1 with xp, 1 with win 7) and on IE and FireFox.

  537. Even if they directly don’t ship to SIngapore, it may be possible to get this through Borderlinx.com.sg or vPost Or I’m sure some intrepid re-seller in Sim Lim or Racecourse Road will carry it from India (if they do retail in India, that is)

    Singapore is the center of logistics operations; wouldn’t be too worried about getting it here. 🙂 A bigger worry, frankly, is IDA’s certification; I don’t know if they will need process stuff in addition to FDA/CE’s certifications. If they do, then technically it would be illegal to sell Notion Ink Adam in Singapore. Now those Racecourse Road sellers might get around it by calling them ‘export models’ or something, but that’ll be unnecessary markup on the price, not dissimilar to what they did before the iPad came out.

    Oops, did I talk too much about Singapore’s gray market on an official forum? 🙂

  538. @Rao

    sorry to burst your bubble.

    Rohan meant: he goes through the recent patents filed (by everyone) and from those, using some imagination, can grasp what all the people are conceptualizing.

    its like a crystal ball to the future of technology. AND if we have THAT imagination we will understand also.

  539. @Cathy
    Was away with the family for a few hours and, already GB of reading here!

    You are right Regarding STARSHIPS. A little more digging, and I found Mr. Spock saying: “Beam me up, Scotty!” in Star Trek.

  540. nice to read some better insights from someonelse (other than me!!!! been shouting hoarse from past few blog post :-))

  541. You have to be an EAP to state that you will have an app ready at launch. You also mentions emails sent by NI. If this would be true, wouldn´t you be violating your agreement as EAP while complaining others did so?

    Besides you make quite some advertisements for you app. I don´t think this community blog is the place to do so. If you had done it once in your enthusiasm I would understand, but you seem to be in every new thread with roughly the same ad and your contact details.

    Maybe it´s just me but I feel a community blog is not the right place for it and you seem to take large risks with your proudly earned EAP. Your choice and I am no moderator here nor working for NI but I would be more careful.

  543. Don’t like NI website :(. I don’t think NI website has a formal business look. Don’t like how some letters stick to the left/right of the page in the features page. Every page has grey-white theme except features page. Missing several keywords like PixelQi, Multiprocessing, Full office software, productivity/enterprise apps, tab browsing just to name a few. Not sure if website highlights the USP of adam.

    Very nice to hear about liveshare and support for formats. Can we install drivers for unsupported formats?

    @Gecko you are awesome

  544. Many corrections to the website, but still obviously not gone over by a native English speaker.

    > school of inspired that we draw from

    This is impossible – you either have to follow “geometric” with a noun (school of inspired geometric lizards), or change “geometric” to “geometry.”

    > A camera you can swivel to take pictures in any direction is one of those things you see, and go “I’m surprised no one thought of that before!”

    I complained about this before, will try again. This use of “go” sounds like a teenage girl. Very few adults use it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in print except for dialog. The most charitable interpretation by a customer will be that the website designers didn’t know English quite well enough, which reflects badly on their judgment because they shouldn’t try for slang. A less charitable interpretation will be that the website design was farmed out to a bunch of gum-chewing morons.

    You still have “Notion Ink is young at heart.” “Young at heart” means “old” in American English. It’s a euphemism. Several other people have complained about this as well. I just googled the phrase, and the first thing it returned is:

    >Prepare to be entertained by the inspiring individuals of YOUNG@HEART, a New England senior citizens chorus

    That dedicated PR person that you should have (per Sri) should have some native speakers on tap to check for poor grammar and also for mistakes in usage.

    yours for excellent usage,
    A. Gecko

  548. Sorry to ruin the suspense, but the mystery sensor is not 3D touch or wireless charging. It is, in fact, a new security feature aimed at deterring jealous iPad owners from stealing Adams. The user’s image is taken by the camera and if the user cannot be authenticated they will be shot by a death ray modeled on Tesla’s patents. Clearly, this is the most reasonable explanation for the references to Tesla.

    It is unfortunate that Rohan described the death ray as a sensor, and in doing so throwing you all off the scent of the real hidden feature. This was probably just an issue with Rohan not being a native english speaker and was unaware that the word sensor generally describes an input device, not an output device.

    Hopefully the death ray does not cause a delay in FCC approval.

  549. I am a regular reader/follower of this NI blog, and this is my 1st post on this blog. I’m a vivid tech gadget lover. Having got an opportunity to read this NI blog, its been enriching experience so far. Two words to describe the experience *ADAM Rocks!*

    Having owned Apples’ iPhone 3gs & 4 versions – I was in deep contemplation to buy the tablet. Then accidentally, bumped into ADAMs post on some blog and have been a longing for ADAM since over an year. This Black-Friday I was at the Apple Inc store (NewYorkCity) as u may already have an impression there are tens of iPAD at display, so that shoppers can smell/touch/feel/kiss the product.

    An idea (prank) struck in my mind (believe me.. I didn’t plan for it ..in my wildest dreams before entering the Apple Inc store.. I started launching the Safari browser and opening the latest NI site with the ADAMs graphic impression (rendered) on the new NI website, I opened every sample iPAD that was on display and kept the NI site ADAM renders on display – to my surprise people started flocking at the NI website and there was only one buzz word- WHAT IS THIS ADAM ?? it looks LOVELY 😛 the whole store (all sample iPADS were now displaying ADAM renders – and people could not stop BUT take a DEEP look (notice) of this Next Generation – SuperTablet… the whole Apple store was (in my imaginary world) set on FIRE…and I could not forget the impression on the peoples face who were shocked/jolted by just a 1st renders of ADAM. IMF-HO – the people faces were awe stricken 🙂

  550. While I’m hoping a few of those 35 languages would be Indian, I’m betting they won’t be. It’s a shame how little attention us Indians have for Indic-language word-processing and such.

  551. espariz:
    > Are here some more spanish people like me?

    Andreu keeps asking about Spanish-language things, but his name looks suspiciously Portuguese, so he may be a spy.

  554. I think its safe to say that it was assumed by most here that we had gotten access to the EAP even before we had as well as the fact that email existed between candidates and Notion Ink. I dont feel that I have revealed anything that has not been posted here by Rohan himself, if so then I apologize, I have been really careful not to violate any agreements.

    This is one of the only places to advertise, I dont feel a little shameless plug to get the name out there hurts anything, its once a week, and I’m not forcing you to view our site. I am just an excited Adam Addict like everyone else here, so excited that I formed a business specifically to cater to building quality applications for Adam and future Notion Ink products.

    My apologies if you have different views, but showing up to read new exciting information each week is all we can do until Adam is released.

    Regards

  556. I guess I will nitpick just a bit. I don’t mean for this to be spiteful in any way, just a small healthy critique which I hope you take to heart.

    Gecko is spot on with his grammatical observations. I made some comments just as he and many others did when you first unveiled the site. We don’t mean any thing malicious by them, we are just trying to help you put your best face on when you display yourself to the world. As I have said before; presentation is VERY important.

    Initially I kept from referring friends and colleagues to the site because of this. Of course I eventually did. Its too good a product not to support and promote, but when I did so, I had to preface my pitch with a disclaimer: “This is a new company. Young leadership. English as a second language… Yada yada yada.” You get my point I here. I have seen the changes made to the originally released pages and I think they are a good start. They’ll do for now anyway.

    Of course, the most disturbing thing is that I felt compelled to really highlight the Pixel Qi because I dont think the features page did it justice. I know its mentioned in the tech specs page but its only alluded to in the features screen. Why? Only a select demographic will understand what a transflective/ transmissive/ reflective screen means. There are so many things about adam you can highlight I know. But I and many others really think the PQ screen should be one of them.

    Again, it is highlighted on the features page but I think it needs to be more obvious what you’re talking about. Many companies hype their screens and talk about how “readable” they are with ambient light sensors and yada yada yada. Generally this means the screen brightness is automatically adjusted to a lower state. To the average consumer who visits this page and reads that, nothing new jumps out to them. The genius of the PQ screen really needs to be more clearly stated for the laymen to understand… not interpret. If that means a three second animation to show the different screen states under different lighting conditions so be it. Though just a couple pics or renders would do the trick with good copy-writing. Again, just my two cents. Love where you guys are headed and really cant contain my excitement for this device.

  557. Hello all, I’ve been following this blog as closely as everyone else that religiously posts here. I recently purchased the Viewsonic G tablet just as a reference for how our “Adam” is going to feel in my hands, and I must say in portrait orientation it absolutely kills my wrist. My main reason for this post is in regards to the inability for android to utilize both of the Tegra’s cores. I have read mixed reports. Some say that Android just doesn’t have the resources needed to support it and others say that it just involves proper coding to utilize both cores correctly. Does anyone here have any information on this, or has Rohan discussed this issue already?

  558. I have a question regarding 3G module
    support R-UIM ?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removable_User_Identity_Module

    This interface brings one of the main advantages of GSM to CDMA network phones. By having a removable identity card, CDMA users can change phones while keeping their phone numbers by simply swapping the cards. This simplifies many situations such as phone upgrades, phone replacements due to damage, or using the same phone on a different provider’s CDMA network.
    The R-UIM card has been superseded by CSIM on UICC. This technique allows all three applications (SIM, CSIM, and USIM) to coexist on a single smartcard, allowing the card to be used in virtually any phone worldwide that supports smart cards.

  560. @Rohan ShravanNotion Ink ‘adam’ has been paralleled with world class product right from its infancy. Being the case, there has been a lot of expectation in terms of the standards that ‘adam’ shall meet – whether it is an article, a blog or the product itself. These small glitches in an article should not translate to an understanding that there is lax in every department of ‘adam’. Notion Ink is going through a very methodical process of bringing about a world class product, so be it with the blogs that are being put forth to its’ readers. It takes a lot to bring the glitter to a tarnished image.

    I know it is not it is not a serious thing, but the way these things are highlighted shows how much everybody is engrossed with ‘adam’ and would not like to see or hear a wrong note (apaswara) played. This is good thing happening for ‘adam’ as everybody is sculpting the product in their own way.

    It has been a long wait for ‘adam’ for us and the frustration is showing up in different ways.

    Thanks for the weekly update.
    Ravi

  563. Oh, just say something. It doesn’t have to be very interesting (you can trust me on this). Or you can subscribe via RSS feed – the link is after Rohan’s post, right under the line that gives the number of comments.

  565. I would add that there are some technical terms on the Processor page that people will not understand. In particular SoC and GPU. I wonder if linking to a page somewhere that explains those terms would be helpful. The processor is a really huge feature of this device, but people will not appreciate it if they do not understand those terms.

  566. > we need to look beyond the Adam

    In other words, Rohan is setting the stage for the sequel, like a bad movie. This is not a helpful metaphor.

  568. @Abhi
    I feel like dream walking somewhere in wonderland when I read your wireless charger. Man, it will be fantastic if that becomes true.

  570. yes everything is a clue i guess
    Tesla+missouri+wireless+3d+touch screen/gesture
    everything is a clue here, nicely trapped in a good story…

  571. I´m waiting for buy an ADAM and put my fingers on it, and begin to develop programms for it.

    Congratulations for now,
    gab

  572. Reposting as my comment is stuck in moderation for more than two hours

    Don’t like NI website . I don’t think NI website has a formal business look. Don’t like how some letters stick to the left/right of the page in the features page. Every page has grey-white theme except features page. Missing several keywords like PixelQi, Multiprocessing, Full office software, productivity/enterprise apps, tab browsing just to name a few. Not sure if website highlights the USP of adam.

    Very nice to hear about liveshare and support for formats. Can we install drivers for unsupported formats?

    @Gecko you are awesome

    ps who moderates this blog?

  573. @bruce

    EXACTLY! I myself do this kind of searching and reading once in a while in the biomedical field, it is simply eye and mind opening! But often times, they tend to be a bit far from execution. However, what you got will be some far more advanced views than what we usually pick up from web search, blog, publications, etc.

    When I read this part of the post, it just made me more believe in that when we request this and that, asking why not this, not that for Adam based on our knowledge base, while what Adam could actually eventually give us will be more, because Rohan and NI are so so much more advanced in their vision and conception into this thing, into its future. Sometimes those may not be complicated concepts, they are just out of my reach since it is not my field. But if someone claim that he is going to stay for centuries, and lays his eyes on those patents (crystal ball or not depends on who is looking at it), I got to give him some trust…

  574. agreed with Gecko.

    Geometric sounds out of place
    and young at heart- still stays ?

    one more thing that caught my eyes
    Challenge the norm(norms plural); as you say in the next line ‘ideologies’.

    well, there are other lines that we can appreciate as well
    >so say cheese, and hold it as you please
    >We guarantee you wont be able to keep your hands of this beauty
    >The 3 continuous ‘we believe’ sentences give a speech effect- i guess the msg gets conveyed easily

  576. @gecko: Just reading the describtion in your avatar… Hoping i am at least a nice gecko 😛

  577. @gecko: Just reading the description in your avatar… Hoping i am at least a nice gecko 😛

  578. I’ve seen many posts talking about of Tesla as if it is some kind of code…

    I’m sorry to disappoint you all, but this is probably just a reference to the movie “The Prestige”, which was Rohan mentioned earlier in the post.

    The film involved Nikola Tesla, who is played by a (surprisingly respectable) David Bowie.

  579. @Aaron

    Going by Rohan’s style of execution of apps, you really need to develop out-of-the-box apps. I dont envy you!!! 🙂
    *an uphill task for me*

  580. any more patent discovery guys ?
    I just realised that if 3d gestures are there, that flipping panels like rohan was talking about in a previous blog post or somewhere, cant remember . Think about it he said that u can run more than 3 apps in the panels that means there needs to be a way to easily switch between them ,just swipe across it,and the panel which is actually a prism rotates and voila new app . That would be really usefull in terms of switching between multiple rss feeds for instance :p

  581. +1
    It is everywhere. The golden ratio has been applied to golden rectangles…

    The Fibonacci series:
    0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144

    I thought the Adam had a golden rectangle. So I found the ratio: 269 (length) to 191 (width)

    and came up with: 1.40837…which is not close to the golden ratio (1.61…).

    I thought I was onto something. 😦

  582. MYSTERY FEATURE

    Infrared camera that works along with the RGB camera to understand gestures!

    It works with the camera and works even in the night!

    Thank you!

  583. @lxt11

    hear! hear!

    *stylus support : so yesterday from adam’s perspective
    ? voice recogntion and handwriting recognition (or is that they plan to execute audiovisual datacentric inputs?)
    ? natural user interface (I would like to be surprised by NI’s execution
    ? so when is NI’s execution of sixth sense technology (I have a great hunch, it will be there, if not now in future)
    ? cloud storage/ cloud computing supplementation (?supercomputing)
    *trackpad is THERE people for finer controls not possible with fingertouch
    ?wireless …….I am racking what possibilities he meant!!!
    *shall we forget induction charging for the moment? I feel it should come as an acessory not incorporated in adam (hey how are the third parties going to earn profit from adam?
    ?second life from NI’s execution style!!!!

    Okay Okay …….controlling my excitement! Opinions 🙂

  585. I’ve just ordered the linksys WAG320N, I believe its able to continue B&G while providing N

  588. well,
    December would be way too coooool 🙂
    but i am making a realistic guess of
    Jan in US and
    FEB in India ( that would be a nice b’day present)

  590. Well, unless the rectangle is less than 269 in lengh…(that is if we subtract the batteries portion) then we probably have a ratio closer to the golden rectangle!

  591. It’s very heartening to see the website is improving on content. Still it’s static and a long way to go before we can call it a very functional site for such a revolutionary product. Integration of Blog, social networking sites (facebook, twitter) and a FAQ section is long overdue.

    Nice to know that the storage can be scaled to 128GB though SD cards/USB flash/hard drives. That certainly provides tremendous flexibility to a user. Think of how I can share Adam with my sons, each having their own data in 32/64 GB SD cards.

    By the way does it also mean that USB harddrives with 500GB/1TB can’t be accessed?

    The secret sensor continue to keep us on edge. Hope it’s truly radical and will beat competion to dust.

  592. Google is the biggest player opposing Apple.

    NI may not be big as Google, but I predict their relation will be mutual and synergistic.

    So the implication is……………..

  594. Reposting as my comment is stuck in moderation for more than two hours

    Don’t like NI website . I don’t think NI website has a formal business look. Don’t like how some letters stick to the left/right of the page in the features page. Every page has grey-white theme except features page. Missing several keywords like PixelQi, Multiprocessing, Full office software, productivity/enterprise apps, tab browsing just to name a few. Not sure if website highlights the USP of adam.

    Very nice to hear about liveshare and support for formats. Can we install drivers for unsupported formats?

    @Gecko you are awesome

    ps who moderates this blog?

  597. Hi all,
    As many of u guessed, I strongly feel the mystery sensor has something to do with charging of adam. U can relate it with what rohan said “minus battery drain while connected to HD tv”. I think adam can charge when it is placed near to any electronic equipment. it also has connection with Nikola Tesla.

  599. Ready to wait for a product with such a great vision! Similar to what Sowmya had mentioned elsewhere, I too don’t have a pressing need to go for *any* tablet immediately. As Rohan has mentioned his inability to reveal further details though he wants to, I think it is only fair that we don’t press him for dates!

    Thank you Rohan for making us feel part of your journey!

    Jai

  604. @Greg,

    I have the Netgear WNDR3700 router hooked to a Motorola extreme modem and get blazing fast speeds. It works on 5GHz and 2,4GHz simultaneously with separate SSID’s. The 5GHz network can only be seen by the Lenovo T-400’s at home. The office dell laptops as well as the PS3 can only see the 2.4GHz network.

    The 2.4 GHz one seems to be fully compatible with b and g only when it’s speed is reduced to 130 MBPS. I found that out recently when I tried to connect my newly acquired brother wireless printers.

    It’s review can be found here:
    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/30925-start-your-buying-netgear-wndr3700-reviewed

  606. Wireless transmission of power, not information.
    Charge your adam without plugging it in, just put it close enough to its power source.

  608. I tell you, Tesla was all about wireless transmission of POWER, not information, that was Marconi’s thing.
    The bonus mystery feature (note that it isn’t called a sensor anymore) could very well be a coil that allows plug-free charging of the adam.

  609. Dear Alex,

    This video was uploaded by abh3092. I don’t think that is Rohan or someone from Notion Ink, so I wouldn’t put too much emphasis on their October/November claim.

    Rohan did say he was expecting to get adam into the FCC in November, so lets just wait it out.

    Phillip

  612. They can start marketing during the submission process. I read some where in the FCC website. If manufacturing is already in process FCC would even provide assistance to meet the certification requirements (in case they find issues)

  613. Did you notice the yellow dott in front of the tv with a light yellow line going directly to adams cam? (also features-page->hdmi)
    could the ir-cam also sending ir-signals to a tv? or does the tv send energy to the adam 😉

    anyway, the front-dott on the tv cant be the hdmi, because that is on the back of the tv and unvisible. so we have two connections: hdmi out adam -> hdmi in tv (unvisible) and tv ir cam?

    sorry if that was mentioned before.

  614. Rohan said

    “(I apologize for being little mystic in this post, but I want to point in the future, back to this post and tell you that I shared a secret and hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes! 🙂 )”

    Though there have been instances of grammatical errors in some posts/web pages, I do feel that, in this case, there might be two things here.(a SECRET and a HINT). They both do not necessarily allure to the same. What do you think??

    I am digging for some ideas here and came up with this :)…I could be nuts….

    2008 – a complete notion of adam
    jan 2009 – CES 2009; started working on adam(or initial investor funding)
    feb 1 2010 – Mobile World Congress in Barcelona(fully functional prototype)
    mar 2 2011 – ?? (Official public release;Gingerbread/Honey comb integration)
    april 3 2012 – ??(eve?windows 8????)

    The above are the events show in the ‘Calendar’ app.

    We all know/believe the secret sensor/feature has something to do with Tesla. It’s proposed that it could be something from a simple am/fm radio to secrure wireless comm to wireless charging to electrocution apps :(.

    How about one of the less talked about discovery of Tesla?? The…wait for it…drumroll…….’Teleforce’. With a modification of course. All you need to say is ‘Beam me up, scotty’. Wouldn’t that be awesome???

    Tesla was one of my childhood favorite scientists and part of the reason why I went to Niagara falls (Dont’ tell my wife, though). Would be awesome if both Tesla and adam(which I dearly love) come together for me…..lol

  615. I think the writer uses G as in Google-Android. In other words, Android OS.
    I agree that view is positive towards NI, Adam, and Rohan.

  616. Yes, really good to know about the ability to accommodate 128 gb of storage. I’m guessing that means at one time. I’m not sure it will be able to see the large 500gb/1 TB drives though. I’m still not clear if it only uses micro sd or can take the full sized card. One thing is clear though, It’s non propriety connections are head and heals above the I pad. The more I learn the more excited I get!!

  620. To whom it may concern,

    Mike was incapacitated last week due to a serious bout of adamaholically induced blog addiction and was thus unable to function as a normal human being.

    We expect this condition to continue until at least December 9th, with a gradual improvement from that date which will only be completely observed with the liberal application and constant use of one adam tablet.

    Doctor Phill

  621. It is good to know Notion Ink has run it’s own tests and feel very confident on FCC Approval! It is safe to say that “Adam” no longer, in any way, should be associated with the term vaporware. It is now down to “when” get it in our hands rather then if, or maybe.

  623. +1 @ptf

    Am a gamer also, and loved the boss fight bit

    Rohan,
    really like the way the UI is looking and appreciate the innovation when it comes to making it easier to add appointments. However, I am hoping there is still a way to add appointments manually, as I might use different language than there is available, or i might want to add more detail.

    I liked the inclusion of the features section, but found it too playful. i didn’t really like the soft colors. Felt too random. I also didnt feel like it flowed with the rest of the site. lastly, its been nagging me and I’ve tried to ignore it but cant…under the transflective display section, the e-book page doesnt seem to skew across the mock Adam correctly. It looks a little off. top right section of the page needs to be moved a few pixels to the left in my opinion.

    As always – I am always impressed every weekend with your updates, and am awaiting the day I can finally own this device!

  624. I did not across this yet. Informative article. Seems that the tech to successfully implement it in a commercial product is atleast a good 3 to 4 years away. I do not know anything about this. But, if I were to guess, I do not think this is the mystery feature.

  626. Hey hey… this is starting to have all the earmarks of a religion or a cult or an obsession. Reading the blog makes me feel like Alice. Anybody else?3.

  630. Hi Rohan,

    A small feedback on the new Features page.

    I like the background colors on the features page because they mute the the flowing toilet paper. This is in contrast to the other pages where the toilet paper is white and the background is mostly grey. Due to this the toilet paper appearance stands out.

    If your design team agrees, do consider making the other pages to have the same background and color palette as the Features page.

  631. Hey everybody,
    Just got a blog post about this tablet on blogspot let me know watcha think:

    http://www.thesocialgreek.blogspot.com

    btw, I can’t wait to get my hands on this thing! It’s my christmas present, but probably won’t actually get it then…oh well. I will open my present in January 😛

  633. @Rohan, speaking of applications, I was wondering if you guys are working on or planning on getting Google-based Android Market on the Adam at the time of it’s release… I see that you’ll have Adobe AIR which is awesome, but I’m really waiting to see news on the Android market since many of the functions I’m wanting to use the tablet for are based on applications such as the barcode scanner/generator, paypal app, gallery, BlueTerm, ConnectBot, Torque, Windows RDP app, etc. I’m both a sysadmin and photographer. I would really like to use an Adam to show and sell photos at galleries, and to connect to servers and routers at the data center rather than carrying my laptop. Oh, and let’s not forget the silly American need to check work e-mail constantly! 🙂

    Thanks, and I wish you all the best!

  634. @Rohan

    I spotted that if i use the zoom function in chrome, the text gets misaligned with the graphics.
    This is one of my pet peeves with most websites and it would be great if it can be sorted the notion ink way 🙂

    cheers
    jayanth

  636. Hi all, Hi Rohan,

    It appears that Rohan is caught between a rock and a hard place with respect to providing the tablets to the EAP registrants and making sure that no reviews or UI is leaked of the (unreleased) device before it is ready for prime time and incurring the displeasure of his investor(s). Not an enviable position to be in.

    I have some thoughts on this, and hope you will add your view point to this thread. Hopefully, there is something helpful for Rohan ultimately.

    Disclaimer: I have not yet read all the comments on this blog post. So apologies if some of the points I make have already been discussed.

    My opinion:

    The tablets are required for the EAP participants only because NI does not have have a proper software emulator for ADAM (emulating the UI and features of ADAM). At least we have not heard of such an emulator or else we will all be clamoring for it. So, it seems to be a necessity to provide the actual physical device to the EAP participants.

    But, I don’t think it is necessary for these tablets to have the full software suite (e.g. paint program, office suite etc). To develop apps for ADAM, these tablets only require the base ‘framework’ developed by NI on top of Android along with the required sample apps that showcase using the various SDK features and the ADAM UI. Rohan has also mentioned that the UI design team at NI will be supporting the EAP developers to ensure that these new applications will be developed to use the capabilities of ADAM in the correct fashion.

    Further, the base ‘framework’ and SDK can be ‘crippled’ so that references to the secret/mystery sensor are removed. This is of course assuming that Rohan does not want the developers to utilize this feature until after it has been made public. In the event this sensor / feature is made public by NI before the ADAM is provided to the EAP participants, then access to it can remain in the SDK and sample apps.

    Additionally, perhaps the background can also display some sort of a ‘Developer Preview’ watermark with a unique signature. This way any leaked UI images can be traced back to this particular ADAM tablet.

    With such a tablet setup, I am sure the EAP participants can develop their apps for the ADAM without a hitch and Rohan can forego any apprehension about leaked reviews of the software suite.

    When NI is finally ready to make all the information and UI public, then all of the EAP tablets can be updated via the software update feature to bring them up to the same software release / software stack as the one that NI plans to ship with ADAM for everyone.

    What do you folks feel about this?

    Regards.

  639. dear rohan,

    Eagerly waiting for your masterpiece…ALL THE BEST… By the way….
    i came across an ad in london ..showing genesis flowing pattern in their website…www.aegeas.com..
    are they your partners ?

  640. dear rohan,

    i came across an ad in london ..showing genesis flowing pattern in their website…www.aegeas.com..
    are they your partners ?

  641. The movie reference, the mystery code from the last blog post which converted with a unix timestamp(i think) turned into Tesla’s birthdate, the mention of one of Tesla’s lectures held in Missouri. Tesla was being talked about before the movie reference, the movie references were more of a hint that people were going in the right direction, in my opinion.

  642. As everyone noted, this last iteration of the Adam has a disappointingly wider bezel than expected. I read Rohan’s previous “The Black Border!” blog and he said,

    “You are not wrong in guessing that it looks thicker, and let me assure you that it is not there to stay! It is going to be reduced by 6.5mm from left and 5mm from right.(As a reference, on iPad—since you have seen it the most—its 22mm on both the sides and its 16mm on Adam, right now it was 22mm which was painted. Final version will look exactly as it is on LongBox Video.)”

    Rohan continued in saying that the issue is with the USB and I/O ports which makes the bezel thicker but they were able to shorten the lengths of these hardware in such a way that they can fit them in just 16mm of space along the bezel, hence, the patents.

    We’ve come a long way. The bezel design started from this…

    To this:

    To this:

    It looked very nice. My only nitpick was that the bottom border was not consistent with the left and right borders. It is thicker so there is a break in “arithmetic harmony” (uniformity) in terms of design.

    And then this is what we have now:

    It seems that the bottom border is now the same width as the left and right but instead of reducing it, the left and right borders were increased to match the bottom. Also the top border looks like it was increased as well. Granted that i’m disappointed by the bezel, the reduced aesthetics is not going to deter me and, i’m sure, anyone here from buying the Adam. It’s still a beautiful and capable product. Make mine Titanium Black all around!

  643. Wow. Google search is insane.

    Talk about internet stalking? I just found a GOLD mine on Mr. Shravan’s recent patent searches and potential ties to our boy Tesla…

    h**p://www.scribd.com/doc/30747254/Apple-5th-Week-of-April-2010-USPTO-Published-Patent-Applications

    Any of this sound vaguely familiar?

    App. No.20100103612 Assignee APPLE INC.
    Title Thermal spray coating for seamless and radio-transparent electronic device housing Abstract Electronic devices and other apparatuses adapted to receive electromagnetic wave communications are disclosed.

    An outer housing encloses various device components, including at least an internal antenna located fully therewithin and adapted to receive/send communications from/to an outside source via RF or other electromagnetic waves. A ceramic coating can be a thermal spray coating that covers at least a portion of the outer surface proximate to the internal antenna, and can be x201c;RF transparentx201d;x2014;adapted to allow communications to/from the internal antenna via electromagnetic waves. The outer housing can be plastic, metal or a combination thereof. For metal or other non-RF transparent housings, an RF-transparent insert can be fitted into a window in the housing to permit communications to the internal antenna. The ceramic coating covers some or all of the metal, plastic and/or insert that comprise the outer housing and surface for a final aesthetic finish to the device.

    Pri. Date 20081024 App. Date 20081223 Pub. Date 20100429

    Along with this, recent patents for google, boeing, microsoft, foxconn and others have been reviewed…Mr. Shravan HAS been a busy man.

  644. Yes its started to feel that way for me too. The recent treasure hunt for the mystery feature helped slow it down but the cult feel is still lurking. Good luck though as you’re certain, as am I now, to get some overly eager, sarcastic remarks to defend the community. I just hope it doesn’t get as bad as apple’s cult, although I wonder how far some people are from being like them.

  645. Hi Rohan, I think it is really a sad reflection on the nature of humanity that people respect neither the letter or the spirit of the confidentiality agreement. I am sure they will get lots of inducements from your powerful competitors to divulge all they know about the Adam.

    If this happens, you will see some tech blogs start to take pot shots at the Adam’s weaker points or start a FUD campaign. None of these people are above these manipulative practices.

    I just hope that your agreements were watertight enough to enable you to sue the worst offenders and their promoters, if it comes to that, but I hope even more that it doesn’t come to that.

  646. We all should do this once a while….haha…unless they put the site in banned list. 🙂

  647. People need somebody to root for, and the underdog is usually the people’s choice. Unless the people elect to root for elitist chauvinism, that is.

    On the other hand, NI has picked up the bid to provide a fresh look at CE devices and break free from the diktats of big companies who want to decide what you will consume and how you will consume it.

    What people like is NI’s vision and their commitment to achieve it. It has turned out to be a company that focuses on quality and not time-to-market.

    I think all of us appreciate this.

  648. @Prantha,

    Why do you write that the ADAM will be released in two weeks? Rohan has never communicated any information to this effect.

    Is it based on the binary countdown? If so it is just speculation and wishful thinking.

    At the most it will be made available to the EAP developers.

  649. Since Adobe AIR is also based on similar technology as Flash, any idea how much life / air will it suck out of ADAM? Does anyone know if AIR will be accelerated (GPU /+ OPEN GL) on ADAM?

  650. @Everyone
    Did anybody notice “GPRS” in the features -> connectivity… i think this confirms that we can use adam as a phone(using bluetooth headset)…

    @RohanI The text “3G AND GPRS” mentioned under the connectivity options is cropped… I tried in chrome, IE and mozilla and its same all three browsers @ 1280×1024 resolution..

  651. > Strictly speaking, you don’t know this

    Ha. Herr Frankel, this is probably your best comment thus far IMHO.

  652. Also, in regards to some sort of solar-powered apparatus:

    App. No.20100116332 Assignee SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Title Transparent substrate provided with an improved electrode layer
    Abstract This substrate, having a glass function, is combined with a textured electrode comprising at least one transparent conductive layer based on one or more metal oxides, said layer being covered with at least one functional layer of an element capable of collecting light, and is covered with an interface layer having a textured part comprising a repetition of periodic or aperiodic features in relief.

    Pri.Date 20070504 App.Date 20080428 Pub.Date 20100513

    Above suggests a glass overlay with oxides within the glass could potentially store solar energy somehow?

  653. Totally agree with all of Gecko’s comments.

    I thought the wording for the Camera section sounded different from the other sections. It sounded facebook-ish. Maybe instead of “one of the things you see, and go…” it should have been “one of the things that make you stop and think…”

    “Young at heart” is an English idiom or phrase that means old but still think and feel young.
    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/young+at+heart

    “Inspired Geometric” should be “Inspired Geometry”

    Also the term “retrograde” is not used in the school of design. It’s always called “Retro”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_style

  654. @Bruce

    > How can we be sure Apple’s execution is the only best?

    Christian never said about it being the best. Besides, Apple’s profits, the huge pile of cash, and the rampant sales of iPad would beg to differ from you.

    Since NI is trying to bring about a different UI paradigm (at least one that is uncommon amongst other Android tablets), it makes perfect sense that they introduce a range of apps that showcase all of this.

    When Apple introduced the iPad, Steve Jobs showcased how iWork, iLife and a host of other apps had been rewritten to work for the iPad. And all of this contributed to the ‘ooh’ and ‘aahh’ of the iPad.

    Christian’s point is that ADAM will also need its share of ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’.

  656. @Rohan
    Hey Rohan, although I intend on giving Genesis a fair run for its money, I still intend to load Ubuntu (or some other similar Linux variant) on as well for some additional functionality, so it’d be nice if Genesis could play nice as a dual-boot (unlike Windows, which is notorious for just overwriting and removing a grub). Speaking of which, I’m not sure how well a typical grub will function with only a touch-screen to interact with, so that’ll be an interesting development.

    Also, hoping at launch you have something comparable to OneNote suite for Windows Tablet PCs in the past – it’s made school note taking a dream (although that isn’t really applicable to me anymore, I still feel it’s a tremendous feature), and even under most Linux software platforms there isn’t really a feature rich version of the same software (although there are a collection of softwares that provide similar functionality).

    Very excited about your product and looking forward to hearing more!

    All the best to you and the rest of the NI team!

  657. Rohan, I would like smudging or blurring effects in the paint application. are they already there or can be implemented? smudging or blurring using a finger feels more natural than with a stylus. feels like the real canvas. (also the surface of adam is a bit textured which might give the paper feel.) Though drawing lines and colors with a stylus is good.

    -Kalyan.

  659. Rohan,

    Not a big issue but the scrolling of the images in design and features page is not looking good on widescreen monitors. I resized my browser to the size of the menu and the images feel centered. but when maximized, the feature in focus is not being centered and the text scrolling too is a bit odd.

  660. Actually they have not disclosed the second customer, so we may get to know if the Adam is going to get closer competition.

  662. Can you please confirm

    “You can choose your Adam with a back-lit LCD for vivid colors and a top-notch multimedia experience, or a transflective display for brilliant clarity and readability in the widest possible range of ambient light conditions.”

    Does this mean that the pixelQi version is not so vivid in colors than the LCD version? How does the pixelQi version fare against the LCD version in showing the colors indoors?

    I wanted a pixelQi version but not at the cost of quality of displaying colors.

  663. GRUB on the Adam may not be the way to go, but rather in the style of the Openmoko phones, we could boot from another medium (through pressing a hard key combination) at power on time.

    GRUB, or an alternative loader on the secondary medium may be forced to operate non-interactively unless USB keyboards are handled at boot up.

    As an aside, the Openmoko distros were developed considering a touchscreen only device, but they do not have a port to the Tegra chip. As yet.

  665. A note to people complaining about the borders:

    I think the Adam looks more sturdy and rather professional with the wider borders. You know, how the Thinkpads look compared to say the U or S series.

  666. Wow, 1 day out and now over 600 post to read !!!!!!!!

    1: I like the tech. page very much. And I think all “mistakes” on it are found and comment here in the meantime.

    2: If I understand right, the EAP is running and the participants does have gotten their ADAM. The guys could be very happy 🙂 and the 4 which are kicked out are very sad.

    3: I have read some posts about stylus. I think using a stylus is good in some cases. I like writing on the screen more than using the on screen keyboard. On my HTC Blackstone I only use the stylus and the recognition works very fast and good.
    I have tried finger writing on my Galaxy Tab but the recognition app is very very slow. So it makes no fun to use it.
    And one big thing you should not forget. If you will use a stylus, you have to take it with you. That means, you need a “garage” for it in the device, like on a lot of phones or my HP TC1100 Tablet, otherwiese you have often to “serach” for the stylus 🙂

  667. Trovatrice – Yes you are right. I wrote the article and call all Android Tablets – GTabs. G stands for Google. I tried to make the article as comprehensive as possible. And yes Rohan, I do have a question. Will it make calls in the US? You can reply to me on my email. Either found here or on the article. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong on any points.

  668. OK, one think for the tech page:
    It would be nice, if you could use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll thru the differnten features.

  669. I think the Adam is GSM only, the specs page seems to point in that direction as well (“3G HSPA”)

  671. Hi rohan! Could you please just clarify one very important thing- You say on the website that the screen-

    you can choose your adam with a backlit lcd for vivid colours or transflective for brilliant clarity and readability.
    What do you mean “you can choose your adam”? Are you a) talking about when you purchase the adam you can choose between the two models or
    b) that you can choose/switch between the two modes?

    Please could you clarify as its a very important difference- I hope it is clear what i am trying to say-
    Thankyou

  672. Innoversal is hardly a competitor, they use the Intel Atom platform (which makes me facepalm)

  673. CALENDER APP
    hi rohan
    calender app is brilliant. can we have 1.easy update- (what you already showed) 2. more choices-
    here can you use right sided left spaces to create more columns A-F
    options A. remind once /2/3/4/5 times. B. before 1-30 C. min/hour/day/week
    D. repeat hourly/weekly/monthly/yearly. F.end repeat

    Reminder will give alarm on the time.
    you can also add DEFAULT setting: one rminder beore one hour. with perticular sound.

    also a calender can pop up to help to fix appointment.

    useful?
    what others can add?

    yours
    shiva

  674. @Rohan
    Seeing all these features, especially with the design of the native apps, I really regret not getting to intern with NI in the summer. I was annoyed that your HR people didn’t get back to me after asking for my CV, but after hearing of the problems you guys faced round about then, I let it pass. Just wish I had some contribution to this baby’s creation. It just feels like that one perfect device that is everything you need

  675. I was wondering this too! when it says “You can choose your Adam with …..etc” does it mean you can choose which model you buy or is it saying you can choose which mode you select???

  676. There was a fair bit of information about the first Pixel Qi displays (which are available for sale as a DIY replacement display for some netbooks as model 3qi-01), and they were based on TN LCD technology. These displays have limitations in viewing angles and operate at 6 bits per pixel. The brightness and color saturation (“vividness”) of the 3Qi display is competitive with ordinary laptop display panels because apart from the reflective surface, it *is* an ordinary laptop display. There is much less information about the more recent Pixel Qi “wide angle” displays, and no word whatsoever if Notion Ink will be using them.

    I may suspect that the non-Pixel Qi model will be using an IPS based LCD. Those displays operate with 8 bits per pixel and have excellent viewing angles, but are completely dependent on the backlight to function. The iPad uses IPS, and is largely the reason its display looks excellent from any perspective. It’s also part of the reason it’s expensive.

    We could probably speculate better with regards to the non Pixel Qi Adam if we knew how much Pixel Qi charges an OEM for a display, but until then (or maybe until December the 9th) guessing is the best we can do.

  677. Wireless charging doesn’t change how the Adam is going to interact with you (the customer) let alone with any other device out there. Plus it wouldn’t explain why Rohan hinted that he was hoping for apple to bring out their 3d touch (which he said, would have made the people at Notion Ink push the envelope even more!)

    So the 3d gesture + IR sensor would made quite a lot more sense.

  678. totally, totally second OneNote. Ever since I started using it I’ve been addicted to it while studying anything

  679. Just a little suggestion to Rohan and the team:

    A lot of questions are repeated constantly in this blog and answered time and time again. Most people don’t take the time to read through all the posts and simply just put their question out there (no matter how many times it has been stated before). I wouldn’t want to go through 600+ comments either to have an answer to one question.

    Perhaps it would be a good idea to start making a FAQ right about now. To address questions that are asked the most like why you are not releasing the tablet in India first. Why you choose for a 3.2 MP camera etc. etc.

    Just a suggestion. Loving all the work you guys put forth, very interesting to follow the interaction that you company is bringing to the world!

  680. > The tablets are required for the EAP participants only because NI does not have have a proper software emulator for ADAM

    The Eden SDK + Android SDK emulator = proper emultor for ADAM. But if you want good apps that blends in with the rest of the experience that get the most of a device you will have to test it on the device itself.

    >But, I don’t think it is necessary for these tablets to have the full software suite (e.g. paint program, office suite etc).

    While these are not necessary for programming it would be a good thing if they were included because of a) this way the EAP can function as beta test group, b) if gives the EAP more feeling on how their apps can integrate best the UI. (Imaging it doesn’t come with the calendar app that Rohan showed, then it would be impossible to implement the seem UI feel in 3rd party apps…. ) Consistency is very important and is one of the strong points of the Apple ecosystem. and c) I doubt that Rohan/NI/Investors are afraid somebody leaks screenshots about the paint app (no matter how awesome if may be) I think it has more to do with Eden, the way multitasking is implemented.

    Crippling sdk….. an idea…. but it’s a) extra work and b) a possible source for unnecessary bugs…….I’m pretty sure that the mystery sensor will be revealed by Rohan soon

    Water mark, no bad….but… a) again it’s extra work for an already busy programing team b) Complicates manufacturing having to flash different system images on each device c) If it can be added it can be removed as well….. they are sending the device to programmers, they may know a thing or two about these things. d) there may or not (what I hope) some leaks that don’t give a damn about being traced back as being the leak.

    I think the best way to prevent premature leaks is simply not sending the devices to the EAP members until NI is ready.

  681. That would be one sick application (in a good way of course!). Plus Rohan is very much into changing the way that devices work for us and communicate with other devices. So where what you say could be featured in the Adam, NI seem to suggest that they are on the path to create even a wider base for inter device interaction. Like someone else suggested somewhere in a post, having the Adam interact with your phone/camera to change the settings or even wirelessly take pictures. Just thinking out loud!

  683. I remember going to the opening of “Lord of the Rings – Return of the King” at the movies. I had to prebook tickets and all that, and you know, get there early and join one of four lines according to a special number. There I was, waiting with about 10 (decimal) friends and then my eye was drawn to a group nearby. There was a Gandalf, a frodo, several dwarfs, one lovely looking man elf, etc.

    When the PS2 came out I preordered and prepaid about 2 months in advance, had to go in at midnight to pick it up, and actually was worried I might get mugged on the way to the car.

    While the anticipation for these two events is somewhat parallel with my high hopes for adam, I have not seen anyone dress up in just a fig leaf over their personals, so I’m feeling ok so far, but I’ll let you know if I see any freaks. (My opinion might be somewhat subjective though)

    Notice nobody jumped on you guys for your comments and neither should they. Mind you, people who come trolling here touting their ipads or spamming misinformation tend to get PWNED pretty hard.

    You two are here to keep the rest of us sane, so carry on, and might I say by way of conclusion:
    ITS LOVELY TO HAVE YOU HERE – THE SUPREME COMMANDER WILL SOON COME AND LEAD US TO THE SPACE PODS – ALL GLORY TO THE SUPREME COMMANDER.

  684. Yeah, its going to replace my current Belkin modem/router, so I wanted a combo that added N

  685. @VB

    Point taken.

    But my point across was at a different level.
    We will have “ooh” and “aah” from eden and the bundled apps (office app, mail’d, and this calendar app)

    >What’s the use of just doing something wrong just for beeing different from a competidor who’s doing it right

    this point was my what I was elaborating.

    Anyway I was more into abstracts………:-)

  686. Rohan, its nice to know that you are giving such an importance to font. It really adds to the overall experience. These attention to details has what has differentiated apple from the rest and hopefully differentiate Notion Ink with the rest(including the Czar at Cupertino) 🙂
    However, I hope the font in the Calendar app screenshot is not the onc that would be used. Somehow I did not this very appealing. Infact its the only screenshot of Adam that I did not like…. but it might be just me

    Would like to see more on the office suite it interests me a lot. One more question.. will adam be suitable for somebody like 75 as his/first device? Are you targeting that segment as well?…I was planning to buy once for my dad as well 🙂

  687. @Rohan Shravan: What is the recording resolution of the camera? I hope it is 720p with image stabilisation. I think the Tegra 2 is fast enough and nowaday you realy need it to take your place in the market.

  689. @Aaron

    You are making yourself a target because Rohan has worked hard to keep sensitive information from getting out and angering investors and lawyers.

    The company I work for does confidential work for state and local agencies and it is always best to not even acknowledge that you are involved with a project.

    If I were an EAP company I surely wouldn’t take the risks you have taken. As you heard Rohan revoked some of the selected EAP companies and if you read properly he stated that the Adam units are licensed and then owned after release. Meaning he a request the unit back at anytime if you are found in violation.

    Good luck with your app but dude you are a risky EAP if you are actually a selected EAP candidate I instead of treading lightly to not thread at all and keep your things to yourself. I wish we had gotten in and if you keep it maybe a spot will open, so forget everything I wrote and keep chatting it up to increase the likely hoop of a spot opening up. Ya Dig!

  690. History is in the making…And all this will be an amazing case study in the nex-gen MBA class! 🙂

  692. GPRS means data connection, it allows MMS service for example and rather slow browsing (WAP) but by no means the capability of phone calls, even if it uses the GSM network.
    GPRS is a standard below 3G (as a fall-back in areas with bad signal coverage).

    The text below the connection icons is cropped with me either, even at 1400×1050.

  693. FAQ is indeed a very good suggestion. Apart from being informative, it would also reduce the number of unnecessary questions being posted here.

  694. What would you need image stabilisation for? If you are recording a reading/lecture/conference/etc. you wouldn’t need it. Since I don’t walk around when such an event is going on, thus no image stabilisation necessary. Plus it would make the video look jerky if you were sitting down and have the tablet placed on your lap/a table desk. Image stabilisation on any video recorder is off when the video recorder isn’t moving.

  695. The headline of that section reads “Never-ending storage”, in the article itself you can read “…with a memory expandable up to 128GB.” As an external storage medium like a harddisk or pendrive normally isn’t called memory (but storage), the only explanation is that you can expand the internal memory up to 128GB using a SD card (most certainly MicroSD). If this is via a second card reader on a hidden place inside the cover or if it implies the one on the front isn’t clear so far.
    This doesn’t address the maximum capacity of external storage, which wouldn’t make any sense, anyway (it’s rather impossible to buy an external harddrive with a capacity as low as 128GB and even if NI wouldn’t advertise this lack of usability).

  696. But this would also mean that you wouldn’t be able to use the camera for a video chat and performing gestures at the same time. That wouldn’t make any sense as Rohan mentioned the three-panel-view more than once and that you are for example able to chat in one panel and read the newest tweets and RSS feeds in the other two (for which you probably are going to use the 3d gestures).

  697. The time will become scarce… Why not choosing another logo (for example the one which got on the 2nd place in the vote, which I like much more than the rather boring winning one)?

  698. “Rohan, I really look up to you. Your vision is inspiring. A company with a leader like you is definitely “here to stay”, as you said in the post. ”

    You forgot to mention that Rohan is omnipotent, handsome and fair, and the only hope for human salvation. And that we would like to build a temple where we can all praise and worship him.

  699. Rohan, I think you are wearing out your fans. This endless posts without any real meat are very tiring. We as consumers want to see a real video of your prototypes, internal projected release dates, what is going to happen on 9th Dec, why are you spending time on building apps when that can easily be update 1.1 and so on.

    I do remember price point of 350 which I am not sure where it comes from but since others remember, it did not come out of thin air. You refute that. So what price points are we talking about? I remember it being released by thanksgiving which has slipped. Now we are not even talking about release dates. Why are dates slipping? Can you tell us anything? No we are not interested in paint applications anymore.

    I think you are losing audience now. Please fix it before it is too late.

  700. Great post Rohan! I am very excited to see your innovations in the application UI space. Android didn’t throw enough of the desktop metaphors away and I give props to Apple for doing a better job understanding that touch changes everything.

    I hope that Notion Ink does better at understanding the implications of touch UI. I have written a longer reaction to your post on my blog for those that are interested.

  701. Question regarding cursor movement:

    One thing I find particularly burdensome with touchscreen keyboards is the absence of a forward and back arrow (and up/down too). Because it is quite difficult to tap a place in the text and get the cursor into the correct position for correcting a typo, I often wind up back-deleting several words, which is tedious. The T-mobile mytouch phones (by HTC) have a great keyboard, called swipe, which allows the user to bring up a navigation screen that included forward, reverse, up, down, and home, end arrows. How about the adam?

    Thanks!

  702. @Prakhyat: Is it so hard to express your love for Adam and NI without fawning at the feet of the CEO. NI is a business, not a religious organization. If they are going to compete with the Apples and Samsungs, they will be subject to close scrutiny.

  705. ***SOLAR CELL INSIDE ADAM*** (secret feature?)

    Well, maybe not the secret feature but something Rohan should check for the future. A team of swiss scientists found a way to “paint” electronic devices with a chemical compound that is able to absorb light and transmitt it to a solar cell INSIDE the device!

    The costs for this are around 1 Euro for a mobile phone.
    It looks like even apple is interested and already communicating with these swiss scientists.

    Cheers
    Alex

  706. hi,
    Secret sensor could be RFID sensor. by sticking RFID chip on our daily stuffs. Adam would be able to interact with / track things.

  707. I think it will be easier to place the cursor at the correct position using touch on the adam if only due to the bigger screen, however cursor controls would be very nice

  709. I couldn’t agree more and give Notion Ink kudos for making it happen on their tablet. Too often hardware manufacturers think about product instead of platform. It seems to me that the Adam is being driven as a platform instead of a product and I for one think this is part of what will make it a success. Of course execution matters, but a platform with touch oriented UI on a tablet form factor is a great start. From what is in this, and other posts, it seems Notion Ink is trying to innovate and adapt to touch. Touch changes everything as I discuss here.

    Android Market may be an issue for the Adam, but less so if the base software stack is as complete as I think it might be. If you look at the Folio 100 the base software stack is very limited and no Android Market is crippling, not to mention poor hardware execution. Still, I hope Notion Ink is at least in discussion with Google about how to get Android Market on the Adam. This matters for the long term success of the platform.

  710. @ Vinay Aggarwa:

    Rohan is not actually losing any potential consumers or developers. Last post of his really made me rethink – what he is trying to do may not seem satisfying to some of the long awaited consumers or developers, but check this line of his

    ‘Notion Ink is about bringing that ‘future’ faster towards us (but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries)’

    He is really trying to make a unique device before releasing it and for that i really can wait even if the device gets released next year mid or so. i am ok with it as long as the device really keeps all its promises.

    now, some of my analysis regarding Rohan’s words:

    ‘Its time we start making ‘intelligent’ machines and companions which can help us do more, learn more, than just creating copies of hot selling products (I wish I could exactly share here what I meant, but..)”

    analysis: anyone noticed that rohan mentioned ‘intelligent’ here?? which does mean the device has got something to do with AI.

    His next line:

    ‘That is why Adam is not a tablet, it’s a seed for us, the first one which will help us lay the grounds for what is yet to come’

    analysis: it never occurred to me why the device is named ‘Adam’.. then suddenly from someone here writing about a line ‘adam being eating all the apples’ and then the above line of Rohan’s made me think, this device will be the first of it’s kind which will be standing apart from other devices and thus start a new era of ‘something’

    His next line:

    ‘I have designed the complete blueprint of an application called “Bliss”. You will find its components and traces on Adam and I think it will help us change our expectations & experiences from the machines we interact with’

    analysis: after my previous explanations i really dont think ill need to explain anymore where ‘Bliss’ is heading though it seemed to me, Rohan has big plans apart from what he is doing right now. should stop analyzing right now i think.. but, all these suddenly raised the respect i have for Rohan. i wont be surprised if he turns out to be someone from a more advanced planet :p

    well still in the end, i may be all wrong you know, but i doubt that :p

  711. My feeling is that there were two hints here. The first is the Adam as a wireless device and the second is the mention of iPad 3D interface. The date is the date of Nikolas Tesla’s birth.

    My feeling on the 3D interface is that there is the ability on the Adam to interact with the front and back touch screens in a 3D kind of way to be able to do things like rotations in 3 dimensions where you are grabbing one surface on the back of the 3D object and one surface on the front and interacting with the two of them together. That seems like a logical use of two touch surfaces. I don’t see how that relates to wireless exactly but I am sure that Rohan didn’t intend for us to completely understand what he means at this point. He is just teasing us to keep us interested.

  713. Like most other people I already use a web based solution for email, calendar and documents: google apps. Tell us about how the Adam apps can sync with the google office suite. Adam will not replace stationary computers, laptops or smartphones for most of us. We will continue to use them AND add Adam to the mix. So syncing is the most important feature of all. Please write more about that.

  714. One of the things Nicola Tesla experimented with was wireless energy transfer
    It would be cool if it was anything like that implemented in the awesome adam.
    But i doubt that.

  715. SD said, on November 28, 2010 at 17:29

    “One more question.. will adam be suitable for somebody like 75 as his/first device? Are you targeting that segment as well?…I was planning to buy once for my dad as well”

    I’m in my early eighties and can’t wait for the release of adam. However, this is not my first device. My first device was the Univac File computer in 1960.

  716. I agree with bruce. Ni and Rohan have been very open with us, much more than other companies in their situation. They have also clarified why they can’t give out the info they keep hidden. With this forthcoming attitude it seems kind of a betrayal to seek out information they obviously don’t want getting out.

  717. Someone posted a question regarding weather or not dual core processors are supported by Android.

    Now… this is only a rumor but… Along with the Adam, I am also awaiting the next Nexus phone from Google… it is rumored that it will be the Nexus S. It is also rumored that it is being delayed because they decided to put a dual core processor in it and that they needed time to “re-tool” the Gingerbread release to use it efficiently.

    If this is the case… and Adam ships with a variant of Gingerbread… then we’re all good!

  718. Nishit:

    > GRUB, or an alternative loader on the secondary medium may be forced to operate non-interactively unless USB keyboards are handled at boot up.

    Or unless we can use the b*ck tr*ckp*d which apparently used to be a major feature to brag about but more recently has become a big secret, a strange sequence of events that Rohan obviously can’t explain, because then it wouldn’t be a big secret anymore.

    And this is exactly what I mean when I say there’s no need for sarcasm or satire because reality satirizes itself. Does anybody have a better explanation for the errant b*ck tr*ckp*d?.

  719. I’m really surprised at the amount of negative posts from a few people asking for release immediately, all info, etc. This is a business and like all businesses must control the flow of information per the letter of the law.

    Rohan’s only “flaw” is in trying to be more open with his customers than most companies. While this certainly creates interest and excitement, it apparently also creates frustration on some who do not understand how business works and only grew up in the “please me now generation”.

    While I appreciate the passion for having an Adam right away, I appreciate more the quality the Adam will bring to the tablet market. There is pretty much nothing I don’t think I will be able to do with the Adam that I want to do.

    While it would be great to have a release now, what we really need is for the Adam to be successful when it is. A successful Adam will be fully supported, have apps created for it, be updated in its OS, and best of all, be followed by more products with great innovation.

    Question to folks who are giving up and threatening to buy and iPad. Why would you buy an inferior product when you know its master is coming in the next 1-2 months? Is 1-2 months of usage going to make you feel better over the years that the Adam is being used by all your friends?

  720. I get the same feeling, although this will be my first post. I feel like I know, and in some ways, love, many of you. I’ve also become VERY protective over the adam and notion ink as a whole. For example, at school the other day, I was telling some girl about the adam and all the features it had, and why it was so much better than anything else available. After a while, she says “hey, I might get that”. I WAS FUMING! “what do you mean, you might get that? aren’t you going to spend every spare moment searching for more information, spending hours reading blog post after blog post, comment after comment, just to make sure you don’t miss anything?” I thought. Although I did tone it down a little when I replied, it was more of a “don’t you want to do any research first?”

  721. You know what, you are write, the waiting is killing all of us… but don’t you agree that to release a unique equipment in the market, which is not a copy past from what is already in the market, don’t you think that this things takes time…? honestly I’m very impressed with ADAM’s development, I’m not form IT area, I’m more from Chemical/Pharmaceutical industry area and for us the development of anew product and its release in the market takes about 10 years… and most of the time we are talking about companies already established in the market..now imagine creating a new company along with new products… well I think if ADAM comes out this year and if it accomplishes everything that was promised, than I think we are talking about a extraordinary work here, and thus NI deserves our respect and thus our time 😉

    From where i come from we say that “The rush is enemy of perfection” or something like that…

  722. @Glenn,
    I understand some negative posts, because we are waiting sind beginne of the year for this pretty product and Rohan has announced, that ADAM will be available BEFORE november. Now we have december on no ADAM is availble. OK, I know, which problems a startup will have with such a device, but I also understand why some people want to know a release date.

    I have learned, that we will have to wait for some month more for the release of ADAM and I have bought me a Galaxy Tab as the first step to a good andoid device. As soon as ADAM will be available I will order one, because ADAM will be the best you can get in the moment 🙂

  723. @gecko
    Well, i dont find any reason for Rohan not to announce the backtrack pad in the Tech specs unless other wise he considers it as a mystery feature ( which we know he doesnt)
    there might be only 3 possible answers

    >Backtrack pad has been removed from ADAM 1.0
    >They are awaiting the patent of the backtrack pad
    >Backtrack pad has not been finalized yet – this can lead to 2 sub options
    >>further internal testing need to be done to finalize
    >>they have some patent problems with other potential tablet makers(someone
    pointed out Apple)
    >>They are still debating whether to give away all features in ADAM 1.0 or reserve
    the back track pad for ADAM 2.0 – marketing decision to be taken with
    investors’ inputs as well

    so i guess either option 2 or option 3.3

  724. @Rohan Shravan – I just want to say thank you for bringing us this wonderful “Adam” I wouldn’t classify it as a tablet as there is nothing else like it. I can’t wait to purchase it. I do want to bring to your attention that in the features section your discription text is being blocked by icon especially when you click on HDMI and SD, USB + MINI USB CONNECTION. You could probably have someone just move it one or two lines up. Again I don’t mean to be critical, just thought I’d bring it to your attention. Can’t wait to purchase your product.

    Respectfully,

    David

  725. Phillip, that’s very nice of you, Phillip, but, Phillip, I can’t help but notice that you didn’t sign that message.

  726. Hey Tarwinia!, was missing you from few weekend post!!! went off somewhere or busy with school?

    *remember about bezel size – now so unimportant!*

  728. Again: what for do I need an RFID reader in a tablet? It could be a nice idea in a mobile phone but a tablet is simply too big to carry it around for using it for payments or for example as your electronic ticket in one of the underground rail systems around the world.
    According to the Nabaztag page in Wikipedia there’s a MicroSD card which can be used for electronic banking. But: a Micro SD card is IMHO too small to be carried around anywhere. As you will use the normally inserted SD card as your main storage volume even for installed apps it’s not a good idea to remove it regularly to insert such a special RFID SD card.

    No, I doubt that.

  730. It might depend on your screen. On my tv there’s no overlap.
    3G is kind of included in the features. The connectivity thumbnail shows/mentions bluetooth, wifi, 3G, GPRS.

    GPS could definitely be included as a separate feature, especiallly considering the nav app Rohan mentioned previously.

  732. @Sowmya –

    other possibilities

    – The trackpad is shy

    – NI is careless. I don’t mean that they might have misplaced the trackpad, but the website doesn’t list all of the features that we know Adam has (3G); even the Pixel Qi , one of the biggest selling points, is barely mentioned. Rohan hasn’t answered all the questions here because he mostly talks about the things that come foremost in his mind – he’s got limited time and a limited attention span. He’s human. I’m guessing at this last point, of course.

  733. LeoP:

    > My first device was the Univac File computer in 1960.

    Is that one of the ones that had positive and negative zeros? That was so cool.

  734. @gecko
    LOL…

    well i must say this (though you are accustomed to receiving compliments from everyone)
    Sometimes, In those quick moments i get to view this blog
    i do a ctrl+F Gecko..
    and ur posts always make ppl light and laugh aloud…. 🙂

    keep it coming…

  736. @Klaus
    Interesting article. I wonder if the secret sensor has anything to do with this.
    The article is from 2009. I don’t think Nokia has implemented this wireless ambient power to keep their cell phones tapped up. We would’ve known by now! But I wouldn’t discounted.
    In any case, it fuels another idea: using electromagnetic field as a source of energy to keep the Adam tapped up day and night. I thought we had gone over every possibility, and then this one came along!
    Anyway, thanks for the link. 🙂

  740. Albert, while what you say is true, it also depends. Cum is an educated word. As mentioned it has the latin roots and is oft found in the US in Magna cum laude, summa cum laude, and the simple cum laude. Also slang is OFTEN found in dictionaries and mentioned as such. You will find cum in american academic literary text amongst others. I don’t think any blogsite worth their salt would have mocked Rohan for the use here in this post. Some individuals might have, and it could potentially be a problem on the official site had it been included as that caters to people from all walks of life.

    And for the records, the following is from the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (remember that all webster dictionaries are US oriented and will normally say Chiefly British if it a word/use uncommon in the US).

    cum1 (kum, kÂm), prep.
    with; combined with; along with (usually used in combination): My garage-cum-workshop is well equipped.
    [1580–90; < L: with, together with (prep.)]

    cum2 (kum), n. Slang (vulgar).
    come (def. 62).

    cum.,
    cumulative.

    The Merriam Webster's Collegiate has the following definition "along with being: AND – used to form usu. hyphenated phrases

    Rohan’s use of cum shows that despite his “errors” (linguistically it is incorrect to consider them errors if they are the norm in Indian English dialects, but from an international perspective they could) it is an educated English.

    And sorry for the rant, don’t want to flame and please remember that I recognize the POSSIBLE detrimental effect had it been included in the actual product page (be it .in or .com). But in my defense I get pissed by people incorrectly “correcting” others’ grammar or word usage.

  741. well..if the mystery sensor is a RFID chip… even if u have a RFID chip in the computer.. it is mostly used for logistics purpose and in supply chain to track objects from manufacturing to the end shelf..
    for a end user- unless u have a separate reader for it there’s no grt purpose… i dont think NI is gonna supply a reader.. (atleast for now).

  743. touch, energy, wireless…

    oh no!

    The adam is a VAMPIRE and will feed of our life force, sucking us DRY!!!

    …Or maybe that’s just how I’ll feel after using it 36 hours straight to read a book that has me caught in its literary grip…

  744. Now on a more serious note: wireless docking station? wireless charging? wifi certified (allowing for the new protocols and direct file sharing that comes with it)?

  745. @Joshua
    Adam, Adam, Adam…
    The difference is we discuss here all kinds of stuff, we even search all over the web, we bring fresh ideas, and get to taLk to the SUPREME (nice Phillip) once in a while! We even have a few jesters. Those are not signs of cult. On the contrary, the environment here encourages to open up to knew ideas (the secret sensor…), and most of all, respect everyone (ok, there is a misstep once in a while, but that is fine in my book).
    But yeah, thanks Josh for bringing sanity to the community! Maybe you are the gate keeper!

  746. SInce adam has USB host port we could practically have any number of reader sensor via USB for specific use cases. After all all the readers/transmitters are nothing more then a circuit + software (driver and optional GUI).

    Of course its a real mess to carry around those things but i have seen folks carrying around a few items for checking Cellular reception equipment (TOSHIBA tablet + 2 meters and an app showing gauge on windows)

    Also, we could cosider RFID reader over bluetooth.

  748. @Greg,

    In one of his earlier posts Rohan mentioned about turning the display itself off (and not just the backlight). I haven’t seen any external switch for this feature though unless the power switch or the backlight switch is playing multiple roles.

  749. Rohan can easily lose customers by the approach that his company is taking. But then again, he is in for the long run, bringing a revolution. Any and all people who’ve been ahead of our time were either under appreciated, ridiculed or have gone unnoticed during their life only to finally change the course of human history (evolution) many years later.

    While the NI approach might not be the best one to drive (instant) succes, they sure are going to influence and CHANGE the market which is exactly what we need. I am sure Rohan is aware of this 🙂

  750. it could also be a deception… as all of us have been following that theory rohan chose to play along… if I was him I would do that..

  755. @Robin
    > a) this way the EAP can function as beta test group, b) if gives the EAP more feeling on how their apps can integrate best the UI. (Imaging it doesn’t come with the calendar app that Rohan showed, then it would be impossible to implement the seem UI feel in 3rd party apps…. ) Consistency is very important…

    a) I am not sure if EAP folks are being targeted as beta-testers. My understanding is that EAP is solely for the developer community. The beta-tester community should be much larger than EAP, IMHO, and include dem ‘muggles’ too. EAP members are welcome to provide feedback though but perhaps that is not the main purpose.

    b) In one of his earlier blog posts Rohan has offerred his design team to support the developers. They can ensure the consistency of the UI without having to provide the full software suite.

    Agree with you regarding the logistics involved in crippling the SDK and the watermark imprint.

  757. Sim, that link is from 2008. I think their plans might have changed as they barely have a class 32GB microSD on the market.

    Greg is right. SDHC (including the micro variants) is artificially limited to 32GB. SDXC will be capable of up to 2TB but it will start out at 64GB and only SOME variants will be compatible with SOME SDHC readers (it has to do with speeds and whatnot, explained nicely and in detail on Google). There is no way to be usre which SDHC readers can handle some of the slower SDXC cards as it is unofficial and you have to rely on anecdotal evidence. Internal memory if we’re lucky will go up to 64GB. But honestly I was disappointed to see the 8GB on the site because if I’m not mistaken that would mean the $500 version is not the 16GB one but the 8GB one (will have to save some more greenbacks now).

    @sovereign john, any device can use storage memory in lieu of RAM (it’s called SWAP, or virtual RAM on Windows, at least on XP). It is slower than real RAM generally but SSDs are much faster than HDDs anyway. But remember that this can have an impact on the life of your drives depending on their characteristics and how you use them.

  758. Sorry to say that but I totally agree with Vinay.

    For me it seems that main purpose of this blog is a big delaying tactic. We get a lot of interesting informations about any kind of technical details. And I appreciate that very much.

    But if you ask the people which kind of information they mainly want to have is:
    – release date
    – preorder start
    – pricing
    – videos from the real devices (not mockups)

    And I fear that it will take a really long time until we have Adam in our hands. There must be an important fact we all don’t know which prevents NI to announce the release date. And if NI told the truth in their emails to me, preorder cannot start at December 9th.

    I hate to be negative but I cannot believe any more.

  759. I would prefer a SDHC over a miccroSDHC in adam.
    2 simple reason
    1) Its way to fast. a class 10 SDHC can run upto 30 MB/s while a class 10 MicroSDHC runs at a stupid 10MB/s
    2) Form factor of the device is big enough to host it

  760. @ Wouter Kapteijn said, on November 28, 2010 at 16:03

    I think your idea of a FAQ section would be great. unfortunately it seems that the
    answers to the FAQ’s keep changing or are unclear.
    For example, SD card or Micro SD or both.(no 64g MicroSD),Backside trackpad(not mentioned or shown in specs or images). Although the new information is great, there are still many basic questions asked repeatedly, yet still unanswered. If a certain feature can not be described or shown, it would be better to just say so rather than fuel much speculation. If something is not going to be in the final model, ie.. trackpad, just say so. We can take it.
    Really.
    By the way, I’m very encouraged by the applications I’ve seen so far.
    The Calendar App looks awesome!

    JT long time fan

  761. Sorry if this post looked like it was copied from Wouter Kapteijn. I was only referring to his
    comment about FAQs

  762. +1 from me

    But I am as enthusiastic as a 3 year old who is waiting for his first bicycle..

    on a side note
    somebody once told me that

    “There can be nothing close to an iPad” and I simple wrote that on paper at that moment and told him softly “Either you will eat this or I will. Let there be ADAM!”

  763. yogi:
    > “There can be nothing close to an iPad” and I simple wrote that on paper at that moment and told him softly “Either you will eat this or I will. Let there be ADAM!”

    That was a mistake. You should have written that on a sandwich.

  764. > Wireless charging doesn’t change how the Adam is going to interact with you

    It could if it malfunctions and you get a shock from touching it, but I agree with you, it seems like a snoozer of a feature – too much technology for too little a result. What’s the point? So that I don’t have to plug it in when I sleep and maybe trip over the cord if I get up to go to the bathroom?

  765. Can you please tell me why you think Adam will be available for you in 1-2 month? Is there any official statement of NI ?

  766. Assuming the Binary code on the top right of the website is FCC certification… Any chance the Adam will be out by Xmas?

  767. Personally, I would completely wipe the toilet paper. It’s just clutter.

    The problem with the webpage, for me, is that it screams DESIGN but it should be screaming ADAM. Good design doesn’t call attention to itself, and it’s very hard to do which is why few do it well. Apple does it brilliantly.

  768. Hi, I believe that the choice is between two models, with the Pixel QI version just being a better screen, but more expensive.

  770. From NI perspective you’re right. But that’s not mine. I want to have a nearly perfect tablet and adam is one of several candidates. For me a tablet is a working equipment, not a religion or vision. But I need some facts for deciding which one to buy. And availability is a major point, which is covered permanently by NI.

    So I have to decide how long to take part in this game before I buy another non-NI tablet.

  771. This is totally what I believe is the right approach. It is like Rock Musicians that go into the music business with their dreams mostly on making millions. The ones that play and write their music to bring joy or truly touch their listeners are the one with the greatest chance of long term success. Rohan, your smiley face says it all.

  773. Using Adam’s camera to record a lecture is one of the ridiculous things I read here. How in the world can anyone accomplish this feat considering that the camera is constrained to a single axis?

    You would have to sit in the very front row to avoid people’s backs and you would have to sit exactly infront of the object you are trying to capture. This is practically impossible and impractical.

    Now if the Camera has kind of a ball and socket joint you would get more leverage but even then you would run into all the above issues.

  774. The point is we don’t know when it’s coming, all we have are vague statements. Lumping people into the “Please me now” category is ridiculous. Some people have good reasons.

    Adam has been said to be for students and as a student I would like to know when it will be available so I know if I can buy it before my next semester starts. There’s a good chance that with a firm release date: if it is soon after the start of my next semester I would be willing to wait, otherwise if no information is given by the end of my exams I will probably buy a kindle instead.

    I don’t have the money to buy both nor the interest. There are good reasons to want such information.

    I will agree that today’s post was good, however the majority of the information lacked depth and was something we already knew.

  775. I am not a manufacturer, hence the reason for my question. Your answer is mocking and un-needed. I was trying to be realistic when I was told this device would be out a year ago. I can EMPATHIZE with those frustrated by the delay tactics and lack of real informtion. I was hoping to use this device for school however I will have my degree it appears before even seeing a real working product.

    Heavily disappointed in the mis-information, then no information, and now cryptic information. Quit selling us Rohan, and start offering some realistic dates. Have a feeling IPad ver.3 will be out before Adam with the features that first attracted us to this device to begin with. I would have preferred having the device as shown at CES rather than keep waiting for new technologies to be patented and developed.

    You do realize some of us have been following since 2007, RIGHT! And you want me to be realistic!

  776. Actualy galaxy tab cannont be used as a normal phone because it has no speaker wehere the ear usually goes. Besides I don’t use any phone conventionally anymore because it is safer to have an earpiece.
    ALso, sometimes you will want to take a quick photo with the adam. And would it be nice if it wouldn’t be all grainy and blured if the lightning contidions are perfect?

  777. You may well be one of the customers Rohan is prepared to lose. If he succeeds in his overall goals you may, if not now, one day come to own one of his visionary devices.
    I for one, will act on my internal good vibe and stay the course and place an order for Adam. Even if it take longer then expected. This actually goes totally against my nature. I have followed Rohan and Notion ink from the begining and each day that passes I’m even more convinced this is the right way to go.

  778. if we think about it positively thats a huge potential/opportunity one could exploit – this is where I believe companies like NI will drive lot of other businesses… only folks should be willing to take a few risks – but nothing in comparision to what NI did.

    20 years back ‘computarisation’ for a typical small/medium business in India – meant the huge cost for PCs, A/c, re-wiring, network setup, software, support, new staff etc… so if someone even developed a very ‘economical’ software package there were hardly any potential customers except for some IT-savvy govt. organisations….

    today, one could almost sell a package standing at a busy corner just like flowers, veggies etc. a ‘middle class’ dad could easily buy a s/w suite if one could show how it reduces the hassle of say balancing his books and pulls out a automatic year end report which could be ported straight to the income tax forms etc.

  780. I’m also not the manufacturer and my answer is not a bit mocking. When I look at the emails I got from NI then I can tell you that preorder will not start before mid of december. Otherwise NI didn’t tell me the truth. Sorry that I don’t post the email content, but in my mind it would be rude to do that.
    And if you also assume that the delivery of adam starts immediately after it can be ordered (not pre-ordered), it will be at the earliest after christmas, because a preorder phase with a duration of less than 2 weeks absolutley makes no sense.

  781. As I stated before, it does not matter to me if it makes any particular deadline. Patience is Prudence. Which in past I personally have not been good at. If you make your choice based on “I can’t wait any longer” then you may well run the risk of being disappointed. Of course you could even wait for I Pad 2, but after seeing I pad 1 and having a good feel for what the first Adam is offering, my choice still would be Adam.

  782. That Binary code is a pre-order date. It was confirmed in a tweet that has now been pulled. I am guessing people will not get devices until mid December and probably later due to available stock and demand.

  784. @Matthew unless Rohan tells us otherwise, we should have no reason to doubt the availability just before Xmas or by CES – despite what other sites/experts etc. say or what our own analysis tells us, at the end of the day we should only go by what Rohan already announced.

    not surprisingly this is a very frequently asked question and for a good reason – its the most desired gadget for people from all walks of life

    since this is an open forum we do quite often see both the opinions here – ie, why isnt adam in our hands yet & lets not rush the arrival of adam

    here again Rohan’s word will be final( – whether we agree or disagree) – and we dont need to look far for that word; its right here in this blog post – “…Notion Ink is about bringing that ‘future’ faster towards us (but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products….”

  787. But for patience I need a target date. How shall I decide to wait if I don’t know how long?

    For me it seems that we don’t talk about a great device we all want to buy. No, we’re playing hide (Rohan) and seek (you and me) like little children. We have hundreds of posts about the “Bonus mystery feature” or the meaning of a “mystical binary counter”.
    Adult bloggers speculate upon a hexadecimal code Rohan pushes to his website.

    In my mind that’s just ridiculous. Sorry, I’m too old for playing hide and seek.

  788. I was wondering if there’ll be a pre-order option. It would honestly kill me to find out that I was too late and I have to wait on a second batch to come out. Everything just looks great, even the bootscreen is great.
    Please, where can I sign 😉

    Man I can’t wait. I want this so bad!
    And again my compliments for the way we are informed about this device. It’s one of the reasons why I believe in Notion Ink so much.

  789. It’s an endless waiting….
    I will grap a tablet with an LCD at this point (samsung galaxy…) … too many rumors but just rumors….
    Can you give us a certain release date ?

  793. Rohan’s long term plans, centuries all are ok but what ppl here are asking is some real time status. Thats all. They are NOT asking why. They are asking When. And this they ask ONLY becos some dates have been mentioned and its not updated.

    For example in this post he said that they did a pre-FCC in their labs but he didn’t say if they are sent to FCC or not. Its as simple as this.

    And those who are frustrated are not the ones against or dis-interested in ADAM. They have TONS of excitement like any one reading this blog.

  795. I don’t know if you really read “Waiting for Godot”. Just for your information: Godot never came!

  796. “We believe we are at the transition point where machines will do a lot more for us than we expect them to.”

    Now I’m starting to have unreasonable expectations about Adam. Will it turn itself on and load the application I want to use just by looking at it or read my mood a select the music I want to hear? 🙂

    Does anybody knows what CPU Hot Plug is?

    Great post. I sure wish all could be disclosed. I like the features page, more accesible to non technical people. I would look better with real photos instead of renders but I guess it will at release time.

  797. I can assure you that in the USA, just like in lots of other countries, you can be an excellent student and receive a cum laude.

    That the word has a different meaning in American slang doesn´t mean it it lost it´s meaning or that it suddenly became Indian. Most dictionaries will just explain that it means ´with´.

    And if you wonder ´rubber´ is still a material even in the US. The sentence ´The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company will report third quarter 2010 financial results ´ is completely normal and no investors will think that they produce the kind of rubbers indicated by American slang.

    You should not wonder about Indian English, but about your lack of knowledge of your own language. No late night show will be dedicated to Goodyears financial statements.

  798. The secret mystical feature is that you can use Adam as a Kabbahla slate and communicate with the dead or tell the future. Awesome. Guaranteed to outsell IPAD a thousand to one. Can’t wait. Peeing myself, actually. Hurry it up Rohan, pleeeze.

  800. I totally agree. If I would be against ADAM, why should I be frustrated? I would laugh at you! But I’m frustrated because I really want that tablet and I’m afraid that NI disappoints us.

  802. I have actually seen the play, which is better than reading. Godot never came, but I am betting on Adam arriving soon. How soon? Don’t know. I am old enough to be comfortable waiting for good things to arrive.

    I am sure NI are pragmatic enough not to seek perfection. In the Indian tradition, an architect (vishwakarma) would delibertely introduce a flaw into what would otherwise be a perfect edifice, so that the Gods won’t be jealous. Adam will not be without flaws, but near-perfect is fine by me, even as I hope they will take an evolutionary path to their intended revolution.

  803. Android…. in it’s current form already can use multicore processors. The linux kernel supports it and dalvik (the vm of android) uses different instances for each app, so app 1 can run on core 1 and app2 on core 2 for example.
    The only thing it lacks is a multithread model within an single app, however I don’t think support will be implemented in Gingerbread. They may tweak dalvik a bit to streamline it for multicore.

  805. For most of the people your “don’t know” is the main problem. If NI would announce “adam will definitely be available between Christmas and CES”, everybody would have a goal. Then it would be easy to wait. I fear that NI has a good reason not to do it. And even if I don’t know this reason, it makes me nervous.

  806. I have a small complain about the website. When we check the specs and we find the “mistery feature”, I understand that for us following the blog it might be a funny game to guess what it could be. But let’s face it, if I didn’t know anything about Adam and I’d come across its website I would find myself saying something like:”Is it a serious company’s website or just a dude playing games?!?!?” The site is online for the world and in a marketing way I find that “mistery feature” followed by a smile, a really bad idea, all the way too informal.

    That is, of course, just my opinion. 🙂

  807. Thanks for the link. It was an intersting and inspiring speech indeed. Hope the fever of innovation catches up with more young people and they dare thinking big.

  808. +1 for OneNote qnd Ubuntu

    Definitely want to try out Ubuntu 10.10 multi touch
    Check out this video … no multi touch though

  809. Advertising for EAP apps would fall under the NDA you mentioned I assume so why do you do so. Do you see anyone stating here that he is admitted or advertising for his future app or website?

    You´re right that there not a lot of places you can advertise for it when you´re an EAP member. In effect there are none as you can´t reveal you´re even a member of EAP 1.

    It must be extremely frustrating for your colleagues to see you doing this while they oblige the NDA you mentioned. If this an accepted policy I´m sure this blog from now on will be flooded by ads of others.

    Could be very interesting to know what they are working on, but based on the missing ads I assume you don´t have the right to do so.

    Be assured I´m trying to help you here. I´m not fighting for a place in EAP so I have no hidden interest in having you kicked out and take your spot.

    Regards.

  810. Anyway, what I wanted to point out is that there is something delightfully absurd about all the people spending time on this blog waiting for Adam and “to occupy themselves, they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide — anything ‘to hold the terrible silence at bay’ ”

    I will now go attempt to drag myself back to the real world. I hear the wife calling.

  813. >Rohan’s only “flaw” is in trying to be more open

    I think the only “flaw” is that Rohan revealed the Adam to the world to soon , however I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the best way to find investors to secure sufficient funds. Being noticed at CES 2010 by various well read blogs means that many (impatient) people got to know the Adam before they should.
    Imagine Adam would have been revealed at CES 2011 with the news that it would be available immediately, then non issues of these would play now.

    In the end everything is very simple for us consumers.
    – Or you decide to wait until you can buy the Adam
    – Or if you can’t wait…. buy something that IS available
    – Or (what I did) is buying something that is available to kill the time and buy the Adam when it becomes available.

  815. Hermann:
    > don’t know if you really read “Waiting for Godot”. Just for your information: Godot never came!

    He did in the original version, although Beckett later edited it out because the theaters didn’t want to pay for another actor. He said something like, “Hey, Vladimir, hey Estragon. Sorry I’m late, but the bus didn’t show and I had to take a cab.”

    [not an original observation of mine]

  816. but I agree that although I understood it most people above 35 won´t. When they buy it with their children in mind it would be better to say something like ´will satisfy every hard core gamer´

    (not true of course, but it´s marketing blurb, so who cares)

  817. Why are people complaining about release date? Does any one know how iPhone 1st version/iPad looks like or anything about its specs or usage would have been about? Then why for adam? Is it Beco’z they displayed in CES? Apple is notorious about it’s secrecy then why not NI? You will have Adam in a month or so. Why hurry?

  818. What I like about it being Terry Pratchett’s “The Light Fantastic” is that it is an indication of an availability of mainstream material on the adam, hopefully through the genesis store. I say this because I love alternative stuff (Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go – by Lawrence Miles, The Wolves in the Walls – by Neil Gaiman, Ana Historic – by Daphne Marlett, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire, etc. and yes, they’re not too alternative but I have even more out there stuff) but sometimes you want mainstream. And mainstream will help the adam thrive. It’s one of the concerns some people have made over LongBox, though personally I like the publishers longbox has, now it’s a question of how much material they get.

  819. Ok, let’s close the blog.

    You cannot claim a new age of information politics and keep quiet every time a unpleasing question is asked.

  820. To show teasers is an usual marketing tool nowadays. The idea is to keep the expectation before showing the final product to the public.
    Furthermore, if the say all features and specifications before finish the product, they will loose any competitive advantage that they could have.

    One thing is true, before the pre-ordering opening Notion Ink has to publish all specifications and features in order to have the criteria to order or not the product. We need to know what we are purchasing.

  821. He’s probably not losing many (if any) of the readers of this blog. But the longer it goes without any information of release, the more he loses out on the general audience. He just missed a HUGE shopping day in the US. A pre-order or some sort of idea of release dates may have caused some people to not purchase Ipads or other tablets.

  822. Raj is right, NI should take as much time as it needs.
    Why should they start rushing just because of a few people (including me^^) want to get an Adam to their hands?
    It happend to often in the last time that products(which were very promising) were put to the market too early, without enough time of testing, developing and bug fixing.Look for example at the Wetab(Germany).

    I would rather wait another year than to see Adam failing just because of some stupid mistake.

  823. yep, school and work. Though I partook in one of the recent ones. Was even included as a fictional character in Greg’s odyssey to getting the adam. 😛

    Yeah, the bezel is bigger but it actually looks good in the pics so I won’t complain.

    The other thing is I HATE my laptop as a laptop. It makes it uncomfortable to use so I am not online that much (most of the time I DO spend writing anything on it other than school/work are the blogs here 😀

  824. The Tesla Code

    could be the title of the story carried out by the posters (did that finish, I have yet to check)

  827. theoretically the classes are the same, though the classes just show minimum capable speeds, not max.

    But you are right about the size available. The other reason I’d prefer SD is it is more versatile (can fit SD as well as the mini and micro variants with the proper adapter), and they’re cheaper (the cards at least, no idea about the readers).

  828. Patience is good.

    I am a software developer and I have developed (am developing) Apps for Android. I have made the mistake of releasing code that was not complete. People were asking for it and begging for it to be released even though I wasn’t done. I bowed to peer pressure… I released the app in “Beta” form.

    I was NOT thanked for my efforts… I have been torn to shreds by my users for this feature missing of that feature unfinished… they totally forgot that it was Beta and that they asked for it.

    I wrote the app because I wanted it… and I wanted to share it with others. I want my software to be perfect when it’s done… you can never be perfect, but it’s a good goal… and I hope to not make the mistake of releasing early code again.

    I COMPLETELY understand Rohan’s position and wanting to wait. Developing great software is not easy… developing great hardware must be a nightmare… trying to get everything the way you want it and not to upset too many people along the way.

    I have been following this product for a good long time now and I believe our patience will be rewarded.

    Thank you Rohan for being prudent and releasing the Adam when it is ready.

  829. @Hermann ..
    I agree .. I think the hexadecimal guessing game was pushing it too far ..

    If people want to have clue-based games . please play Klueless on the IIM I website … at least in Klueless, there is a right answer ..

  830. Then this editing must have taken place long time ago. I read it the first time in school about 33 years ago. And in this version Godot never came.

  831. Hi,
    I think the meaning is the use of induction (I will explain in a sec) to charge the device without plugging a cable into the device.

    Induction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction) is where an electric current is generated in a conductive (allows electricity to pass through it) material as it moves through a magnetic flied, or as the magnetic field fluctuates…

  832. How do you know you will have Adam in a month or so? The mystery counter might trigger yet another counter. There is no formal communication, no ads no expected release date.

    I am a big fan of Adam, am hoping against reason that Adam will get released 🙂 But as I see it, there’s no hint of Adam releasing soon. All the future talk indicates the same.

  833. Well gecko, the basic reasoning is sound (basic abstract, not the reasoning using the detailed info we have nowadays). Think of it this way, light hits the eye, creates electricity which stimulates the brain in a particular way to give us X image. Therefore if you if you stimulate the brain with the same image it would theoretically produce impulses which would travel along the same nerves to the eye in the same way to produce the same image.

    Sure, rods and cones don’t produce light and we’re not as hardwired as that makes us seem, but the basic reasoning of providing a stimulus in reverse order in a circuit requiring energy only makes sense. It’s the kind of thing you could use as the premise for a Hollywood horror or sci-fi movie. Just enough logic to sound plausible so the kids buy into it 😉

  836. I have had some people I showed the Adam specs getting unimpressed with an LCD screen. People seem to think that the LED screens are the cutting edge. I understand that all screens are LCD and LED/CFL is only the back lighting technology.

    Some manufacturers have been distinguishing LED back lit displays as LED screens and project it as being better than LCD screens. What backlighting technology does Adam use any way?

  837. @RandomMinds: I’m a software system architect since more than 20 years and I totally agree not to release a beta product. But that’s not the key point. I never requested NI to release an unfinished product. The only thing I wanted to know WHEN they release it.

    As a professional software developer you also know that a good project management has a REALISTIC development plan (including a release date) agreed by their customer (here NI’s investor). And a professional project manager tracks the project progress to see if he’s in time and in budget. So in my mind it shouldn’t be a big deal to make a conclusion about the release date.

    So if it’s not a technical problem it seems to be a political one. In my mind the easiest way for Rohan would be to tell us that he cannot give us the release date because …

    I’m not angry because of a delay. I’m angry because of the silence.

  838. I’m getting more and more excited about Adam, but it occurred to me recently that I haven’t heard anything on this blog about Google services. Will Adam have access to the full Android Market? Google Maps? Other Google-produced Android apps?

  839. @RandomMinds ..
    No one is asking for an imperfect Adam to be released pre maturely .. Its just that a product release needs tight management .. and that management extends to information ..
    I have worked as a product manager in a different context and I know that the development / production team in any product development process feels very emotionally about his/her product .. and feels like its the best / most important thing in the world ..
    outside , there is an eager and critical audience waiting for the product (as promised) .. its very important to reach out to them objectively and efficiently … preferably via a strong marketing / advertising agency .. and well defined information timeline .. and teasers

    The information campaign in Adam has been anchored by Rohan himself .. but the ‘david vs goliath’ and the ‘paradigm shift in the tablet industry’ rhetoric is beginning to sound jarring .. that language is fine for internal development teams … keeps them motivated ..

    For an unforgiving and impatient customer, its entirely unsuitable …

    The people need hard facts or NONE at all … the teasers / hints / clues are informal and unprofessional .. ..
    If its a product launch that is going to change the face of the tablet industry .. create a new category etc etc .. it DEFINITELY doesn’t sound like one ..

  841. I hope adams own calendar, contacts and mail applications are seamlessly integrating with the ones in android. I don’t want to have multiple sources to manage for my data…

    I am using my android phone (HTC Desire) to automatically synchronizing accounts and information (mail, calendar) from Google, Exchange, Facebook, Flickr etc. Would be great if I could do the same with adam and if it would not mess up with my android phone.

    Also, what I am missing so far on android calendar:
    – no flags for private appointments (Exchange)
    – no categorization (Exchange)
    – No tasks + synchronization with Exchange

  843. You are obviously from the opposite school of thought, however just because that is one way of working does not mean that there isn’t another way.

  845. @Shak .. Trust me .. I want NI Adam to prove me wrong .. to dispel all my doubts .. fast

  846. p.s. This maybe “unprofessional” in some peoples eyes but to me has a personal fee to it. It isn’t just another faceless company bombarding people with standard Marketing Campaigns. i would much rather have some information then none at all.

    A marketing campaign won’t define anything. In my opnion the product will and the marketing will somewhat augment its ability. We could debate this for many hours but fortunately Rohan is in control of his product and company therefore has final say of how they do this. Codes or no codes.

  847. You mean you wouldn’t smile at the sign I saw in a Chinese restaurant?:

    Lunch special – cum with rice and soup

    (I did not get the lunch special)

  849. Only time will tell right? I’m just pointing out the fact that the status quo set by the large Corporates does not need to be adhered to by a Young Start-up. They have a completely different vision. This is the internet age, where user feedback is key.

  850. I totally agree with Shilpi. Apple is very successful in hiding all facts until the big bang (no problem for a potential customer). NI tries the other way round and therefore raised expectations of potential customers. The problem thereby is that they stop midway.

    As Shilpi already mentioned: The people need hard facts or NONE.

  851. I believe that NI has a plan.

    It is unfortunate that all plans can not please all people.

    They have given us a date via their countdown ( in binary ) as to when their next announcement will be… I thought that was clever.. but I can understand why some may not.

    We are not privy to all of the goings on at NI, nor should we be, but they seem like good people and they created a rollout plan that included an announcement on the 9th and I’m sure they had a good reason.

    I wish I knew now, but it’s natural to want it now… but the 9th is not that far away

  852. But I want to buy a tablet, not a vision! This is a blog for potential customers, it’s not an analyst conference.

    By the way: Is the question for availability no user feedback?

  853. @Hermann
    Your arguments seems reasonable but lacks depth.

    How do you expect NI to announce release date without getting FCC certificate (It may take two weeks or they may have to incorporate if any changes are suggested by FCC).

    Hope you will understand their difficulties before demanding concrete time-line. If you only want to know the probable release dates, which were already mentioned somewhere on the blog (Christmas or CES or Jan 2011).

  855. most of your observations were good (exceptions include the boss fight comment :P)

    But your “barely ok” actually depends on the target audience. Yes, the definite article “the” makes it explicit and the “802.11n” fits in as part of the flow. Ergo it is perfectly fine without the commas. But if your target audience is techies and you consider that they would all understand what you mean by “the new WI-FI specification” then the 802.11n becomes unnecessary and its insertion becomes a question of added but unneeded information which has been included should there be any doubts or any non-techie perusing the site. It could also be included in commas given hat mindset.

  856. @Hermann

    Unfortunately, It is in NI’s discretion what facts users want or need, therefore debating how they should be running their Marketing Strategy is a waste of time.

    I as a customer see nothing wrong with the Informal approach. I see it is as something new, which helps me relate to the company and see that they explicitly understand my needs as a user.

    I am also ready to accept that due to legal restrictions they are not at liberty to disclose every little bit of information. People could just buy another product or just come back when they hear it has been released. This blog afterall is an Opt-in medium right? Not something being forced on every customer?

  857. @hermann,

    As I now have read 20 times in these comments that all you want is a date I will give you one…….. Feb 1, 2011….. Now happy?

  858. Sim, that article is from 2008. A LOT has passed since then and it’s not necessarily true anymore. Also microSDHC is officially limited to 32GB. If a bigger one comes out readers have no obligation to be compatible with it.

  859. Don’t many other companies use games to increase product awareness? Many games companies have held treasure hunts in cities etc.

  860. I highly doubt that this is the music producer for NI. But if it is, then I’ve found the first thing about Notion Ink I don’t like.

  861. Without javascript enabled (i.e. Noscript enabled or an older browser) the site is horribly broken)

  862. I have a bit more light-hearted approach to this.. Tablets are a new device category and so any extra time spent in making something really new/revolutionary is worth it.. Better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. Realistically, there’s probably a 80 percent chance of failure (I think something like 90% of startups fold-up, right?) if by that we mean the longer-term survival of NI (esp. given the youth of their team; people change esp when they are young. relationships are more fragile). If these odds are overcome its pretty cool that we were here at the beginning (I caught wind off this during CES and thereafter have sporadically come here). Its rather silly to hinge serious planning on unreleased, untested at large new hardware/software which is why I cannot quite understand the Angst (esp of folks claiming their business plans depend on these release dates). Seriously, do ANY of you really depend on your tablet (if you own one that is) to get your job(s) done? The answer would be NO for almost everyone here. I think the intensity of the emotions displayed here are more related to the apparent promise of the product and, more to the point, inspirational visions put forth by Rohan. I think people have this need to believe in something better than what is out there, something that redefines usability and interaction with software (there goes the similarity with the niche filled by Religion/Spirituality). I think the IPhone did this; I think gmail changed how email is used by many. I dont believe that the IPad or the new version of Yahoo mail has done the same.

    This blog is pretty entertaining as is the interesting, syntactically challenged (please keep it this way, it sounds more authentic), semantically inspiring prose from Rohan. So even if the Adam is entirely mythical (and I hardly believe that), its still fun to come here occasionally and scroll the texts and learn something 😉 Maybe this will pioneer a new approach to product design (intensive end-fan feedback) one thats been limited to software. However it turns out, as long as the weekly updates are maintained, the fun continues.

  863. The 9th is too far away though 😉 Even tomorrow is too far away. I’ve been keeping track of NI since the beginning of this year. And I can imagine why it’s so bad to have to wait. Though I like it aswell and I think it might work well to get their product known.
    I’ve been showing loads op people every bit of information that was released, and they all seemed reasonably enthousiastic. Also NI has been mentioned on loads of blogs. So they must be doing something right with this type of releasing info.

    Again I’m up there with you, biting my fingernails and desperately waiting for the day on wich I can spend my money. But you must also see why they’re doing this. They’re being as open with you as they can.

  864. @nsriram
    hehheh .. well said ..
    The language does feel like its still being written from a dusty boys hostel wing in an engineering college campus .. and perhaps therein lies all the charm / obsession

    lets hope all will be well when it shall end well

  865. well .. I am not dying without the product .. but early this year I convinced someone to gift me an adam for my bday in nov ..
    well .. my bday came and went .. and I am still left wanting … I thot of settling for the Kindle .. but then , I have a christmas break coming up .. and I wanted to catch up on all the new graphic novels in gorgeous color ..
    but yeah … am I dying without the product ? Hell no.

    DO I want facts to be reaffirmed that I am waiting for a just cause ?
    Yes !

  866. @Robin: If it would have been an information from NI: YES! I could close my browser, add an appointment to my outlook and come back to order it when adam is available.

    By now I have to come back every week to find out if and when I can buy it and if there is a reasonable information which could influence my decision. I have to read the whole blog (very interesting) just to find out that again I have to wait a indefinite period of time.

    YES FOR SURE, I WOULD BE HAPPY!

  867. Black Swans & Creative Destruction in the Information Age

    When people ask me what I do, I have trouble answering their question. It is because I have stumbled into a strange and nebulous job, where my main mission is become a learning machine and anticipate changes taking place in the world and then use financial markets to feed my learning habit. In observing the world and the changes taking place in it, the most interesting ones to watch are the large unanticipated changes, made famous by philosopher and trader Nassim Taleb in his books ‘Fooled by Randomness’ and ‘Black Swan’.

    The first time I read about Adam, my jaw dropped. Adam, you see was a Black Swan, a rare and magnificent creature. And like all Black Swans, was going it was going to cause some big changes in the eco-system around it. If this sounds alarming, let me quickly tell you that this was a positive black swan, and a landmark event of the information age we have googled our way into.

    Adam, is a Tablet computer. Actually it will be a lot more, as it will change the way we interact with computers. And it will also change the way companies communicate with their customer base. In fact, what makes Adam and the company behind it most interesting is that it represents the future of computing, the future of innovation, and the future of the world. Notion Ink is headquartered in Bangalore was founded by a team of IIT graduates, led by the charismatic Rohan Shravan. The founders of the company are all in their mid twenties. This is a unique company in the annals of Indian business. Up until now, we have not seen an Indian company that can challenge large, dominant innovator companies with large portfolios of intellectual property. Notion Ink is however gearing up to take on the might of Apple with its revolutionary device. Things are getting interesting.

    Notion Ink has gone about creating their product in brand new way. By engaging customers on their blog all through the development process, Notion Ink has recruited an army of commentators that are following the company’s every word. When Notion Ink launched their corporate website a few days ago, within minutes the fans were pointing out edits in the site, enabling Notion Ink to make changes in real time. The feedback to developments is instantaneous and saves Notion Ink valuable time and resources. The army of fans is getting the feeling of being involved in product development, the company had sought inputs on the color choices and even the corporate logo. The company has elevated its customers to status of co-founders. Imagine the difference with the super secretive Apple, over time Notion Ink will have a much more involved customer base, and by being responsive to customers, Notion Ink is simply doing what all companies talk about doing. It is really fascinating to watch.
    One big industry likely to face a huge tsunami is the publishing industry. The digital onslaught that long ago re-shaped the music business has so far skirted the publishing business. Now, however the alarm bells would be ringing loud and clear.

    The nearly 400 year old technique of printing on paper has been remarkably durable and effective for the purpose of mass distribution of the written word and visual image. The book, magazine and newspaper are in fact amazing technology. And 400 years is a long time and competing display technologies have finally caught up. First came the Amazon Kindle. Then the Apple iPad. Now comes a device whose screen technology can switch between back lit and front lit, so you can use it as a back lit LCD for watching movies and then to sunlight readable book mode. Printed books and magazines are soon going the way of Vinyl records. Notion Ink already has a tie-up with Longbox digital for a comic book store. Unlike the kindle, which is black and white, and the Ipad which uses a glossy bright screen, the Adam’s custom built Matte- finish Pixel Qi screen is going to blow away the printed comic.

    Also, I think it will be great time to be a talented writer as distribution in the digital era will be much easier than before.

    The tablet computer represents the future of computing and the Adam is going to lead us there. This future of innovation is now really exciting because you have now a world where hungry visionaries in any corner of the world can challenge large established companies.

    With specific reference to India, the roll-out of high speed wireless broadband is going to require a device like the Adam. Low cost future versions of the Adam could mean that every man, woman and child in this country can have access to every book ever written. In a country like India, where we have such a huge amount of untapped human resources, such a device could bring millions out from a life of poverty and ignorance. Also, interesting the genesis of PixelQi, the company behind the revolutionary screen technology from the One Laptop Per Child project.

    Imagine the speed of innovation when there are a thousand Rohans to challenge the incumbents in different industries. In a world where so much of the news is negative, I am really happy to report that this is one time where I am NOT dreading a black swan.

  868. Just set a date for yourself. ask yourself ; Until when am I willing or am I able to wait?

  869. @shilpi

    also: there’s no such thing as a perfect product for everyone out there.. even if Adam fills a small niche, thats a considerable accomplishment. Take google TV (android based set top boxes that one connects to the TV and use wifi). It has been roundly criticized by the NYTimes reviewer.. that doesnt mean that its not right for some people.. I totally enjoy being a couch potato and streaming video off my big hard drives and the net on my large screen TV.. its a much more social context (TV as opposed to computer) and that changes everything; informationally the bits are all the same whether I watch it on my large screen LCD monitor or the TV. I dont do random surfing on the TV like on the computer. Not everything is about the tech per so but also about the social contexts where the tech is used.. So if the daylight and long battery aspects of Adam are for real, we’ll see computers being used in many different contexts, in different ways by people who are also interacting with each other (maybe in contexts that people haven’t imagined using computers such as sports stadiums, churches, temples, casinos). Maybe that comes closer to the wearable computing idea.. maybe soon we’ll be wearing our computational devices.

  870. Rohan and Notion Ink are going about the release of Adam in a far different way then most of their competitors. They have given lots of information about their new device. I read long ago about how Notion Ink wanted to approach the concept of their product. They had a vision of a relationship with customers or potential customers that is far different from company’s like Apple. A huge effort has been put into making Adam as non propitiatory as possible. Where apple has done the opposite with I Pad. Notion Ink shows the spirit of sharing,look at all they ways you will be able to get information in and out of Adam. Apple wants you to live at the Apple store. Notion Ink has tried to include us in a small way through logo and color choices. They created this blog to get feedback and listened to our criticism. Who knows if Apple even considered a focus group. Now they have added mysteries, and a bit Mysticism. The company being based in India, that all seems very natural to me. They are also dealing with investors. Who want things kept secret and till the product is ready for release. My understanding that FCC approval is the main hurdle in releasing Adam and they are on schedule to have that within their last stated time frame for release, which was between December and January. Here on this this blog excitement is rising. The impatience is growing as well. Some are demanding or begging for dates and features. Some feel they are being treated and teased like children. The more you can’t have it the more you want it. My suggestion is for all to relax and try to enjoy the up coming events. If you must jump ship then jump, but if you do you may have to come back and purchase the Adam. For most of us isn’t Adam what we really want. For me Notion Ink has dispelled enough doubts. I wait patiently for Adam.

  872. +100000000000000000000000000000

    well said……..guys understand…….many r new here but plz have patience……everytin is as rohan had promised ,i dnt understand y r some people still upset…..

  873. There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor that a forthcoming U.S. version of Adam will house a small caliber pistol in its cylindrical base.

  875. I have about an half hour pc time here so my comment might have been said before… Don’t have the tim to read all the posts….
    Regarding the countdown to 9th dec : It cant be counting down to fcc because Rohan said “You all have been following up with FCC a lot better than us here!”So they don’t have a date
    As for the sensor I think we can rule the digtaliser screen out because he clearly stated that the exemple above was done with fingers. If the sceen had an digitaliser he would have used a stylus
    My brorther in law thinks the sensor is an air pressure altitude sensor for detecting horisontal movements….

  878. Hi all!! If you wanna see how is going to see the Pixel Qi in “color” mode and “sunlight” mode, I think it´s gonna be some similar to this:

    Are you agree Rohan or this Innoversal wear a different type of screen? (I like very much the quality in video, very sharp and good colors when in “color” mode…)

  879. @Gecko
    I’m from Spain, specifically from Catalonia (Catalunya). My name in Spanish is “Andrés” and “Andreu” in Catalan. Maybe you need to have more culture. Do you have more questions about me? Tell us something about you, please.

  880. Good and possible idea!! There are a sensor named MPX4115 in many devices, for example in my Hexakopter (RC controlled helicopter), and it is very accurate and cheap (15$)… You have got a great idea, congratulations!!

    Datasheet of the sensor:
    http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freescale.com%2Ffiles%2Fsensors%2Fdoc%2Fdata_sheet%2FMPX4115.pdf&rct=j&q=mpx4115&ei=4dzyTLz9CobtOb39qI0K&usg=AFQjCNHtiBcHcgI96CzsHemyylmm1ZhF5g&sig2=_wbKmbW1ppI1-LQrzrFYhw&cad=rja

    My mikrokopter with controlled altitude by a MPX4115:

    Best regards!

  881. 1 Feb is my date, To picked it because I think it will be sooner but I don’t want to disappoint you with a date that maybe can’t be met….

  882. By the way, I have tried to be a little bit sarcastic if you trying to be as well, but once I have read my reply I thing I have no success. Sorry. So forget some words and only remember I’m Catalan / Spanish..

  884. @Paritosh

    Wow! A lot of great info there. Almost too much… But I will spend the time to figure out which is best (yet still affordable).

  885. Frustrated that this “must have in the living room” (or kitchen, office etc) doesnt have an infrared emettor to act as an all-in-one remote control – BTW it could also have a infrared receiver to learn from other remote controls… Very useful to have a multi-devices RC, not only for home video (who said for his car ?…)

    Also you dont mention 3D display ?

    Still will follow on introduction date. Seems there are lot of Android tablets to come on the Nvidia in next months. Congratulations for the good marketing stuff with this blog 😉 along for the technical achievement

  886. Hi Rohan –
    I’m a big fan and have been following the development of the Adam for over a year now. I’m really excited that it’s about to become a reality, but I have one question: will your office suite (or any other app) allow for full-screen reading and markup of PDFs? For me (and for lots of students and scientists) this would be a “killer feature.” A PixelQi screen, long battery life and PDF markup would make me buy this in a heartbeat. If it doesn’t have that, or if there isn’t some 3rd party app that would make this functionality available, spending money on a tablet would be hard to justify as a poor student!
    Thanks for all of your hard work!
    best
    Tom

  887. If I had a penny for every comment I’ve read, I think I would have enough money to pay for an adam! (and I’ve also read some comments more than once.)

  888. I’m glad Notion Ink chose to go with a matte screen. 🙂 Innoversal’s glossy one would be very annoying.

    @Rohan
    The Pixel Qi screen in the above video does not have a good viewing angle (has a noticeable yellow tint at some angles). Is the Adam going to be shipped with the newer Pixel Qi screens that have a wider viewing angle? Thanks.

  889. In the Curve section, I don’t think “stand-out” should have a dash. It should just say “stand out”. In fact, distinct, prominent, and even eye-catching are better words.

    it should say…”The uniform weight along the ergonomic curve provides a secure and comfortable grip.”

    I’m not sure about this but is “lends itself” more proper than “lends it?

    Use “encases” or “conceals” instead of “stows away” and there should be no dash between easily and replaceable. “What’s more, the cylinder encases easily replaceable batteries.”

    Anyway…below is the full overview with my corrections:
    ————————————
    “There’s always a distinct physical factor that makes a product matter. Adam’s signature is the addition of a practical dimension: the cylindrical curvature. The uniform weight along this ergonomic curve provides a secure and comfortable grip. Hold it as instinctively as you would hold a folder. The curve’s geometry also creates a 3-degree elevation that lends itself a natural viewing angle not like any ordinary tablet. What’s more, the cylinder conceals the easily replaceable batteries, provides a rotatable housing for the swivel camera, and serves as an excellent location for the stereo speakers. The result? A design that is functional, aesthetical, and intuitively elliptical.”
    ————————————
    Frankly, I’m not sure what “intuitively elliptical” means. Maybe replace that with “practical”? Perhaps it’s alluding to the fact that the elliptical shape (curve) is the natural manifestation of the function and aesthetics.

  890. @max3D
    Just to clarify. My statement regarding taking Arron’s spot was a joke, but I am sure that someone would gladly like to take his place and follow the NDA. EAP participants are going to be under the gun to get apps out for launch or soon after. That is a lot of pressure.

    @gecko
    I love that site, i check it from time to time and spend an hour laughing like a mad man.

  895. Oh, forgot about Catalan. I’ve never been to Catalonia, and that’s a very bad gap in my experience. I’ve heard people speak Catalan which is very weird – it sounds kind of like Spanish except I couldn’t understand it.

    Please be sarcastic if you like. I enjoy the company.

  896. ipad was announced and revealed with all info 2 months before release. No surprises or “mystery features.”

  897. A blog with Rohan’s thoughts and explanations is very personal and a great touch.

    But it should still have an editor.

    The website needed major edits before it was released.

    Those two things are very unprofessional. It will scare away the average consumer. And we, as the followers of the blog, need NI to get those consumers to ensure the long-term success of the Adam to ensure long-term support for our purchase. I’m not ready to drop 500 bucks if I don’t know that support will be there.

  898. I can pick a date that won’t be met – Jan. 32.

    More (less?) seriously, I don’t care about the date or even about knowing when we’ll know the date. Presumably we’ll have some idea on Dec 9 (or 10, if the countdown goes to zero). But anyone who’s seen a product launch knows that there are all sorts of restrictions right up until the launch date, and they appear arbitrary and capricious; and a lot of them do, in fact, come from paranoia and tradition, but that’s the way it is, and if you can’t be patient, then just don’t bother with the blog here. Go to the zoo and visit the reptiles.

    I’m more bothered by the lack of professionalism in NI’s public relations because I can’t help wondering whether they’re trying to produce Adam the way they produced their website – by energy and vision, without the benefit of experience, or even without recognizing their own limitations. And I can’t help wondering whether Adam will turn out to be, like the website, exuberant and full of good ideas but with some serious implementation problems. NI’s emphasis on their youth doesn’t help. The only actual “product” we’ve seen so far from NI is their PR, and it been hasn’t always been as competent we would wish.

    For those who wanted an Adam for their b’day in Nov, or Dec, some advice. I found out a few years ago that if I postpone my birthday (hatchday?), then I get more presents. My official day is Dec 10, but I often celebrate the evening of Dec 24 (a lot of people seem to be celebrating then, for some reason), and I’ve gone past the New Year once or twice. Meanwhile, the presents slowly pile up.

  899. I was going to offer to set up a fund for you until I got to the remark in parentheses. You’re cheating, man.

    p.s. In some change today, I got a gold-colored Millard Fillmore dollar coin. Is this a great country or what?

  901. shak:
    > fortunately Rohan is in control of his product and company therefore has final say of how they do this

    Actually, the investors and lawyers have the final say. Rohan has expressed his frustration a couple of times. I assume there are marketing imperatives as well (such as not wanting to tip off the competition until the last possible minute).

    Adam:
    > A blog with Rohan’s thoughts and explanations is very personal and a great touch.
    >.But it should still have an editor.

    I strongly disagree. The blog is personal; an editor would depersonalize it. The website, I agree, is unprofessional, and their attempts at crowd-sourcing it (if that’s what they’re trying to do) aren’t working very well. But the blog is just fine.

  902. @Wouter Kapteijn

    >Plus it would make the video look jerky

    Just wanted to point out that jerky videos and funny videos of jerks are all the rage. :-).

    Totally agree with tintincub regarding the issues in practical usage of ADAM for recording a classroom lecture. You would either have to sit in a position with a close and an unobstructed view of the board and the lecturer, or keep the ADAM flat on the head to get the said unobstructed view. Perhaps there is a market for such an accessory !?!

    Moreover, the position of the microphone is not going to help either (in case you were unaware, it is situated at a location at the bottom frame facing the user).

  903. Ok my last guess didn´t pass the test so here I go again.
    Nishit said, on November 23, 2010 at 10:02

    “Hey, how about visual gesture recognition? The Adam should have an app that can do that, even one camera can suffice.” in post “New Site is Up!”

    Further down “Rohan Shravan said, on November 25, 2010 at 10:25

    Hint: When I said “Few came very close” it was for one of the commenter here who nearly guessed it!”

    The canvas picture in this post shows a painting on a stand that painters use. There are only 3 big area that have some function on that screen shoot. Resume Editing, New and Load. All of the are rather big and could be configured for a gesture
    That would be cool to connect to the TV and start painting with gesture and get it on the big screen.
    Flip side on a book you read with a gesture.

    Tesla worked with to bridge over gaps with radiowaves and eletricity with no physical contact.

    That my guess.
    It´s 2:08 AM here in Sweden and in the night everything is possible.

  904. That would be the lady’s model, available in pink. The gentleman’s model, available in brushed gunmetal (duh), needs a larger piece to compensate for the gentleman’s insecurity.

  905. Rohan,

    Can you clarify what is the horizontal & vertical angle-of-view of the camera? This information is missing in the tech specs page. If it is any good, then you should be touting it in the features page.

    Danke.

  907. Hello Rohan,
    I am going through your website and blog since last couple of days,
    when the ADAM will be available in hyderabad,
    what will be the processor speed..? you said it has GPS…which map did you load in ADAM
    (like olivepad is having map my india map with map upgrade plan, Samsung galaxy tab is having google map etc).

    warm Regards

  908. Hey, welcome back, Tarwinia!

    > But your “barely ok” actually depends on the target audience

    Most things depend on the target audience. The target audience for my “humor” is myself, which is why I find it so amusing. Anyway, a real techie is going to go to the Tech Specs page first, since the Features page is written in prose, which techies don’t read. If they do venture to the Features page, they’re going to want to see “802.11n,” not “the new Wi-Fi frequency specification,” because the numbers are more congenial to them than the plain-language description.

  909. Keep in mind though at CES 2010 he had the investors on board. NI didn’t lose their investors until June 2010 which set them back dramatically on their initial time frames. Also their were the delays with the Tegra chip (though we were ‘assured’ those delays were not a factor in the devices delays) ‘Maybe’ if they hadn’t lost them (the investors) we would have seen the device in stores for this Holiday season. I guess we will never know, but that may have been the plan.

  910. > t´s 2:08 AM here in Sweden and in the night everything is possible.

    In the night, everything is very cold, too.

    gecko <– been there

  915. My family has invested into companies/products for more than that, 20-30 mil wont get you a finished product.. unless you take FOREVER to make it.

    and i must say, nearly every product uses other products as a basis then you modify them to your specifications. Even apple products use other companies hard drives, processor, etc.

  916. Well Gecko, that one would be erroneous as it’d be saying “with with” if they intended it in the “proper” sense of cum.

    And why not Gecko? sounds high in protein…

  917. @Hermann
    If it will help – adam is not a tablet

    >For me a tablet is a working equipment, not a religion or vision

    Ask Steve Jobs. He may explain you better how Ipad started with a vision (to create a market of its own which is gaining momentum)

  918. True, but it still won’t go over well if he calls the paint program “cum paint”. Partially because the real meaning is not immediately obvious, and partially because its not a known term. “cum laude” is well known, even by the majority of Americans that don’t know the Latin root of the word “cum”, it sounds educated and successful.

    “Cum paint”, well, that’s just nasty.:)

  919. Normally true gecko, but you have made one glaring omission: the addicts on this page who will scour for every last word detailing the adam even if it only repeats what they know. They are the techies who will want to read prose and whatever else you throw at them. Heck, I bet they’d read the ingredients on the discarded take out containers from Notion Ink to see if NI’s staff’s diet could provide them any clues as to the future and the Tesla connection. That’s why they need support groups. Well, guess I’ll see you in the gym’s crummy basement later on…

  920. @Mathew
    2007 really?

    I thought the vibe started in 2009. THIS blog started from April 2009! 🙂

  922. 8 processors total. They say that in addition to the cortex A9 cores there are other ones specialized for stuff like graphics and sound as a clarification of why 8. Not that it’s 8 specialized processors in addition to the CPUs.

  923. To all the folks (and reptiles) that have been around this blog for a while, I have a mysterious quandary and a comment related to the countdown timer.

    From an earlier comment it was noted that we could look up the patent filing for Notion Ink. We see that link here:
    https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GranteeSearch.cfm

    We see that NI had filed November 24, 2010, that is when they became an ‘entity’ for the FCC. That troubled me because I remembered Rohan saying he had already received FCC approval for the chargers. It took me a while to find the post but the excerpt and link (from November 4th) are here:
    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/more-on-the-images-you-saw/
    “FCC: We are on time for this and you could hold devices in your hands on or before Christmas (and as hinted earlier, if we miss Christmas, then CES or New Year). Pre-booking will start in early December (if the case id prior). Already received FCC for the chargers!”

    So, my quandary: How could they have already received FCC approval, prior to November 4th, for the chargers if they didn’t file as an entity with the FCC until November 24th? Perhaps the chargers were filed under another company? Not only that, but why would the chargers require FCC approval? Because they support a device that would? Just found it interesting.

    That same snippet above also reaffirms many of the thoughts that the 9th (or 10th) of December from the countdown would be for pre-orders as they “will start in early December”.

  924. To all the folks (and reptiles) that have been around this blog for a while, I have a mysterious quandary and a comment related to the countdown timer.

    From an earlier comment it was noted that we could look up the patent filing for Notion Ink. We see that link here:
    h**ps://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/GranteeSearch.cfm

    We see that NI had filed November 24, 2010, that is when they became an ‘entity’ for the FCC. That troubled me because I remembered Rohan saying he had already received FCC approval for the chargers. It took me a while to find the post but the excerpt and link (from November 4th) are here:
    h**p://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/more-on-the-images-you-saw/
    “FCC: We are on time for this and you could hold devices in your hands on or before Christmas (and as hinted earlier, if we miss Christmas, then CES or New Year). Pre-booking will start in early December (if the case id prior). Already received FCC for the chargers!”

    So, my quandary: How could they have already received FCC approval, prior to November 4th, for the chargers if they didn’t file as an entity with the FCC until November 24th? Perhaps the chargers were filed under another company? Not only that, but why would the chargers require FCC approval? Because they support a device that would? Just found it interesting.

    That same snippet above also reaffirms many of the thoughts that the 9th (or 10th) of December from the countdown would be for pre-orders as they “will start in early December”.

  926. Don’t worry jayanth. RK’s right. Gecko’s talking about the web page. Others criticize Rohan’s blog posts which I think is over the top, he writes how he speaks which is how many Indians do and is perfectly legit for a blog. It would even be fine for a page targeted at only Indians. The problem is that a page targeting other English speaking countries (like those in the Commonwealth and let’s not forget about the US) needs to be flawless from any perspective and while a Canuck might find some of the Indian Syntax weird, the opposite is usually not true.

    Plus, though fearsome ferocious creatures, geckos are small. You’d probably wake up and run away by the time he finished devouring your little toe.

  927. @Rohan: Please, please, please….have enough units in the first shipment, at least to supply all of the people who are posting here. We’ve been waiting…..and waiting….please don’t sell out all of the initial units and make some of us have to wait more.

    Accessories? Flash? I ask, even though others have already, because ….I’ll admit it, I recently bought ( AND RETURNED) another tablet…I know, I know, the horror! It was an Android based tablet, running on Tegra 2, and the manufacturer was telling customers that Flash wouldn’t be available from NVIDIA(or properly optimized for Tegra 2 processors, they weren’t clear) until…..December 19th. On the accessories front, they had none. No dock, no nothing (other than a charging cable) and I guess it was a little worse because the tablet had what was speculated to be a PDMI port, but there are no PDMI cables available, and a regular HDMI cable doesn’t fit….anyways, will there be accessories available from get go? Lastly, since you guys have Adam up and running and are dogfooding it and all..would you be willing to post Quadrant scores? Just to give us all an idea of how the hardware hums compared to other Android devices?

  929. @Zach,

    I have thought the same things, but my rational explanation is that the chargers are simple power supply devices that Notion Ink sourced from a conveniently located manufacturer who themselves have obtained FCC approval. I would imagine that Notion Ink would not bother themselves with constructing their own brand of charger when all it has to do it take in 100-250 AC volts and put out something like 9v DC. Just about any dumb box in the world with the right plugs would do the job.

    I suspect that if we knew the name of the manufacturer of the chargers we could find them on the FCC website. I’ve not been worried since I came up with that possible solution.

    Phillip

  930. the rumours were more than a year.

    on a side note: ipad whs what Apple planned originally which took time to execute and because of content logistics, iphone was introduced to market first. With the maturity of the apple ecosystem, the ipad hence could ride the wave of success now.

    folks you know how much Apple took ? ~5-6 years for ipad.
    Compare NI – its just a year!!!!

    Still repeating “LETS HAVE A LITTLE LESS MYOPIC VIEW OF WHATS GOING ONE”

    you can while your time researchin.

    To get the big picture of what is happening you can start by reading Ray Ozzie of Microsoft , what he has to say in Dawn of new age.

    One can chose not to come here and comment and not “assimiliate” what Rohan’s speaking. But one can ease the pang of waiting if one increase one’s knowledge as far as future of computing is.

    *no intention to flame anyone here*

  931. I’m guessing it’ll only be 2.4Ghz because when they’re dual band they tend to include “a” compatability since it too works on the 5Ghz range. It’s actually the easiest way to judge whether it is dual band or not. Just look for the a on the wifi logo, no “a”, no 5Ghz.

    And Greg, if I remember correctly an N router will even increase your speeds on “g” devices (obviously it doesn’t bring them up to “n” standards but does provide them with a little boost). If you get a dual band one you’re ensuring greater compatibility when possible. Also if your device handles the 5Ghz frequency it’s best to use it as it’s less congested as Quindor notes.

  933. Maybe it’s a sign … mystery code points to any of Millard’s key dates or achievements?

  934. Hi Rohan,
    On your word “(but not rushing by releasing sub-standard products, we are here to stay for centuries)” Invent some thing Kills Human aging and I can happily buy all your products over centuries….
    Keep your track on High speed lane.

  935. Yeah, I should have waited a while longer. You hit the nail on the head. I just spent way more time than I should sifting through all of Apple’s FCC device applications and in all those documents and pictures, I did not once see a power supply, so it would stand to reason they do the same thing. I am now looking forward to seeing NIs device show up and read through the specs and test results to see if we can pull some other information from them.

  936. It IS mentioned in the features, just not in the prose. If you’ll notice the “thumbnail” is composed of the bluetooth symbol, GPRS, 802.11n, and 3G. Also the words below the image say WIRELESS WIFI N, BLUETOOTH 3G AND GPRS (yes, there is a comma missing between “bluetooth” and “3G”

  937. Well said, Cathy. Sometimes I think we sound like a bunch of kids who just can’t stop speculating what their Christmas present is going to be.

    I think we need to give Rohan a break.

  938. I agree with these genuine concerns

    At the same time I feel I have the choice to ignore NI if my timeline doesnt fit with release of adam. To speculate whether adam will fulfil my need for a project without the actual reviews, and without having an objective assessment I would not implement adam in any projects of my own.

    So what will I do IF I want adam? I have to wait ……or take other choice 🙂

  939. Hadn’t noticed that Esco. It’s true, the digital page of the novel actually exceeds the display in the top right corner.

    Though I like the colours and it fits in with the design section as that also changes the colour scheme. If the updates to software and genesis also come with differently coloured backgrounds it’d be a good overall design. It’s slightly playful but not too much in my opinion. It caters to those who are looking more at the functionality, pleasing interface (read “ease of use”) like many of those attracted to apple products rather than techies.

  940. Hey, I’ve been lurking forever on this forum. Is it just me or has the backside mouse pad disappeared? Is this the mystery sensor? Anyone know if it is still part of adam?

  941. Dear Hermann,

    I read all your comments and for once I thought, I should ship the product first to you! But that would mean I wont be able to ship it to anyone (blacklisted because of non compliance with FCC, etc.) I can’t do that. Wish you were a part of EAP.

    When you compare Notion Ink with current firms with literally 1000 times more employees, its little unfair (but who is fair anyways!).

    Shilpi and the comment “NI tries the other way”. Actually not. What you know is what is there since long. Have not added anything or taken away anything. As a company with competition we can’t reveal much (every saturday the blog goes hard scanning and half the information is taken away, thanks to those commenting on grammar (thanks for help here Gecko)).

    Hermann, I want to give you a product which is a platform, something you can help you for years, cared by a firm which is still there in the market. Other approach would have been like other, launch whatever you get collect from market (tegra, PQ, android) and give it to you.

    BUT. There has to be a date to everything, vision cant satisfy all. I can only share one thing with you (without getting blasted at my board meeting). You don’t release dates for 2 reasons. Either you don’t have one, or you are waiting for some “event” where there will be audience and better reach!

    Warm Regards

  942. Just for kicks…
    Pretty cool tech by Disney+CMU, called TeslaTouch – www[dot]teslatouch[dot]com

  943. Actually patents can take years to be granted. Only this year was the patent for Apple’s Cover Flow granted. This is one reason why one might not want to reveal the tech before launching. If it is not revealed till launch then other companies will take time to copy it, while if they reveal it early other companies can copy it, or claim they’ll have something similar and steal their thunder. Yes, in the latter scenario the companies could be sued once the patent is eventually approved, but in the meantime they’d have stolen business and thunder and stealing thunder is a “time honored tradition” in the business world which can seriously hurt another product.

  944. I’ve been trying to explain this to people.

    GRANTEE means someone who was GRANTED something. If it says “Date Received”, it means “DATE GRANT RECEIVED”. So it has received approval on November 24th, not submitted it for.

  945. I’m in a similar boat. ADAM is my Christmas present. I will have Christmas when it comes. May be Dec 25. May be 1 Feb. It may be July 25 (let’s hope not). It will come though. It always does and I have never found a way to make it come earlier (although I used to try as a kid).

    Overall I am just glad that Rohan has released the details he has or I probably would have made the mistake of settling for a substandard product. I have looked at each of them and every time they are missing something basic. I may have built it up in my mind but as far as I can tell there does not seem to be any feature I want at the moment that is not listed on the website (although inductive charging is beginning to sound nice).

  946. I currently have two G routers in my network, with one being used as an access point to extend range.

    I’m still gathering information and deciding what I want to do, but I read this article:

    http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/30224-add-dont-replace-when-upgrading-to-80211n

    and it leads me to consider using a single band N router, and continue using one G router as an access point for my G devices to connect to (with both configured as described in the article).

    If the issues with mixes of N and G devices, and mixes of security options other than WPA2 still exist with current routers (the article appears to have been written a few years ago), this may be the best way to go. But like I said, I’m still researching and figuring things out…

  947. Just a thought, but … “textured part comprising a repetition of periodic or aperiodic features in relief” added to the mention of coatings in the post above sounds like the design on the outside rounded edge of Adam on either side of the camera …

  948. Interesting, but OH MY GODS!!! It’d be hell for someone like me who switches between layouts for different languages. Right now I handle three different layouts (though the third only when using other people’s keyboards) and their differences slow me down sometimes because I have to be consciously aware of what I type and not just go into automatic mode.

    My problem is my need for all the different characters. My current layout is the Spanish one which allows me to write in Spanish, Catalan, and French in addition to English. Sometimes I’ll switch to English as that’s the one I learnt first and is actually better when writing in English. The other variant I use is the Mexican one as it is found most often here.

    But it seems a very interesting concept, and especially useful for those who only write in one language. Though to be honest it’d be very interesting learning to use the one handed layouts on a tablet for ease of use whilst holding it…

  949. I am sorry, but I do not believe you are entirely correct. The ‘date received’ may be the date that ‘it’ was approved, but ONLY indicating the ‘it’ as the company being approved perhaps to submit something for device approval (I can’t say for sure). Look up Y2G under the authorization section and you will find NI does not have ANYTHING approved by the FCC (in terms of devices). Alternatively, look up Apple (BCG) and you will find many items including the new IPod and what may be the new IPad (I am not certain as the photos are all behind a short term confidentiality agreement until 2011).

    As I said in the initial post, November 24th may have been the date they became an ‘entity’ with the FCC.

  950. Oh..there are several theories one can come up with and speculate till we reach a break point..
    now with Rohan’s msg (revealing yet non revealing) , there is another big debate that’s gonna kick off on what the ‘event’ is..
    hopefully we can restrain and just wait for further ‘official press releases’…

  951. I think the accelerometers are capable of doing that. How many axis accelerometer does Adam have 4 or 6.

  952. Suggestion on the Website – a few little things which can REALLY go a long way in giving a classier look.

    1. Small Rounded corners for the white text boxes. Right Angles look soo..amateurish
    2. Justify the Text
    3. A small light shadow to the text boxes
    4. Maybe, more vertical linespace

  953. IVE FIGURED IT OUT!! (or at least I think so)..

    The countdown… I don’t believe it has to do with preorders(although I hopes so) but instead it has to do with THIS.

    https://www.bicsi.org/regions.aspx?l=1372

    Its a technology exhibit taking place on both DECEMBER 7th and DECEMBER 9th. The latter one looks to have exhibits… maybe this is where they go more public!! as Rohan just said in his recent comment

    Rohan:”BUT. There has to be a date to everything, vision cant satisfy all. I can only share one thing with you (without getting blasted at my board meeting). You don’t release dates for 2 reasons. Either you don’t have one, or you are waiting for some “event” where there will be audience and better reach!”

    the exhibit will provide a bigger audience.. and wait.. oh.. it takes place in Bangalore and Mumbai.

    what do you guys think?

  955. welll..

    an element of surprise always keeps the person in guessing and a good way to attract people’s attention and therefore that of potential customers. Emotional engagement is the key to viral marketing success. The element of surprise, either pleasant or nasty, is incredibly important. It jolts people out of their habits of perception and can instantly trigger the instinct to share. Its a part of a strategy… Selling a vision along with the product is very essential to make sure they are repeat customers and they become loyalists eventually…So we cannot end up teaching marketing lessons to NI, they know their game.

    At the same time there is a tipping point… as there are shades of people in the society and it is necessary to accommodate everyone. not everyone’s gonna buy into the emotional quotient always.
    and i guess its not fair to blindly defend or oppose NI without any strong basis.

  956. Hmmm. Here is something else. I was trying to find an AC/DC Power Adapter on the FCC website with no luck. So I decided to check mine in the house. Um, none of them have the FCC symbol on them . . . none (not for my laptop, Zune, star machine, flashlight charger, or fish tank). So, again, why would the adapter require FCC approval? Unless it is using power induction technology (I don’t really believe this)? We have already seen a port on the top (or right) side of the adam for the adapter. Just a little weirder that the adapters were mentioned as having FCC approval.

  958. @VB well I assumed it was like with a notebook computer where you can set the device to mirror the display or just use an external one.

    As for the execution app. I think the governor, when referring to “Green”, meant that it would recycle and burn the body to power electrical turbines instead of using coal. And yes, there are safety issues involved. There are two ways the app can function, a directed execution where you choose your target (harder to implement) and the “grenade” approach where you set the timer and run for your life (literally) as it’ll fry anyone within a 3meter radius. Of course the disadvantage is that if there are too many people nearby not only might you not escape but there might not be enough voltage for all, making it nothing more than a nice friendly dose of electroshock therapy.

  959. @gecko

    Your warning came a little late, I already ran out of commas. Thanks for trying. Can I borrow some of yours?

    @Rohan

    You should have a writing contest for those who follow your philosophical meanderings, the winner gets a job editing your marketing materials! Just a suggestion…

  960. Likely not, though good attempt. I don’t think so because of the nature of this group. While both the group and the adam are technology related. BICSI relates more to the infrastructure that is IT rather than devices like this.

  961. CPU hot plug is where one of the CPUs is disabled in non CPU intensive operations I believe.

  963. Hi All,

    I am still curious on the actual comparison of Pixel Qi vs e-ink (Pearl). I mean not from youtube, but actual person sees both screens.

    And I found some discussion here:
    http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=6620

    So, in conclusion, the pixel qi quality on e-paper mode still need to be improved.

    Any comments, please?
    Especially, from people who has seen both screen personally and compare it side by side (not from the youtube video, please, just personal experience).

    btw, keep up the good work Rohan… Waiting for the order page to show up… 🙂

    Thank you very much.

  964. Long time reader, first time poster 🙂

    I wanted to draw a quick comparison between NI and Dyson. Who really heard of Dyson before 2002? James Dyson saw that vacuum cleaners were designed poorly and he knew they could be improved. No one thought that a small no name start-up could go head to head with Hoover and other leading manufacturers and come out victorious. Thank you NI for not copying what others are doing, but instead blazing your own trail.

    Congratulations to the entire NI team for their hard work, visions and perseverance!

    BTW – Dyson owner for 7 years and it still hasn’t lost suction, even with 4 dogs!

    Swifty

  965. @Tarwinia – I believe that grenades are customarily thrown rather than run from, but the whole idea is a little silly, frankly. Who’s going to want to throw away – or run away from – their Adam?

    I do, however, like the idea of Soylent Green Energy.

  967. @Greg, a quick update for you.

    We’ve installed our WAG320N, left it running at 2.4 instead of going to 5.

    It is supporting our G devices (Windows 7 desktop, Windows 7 laptop, Windows XP laptop, 3 year old macbook pro, and a Nexus One mobile) and ready (as best we can tell) for adam.

    Its a modem/router, no setup problems, seems to be working ok.

    We’ll see. Maybe ask me in a few days to see if we’ve had any issues.

    Phillip (signing off to seem more personable)

  968. Also Rohan mentioned HD streaming from the camera meaning it is at least 720p capable. If you’ll notice all current phones are maxed out at 720p for video (it doesn’t matter if their cameras are 5 or 8MP).

  970. Just checked my Dell adapter. Its a bit proprietary so probably a different catagory, but its got CE and C-tick (Europe and specifically Australia, respectively) qnd my old Belkin modem/router’s power supply has the C-tick on it.

    I think they do have to have approval to be supplied, so I’m not sure about the standards issues there.

    Anyway that’s two devices in my house (Australia) that are approved, so I suspect it makes sense that they would need approval, although I can’t explain why you didn’t any on FCC website.

    Phillip

  971. i agree with you…a lot of these salesmen and dealers call it LED screens and project it better than LCD.. seen it a lot here..

    i guess there should be some kind of a nice brochure/pamphlet discussing all NI’s salient and stand out features that can be put on the website in a separate ‘download’ section. I am sure many people would love to print and share it with their friends and families. and can take it around when we go for any gadget shopping to compare it with other products in the market..

  972. @rohan
    Thanks very much for the update on release dates . Now i am assured that you guys will succeed. The part about launching at an event with lots of reach and publicity was spot on. Good job ni marketing team.
    + thanks herman for getting it out of rohan 😀

  973. @max3d and Tarwinia, I can assure you I understood his intentional meaning when he wrote the sentence “You see here the screen shot of the opening page of our photo editing cum paint application”. I can also assure you that Notion Ink did not know the unintended meaning of the sentence due to cultural differences.

    I am only looking to help with this product not to senselessly bash a CEO’s Grammar. I want this to succeed as much as anyone else. With the writing of his sentence I was not sure if the name of the program was called “Cum Paint” or if he just meant photo editing with paint application. This is not how we use the word Cum in America. Latin is a Dead language and we only use it when quoting Latin proverbs or as academic titles. I personally took 4 years of Latin to help me in medical school, I can tell you that an average american reading the word cum would not think of Latin as their first reference.

    These are very important barriers to address when producing products for customers in other companies…

  974. Well, he’s said previously that as soon as the FCC approves it it’ll be made available. As for price it HAS been mentioned here in a previous post as 498 for the 3G+Pixel Qi model, 448 for the 3G OR Pixel Qi model, and 398 for the LCD+wifi only model.

  975. “theoretically i am a native english speaker as most middle class south indians”

    That’s only a theory in India. 🙂

    but i still wonder why ‘middle class’.. ?????

    btw i guess there’s no need for us compare ourselves to the ‘native english’ ( again we do not know what’s native whether its UK or US English – We ( as in Indians) tend to mix up both these days…if we use a UK spelling people say u will not be taken in the US market ..and if we use US spelling, people say you gonna be ridiculed in the UK market… we can just be happy with our Indian English as long as we get the grammar correct…..

  977. how about this event?

    h**p://allthingsd.com/d/dive-into-mobile/

    It is highly anticipated that Google Mobile VP Andy Rubin will possibly release Android 2.3 (and Nexus S).

  978. As others said 1024×600 is used by other tablets, including the Galaxy Tab, which should make it easy to get apps that if nothing else make proper use of the screen.

    As for Angry Birds, that has nothing to do with the screen really, but with lower end processors and stuff. The dev is quoted in your linked article as saying the light version will be optimized for phones with less processing power. So far no phone/tablet has more processing power than the Tegra2. Eventually this will change as processors are always getting more powerful, but for now that’s not a danger.

  980. Rohan, please note that I would like a very comprehensive ebook app for my Adam…easy readability, text-to-speech, exhaustive dictionary and where we can easily look for the meaning of a particular word simply by double-clicking/right-clicking it.
    I am sure you wont disappoint. Keep up the great work!

  981. Comments there are 100% exactly the same as those that Pixel Qi chooses to put on its site, namely that for indoor reading you want transflective mode with the backlight turned up one or two notches. I mentioned this here before, about 3000 comments ago. I’m surprised you didn’t see it, wherever it is.

  982. looks good for android but doesn’t look like it has an exhibit portion, just a conference

  988. @Wouter Kapteijn

    >Any and all people who’ve been ahead of our time were either under appreciated, ridiculed or have gone unnoticed during their life…

    At first glance, that is a pretty bold statement. And even bolder is to generalize it ( especially when you write ‘any and all’).

    On the other hand, perhaps you are making this statement in a fit of enthusiasm.

  990. @Sowmya –

    No, it would be spectacularly inept for Rohan to appoint me, because the only thing I’d want would be an early Adam, and I’m quite content to wait. Well, food, he could pay me with that. But it would get cold in shipment. (Did he say he was waiting for FCC approval or FDA?)

    The truth is considerably more unattractive than you want to know. It has to do with phlegm.

  992. Andreu, no hi ha cap problema que siguis una mica (o molt) sarcàstic amb en gecko ja que el seu humor esta basat en això (i te un humor negre). Però tens raó, no s’entenc com sarcàstic el que has posat. I no pot ser però me he adonat en aquest moment que no havia activat el teclat en català per aquesta compte del ordinador…

    You’d like it gecko, they tend to have a dark sense of humor, and very compatible with yours from what I’ve seen. But he may still be a spy, a lot of the rest of Spain doesn’t quite like Catalonia for various reasons (their antagonism is well documented). Hopefully the adam will bring unity, if only on this blog at least 😉

    Espariz, no te preocupes, tu inglés no está nada mal y se entendió a la perfección. Desafortunadamente no te puedo ayudar en cuanto lo del español. Soy mexicano-canadiense y por lo tanto estoy más que satisfecho con seguir a Rohan aquí y a sus seguidores. Pero si entiendes lo que dicen sugiero que sigas aquí dado que es la fuente más legitima para actualizaciones y la gente es muy tolerante del inglés de los demás al menos que la persona sea ofensiva y grosera.

    みんな　を　わかります？

    Sorry, couldn’t resist making it a qudrilingual post.

    Merci beaucoup et bon nuit 😉

  994. APPLE trying to compete with NI’s swivel camera… and voila look at their innovation..
    (makes me laugh though)

    “China Daily News predicted that iPad 2 will be equipped with dual camera, one is in foreground, one another is in the back. This will compete with rival companies such as Samsung and RIM, who have both released their own PC tablets, the Blackberry PlayBook and Samsung Galaxy Tablet.”

  995. @Hermann,

    The only dates that we can believe are those communicated officially by Rohan. So far there have been no concrete dates announced and there may be very valid business reasons for it too, I don’t doubt the reasons, and after all he has to start generating revenue.

    Most of the folks here are speculating (and indulging in some wishful thinking) that once the binary countdown reaches 0, then it will be available either for pre-order or for purchase and everyone can have one for Christmas. This may very well happen (and I hope that it does), but in all likely hood I don’t think this will be case. Rather, I speculate that in best case only the pre-order will be available (and shipping in January to coincide with CES), and that the EAP folks will actually be able to license the device starting December (once the countdown reaches 0). This is assuming FCC / CE formalities are completed by that timeframe.

    I further speculate that Rohan will utilize the excellent media opportunity available at CES 2011 to announce the finished product along with his vision for it. This is something he should definitely think about doing.

    But my wishful thinking is that my speculation is incorrect and that ADAM will be available for purchase in December so that Santa can bring it for Christmas.

  996. see the problem/advantage with that is that u cant do gesture recognition with a vga webcam/u can get a really good cam for taking pictures with. i vote gesture recognition cause u really dont want to take pictures using a tablet. lol. I just imagined a japanese tourist with an adam hangign from his neck ;p. No offense to any japs meant

  997. It wasn’t being called “Cum Paint” (which would have either seemed uneducated or vulgar) but was meant to be “photo editing cum paint application”. The word wrapping separated it and honestly it would have been better off with the hyphens which are commonplace in that structure in the US (editing-cum-paint application). This is evinced by the fact that Rohan replaced the “cum” with a “+”.

    And it IS how you use the word in America, at least in academic circles or literary texts. Heck, I’ve seen it on American blogs without it causing any ruckus. The word “cum” is not just Latin, it is also English. Hell’s bells, I don’t know a lick of Latin except for the MOST BASIC phrases. Many of the Latin phrases used in Academia escape me and I end up having to look them up (only to forget them a fortnight later). Like I said, I agree that it could be problematic on the official web page (and recognize the possibility was unaware of its other nuances though they exist in other English speaking countries). But here in this blog, seeing as it was correctly employed, it should be fine. And technically you weren’t bashing his grammar but his semantics/vocabulary.

    And props to you for your Latin studies. I have always thought it would be helpful and wished it had been offered in my schools (it’s offered in my university but I literally have to jump through hoops to take it).

    Okay… diatribe over. Please take no offense. I think I need chocolate 😛

  998. You run away, then go back for it. And anyone foolhardy enough to try to steal it will be taken out by the discharge 😀

    And ah, Soylent Green, nutritiously delicious 😛

  1000. @gecho, read that at work only to realize a bunch of people were standing pointing their camera phones at me while i fell off the chair laughing!!!

  1001. wow really an awesome post as always rohan!
    I don’t really know what to think honestly!
    the Adam keep going better and better, but i can’t stop thinking about the ‘what if adam deceives us’. don’t read wrong i truely think this adam would be a top high ranking device among all of the other, i’m just afraid about waiting for something that as been delayed many times, as @greg says maybe it’s better not to rush to the market, but anyway.

    let’s wait for the 9th december and hope for a pre-order on which i’ll try to be in 🙂

    @rohan: by the way what about the ‘hidden features” ? 🙂

  1002. @ Gecko
    I suggest you to visit Catalonia, you will enjoy this beautiful place. 🙂

    Regarding Spanish language in Adam, if I’m not wrong I only asked about it once. Others post I have write were only to explain what European laws says about languages in consumers products. And with this I tried to show that it is not easy to “finish” a product due to several things a company has to do, not only soft and hard.

    I wish the best to Notion Ink with this product and for this reason I think they don’t need to be in a hurry, but yes do a perfect job. If not, I’m sure that a lot of people that are putting under pressure them, will make a complaint if the product doesn’t cover their expectations.

  1003. @Hermann,

    > And how do you decide if you don’t know how long to wait?

    I don’t know if you are being facetious, but here is my view point.

    If you have a very urgent need for a tablet like device, then you are better off buying an existing one in the market. In case of an urgent need it would be foolish to wait for a unreleased product for long IMHO, and I intend you no offense with this statement.

    If there is no current tablet that will satisfy your urgent needs and if ADAM is the only one that may, then I’m afraid you have no choice but to wait until it is released.

  1004. You mean double tap a word to get the meaning instantaneously. Sony Reader has this feature.

    I would like the Adam to be the Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader killer! It should also have a capable e-bookstore.

  1006. @Rohan
    I so wish Adam could be released at the following coming conference in SF, USA. Talk about bringing some true innovation into the mobile market. It would be great exposure in terms of audience and better reach out to media and bloggers. Well, the reality is those big shots would not like sth else to steal their thunders, though. And, FCC won’t be cleared so soon… 😦
    http://allthingsd.com/d/dive-into-mobile/

  1007. If it was released with unfinished software it would be no better than a dozen other android tablets, foremost the exo pc tablet

  1008. I can’t stop laughing at samsung’s galaxyTab pricing. Priced at laptop for 7″ tab not powerful than a netbook 😦

    PlayBook seems to have priced aptly (although $50-100 more).
    Adam is aptly priced I love its pricing and they can capture more at their pricing.

  1010. >a) I am not sure if EAP folks are being targeted as beta-testers. My understanding is that EAP is solely for the developer community. The beta-tester community should be much larger than EAP, IMHO, and include dem ‘muggles’ too.

    I don’t think there will be a bigger group available to beta test before launch, so either the EAP people help in beta test, the beta test group will be much smaller or they have to release the product with beta software

    >b) In one of his earlier blog posts Rohan has offerred his design team to support the developers. They can ensure the consistency of the UI without having to provide the full software suite.

    Nothing beat the real thing to get it to know… anyway in this comments section Rohan wrote “Hi, we are not spending time in creating apps. We are using the “time to launch” for developing them. They will go to the developers and they can build up-on them! Where else can you find examples of 1024×600 resolution apps for Android?
    “

  1011. @sowmya

    No debate . Its CES 2011 JANUARY (Rohan had given this information long time back when he said that the launch will be very “big”)

  1013. where’s this “Event” happening?
    a quick google search brings up nanotech at the ashok & an ayurveda thing happening in Bangalore (it could totally be outside the city), somehow i doubt its the ayurveda thing 😉
    I’d love to attend it…

  1014. @kinishiro

    >‘what if adam deceives us’

    If I were Rohan, that will be my” worst” insecurity. Hence I will take time and care to see that it doesnt fail. A good product sells itself.

  1017. Okay, I would hate to disappoint cosmic so….

    How DARE you!!!! YOU are not Alice. Sowmya is Alice. Gecko is obviously the Cheshire cat, Greg is the Red King. While I fill in for Queeny for this response (Hearts of course). OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!

    So do you feel like wonderland Alice, Looking Glass Alice, or Alice in Chains Alice?

    and yeah. It’s getting culty. It’s the anticipation just before release and stuff. I myself avoid part of it thanks to the fact that I am not sure HOW I am going to get it. So first it has to be announced and then I have to see the shipping/payment options and THEN I can see how much it’ll cost and how easily/quickly I can get it. That and I am willing to trudge through a thousand posts but not on a daily basis. Plus it’s not as if we have human sacrifices (other than the occasional offering to our resident carnivorous ferocious man-eating GECKO!!! Don’t look at it directly in its eyes, it has that adorable gecko look and will lull you into a false sense of safety.

    Oh, forgot to mention, Rohan’s obviously the White Rabbit 😉

  1020. The mystery sensor will likely be a Motion Sensor. A Motion Processor with Integrated 3-Axis Gyroscope, 3-Axis Accelerometer and 9-Axis Sensor Fusion will allow NI Adam to incorporate features such as image stabilization, motion gaming, gesture interface and shortcuts. Are there any tablets out there which can do them? Good Luck NI Team and keep ‘Moving On’ and ‘Transform’ the marketplace.

  1022. I didn’t order a sample device (sadly) because NI didn’t respond in time to my questions. They still haven’t actually and I am kinda getting annoyed. Still looking forward to releasing my app ideas onto Genesis luckily.

  1023. Hey Rohan, Adam has lot many features and functionalities. What about speech recognition applications, like text to speech and speech to text. Bye the way, we all are dying to hold Adam in our hands. Great post with lot of info.

    Keep going.

  1024. @Abhirup

    >I would like a very comprehensive ebook app for my Adam…easy readability, text-to-speech, exhaustive dictionary and where we can easily look for the meaning of a particular word simply by double-clicking/right-clicking it.

    And would you like to have fries with that? Would you like to have it here or to-go?

    Seriously dude, folks here are concerned / desperate / antsy to get the product out and it is late to start providing requirements or making demands.

  1026. Good morning here in Spain! Did you see the video with the Adam app for comic (in collaboration with LongBox)?

    h**p: // www. youtube.com/watch?v=qLLMnu1x2YE&feature=player_embedded

    I like it very much, it has the “style” of NI, the Genesis UI is going to be very beautiful if all apps maintain this style… Congratulations again to André and the rest of designers at NI team!!

    And here a video of an actual Pixel Qi with improved angles, will the Adam take this new Pixel Qi in first units Rohan? Thanks!!

  1027. here what i got from word press when i try to see the blog

    “Gosh Darnit!!!

    We just got a “408 error” which means the website is overloaded.
    We are working to fix this as soon as possible, please check back in a few minutes.”

    hahahhahaha!

    regards

    —

    Pj

  1028. @Gopaal text to speech/speech to tex , etc. are software and google already produce bunch of it for android so all you need is to install it on your adam 😉 so the answer is yes and this time thanks to google :-P!

    cheers,

    —

    Pj

  1029. @rohan
    thank you man for caring and reading all these post also for replyin the same things again and again…..u r really great……may be in future i buy only ur products simply bcoz of the faith in u…….adam and all other products from NI will be a huge success ..
    one funny thin, My girlfriend is always scolding me for sitting with the blog (except the time i sleep)…..so hard time at home… simply cant do without reading it…..and spend lot of time in office(RB) reading ….hope they wnt kick me out….

  1031. @ VB
    Maybe you missed this comment by Rohan himself…
    “Rohan Shravan said, on November 27, 2010 at 18:57
    Hi, we are not spending time in creating apps. We are using the “time to launch” for developing them. They will go to the developers and they can build up-on them!”
    So did I demand too much? Was it SO out of context? Have some fries and stop being so antsy. Thanks.

  1032. Here’s a question that no one has asked before (probably)

    How many ADAMs an individual will be allowed to purchase?
    Will there be a upper limit per individual?
    Might sound funny but I am asking this coz I am planning to buy more than one for my family and I am aware about company (well known) putting limit on ther device.

  1033. Wow ! 1000 comments and thus far only 14 of those from Greg. In the previous blog’s comments, Eric complained that Greg posted too many comments. Greg, did you take his complaint to heart? C’mon. Eric, bring Greg back.

  1034. Also, my wife wants an app where she can flip pages by just thinking about it, but till we get there, she would settle for gesture recognition.

  1035. The irony, naturally, is that you may very well be more likely to get an ADAM in the US than in India.

  1038. @tarwinia

    🙂

    Oh.. yeah i was once the alice who got attracted to the specs of Adam and into the fantasy land.. But i guess i am still sane…i never intended to buy an ipad in the first place, ADAM’s specs demanded attention and tot it would make a great addition. i am in no hurry. I am an admirer of NI. And this blog interested me more from an academic side rather than the cult image it is having now. Its nice to learn how consumers react (incl my own), emotional ups and downs over a product, occasional treasure hunts( well i am too tired of this game and hunt) just some fun, that’s all. i don’t want to bring emotions into decisions. it’s been long time since i read thro all posts, i do a lot of ctrl+F these days…

    btw.. Cheshire cat – Gecko good take..
    queen of hearts – show mercy to the white rabbit… 😉

    well of course Rohan is the white rabbit, hope this is not just a fantastic dream…

  1039. Totally. A mere 10% of India’s billion people speaks English fluently. We have one of the world’s most diverse profusion of scripts; there’s so much knowledge and communication within those squiggles. You won’t meaningfully attack the digital divide unless you move computing to Devnaagri (Hindi, Marathi, Konkani and Sanskrit), Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Gurmukhi, Bengali, Meitei etc etc

  1040. I’d appreciate if there is a task list(with due date) which can link to the calendar so I can plan for the week ahead and the task list/ check list will be truly handy.

  1042. Alright folks, I’ve figured it out. It’s some way to enable mouse-hovering on a tablet. Here’s why I think it is:-
    a) The device supports mice, so it has an underlying support for hovers already.
    b) No tablet in the market has this feature.
    c) The canvas app has layers, which gets better with hovering.
    d) The main stopping factor for getting “regular” Flash (not mobile Flash) on tablets is mouse-hovers.

    Now, it need not necessarily be a Kinect-style 3d controller; a Wacom-style inference (or whatever) thing would do. It’s simple enough that it can be done cheap – there’s a Wacom tablet that has display and this hovering thing built-in that goes for about US$500 – but intricate enough to be a market-differentiator.

    Finger-hovering is where this is at. Remember folks, you heard it here first.

  1043. Yes, Terry Pratchett = awesomeness. I’m Belgian, yet Pratchett got me into English literature during my teen years 🙂

  1045. It is not an innovation, the iPhone also has dual cams.
    You are missing the point that dual cams have: a different usage scenario.
    Also, making parts movable always means they are more prone to breaking, so the real question is whether Notion Ink manages to create nice usage scenarios for the swivelcam (which I think they did) and whether or not it is prone to break. (Let’s hope it won’t!)

    These are the (more likely) rumours on the iPad2:
    – It will have a better screen (perhaps retina display) which will be a lot thinner
    – It will support videocalling (with fast switch between front cam and back cam, like on iPhone4)
    – It will have a carbon fiber backplate (looks cool and the device will be lighter, but still very strong.)

    This device will most probably be on market the end of Q1 2011, since we know that mass production is starting in jan/feb 2011. The combination of the lighter, thinner device with an aggressive marketing campaign will make a lot of less-educated people choose a iPad2.

    I don’t see this at something to laugh at; I think it is something to worry about.
    A wrong launchdate for the Adam could really make a difference for sales.

  1046. Another patent about “Back Trackpad”, this time is Sony…

    h**p://www.engadget.com/2010/11/28/sony-fires-barrage-of-touchscreen-patent-applications-only-one/

  1047. I think this is just an IT firm giving a small conference. The schedule for the conference is tiny, and consists of a one day program where a few people are talking. I suspect the attendance to be around 500-1000 people

    It does not compare to something as CES, CEBiT or the Mobile World Conference. These are the events where tens of thousands of people from the industry go to every year to see what devices are new and upcoming.

    If you want do do an international launch you either have a private pressconference and make sure that there are some tech bloggers / tech journalists invited – or you have an event at a well known show.

    Just my two cents as a IT network technician, who regularly has to go to stuff like CEBiT.

  1049. @E de klerk
    >and voila look at their innovation..

    this was purely sarcastic…. (considering the tablet market and they just incorporate the one that iphone has into ipad ) I am not gecko to frame it in such a witty language….

    well having dual cameras is certainly not a good solution. !
    on swivel – we will wait and watch..

  1050. To be honest, whilst the Adam is very frustrating, it is only so because it will be amazing, and whilst people seem to think that no information should have been released, but by holding this blog, although Rohan has frustrated some of his customer base, he has also go A LOT of feedback on the Adam, and so will be able to make a better device in the end; even if we all want it badly now… and im sure Rohan would tell us expected dates etc, if he was allowed to by his investors…

  1051. Hi,
    Could one of the features been developed also include using it as a universal remote control for multiple gadgets in house. i am looking it at as a media center control.
    Also will we get drivers for wireless keyboards???

    And lastly just give a date of its release , full and final, even if it is next year, but just deliver on this one.

  1052. Wirklich? wo studierst du denn? Open Office ist an meiner Uni quasi nicht verbreitet, nur Microsoft Office.

  1054. @Abhirup,

    No, I did not miss that comment. Rohan has clearly expressed that they only plan to provide foundation for some of the stuff, but the expectation is that the developer community builds atop this.

    So instead of making your demands to Rohan, you should have made a general request to the EAP folks or anyone else who is interested in developing for ADAM. So yes, it is not in context as far as addressing Rohan.

  1055. agh bumptop,

    i have this program for pc, if properly executed, (which i think it will be by Google) is an amazing piece of software, which is amazing for touchscreen, too bad no one has heard anything from them since they were bought out.

  1056. what is the final Viewing angles (degrees) of the panel screen that will be implement on adam?

  1058. I know asking to port Blender-3D to adam is too much. But I see Adam+Ubuntu+Blender as a very very good bet.

  1059. @rohan & @sunil
    i noticed the same thing, 3g and gprs are cropped, mainly because of the css (botnavlinks, height) the height should be 115 (and not 105)

    also doing that reveals that the text for the processor is “dual core nvidea tegra 2 processor” & not “dual core nvidea tegra 2”

  1060. Why are the number of responses less today? Wheres Greg, Sowmya, gecko, Phillip, et al?

    Rohan, any update about releasing the SDK to non EAP developers?

    Even if an emulator is not ready, is it possible at least to get some documentation so that people like me can at least have an idea? I would like to contribute some small apps in my free time.
    (I am sure Rohan will chose to ignore this, still :))

  1061. Why are the number of responses less today? Wheres Greg, Sowmya, gecko, Phillip, et al?

    Rohan, any update about releasing the SDK to non EAP developers?

    Even if an emulator is not ready, is it possible at least to get some documentation so that people like me can at least have an idea? I would like to contribute some small apps in my free time.
    (I am sure Rohan will chose to ignore this, still :))

  1062. This blog and approach from NI is a PR nightmare. Luckily NI is a small timer and new on the market, however I expect them to get a kick in the groint. This is way of marketing is too idealistic. Even though I totally love their approach personally, in the world that we live in you’re going to be fed to the lions.

  1063. I think enough questions are already being about actual release date, EAp… etc and Rohan has answered all that he could.

    So at-least for me now its time to just wait and see for some announcements in near future. Till then we can wait patiently. 🙂

  1064. @Zach,

    I don’t know where are you from, but if you are american or european I have to say that your chargers are illegal because they don’t carry on with the respective laws (FCC / CE). All chargers must be approved the same as the battery in case you can unmount it (notebooks battery for example). If the battery is fixed (iPad for example) certification is not needed, but in this case if you need a new one you will need to send the tablet to a service center. Obviously Notion will purchase already certified chargers to his supplier but Notion has to check that the tablet work properly using it and the battery and charger system don’t reach a dangerous temperature for users.
    External chargers can be multiple voltage or not, switched or linear, etc. I mean there are several types with a different range of prices.

    Since, the tablet has wifi, 3G and bluetooth, it has to pass some radiation tests, as well as EMC and LVD tets.

  1065. @lxt11 and @Hermann

    This is my first post here. I’ve been following Notion Ink for 1 year and from the first posting in this blog.

    Based on the timing and Rohan Shravan’s reply to @Hermann, I definitely think that this product will be launched at All Things D conference in San Francisco. This event is hosted by WSJ’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and has big time media coverage. Google Android VP Andy Rubin will also most likely be launching Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) at this event.

  1066. Many companies buy complete power supplies to include with their devices.

    PS: AFAIK power supplies do not have to be certified by FCC however they must the comply with part 15 J class A or B limits on radiated and conducted noise of the FCC.

  1068. There was a time ..i used to read all articles in engadget,gizmodo etc…and refresh them continuosly to check any new info…
    But from past 2 months….i was more intrested in comments of this blog rather than news in them….i wanna this product as soon as it releases…..rohan please try to make it release in India alongwith US….

  1069. less.. !!! ???
    hmm a culty image as developed so no one wants to get into the vortex… everyone restrained basically…nothin much to discuss till the next official announcement…
    Greg – enjoying his thanksgiving week with his family
    Philip – i assume the same thing
    Gecko- he has left his foot prints all over the blog…he has gone into hibernation ( well technically Gecko’s don’t fully hibernate, they get into a state of brumation – semi hibernation – so u can expect him again in the night – IST)
    I am planning on a hibernation.. (i guess i can )

  1071. I too personally agree…..but if you are in for longterm…this is the right approach….

    And also….this way you will be a satisfied person……

  1072. May be if Rohan wants the date to point to one of tesla’s inventions or achievements, on that date, some other scientists could have been born.

    If the code didn’t point to Tesla’s b’day we might not have even guessed (correctly?) that the sensor is related to tesla…

    Rohan i have to thank you from the bottom of my heart…. If you din put the code there, i won’t even have learnt about this great scientist who defined our lives.

  1073. Jai,

    Since it is Android based you should be able to start working on the core of your application and do rough UI wireframes based on the images released in previous blogs.

    I personally have started work by using my phone and getting a bunch of the stuff that should not change such as all the database setup and handling interaction with service APIs.

    If you are not planning on being a Genesis only app then just start building using the Android SDK and emulator and focus on everything with the intentions of porting it to ADAM

    So far I have been able to tackle a few issues would need to be handle regardless of platform Android, Adam, iPad, playbook or etc.

  1077. @Pavan – I am not really worried about the release date of the product. I was wondering whether some basic documentation (with no gecko-check too!) was available for starting my thought process.

    @pheback – Thanks. I guess I will start with Android SDK and the emulator then. Anyway, I am not planning anything on the commercial scale at this point.

  1078. @Nishit

    🙂 that’s called cognitive computing!! I think by the time is the trend, we will be wearing cerebral adam implants?!!!!

  1079. May be if Rohan wants the date to point to one of tesla’s inventions or achievements, on that date, some other scientists could have been born.

    If the code didn’t point to Tesla’s b’day we might not have even guessed (correctly?) that the sensor is related to tesla…

    Rohan i have to thank you from the bottom of my heart…. If you dint put the code there, i won’t even have learnt about this great scientist who defined our lives.

  1080. @hermann

    hey dude… I would say that Rohan is innocent here…. Ask the FCC guys and the CE guys to give a definite date for when they would give Adam their respective approval certificates and then NI can give their solid release date… it might be the next day after NI recieve the certs… patience …. which idiot in the right mind would want ipad or other tabs even after seeing Adam’s features?

  1081. Well, that means that i cant take a video of a lecture and at the same time write down notes in another panel in ipad, which i can do in adam by simply swiveling the camera 90 degrees… pity the ipad2 owners…

  1082. @rohan

    I recently checked the hindu calander, it says that dec 9 is a very auspicious day… it says sathuthi as well as suba mugurtham… (that means its an auspicious day in tamil). Is this the reason why you chose this date for the ‘something special’? let me help u further if u believe in this thing… auspicious time on dec 9 (IST): 10:45-11:45 and 1215-1315. check with a priest if u want….

    You said u are gonna stay for centuries… tat means i can share with my grand children tat i was part NI’s making (i am a teenager now)…. pls dont delete this blog… hope adam is available is singapore asap…

    (if u have read this pls reply with a smiley…)

  1083. You are right Wouter. On one side I find this way of communicating with the Notion Ink addicts and other (normal) people on this blog endearing, on the other side it seems like an unprofessional approach. Perhaps because we are used to the killer mentality and secrecy of Apple?

    I do hope that they can deliver what on paper looks like a fantastic tablet.

  1084. D5720A80

    Is that Down 5720, Across 80? Like in a crossword puzzle?

    Curiouser and curioser!

  1085. @Marius

    Excellent idea, perhaps Rohan and team have already thought about it. If not, then they should.

    Even if not at the hardware level (motorising it), at least you could have an app that will merge the stills taken at different stops while rotating the camera manually.

  1086. The point is not that i want to know leak the information, the point is that if the information has leaked, it is quite suprising that none of us seem to have seen any bit of it…..

    i know i personally google adam and ni several times a day and would have surely come across it by now

  1087. just wondering what would be the outcome if we ‘feed’ all the guesses/hints/data from this blog to google hunch? I wouldnt be surprised if it says Adam is getting married on Dec 9th and the other code is the barcode for his fiance’s ring

  1088. dear Rohan,

    I dont think u wud mind this but something I can spot ^^

    in tech specs –
    “Bonus mystery feature ;)” being italic the smiley falls in it as well,
    and it looks as if the smiley is gone evil 😀

    and anything about our discount? please… 🙂

    harun

  1089. fast fast waiting for this baby……………………………………………….to touch

  1090. Rohan,

    Hope you are reading this… I am Indian and an ex iPhone user.
    I really adore the adam and have waited since june for this device.
    Back in august I even went ahead and sold my Acer laptop off.

    I wouldnt usually go with a start up but since this start up is Indian I wanna do this.
    But dude, for months no date? As of now, thanks to some cryptic messages I am expecting something (orders/pre-orders) to happen by 7dec.

    I really dun wanna go with the iPad(being an ex iPhone user I hate apple’s propreitary BS) but if by dec end I don’t have so much as a confirmed launch date I would be forced to go with the iPad.

    I really appreciate what you are doing and am doing my best to support you by spreading the word evey chance I get, promising you to buy your product without so much as reading a review online (Go INDIA!) and waiting for over 4 months(3 months without even a laptop). Add the probable incompatibility of the ADAM with android 3.0 (due to screen res.)
    I really don’t think asking for a solid release update is too much.

    ONE UPDATE ROHAN CONFIRMING A RELEASE DATE THATS ALL I ASK! GIMME THAT AND I WILL WAIT.

    P.S I know in all probability, my comments going to go unread but if there are others who feel this way please leave comments…. One comment can go ignored, may be even a 100 but a thousand? lets get a release update!

  1092. Same here! i find myself checking this blog over and over again. Hope for shipment to switzerland at release date…

  1094. I can’t see the Adam in my hands until next year… no problem I’ll look for another Xmas gist for myself.

  1095. > But my wishful thinking is that my speculation is incorrect and that ADAM will be available for purchase in December so that Santa can bring it for Christmas.

    FWIW, I agree about CES, and it seems from Rohan’s answer to Her[r]Mann that he’s not 100% sure about even that (awaiting FCC cert, maybe?). Jan 6 is, incidentally, the Epiphany, when the Magi brought gifts to the baby Jesus. If you think you’re better than baby Jesus, then by all means hound Rohan to get you your present sooner.

    I hope, hope, hope that it’s not going to be distributed at Christmas in the US because there’s no way that the TSA would let Santa fly with those things.

  1096. With all due respect I think you are totally wrong.

    On the contrary this is the future of communication. The old approach, ie a big, anonymous corp keeping you in dark, telling you what to do, what to buy, leaving you with very little to relate to, locking you in, trying to lock ideas in, THAT is the old world.

    Look around you. This comments section is in itself proof. 2,5 million hits and counting. With people actually caring for, (loving?:) NI and Rohan, not just being consumers. THIS my friend, is marketing genious. And it is genious because it is NOT just percieved as marketing. It is real communication with real people.

    Think about it. Its Closed vs Open. Anonymous vs Personal. Lock in vs Freedom. Authoritarian vs Equal. And if I would make comparisons to society in general (and why wouldnt I, the business world is a part of society. It should be based on the same values as society) its Dictatorship vs Democracy.

    What is proffesional? I think this approach is much more proffesional than eg Apple’s and other big corp’s paranoia and disrespect for their customers.

  1097. > tat means i can share with my grand children tat i was part NI’s making (i am a teenager now)

    Whoa, you’ve been working fast. My regards to your kids and grandkids.

  1098. It occurs to me that Greg might have scruples about posting when he doesn’t have anything to say. I can’t help noticing that this didn’t occur to you.

    your very truly,
    gecko, a nasty lizard

  1099. Kay, don’t switch to Antragon’s university just to use Open Office, since that’s in the process of imploding (google for “libre office”)

  1100. Jayanth, just FYI, the term you used in your last sentence is considered offensive in English. It was last widely used during World War II, before we bombed them into becoming our friends.

  1101. from pixel qi website..could this be the hidden feature..

    “Have you ever wanted an extra reading screen for your laptop – one that could be plugged in via USB (or wirelessly driven) when you need the extra screen real estate, or need to show someone else screen information? Of course, this extra screen would need to be small & light enough to carry, very low power, offer crisp text for good reading and be readable in any light – even in sunlight

    Today we announce such a solution, the Display Solutions d-screen-Qi10. Display Solutions AG has developed the d-screen-HYBRID driver board which has been combined with the low power, sunlight readable Pixel Qi 10” screen. This module can be plugged into a laptop (or even some phones) via USB for easy access to a second screen. Even better, you can skip the cables completely and use this second screen via wireless-USB: meaning the data is sent to the screen wirelessly and the screen runs on batteries alone.”

    http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/

  1102. Rohan,

    Do you have any ideas currently for how your customer care department with field calls / issues with the units after they have shipped?

    Have read some reviews regarding the Viewsonic tablet devices where their support department has gone missing and not available for calls/refunds/support.

    I’m sure details you have regarding this won’t make your board meeting partners mad…

  1103. @ Tarwinia:

    かなだけ？

    I raise you one – dwy sy’n gallu chwarae y gêm hon ond ychydig diflas ydy e, and any of the Indians could run circles around us, anyway.

  1104. Sooooo…..time for more bored speculations. D5720 is a ASTM measurement standard for ” Standard Practice for Static Calibration of Electronic Transducer-Based Pressure Measurement Systems”. A8 is a paper size.

  1105. Hi all,
    Do you think that there are any chances i could get an adam before Dec 24th in Europe?
    Thx

  1106. @Sowmya, I feel there is one more possibility. The back trackpad has been replaced, rather upgraded to something new, something more which might turn out to be the mystery feature….

  1107. Here it is another day. What is the first thing I do? Go directly to the blog and look for more interesting things about Adam. Do we have it bad or what! December will be a long month for children and those who await Adam

  1110. i really enjoy reading the posts and i am extremely excited regarding the release.

    its very pleasing and fulfilling to see you working so hard and passionately on your baby, please keep it up and take your time, we don’t need another iphone4 saga again 🙂

    all the best! waiting to hear much more 🙂

  1112. doubtfull. Keep fingers crossed.
    We have not heard anything about FCC yet. I would guess a formal launch at CES.

  1113. It is good to know someone noticed I’ve been gone a bit during the past few days.

    Even though Notion Ink and the Adam are very high priorities for me, my job and family have monopolized a bunch of my time. And we got dumped on (lots of snow) so I have had to spend hours digging myself and my neighbors out.

    And like gecko suggested, I didn’t have a whole lot to comment on.

    Plus I got tired of waiting for my Adam so I’ve been really busy building my own adam using parts from an Alphi, Lite Brite, and Atari 2600 (showing my age now). I’m trying to decide what to add for the secret sensor… 😉

  1114. Just another first-time poster. 60 yr old granny lurking for this past year eagerly anticipating release of adam. I’ll use this device to help consolidate all the loose ends and bits and pieces of detritis that complicates my life.

    Many thanks to all of you who contribute regularly to this site. I’ve learned so much about technology and possibilities for the future. I’ve learned even more about human nature! As much as I would love to have adam in my hands ASAP, I’m most concerned about product support. If I open the box, press the button and nothing happens, I’m hoping I can send it somewhere or contact someone for help.

    So Rohan and team, thanks so much for what you’ve created and described so far. Just take the time it takes and I’ll be happy to purchase a product that fulfills your/my dreams!

    Cheryl (in little town of Cool, CA, USA)

  1115. @Nishit your wife’s app request has inspired me…

    I’d like an app that reads my wife’s mind and tells me what she is thinking, and how best to answer her questions so I don’t get into trouble! 😉

  1116. @Jai

    We (Greg, Sowmya, gecko, Phillip, et al) were all visiting with Rohan at the NI lab. He flew us over there (well Sowmya was already in India) for a special viewing of the adam. So not only do we now know what the secret sensor is, but Rohan was nice enough to give us all a free adam to take home with us. We’ve been really busy playing our our new adams and have not had time to comment here in the forums. Oh, and then I woke up and realized I was dreaming again!

    BTW: gecko’s avatar is his real photo! Seriously, he looks just like that when you meet him in person…

  1118. interesting how the smiley is actively being sought these days…. Rohan should not only be credited with the Adam but also for bringing this new culture/tradition of fans seeking smileys instead of autographs!

    @Rohan while you are at it why dont you file a patent for ‘your smiley’ too! may be add a unique color to distinguish it from others?

  1119. Hey Guys,

    I am thinking that we suggest Rohan, that whenever NI comes out with pre-order for Adam, they first post the link on this blog for 2-5 hours which will give chance to their loyal followers to order first and then they put the link on the their website. What do you say?

    Anshuman

  1120. +1 🙂 – We need the chance to pre-order early for having followed religiously over the last year. Please Rohan, get your investors & lawyers to say “YES” to this …. 🙂

  1121. I would like to ask those you mentioned to please stop posting so much. No offense, but i’m sure most would like to keep the comments toward Adam and NI. I doubt the usual returns care about other posters. Gearing off track like this makes new comers have to look all over for real info mentioned. No need to post 20 times and the childish ‘first’. We’re all excited, but good things require patience. Lastly, I see a lot of questions asked that have already been answered weeks ago. So that’s a good indication that most people don’t read most of what Rohan writes half the time anyways. Thanks

  1122. I didn’t actually!
    Which bit ?
    The albatross reference ?
    or the Jap instead of Japanese ?
    cheers
    jayanth

  1123. Dear Rohan, Dear all,
    here an intersting article from geek.com! 😉

    http :/ /www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/notion-inks-black-friday-weekend-puzzle-rekindles-buzz-releases-new-features-20101129/

    (don’t forget to remove white spaces!)

    regards

    —

    Pj

  1125. 100% agreed. In many ways, this open communication has helped NI also in improving Adam. I think even if media takes anything out of context and publishes non-factual stories, their are legions of fan who will be ready to respond and counteract that. And this is only because of this democratic and open dialog which has endeared people to NI. In my opinion this display of emotion and candid opinion by Rohan is very refreshing and it feels personal. But finally at the end of the day, NI will be judged by its product and not anything else. So all these things can come to a nought if product is bad. But I will at any given day take this approach rather then a closed, gimmicky, paranoa filled big corp approach.

  1126. 100% agreed. In many ways, this open communication has helped NI also in improving Adam. I think even if media takes anything out of context and publishes non-factual stories, their are legions of fan who will be ready to respond and counteract that. And this is only because of this democratic and open dialog which has endeared people to NI. In my opinion this display of emotion and candid opinion by Rohan is very refreshing and it feels personal. But finally at the end of the day, NI will be judged by its product and not anything else. So all these things can come to a nought if product is bad. But I will at any given day take this approach rather then a closed, gimmicky, paranoia filled big corp approach.

  1127. I’m beginning to wonder whether – D5720A80 – is the part no. of the “Bonus mystery feature”, as it links to the Tech Specs page…. Also the binary clock is ticking down … 🙂

    Anticipation is growing…

  1128. Been following for a while now, and I usually keep my comments at notionsaddicts because of how long it take to load all of these comments, but I’m curious….Just a thought that came to my head…..

    Tesla had experimented, and was a firm believer, in many, many “wacky” ideas that look more like reality today. He was huge into electricity (obviously). Now let’s take that thought and look at practicality with a tablet…

    I read over a comment about induction where someone had gone through and found some scattered patents of sort.

    Is it possible that the ADAM will contain a kind of inductive charging system? Or maybe something similar to the PowerMat or Duracell’s new charging pad? That’s a definate “I want” in my tablet.

    Please forgive me if someone already mentioned it, it’s hard to keep up with all these comments.

  1129. My pet project: advertising the soon-to-be-released #android tab #NotionInk #Adam using ipads in shops! 🙂

    http://twitpic.com/3bc6fm

    I went to a couple of local shops and I played with the ipads and galaxy tabs on display and I left them like this:

    http://twitpic.com/3bcdcz

    Hehe… just raising awareness here in the UK! Like Tesco (big supermarket in the UK) says: every little helps!

  1130. Just something I’ve been thinking for the last week. I’m under the impression that the countdown would not be related directly to a release or preorder launch, but more practically (considering where we are in the release timeline) a countdown to an official announcement. We haven’t had one yet and I don’t really see preorders happening until that takes place. With that said, preorders could immediately (or a day, two or even a week later) take place. Just a thought. Of course I would be ok with this scenario too. With an official announcement we could expect to see the real deal in video, in stills and possibly hands on. Who knows.

  1131. Interesting article : http://www.technewsworld.com/story/2011-The-Year-of-the-Tablet-Wars-71317.html. Quote from the article : “The second generation of tablets won’t require the sacrifices of the first. You had to pick a good multimedia experience or a good read — you couldn’t just say you wanted both in one device and not get laughed at. Next year, the laughter stops and the Notion Ink Adam is the first product to stop it. 2011 will be the year of tablet wars, and we haven’t seen anything yet.”

  1132. Uh, Greg, you didn’t mention the lunch Rohan bought us, and you completely disregarded the NDA, so now you have to lose your lunch. Come on, cough up the spicy tongue.

    > he looks just like that when you meet him in person…

    not exactly in *person*

  1133. @gecko

    Dont think so, 2 reasons.
    1. incandescent lamps dont mess with the wii remote no reason for the sun to mess with it.
    2. otherwise sunlight would mess with your tv remote too :), ie u cant use it when the sun is falling on the sensor at the tv.

  1135. Phew, I am glad I am not american,
    you guys seem to have issues with pretty much every other word out there.
    u cant even describe a car’s colour,etc. etc.

    h**p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
    What you meant doesn’t hold true for most of asia 🙂

  1138. @jayanth,

    Nintendo itself says on their website:

    “Please note that the higher the sensitivity setting, the more sensitive the Sensor Bar becomes to sunlight and various light sources. This may impact the operation of the Wii Remote. The initial recommended distance for using the Wii Remote Pointer is 3 to 8 feet from the Sensor Bar.”

  1139. Come on, give them a break. They are giving us all the info they can atm. Don’t be like a spoiled child.
    The release date will come when it comes, at least we can wait for the “binary clock” to end.. 9th of Des something will happen. Hoping for something great, a release date perhaps?
    I think Rohan is doing a great job, he is probably giving us more info than we should know at this moment.
    try to be patient =)

  1140. Fellow Knights who say NI,
    As hedges are getting a bit long in the tooth,
    We propose to ask for a NI adam instead.

    NI NI NI NI NI
    😛

    love john cleese

  1141. I like this trend… we should all consider ourselves:

    “The Knights who say NI”!

  1146. Hi Rohan
    Please get the Adams tested on fonts of BBC Hindi, Danik Jagran, Navbharat times, Punjab kesri, Hindustan times. Takhti type of hindi Unicode editor will be great ,if possible
    Thanks

  1147. @jaynath, not just American. Teh wiki:

    > In the United States and Canada, the term is now considered derogatory; the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary notes it is “usually disparaging”.[5] In the United Kingdom it is considered derogatory, and the Oxford dictionary defines it as offensive.[6]

    I can describe my car’s color, though. It’s “shiitake brown.” The previous car, a 1968 Plymouth Valiant, was more of a problem. Had to register it somewhere for something, I forgot what, but the clerk took a look at it and wrote down the color as “faded.”

  1148. In the morning, even before my coffee
    During lunch time at the office
    In the train going home
    After putting my kids to sleep
    Before going to bed

    And a few times in between….

  1150. @Anshuman,

    This is been gently requested/suggested a number of times; still a great idea, IF the investors and Rohan agree. Would certainly gain them a lot of advertising momentum.

  1151. The only thing missing is the price displayed on the front page of notionink then the first photo would be epic

  1153. Yep, if Adam sucks I wont buy one. But I still will hold a place in my heart for NI because of this. Sort of like an old relative you dont see so much anymore 🙂

    Im just sayin I prefer this way of communication to the “proffessional” alternatives.

    Keep on rockin everbody.

  1154. Communication builds better ideas, better products, better corporations and better understanding worldwide. Anyone genuinely interested in Adam and NI has been reading ALL of what Rohan writes, All the time 🙂

  1156. Hi Rohan

    based on the above information- you must have used “TCB – Expediting the process”. If not – talk to FCC and ask can you add TCB now? because that gives definite advantage of 4-6 WEEKS of time.

    (I know it is a very obviuos advice! Just making sure that you have done that. )

    yours
    shiva

  1157. Certainly, no offense taken, and no offense intended … but for my part, I’ve learned more reading ALL the comments on this blog than I could have imagined, and a little entertainment along the way. While the focus remains Adam and NI and should be, once we dissect each weekly post, there’s little else to discuss while we wait; the additional posts, info and entertainment keeps interest and excitement building WHILE WE WAIT for the excellent product we hope Rohan will bring us soon. Just my thoughts …

  1158. Reality: Catching up on real deadlines and work, put off due to Thanksgiving holidays in U.S., added to the distraction/addiction of reading Rohan’s news and blog and exercising patience …

    Not nearly so much fun as Greg’s dream though! Sounds to me like we’re going to need an Indian cooking section on the Adam forum someday, so we can all experience the “Spicy Tongue” 🙂

  1159. hmm I sold my car a year in advance anticipating the launch of Mahindra Bolero in the US and now I walk everywhere everyday….cursing mahindra for not yet marketing the car here….I don’t care even if the date is 2 years away just want a date when it will be available….will happily walk keep walking everywhere thinking about it and chanting Go India ….Acting totally ridiculously for a product not yet in development with misplaced patriotism? is totally not stupid.

  1160. Are the fingertips actually touching the screen in the “multi-touch” screen shot a few posts back? The one with the tracklines and the blue circles under the fingertips?

  1161. I didn’t have anything valuable to say either … and am gone now, searching the attic for the Lite Brite parts !

  1162. @gecko

    > there’s no way that the TSA would let Santa fly with those things

    Do you think Santa will prefer being groped (ho ho ho lads it tickles) or will prefer being irradiated ? 🙂

  1165. Please tell me that Adam will recognize hard drives that use the HFS+ file system? Please? Pretty, please?

  1166. You don’t have to worry about theft of your Adam, it can be tracked anywhere in the world with just a code.
    Or at least that was what i read a long time ago.

  1167. forgive me if i didn’t read all the posts but does anyone know where we can buy once this is released? Can i get in line?

    If ship dates were Dec 9 there would be more news. I think dev’s only or the actual date will be published.

    But for realz, I (like most of you) have been waiting for what feels like all year for this bad boy. gimme gimme gimme!!!

    anyone, Bueller?!?!

  1168. I remember reading that too. I hope we have access to track our adams on a map ourselves and don’t have to contact Notion Ink to have them tell us where it is, etc.

    It would be nice if we could have all the functionality of this product built into the adam. Like being able to remotely access the webcam to see who is using it or where it is. Remote lock/wipe, etc.

    Apple just made some functionality like that free on iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. (That’s totally unlike them to make it free.) I can now see where my kid’s iPod Touch 4G’s are, lock or wipe them remotely, send a message to them and have them play a sound.

    Anything to help keep track of where devices are (or where my kids are) is pretty cool.

  1169. They have the email addresses of all of the people who have registered here and on the NotionAddicts forum, those who submitted an image for the Logo Contest, and the EAP applicants. An email invitation would be a very thoughtful gesture.

  1170. If your speculation is correct, then an fair extrapolation of it could be that Google will have a part to play in NI’s announcement. This would be keeping in line with the earlier rumor that ADAM was a ‘G-tablet’. Further, maybe ADAM will already ship with Gingerbread as the base platform?

  1171. Oh, by the way, Mr Snake, if I say “eat me,” I mean it as an expression of contempt, and you’re not to take it literally.

  1172. Sure, his comment on typography was inspired by the fact that Steve Jobs was always proud of the typography that he and his mac have give the world ….

  1173. @ Adam

    Er, wasn’t the iPad launched/showcased by Jobs at SF in Jan? What I mean’t was, that was the first time people knew about the specs and the name of the tablet! It going on sale 2 months later is entirely a production issue.

  1174. I still think Google has a big role in this. It’s just a guess. I do think when Google announces their OS, NI announces. That’s one way to grab attention.

  1176. A hidden feature has to be inside Adam. Any extension via the USB ports works with pretty much “every” Computer if the right drivers are available.
    The external PixelQi screen makes no sense if there is a similar one already integrated in the device itself (if you didn’t want to save your money and only bought the LED Version).

  1177. Really just can’t wait for the Adam to come out! I definately fall into the category of “release when it’s right” though as my only justification for holding off on anything else would be because I know there is a superior product coming. Here’s to hoping it’s released right and then and only then that it is released soon!

  1178. I was thinking about the same, I really doubt that the counter is for Pre-/Order option but for either the “Mystery Feature” or the adam official unveil with a big announcement from Notion Ink with actual release dates, purchase options, etc. But I think time will tell us.

  1179. @Rohan,

    Know you CAN’T answer this, and NOT asking for an answer … but if the investors could CONSIDER this it would make a lot of the loyal people here happy, as many are worried about following for so long and not being able to order. Email invitation would be best, as posting a link on this blog would go around the world, viral, in maybe … a few seconds!

  1180. Once more: I suppose that Adam’s Eden/Genesis UI is going to hide the standard Android UI completely (probably the Android UI will completely lack in the Adam OS) so Google wouldn’t be interested in presenting Adam as the or just a “Google Tablet”.

    As far as I’m aware there’s no Gingerbread SDK out now so even NI wouldn’t be able to present Adam with Android 2.3 on 9th December.

    BTW: what do you suppose to see in Gingerbread except the black notification bar with greener icons? There’s such a hype and I’m rather sure that 2.3 will be a disappointment for many as there will be not so many differences compared to Froyo as between Eclair and Froyo. And as Adam uses Android only as a basis for Genesis/Eden with NI’s own (multi)task management and their own hardware accelerated UI I don’t think that there’s a real advantage of having Gingerbread on Adam.

  1181. I’ve been reading a lot about tablets in general and the Adam specifically. I am really anxious to see the next update about the device!

    Thanks for all the interesting reading 🙂

  1182. check the design page some changes………in the curve section ……..they mention replaceable batteries

  1185. For me, the morning start like this:
    1. Shut the alarm off
    2. Refresh my RSS lists on my cellphone (Which of course has this blog as 1st item)
    3. If there is an update…. Run to my desktop PC -Read the post and comment-.
    If there is no updates … Sleep for another 5 mins 🙂

  1186. Here is the official; guess from me.

    Its a radio receiver, not power, a radio

    The clue is Minnesota

  1187. Oh and I definately had the same thought as a previous post in that I was going to go into the Apple stores when concrete information pertaining to the Adam is released and set every iPad to the website! Until then I am spreading by word of mouth, here’s to an incredible, innovative product!

  1188. @ dam00n

    I wouldn’t bet my money on a Dec release any more. I think an early Jan release, probably during the 2nd week of the year or during CES as rad51 says.
    But this is the blog where dreams come true isn’t it? 😉

  1189. @outriding,

    Welcome! Isn’t it amazing how Rohan and his vision of Adam has caught the attention of such a wide spectrum of people of all ages and cultures? Glad to have you with us.

  1191. But it is supported only on 4G versions. 3GS is not supported. Apple wants us to buy the new generation iPhone 4 and trash 3GS so as to experience the signaling issues 😦

  1194. not being like a spoilt child bro, I sold my laptop beliving the Q3 release and am under pressure to replace it. Am going to wait till dec end and if I still can’t give management a reason or a date I will have to buy something 🙂

  1196. “The Tegra SOC houses 8 independent processors – in addition to the two A9 cortex cores” is what I see on the features section under Tegra on NI website.

  1198. Good Morning adamland!

    I want to tell you I am frustrated today, a tiny bit with not having adam yet, but mostly with us all. Lemme splain.

    Jai asks why there are less responses from certain ones, and one of the reasons I think is this. A new post comes out, and we used to take our time over the week discussing it, and then towards the end of the week we’d begin anticipating the new post. Then it seemed to me that we’d get a new post and discuss it and then begin complaining about not having the next post. Now it seems like we discuss and after about a day or two there’s all this abuse about not getting release dates.

    Now as a few astute people have pointed out we’re on the inside track by being on this blog. Rohan has given us the sneak peek (as much as he’s allowed to). I’ve never seen a company grow from literally one bloke to a global phenomenon like adam. I mean anyone can go back and look into history to see what Jobsy was doing 30 years ago, but how many of us were ACTUALLY THERE? The closest thing akin to this is my family. I was there to see my kids born and grow. I can look back over the 21 or so years since my firstborn but there difference is I was there to see it all start – actually to start it all LOL 😉

    So my thing is, if its frustrating for us, imagine how much more frustrating it is for DA MAN, the guy who is busting to get a beautiful product out. As someone pointed out previously, the triangle has QUALITY / PRICE / TIME on it, its a pretty neat trick to get all of them, but if one has to go, then TIME should be the loser. If you take Galaxy pad for instance, I think QUALITY (its just a big android phone) and PRICE (its over priced for what it does) suffered at the expense of TIME (yes they got it out before adam). The only way to beat time and keep quality and price is to back your project with trillions, lock up your R&D into little bunkers for years, and then only announce when your product is about to hit the shelves. That way it looks like you magically pooped the device into existence.

    Sure, some of us are a little annoyed, but that’s only because you already have some exciting info and are quite rightly excited about it and want it now. If you still had not heard of adam, and the product was on its current timeline, then in Dec/Jan youd be starting to see stuff and you’d be getting excited and you’d be buying it shortly thereafter. Some of us can’t handle the process, and as others have said, please just go away for a short while and come back when you hear that its available for purchase. As for me, I’m loving the tension and frustration and excitement of the journey.

    I will freely admit that I WANT IT NOW ALSO! (and its my birthday today)

    So my reason for not responding quite so much is that I just can’t really be bothered responding to “whaa whaa i want my adam” – which is totally your right to cry by the way. Don’t misunderstand me, I mean go for it if you want. I have responded to things I can respond to, like the FCC questions regarding chargers, or regarding my new router with N standard.

    So my reason for holding out and cheering Rohan on is that if you think of the poor guy – He’s mid 20’s and changing the frikken world – he’s got billion dollar investors breathing down his neck over any slip up, a couple of irresponsible EAP’s who done some stupid things, crazy fans wanting to have his babies (pretty sure there was a comment made like that once!) and I for one want to be an encourager (sorry Rohan, I suspect I whine too much as well).

    So I think that its going to be ok. I think we’ll all be ok. I reckon if we take a deep breath and go back over this post again, we’ll get back in touch with the innovation and anticipation, and while our insides are just boiling for each of us to hold our very own adams, we’ll keep our frustration in check and just enjoy the journey as much as we’re all going to enjoy the destination, and at the end of this I suspect I will have made some new friends that I’ll keep in touch with through our adams!

    Peace out friends!!

    Phillip

  1199. I’m hoping for the same. I’m going home to the EU (from the US) and my flight is on December 24th. It’d be awesome to have it before that date!

    I think it depends on CE certification.

  1201. Rohan buddy,

    Are we still up for the meeting?

    Anyway, just wanted to let you know that I’ve sold my Archos 101. That thing was too damn slow.

    So NI must be awesome, just like you promised! And I have no doubts it will.

    Also, it’d be awesome if you could make it before western Christmas. Lemme know if you need any help implementing that sensor of mine, k?

    If FCC is giving you trouble, also let me know, I’m gonna pull some strings… I once installed a light bulb for their CEO.

    Take care,
    Nikola

  1203. @ Phillip.. +1000…. Very well said…
    Wish u a very Happy B’day…. Hope u have a gr8 day…
    Also if someone is Moderating this blog…. CAN U PLS LEAVE COMMENTS OF ALL THOSE USERS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKING THE SAME THING AGAIN AND AGAIN.. I AM TIRED OF READING THE SAME STUFF AGAIN AND AGAIN….

  1204. That has been my guess as as well. Andy Rubin is expected to announce some Gingerbread on 12/6/2010. What i think would be great is it they announce tablet support and show off Adam

  1205. Hey, I have been lurking on this site forever. Is the backside touchpad still in the mix? I can’t find it on the website.

  1206. @paulikxp

    > what do you suppose to see in Gingerbread except the black notification bar with greener icons?

    Though I don’t know the details, it is quite possible that there are non-UI related enhancements in the Gingerbread runtime / platform that may benefit NI.

    You maybe correct that Google may not have any motivation as far as the UI is concerned.

  1207. @Andreu
    I live in the US. I believe you are mistaken on several counts (I did some research).
    First: the battery being fixed or replaceable does not matter. If the device can be charged and used simultaneously the conductive emission measurement of FCC CFR Part 15.207 still applies.
    Second: In all cases the transmitting device requires the certification, not the adapter, in fact any generic adapter providing the proper amount of voltage/amperage is acceptable for the test of the device.
    Third: Regarding Notion Ink purchasing already certified adapters, yes that would be true, but not certified by the FCC. Perhaps in some countries they have one body that certifies everything (like CE). In the US we use TUV Rheinland for electronics and the FCC for items that transmit radio waves (and other wireless related items). So, perhaps, Rohan meant the devices had received certification from another group like TUV or even UL.
    -OR-
    The device required FCC approval because it uses inductive charging. 😉

  1208. I just wanted to say I can’t wait for the Adam to arrive but hope that it comes out only after all has been done to make it the best product it possibly can be. Looking forward to years of great products from you!

  1209. Hi guys,

    just a quick question. I had a look at the previous posts and I don’t understand why even though the Adam has a 10.1″ screen, the screen is smaller than the 9.7″ of the iPad (according to http://www.thebadduke.com).

    Will the Adam screen look like the Archos 101?

    Thanks a lot.

  1210. Dear Rohan (or anybody who feels he/she knows the answer).

    As I was surfing the web I stumbled upon SDXC (or at least 32GB SDHC cartridge), will the adam support this kind of cartridge?

    Thx to whoever is going to reply to this.

    Greetz.

    Daryl.

  1211. To clarify the last line:

    By ‘device’ I meant the charger. As chargers do not require FCC approval in the US.

  1213. Hey, Nick. You don’t mind if I call you Nick, do you? I feel we have a lot in common. For example, we’re both pretty poor company, me because I bite like crazy, and you because you, well, you smell like you’re dead. So, I think we’d get along, buddy buddy and all, and I won’t bite you. Just like a couple of friends, right?

    Well, here’s the thing, old buddy. Recently, you’ve become shiftless, completely abandoned your origins. You want to celebrate Christmas on the wrong day. You want to return to the EU. Come one, man, you’re Serbian. Pull yourself together, so to speak. Your Christmas is Jan 7. You can celebrate at a CES party (if they can stand your smell – maybe you could invent some kind of ozonatron to neutralize it). You’re not a member of the EU. It would be useful if you could generate money for the European banksters to burn so they don’t have to steal it from the Irish people, but generating money was never your strong point. Anyway, Serbia’s not caught up in that mess, and it’s best if you keep your nose out of that stuff.

    What I’m saying, Nick, is that it’s never to late to put down roots. In your condition, you can appreciate that better than anyone else here.

  1214. Sam, I edit for you:

    CAN U PLS LEAVE COMMENTS OF ALL THOSE USERS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKING THE SAME THING

    Take out the stuff in angled brackets

    Also, you might want to proofread your message (I have a problem with this, too), since asking the moderator to “leave comments” means the opposite of what you might have meant. (remove comments?)

    Also, you might want to check your caps-lock key; it got stuck.

    Also, there is no justice, no recourse, and no moderator.

    However, if you’re in India, I understand you can get ice cream for 10 rupees, and that’s better than a moderator, I think.

  1217. albertwertz:

    > Latin is a Dead language

    Really? Nobody told me about this.

    Anyway, Rohan’s “photo editing cum paint application” was 100% correct and inoffensive in educated English, as Tarwinia said, but it would have been hopeless in the marketplace. I’ve been having nightmares about Phillip’s crowd of sad people dressed up as Tolkien characters waiting in line for the movie. Rohan’s customer base, or at least a large part of the initial base, and a lot of them are going to find the use of “cum” hysterically funny. The rest, of course, have Asperger’s syndrome.

    (Bonus: Do you know how to cure any Tolkien fan permanently? Read them Tolkien’s poetry, out loud, and remind them that Tolkien considered his poems to be the most valuable part of his books, if you can catch them before they run away screaming.)

  1219. Yay WordPress! Takes my carefully edited message and garbages it. Or, rather, edits over-enthusiastically. I’d put the stuff for Sam to remove in angled brackets and WordPress saved him the trouble by removing it all by itself. Useful! (not)

  1220. Phillip – You say you don’t want us to be disillusioned, and then proceed to tell us that Rohan’s poops aren’t magic. You’re sending mixed messages.

  1222. @MobileGeek, nice for your 1st post! 🙂

    I was very excited about this idea yesterday. It was the perfect match from almost every perspective, right? But at the same time, it does smell like will fall into “too good to be true” category.

    From google’s perspective, I don’t see connection and motivation why google (Andy, here) will suddenly bring up a start-up company’s product (even it will be an extraordinary android mobile device) from no where on the meeting, that will be a HUGE favor NI could possibly ask for, right? Unless indeed Google and NI have a partnership under hood. I did search for the rumors trying to justify this possibility. Google tablet was rumored btw HTC and google, which was pretty straight forward to speculate. Regarding google and NI, I only came up with one trace of evidence which was a quote actually from Rohan himself – “I think you might have heard about Google Tablet. In time to come we all would know what Notion Ink might have to do with it!” …

    Again, a perfect but very wild speculation. I guess let’s just throw it out and wish the best for Adam…

  1223. @anniyan92,

    “Which idiot in the right mind would want ipad or other tabs even after seeing Adam’s features?”

    Rohan mentioned that he’s getting an ipad when it was about to be launched. 🙂

    Different people have different reasons to buy it. To learn how it’s been built/designed. It was the first and only tablet (though restricted artificially) etc etc.

  1224. I had never thought I would read same blog post and same comments over and over again. (And I don’t even smoke weed).

  1225. I find it very curious that someone is showing a video of a different tablet and os on the adam site. No matter how much this tablet (which I think is the lenovo s10-3t) runs windows with ubuntu and looks like an apple osX knockoff, it at least has a video of the OS in some sort of action. We NI fanboys seem to think that since we are satisfied with the updates we get, everyone else will be (or should be) as well. That is just delusional, and I think the proof of that has even begun to leak into the Fanboy realm. Case in point, this very post about Ubuntu on the Adam site. NI needs to do whatever they can to keep us from even remotely wanting to do this. The adam hasn’t even been certified yet, given a test run, or bought, and we want to change it? An opportunity is being missed, and it could spell bad news for NI. As a fanboy, I surely hope not. I have waited quite a long time for this tablet, and frankly, I believe (before it’s all said and done) that we deserve to see the UI and tablet hardware in action before pre-order. Whenever that may be because I believe NI will touch more people and make more funds that way. We fanboys will shout it from the rooftops and NI will sale out before the end of the first pre-order day. As it is, we have fans weary of even purchasing the adam because we don’t “really” know what it is. It’s a lot to ask of someone you hope to carry your business from here unto forever. I will step down off of my soap box now, but Rohan…if you are reading this, I know your hands are tied in a lot of ways. I get that. However, I know there is a way to have our cake and eat it too. You are in the best position to figure that out. I wish you the best of luck with it and a swift transition into legend. – Concerned Simba

  1226. Folks who have used dual cameras know the benefit it brings.Swivel has it’s benefits too. So let’s not get emotional or fanatical and appreciate good technology where ever it comes from.

  1227. Hi,

    Going thru the comments (which i do on daily basis), find some people are eager to have adam today itself, they r not bothered abt vision or passion of creating a new thing.

    You all impatient guys (gals also) should think this as ur baby in a womb, u will not like ur baby to come out with out full development, let it take its time, whenever it comes out, it should be the best Baby (product) out in the world (Right Rohan).

    so waiting for my baby, take your sweet time.

    bye

    RT

  1229. taken from Rohan’s comment on 11-29

    What you know is what is there since long. Have not added anything or taken away anything. As a company with competition we can’t reveal much (every saturday the blog goes hard scanning and half the information is taken away, thanks to those commenting on grammar (thanks for help here Gecko)).

  1230. No one has done or said anything wrong here. All of this stuff has merit. However, we will all come to the position that Hermann is at sooner or later if adam does not release. All of us because none of us are willing to wait forever. It is my earnest belief that this tablet is in arms reach, but we all have different ways of dealing with our decision and beliefs. Hermann wants the best and doesn’t want to settle, however, he is afraid he may have to because his time constraints conflict him. Others can wait longer with no problem and all of this is fine. I do know that we all wanna see adam in its best shape sooner rather than later. I think we can agree to that, huh? 🙂 http://www.myspace.com/siriusstyle

  1231. How is the Adam suppose to compete as an eReader? B&N, Apple and Sony have DRM protection with their epub ebooks while Amazon have their own format. Or will it be able to read ebooks bought from those stores? I know we have the LongBox for comic books. Are we having a Notion Ink bookstore in the Genesis, if so, who are their partners?

  1232. @Phenbach

    Apparently I have made myself a target. Like I said, I personally have not revealed information that would be covered by NDA (which at this point has not been signed), everything has been assumed by others based on different interpretations of what I have posted. Re-reading my post above I can see where people could make the assumption that we are included in the program. Per your free legal advice, I shall refrain from posting anything until the time comes to hire a lawyer to read over everything I say. My apologies to all involved.

    Aaron Blankenship
    Exodus Apps

  1234. Hey gecko, hi.

    Do you have a problem or something? Wrong day to celebrate Christmas? What is the “right” day in your opinion? I stink? What the hell is wrong with you? Can you not appreciate a joke?

  1235. I am probably pointing out the obvious (or something listed below), but to me the obvious connection between Tesla and the Adam would be a built in wireless charging system.

  1236. I had someone saying that LCD is outdated and adam could as well ship with a CRT.

  1239. >> Ashwin said, on November 30, 2010 at 04:13

    >> not being like a spoilt child bro, I sold my laptop beliving the Q3 release and am under
    >> pressure to replace it. Am going to wait till dec end and if I still can’t give management a
    >> reason or a date I will have to buy something

    right candidate for the stupidest reasoning of the month. your management would be better off without you!

  1240. Also Amazon has their Kindle for Android app which I suppose will work with the Adam. I use it with my Droid smartphone running Android 2.2.

  1241. I am becoming nervous about the stylus support of the adam. It doesn’t seem like the stylus support will be that useful if you can not rest your hand on the screen of the adam without messing it up. With the large ten inch screen it will become very tiring writing with just the stylus touching while you walk, stand or even sit. I hope there is something in the software that can help correct for this. My education is in medicine not in programming and technology so if anyone knows more than me any info would be great.
    Thanks

  1242. well the adamship usually hits the iceberg on Fridays and Rohan used to drop the lifesavers on Saturday
    This week the ship has hit the iceberg on Monday itself….

    anyways
    HAPPY BIRTHDAY Philip !!!!!!!!!!!

  1244. So, call me an optimist (heck, call me Ishmael!) but here’s what I think: we are all wondering what the mystery feature is, but I think Rohan & Co. have more than one ace up their sleeve. They are talking about two mystery features, in other words.

    One, the 3D Touch technology that Rohan mentioned in the latest blog which, I think, is exactly what Akshay elaborated on earlier, a mouse hover, except with your finger. Perhaps using an IR sensor plus that extra 5 deg of line of sight offered by the camera and all that unused megapixelability in the processor. That such a feature would allow Adam to enjoy all of Flash’s power makes it desirable. I need to puzzle out exactly how such a thing would work though.

    The second relates to Mr. Tesla, of hallowed memory. Here I think we have a wireless induction charger. SwedshCancerBoi already mentioned this possibility. The Adam’s well rounded bottom will fit snugly into a custom charger (sold separately, thanks to the MBA types at NI!) and the receiver is, I suspect, cleverly concealed along the length of the metal grill. So, when you are ready to sleep, you put Adam to bed as well and no wires. Usually, battery chargers don’t need FCC approval, I think. That Adam already has an FCC approved charger tells me that it could be wireless, and that its a 3rd party, for all the obvious reasons.

    Together with everything that’s on the cards, I think these two features will give the competition something to think about. However, perhaps my optimism is due entirely to the nice glass of red I had with dinner, so even if these aren’t planned for Mark I, I give NI full permission to include them in future versions.

    On their release schedule, I have the following hunch (it was good wine): on Dec 9, pre-ordering will be announced, with us early believers (including some doubting Thomases) getting first dibs. Adam will ship following FCC approval sometime in the 3rd week of Dec. Most people will get it before Jan 1. We will report early bugs left uncaught by the early EAP birds, and a spruced up Adam will announce himself to the wider world at CES, Jan 6th or whenever it is.

    All of the above is pure speculation.

  1245. I followed the Blog since day 1 I noticed Adam. This will be the one I am going to buy in the future. However, I purchased ViewSonic GTablet for my wife. It is a big mistake. Why? The hardware is good, but the software is very very horrible. The software is kind of garbage compared with software in Froyo android phone like MyTouch 4G. Again, the software is useless and not ready for tablet. I returned the GTablet the second day and will not think about GTablet any more. I believe Adam should not be shipped out unless software is ready. Otherwise, Adam will be dead in few weeks.

  1248. Nook color is pretty good but for a reader it gets tiring To read! Pixelqi hopefully is much Better?

  1250. well we can make it true..
    fly down to India…Gecko might need a pet animal passport ( i just can imagine his photo printed on it ;).. ).. Cathy, tarwinia, philip… everyone for Indian christams…
    we can gatecrash … If we get pass the security, (i guess Gecko can help us with that)
    hopefully Rohan wont throw us out 🙂

  1251. @rk
    >well having dual cameras is certainly not a good solution. !

    does that sentence in any manner suggest i am emotional or fanatical or i cant appreciate technology ????
    it is just an observation….

  1252. But the AdamShip floats now … so we’ll beam up more supplies and hang on till the commander finds us on Saturday …

  1253. Hi, Nick. No, in fact I can’t appreciate a joke. At least not about Christmas. On Christmas, you get presents. This is no laughing matter. But Serbian Christmas is on Jan. 7. I thought you would remember this, maybe celebrate in heaven on the same day. But now, I’m beginning to think you didn’t go to heaven but to the other place where they don’t celebrate Christmas.

    Note to Sri: I get to call him Nick because I asked, and we’re good buddies, sort of. He’s Mr Tesla to you, though.

  1254. Mr.Rohan, the Canvas and Calendar apps look great. I will use the Adam primarily as an e-reader and also to browse the net and watch videos. Could you please throw some light on the ebook application? Will it have integrated tts and dictionary? Which file formats will it support?

  1256. Finally, the indian press is beginning to pick up on the Notion Ink Adam. Just read it in the newspaper today. Check it out.

    http://epaper.dnaindia.com/newsview.aspx?eddate=11/30/2010&pageno=9&edition=9&prntid=129907&bxid=25186634&pgno=9

    and the article gets continued here

    http://epaper.dnaindia.com/bigwin.aspx?url=EpaperImages30112010adams-large.jpg&eddate=11/30/2010&pageno=10&edition=9&prntid=129910&bxid=92&pgno=10

    People are starting to believe in something we have believed in so long.

    Respect!

  1258. @Rohan Shravan

    Is this you through Andre’s eyes?

    Permanently embedded in ADAM?? 🙂

    cheers!

  1259. I’m not sure about the possibility of an induction charger. Is such a feature that necessary? Also, look at a side view of the Adam here: https://notionink.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/for-blog-9.jpg

    The bottom input is for the charger (why would you ever need to plug in a charger if it does so by induction?), the one above is for headphones, and then we are left with an ir port (very likely to be one). Google search for “ir port” and you will come across very similar ones. Like this: http://www.hardwarezone.com.ph/img/data/articles/2002/430/vga_parallel_ir.jpg

    December 9 is likely to be the pre-order date and the date when the secret sensor is revealed.

    http://blog.extremetecharena.com/news/diwali-special-interview-with-rohan-shravan-founder-ceo-at-notion-ink/
    From Rohan, “There is one feature which no one knows about yet and will only know on launch!”

    I think you’re right about an early release before Christmas and then an official launch during CES. (However, I haven’t found Notion Ink as being registered on the CES website.)

  1260. +1 I think this is a great idea. While I don’t post often, I’ve been following and anticipating Adam for almost a year now.

  1261. And show me an eight-month pregnant woman who isn’t ready to have that baby any minute. I think most women at that point are tired of waiting and want the baby to come now, even though they rationally understand the importance of waiting until the right time.

  1264. I recently read an interesting bit of demographics. The largest group ready to buy i pad were the 50-60 group. Being 61 I can identify with that.

    ………………………….Tom C

  1266. Like this dream, and in this dream, I can get my early Adam (the red and black custom one for the bloggers ) signed by Rohan on my business trip to LV early January …

  1267. phew…Greg!… did you like the hidden feature?
    @Cathy – I hope a n official forum comes up…
    @Sowmya – great idea…we can all see the adam! 😉

  1268. I posted this before but I wanted to combine it with something else that I read.

    An interesting post I found here:

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/gadgets/can-notion-inks-adam-elevate-the-tablet-to-a-new-generation/?news=123

    Now that I have used the iPad and now the Samsung, it is even clearer how flawed the iPad is. Just liked the form-over-function iPhone4, the iPad was the best not by design but by it’s lack of competition. Not that it didn’t get many things right, but it was just forced into too many compromises by it’s designers need for beauty and their desire to get it out first. The compromises are many but I’ll list the most annoying ones: 1. Weight and moment arm. From the first time you pick it up you’ll know you are not holding this to read one handed. I’m hoping the NI puts the battery in the thick edge. 2. Size: Unless you have very large hands, the iPad is to large to use while standing, you have to put it down. At that point netbooks are better. That is why all the fanboys are moving on to the Macbook Air. 3. Keyboard: No excuse for not showing case or offering options like Swipe which would make one handed usage usable. 4. Computer dependance: Want to replace your laptop with an iPad? Sorry, you can’t. The iPad is a computer accesory as it relies on it for many of it’s basic tasks like downloading content.

    The NI Adam will not be an iPad killer, it will be a netbook killer. The iPad will just be another casualty along the way.

    PS Written while standing using a Samsung Galaxy Tab.

    Then I read on Technology news “a link that Greg also posted” found here.

    http://www.technewsworld.com/story/2011-The-Year-of-the-Tablet-Wars-71317.html

    Mac Trojan Horse

    Interesting enough, about half the people I know who tried to use the iPad as a laptop have gone back to using a PC — but most have chosen to use a Mac this time and not a Windows PC.

    This is because the iPad is great at consumption but sucks at creation (unless you want to draw) and lacks processing and graphics horsepower. So it became a Trojan horse for the Mac PC, and Apple has been getting two sales for the price of one with the new 11″ MacBook Air being the form factor that most seem to prefer.

    While I think this is brilliant on Apple’s part, it also showcases the major shortcoming of the first generation, which is that you can’t really live off it.

    Now this shows me that people WANT a tablet but it will have to be complete like adam. When nothing was available they went to netbooks.

    Adam could cut into apple in two different areas………..cool.

    ………………..Tom C

  1269. Invisible Buttons?? Weren’t those already patented for the Emperor’s New Clothes?

  1271. one of claims against Android2 on tablets is that its font sub-pixel rendering either does not owrk (USA software paatents, barbarians of XXI) or is woking very awfull on large screens.

    May there be zoomed photo (not screenshot) how fonts are rendered in sub-pixel anti-aliasing ?

  1272. so like it is now 1001 days to go.. 😀
    hopefully thats the release date of the ADAM and not the date of revealing the bonus feature. 😀

  1273. hmm true Sowmya,
    looks like Rohan’s saturday “spell/charm” is wearing off. I already feel like last saturday post was years ago, and getting frustrated coz not seeing any update for long time.

    To Rohan: you should try “Imperio” curse on us. (to keep us waiting without complaining).
    I have one question to you. How are you deflecting all our curses? you should teach that to Harry Potter :-). (mostly “crucio” from us. we won’t use “Avada Kedavra”, because we want Adam :-)… but you should remember that, that option is still open. )

  1275. Happy B’day Phillip.
    As to what Jobs et al were doing 30 years ago, I know that “apple” released the Apple II which my dad bought and still has, but I waited and bought a Commodore 64 which I still have. (I also have a C128).

    Business associates bought the iPad, but I’m waiting for Adam. Not sure what I’ll do with it, but since it can run Ubuntu, I’m sure I can find something to do with it beside play solitaire or listen to music. From a business perspective I need a device which can sync with MS Outlook. Don’t really care about email, but contacts and calendar are a must have.
    Lee

  1276. I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that the “Mysterious Sensor” is quite possibly a gyro scope ment to enhance the gaming experience, since that is the only sensor that seems to be lacking when compared to other devices, and when I say other I mean iPhone 4 since that is the only thing I know of that has it lol.

  1277. Greg,
    I have it on my Dell ATG620. It appears to work. You can log onto their web site and find out where the device is along with other data. A free account allows you to track up to three devices.
    Lee

  1278. Woow, reading all these posts is taking for ever but a nice thing to do.
    I see some great suggestions about the dates for release and/or preorder. All the mentioned suggestions for the mystery feature are great. If all those features will be added, to the already great looking specs of the Adam, the weight of the Adam will go over the 1000 grams………………….
    But without kidding, I like the posts about this great looking tablet.
    If Rohan get all the things working and delivered in time this will be the tablet that will shake the world of tablets.
    For now, like everybody else, I keep on waiting…………………………………….

  1280. @rohan… i understand that the indian market is not as mature as the US but would really like if we can get it asap!!! NI has the potential to be big… bigger than anything we have seen and my heck our best wishes are with you!!!!!!!!!!!

  1281. i am not much of a techie… but just download the browser image to your laptop, hide all the desktop icons and set it as your wallpaper… and voila!!! u have an adam!!! 😉

  1282. Hi Rohan,

    I was reading the November 2010 issue of the magazine Linux For You last night, and found an article on the Olivepad, which compares it with the iPad and the Adam. To my disappointment, I found that some of the information about the Adam was incorrect, and the key features were completely missing.

    I think NI should contact the magazine and get a decent article published on the Adam, because it can generate interest from the Indian Linux community in a much bigger way.

    Also, here’s a report in The Economic Times, which talks about Rohan and NI.

    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/Indian-tech-firms-link-with-China-to-take-on-Western-brands/articleshow/7013629.cms

  1284. Hi Rohan and Co.

    Seems like the device will not support RarLab’s *.rar archive files? This type of archives is still very popular.

    Also, will it support Lizardtech *.djvu format? this is essential as most of books I read are in *.djvu.

    Thank you and good luck.

  1285. Not much depth or quality in that article…I wish Indian tech journalists and editors had much better knowledge and integrity.

  1286. its DNA India.. not a tech blog…quite expected but even if they had not discussed the features in detail, they could have copy pasted from the website

  1287. The amount of posts here is huge, it is some work to read them but it’s a nice thing to do and keeps me busy.
    I love all the suggestions about the bonus feature and the launch date and/or start of the preorder possibility.
    I love the specs of this tablet and hope that it will do what written up till now.
    Rohan, keep up the work and we will keep on waiting…………………….but not too long please

  1288. rohan i really hope i did not violate any copyrights or laws by downloading the browser image… just wanted to show my friends that this is what can be done with technology when it is in the right hands… NI’s!!!

  1289. In a blog post a while ago Rohan said they will have the full Android Mrket on the device along this the other Google features thats comes with Android and Notion Ink’s own apps market

  1290. @Sowmya It is usually the tech sector journalist who would cover tech companies, so I am talking about real media and not the faux ones like blogs. Regarding copy and paste, that in fact seems to be the bigger problem.

  1292. Hopefully It will be both; although I doubt that it will actually be the release date; preorders at best probably. Oh well, I’ll keep my fingers crossed nonetheless 😀

  1293. @Greg, Latitude on Android 2.2 does an excellent job of tracking (now even in real time… it´s really neat)
    There are several remote security apps available (although not free). On my Nexus One I use wavesecure, it can trace your phone, detects sim card being changed (and gives you the new phone number so if a thief uses his personal sim you can identify him), remote backup, remote wipe, lock down the device and can make the device emit a loud alarm until it´s unlocked (or battery pulled)

  1294. oh.. .i meant a Tech section only sorry for the error(should have proofread) cos it comes under ‘DNA money’.. anyways point noted 🙂
    Well, i meant the tech specs could be copy pasted, that’s not a problem…

  1295. Just something I was wondering, will the Adam be available in the UK? Unless I have missed something, I dont think it has been mentioned :/

  1296. Why don’t you release whatever you have instead of adding features to it? If you want customers to be happy you have to consider the fact that they are waiting to use it, its not a movie that we can keep on waiting for release, if i have some use for your device i would buy the one which is available.

  1300. Is there any possibility of making all next 2 or 3 week ends come together to have all week end special’s of Rohan……?///!!!!!!!!!!!

    or any software/magic to make Rohan feel that everyday is Saturday so that we can have week end specials everyday…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  1301. The boss of Bangalore-based Notion Ink, Rohan Shravan, is a man in a hurry. The fast-talking 25-year-old co-founded the group three years ago and will start taking orders for his “Adam” tablet computer within weeks.

    Shipping of the sleek iPad wannabe to the United States and Europe could begin at the end of the year, with domestic sales starting soon after.

    “What we want to do is set a standard in the international market with the Adam,” Shravan, a graduate of one of India’s prestigious technical universities, told AFP.

    “There’s going to be exponential growth for us,” he said, adding that an updated version of the device was already in development.

    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/Indian-tech-firms-link-with-China-to-take-on-Western-brands/articleshow/7013629.cms

  1303. Have you considered support openOffice documents?
    I’ve read about microsoft documents but nothing about open office

    Thanks

  1305. Did anyone receive any mails from NI lately? I tried contacting them with some developer questions, but they don’t reply.

  1306. I think I read they were working with shipping partners from the start. If you don’t mind it shipped from India/US/(Wherever) I think you can have one 🙂

  1307. Just wanted to say a big well done to Rohan and his team!! I think you have done a fantastic job on this blog, which a times must have been very difficult and frustrating with your hands being tied as to what you can divulge! It’s seems so close now- i really can’t wait! Thanks Rohan for this blog (which many of us have followed throughout the year since CES) as its something you didn’t need to do but in this day and age it’s a nice touch and it has been fascinating to follow the process!
    Good luck with the launch! It’ gonna be huge! 🙂

  1308. Not to mention the kindle reading app for android, amongst all the others. Just about any books from any supplier should be readable on this device, a big plus!

  1309. dear roahn and team

    i have just copy pasted what guru said previusly with my comments below. because i felt this info is lost in comments ocean!
    sorry if you have seen it already…
    Guru said, on November 27, 2010 at 22:02
    FCC Compliance and Certification Made Easy

    The FCC under rule part 15 tells us that most electronic devices need to either be verified to not cause harmful emissions or need to be certified to not cause harmful emissions.

    The difference between Verification and Certification:

    Verification:
    The verification process is typically the creation of a Declaration of conformity stating that the emissions limits are within the FCC Part 15 rules. Devices that are not intentional transmitters would typically get a FCC Part 15 Declaration of Conformity by submitting their device to an accredited Test Laboratory, having the device tested, and then receiving a test report and Declaration of Conformity.

    Certification:
    The FCC has decided that all devices that are intentional radiators, in the governed frequency spectrum, must receive a certification. This is a slightly more complex process where an accredited Test Lab typically will test the unit; the completed test report must be submitted to the FCC for approval.

    The complete FCC Certification process will typically follow these steps:
    1) The manufacturer will authorize the Test Lab to apply for a FCC Grantee Code.
    2) The manufacturer will receive the Grantee code from the FCC.
    3) The Manufacturer will submit their device to an accredited Test Lab for evaluation.
    4) The appropriate testing will be performed, per appropriate standards.
    5) The Test Lab will create a test report which details the tests performed, results and equipment used.
    6) The test report, along other documentation, will be submitted to the FCC for approval.
    7) The FCC typically takes 8-12 weeks to respond to certification requests.

    Optional steps in the process:

    Confidentiality:
    The manufacturer may request Confidentiality of the information from the FCC. This usually involves an additional $155 filing fee. If Confidentiality is not requested, all documentation will appear on the FCC website at the time the certification is granted. With the optional fee, the manufacturer can typically eliminate all design documents from this posting process.

    TCB – Expediting the process:
    Due to the 8-12 week delay in the certification process, the FCC realized that a more expedited process was needed. They have authorized several private organizations to issue certifications. There are some types of devices that still must be submitted to the FCC, however in most cases, devices can be approved via a TCB.

    Submitting a grant request through a TCB can significantly improve the time frame for obtaining a certification. In most cases, it only takes 1-2 weeks to obtain an approval from a TCB.

    ———————————————————————————————————————

    shiva said, on November 30, 2010 at 00:59
    Hi Rohan

    based on the above information- you must have used “TCB – Expediting the process”. If not – talk to FCC and ask can you add TCB now? because that gives definite advantage of 4-6 WEEKS of time.

    (I know it is a very obviuos suggestion! Just making sure that you have done that. )

    yours
    shiva

  1310. I have stayed at The New Yorker Hotel in September 2007, and although my experience was not good at all (thanks, Ramada), it could have been better had I known Tesla spent his last days there.

  1311. i woke up with tears today. my sister has bought an ipad. i feel so betrayed, i begged her not to buy it and showed her the adam too..

  1312. dont worry bhavya………once u have adam in ur hands which works better than ipad…….u can see what happens to ur sis.

  1315. First of all, sorry if my answer for the mystery has already been mentionned. The topic is so long I couldn’t read everything. I do feel there is a link with tesla as Rohan mentionned his birthdate, and the movie “the prestige” with Tesla in it (played by david bowie).
    Tesla is well known for wireless energy and that is te reason why many of you mentionned induction as a wireless charger. I don’t believe in it as you have to be very close from the source which is useless with a mobile device.
    My idea is close to this but much more mobile (let’s say dynamic !)
    Did you know guys that it is possible to charge batteries through WIFI ???
    type Airenergy in google and check !!!
    They have presented their product on last CES and I guess Rohan had spare time to chill around and meet those guys.
    So my guess is that Adam will be able to charge through wifi…
    My problem is that “can we call that a sensor ?”
    So for the sensor I would bet on a proximity sensor which is the one missing for 3d touch.

  1316. Thank you very much for the reply 🙂

    Hopefully my Dad will let me order one, I dont have a problem with the idea of shipping, but he might…

    gah, im getting all exited again 😀 😀 😀 😀

  1317. i am absolutely convinced that the adam has a digitizer. ok maybe it’s partly wishful thinking, because that’s one feature that i would love to have. capacitive touch screens are great but pen-based input does have some awesome applications, so combining both would be awesome. please please please let there be a digitizer!

  1319. Hi All

    I have been following the blogg since near enough the start and have loved reading all that has gone on from Notion Ink’s post’s to the way you all have reacted. But I am now getting to the desperate stage of wanting to order and receive an Adam, lets hope it will happen on the 8th or 9th Dec. Then I am really looking forward to seeing what gets posted on the blogg so we can share Info. Keep up all the interesting stuff :).

  1320. hey, what about us poor people with b’days in december. i am with elmelao here. my b’day is in dec and i want it in that month!! 😀

  1325. The time it takes to come to the market is the time it takes. It will not succede or fail because of the time it takes to come to market, but by how great a product it is, period.

    The ability of certain fruit named product companies to capture the attention of the press is well known, they advertise by making fanboys (not very bright fanboys IMHO) of editorial rooms. The fruit company says look, and the press says “OMG omg, what? ”

    Keeping (or more correctly creating new) interest is NI’s very well clever way to build, or even earn, the same level of omg.

    I’m impressed with the whole project, in part because of it’s “invented in a garage and conquered the world” mystique.

    So well done Rohan, well done.

  1326. Hopefully weekend special XI would be the last before the almighty ADAM satisfies us ALL. 🙂

  1328. .. we shall all find out real soon. 🙂
    All this wait, I’m sure we can wait just a tiny bit longer..

  1329. @Pert – I was waiting peacefully & patiently!!! This time the culprit is Rohan! Why did he have to put a smile for this post??

    😀

  1330. @obrowny

    That is immense! Looking at the size of the charger, it can easily fit into the ADAM. That is true wireless charging. I was not drooling about induction charging, but charging from distant anonymous sources – just wow! Coupled with a Pixel-Qi, the ADAM could easily outlast any other tablet out there!

  1333. Haha true that.
    As soon as I saw that 😀 I was like :O

    And then he goes all mysterious and disappears !

    The Digitizer would be awesome IMO!

  1334. ah…I know why. May be he feels the blog is not very active. He wants to start another round of speculation!!!

  1335. hmmm Rohan’s silence and a smiley speaks volumes than his long posts… !!!

    he sure does know how to keep this crowd engaged 😉

  1336. Hey Tom!

    I am not out to defend the iPad, but I would like to offer you my opinion on your points:
    1 and 2: Most people will use tablets sitting down or have it laying on the table, I don´t see it as a major issue. Besides that, you will get tired also when holding the Adam or any other tablet. The fanboys who are swapping their iPad for a MBA won´t do that because they can use it while standing up: the MBA will be just as (if not more) inconvenient to hold as any tablet. The real reason I read on forums is that these people want to create instead of just consume. As the MBA has a full OS it can do a lot more than the iPad or any other tablet, including the Adam.
    3. What´s your focus on one hand use anyway? Do you visit a lot of adult sites? 😉 (sorry for this comment, couldn´t resist)
    4. Don´t think that you can replace your laptop with an Adam either. Unless your computer use is very limited and you don´t use software like Adobe Photoshop, burn audio or video CD´s/DVD´s, video-editing etc.

    As to the Mac Trojan Horse story: if the people you know bought the iPad as a laptop they haven´t done their homework. Read just one review of the iPad and you will know that it is not ment as a laptop replacement. Apple has never claimed it is either.

    If you are really looking for the ultimate all in one device you should check this one out:
    http://www.pomegranatephone.com/
    I´d like to see some of these features on the next Adam: Rohan, please take notes! 😉

  1338. High possibility! 😛

    @ Rohan.
    Just in case you think we are no longer engaged or even SLIGHTLY less engaged, YOU ARE WRONG. 😀

  1340. Either he has confirmed the digitizer or successfully distracted people from obrowny’s post above! 🙂

  1341. Are you serious?!! – This would be the best news so far!! I have been saying for ages i reckon its a digitizer and this would be the icing on an already very tasty cake!!!
    This will give the adam such a big boost compared to other rivals!
    Since Pixel Qi demoed it way back i always thought it would be there- Rohan seems to be a perfectionist and and would not settle for a capacitive stylus(I hope) as they are next to useless! Fingers crossed:):)!!!

  1344. Are you serious?!! –
    This would be the best news so far!!
    I have been saying for ages i reckon its an active digitizer and this would be the icing on an already very tasty cake!!!
    This will give the adam such a big boost compared to other rivals!
    Since Pixel Qi demoed it way back i always thought it would be there- Rohan seems to be a perfectionist and and would not settle for a capacitive stylus(I hope) as they are next to useless (IMO)! Fingers crossed:):)!!!

  1346. Is it true that there was “revealing marvelous sensor Feature” As html Comment in Source Code of the bjnary’s Code html Site right beint the binary? Some websites (like androidear.com) say so. If it is, 9th dec. will not be launch date for Adam, but just for sensor feature.

  1347. it can also mean
    “point noted, digitizer in ADAM 2.0″… he needs to save some features for the adam2.0
    otherwise i will be happy with ADAM 1.0 forever…..

  1348. As I didn’t get any smiley, I believe I am wrong 🙂

    Anyway if the 9th of october may be pre order day, I think the official launch date will take place on the 6th of january for the CES.
    as Rohan said :”you are waiting for some “event” where there will be audience and better reach!”

    Check this on your agenda !! (more than 6 taps for now 😉 )

  1352. You know i reckon Rohan just couldn’t keep the secret anymore!!! Sorry for posting again but sooo excited! I paint a lot and this is something i wanted more than anything! Really hope that smiley implies what it seems to imply!! Makes the wait of 1 whole year seem a good decision!:)

  1354. Congrats with your birthday! Maybe Rohan will give you another clue for the hidden sensor esspecialy for your birthday ;). Cheers

  1357. @sowmya – let me also know when you go and check out!!! 😉 you are close to blore, i guess?

  1358. @jai
    i never knew you can find the geographical location by mere name or say mere gravatar image..
    btw, not close… !!!!

  1359. @shiva nothing is trivial; if its already taken care no worries – its worth a shout!
    btw when it comes to implementation, deployments etc. for any complex ‘project’ even turning on a switch for a light bulb is worth planning for and have a test run if possible – its often the ones thats taken for granted that tend to fail

    dont know if folks here got down to estimating the floor space at NI B’lore and guessed the team size etc. but my guess is NI would need as many helping hands as practicable at the moment – apart from all the extra calories/energy/sleep they dearly need

  1360. Great info, bro! Digging in. Awesome!

    @Paritosh I do see Rohan’s smiley trick has sth to do with this post here. 🙂

  1361. quite true, however, a name says a lot (of course, assuming it is real!) And social networking doesn’t end here! 😉

  1362. Maybe there is choice between the active digitizer or the trackpad? In other words you cant have both?That would explain why the trackpad is not on the tech sheet.It will be when he announces the “secret feature” (Read digitizer) If that were the case i would opt for the active digitiser.

  1363. oooooh wouldn’t it be nice if the entire back plane was sensitive? or configurable?

  1364. When Rohan said that “a few have come close,” but didn’t quite guess the answer, I am assuming that it wouldn’t be a digitizer, as a digitizer was mentioned before… It would be great if it was though. I also question if the extra benefits of the digitizer would be something that “everyone” would want. And finally what would a digitizer have to do with “night.” I am still leaning towards 3D touch using infra-red… simply because it seems like a feature that “everyone” would want not just techies and artists… and it also fits the clue on “night” and finally it relates to Tesla work with infrared light.

  1365. @Andrew – Digitizer would be on top my list too!! However, at this point in time, we can do nothing but wait and hope for the best! 🙂

  1366. I think more people would want a active digitizer then 3D touch, I certainly see it more useful.
    I guess we will find out in 1001 days (either binary or decimal)

  1368. ok we now want Rohan to give us a cheat sheet for the smiley language! that would be an interesting +ve side effect of this blog!

    while we are on that topic… lets analyse this smiley now … its a broader smile but still a smile – not a wink… so if he’s playing a good cop he is probably leaning towards saying yes – but if he’s interested in only teasing us a bit more then it could mean – ‘ha ha there you go; caught you on the wrong side of the road etc.’

  1370. I know i am in the minority here but i never saw the trackpad as that important. I think early on when designing the adam it would have seemed like good idea but now i don’t see when you would use it. Pinch to zoom makes it easy to use touch screens on even the most complicated sites or forms and with most apps and sites now being designed for touch screens anyway when would you use it? Don’t get me wrong – if its still there great but i am not too bothered about it- but the active digitizer well thats another thing! (did i mention i am excited about the active digitiser?:)

  1371. Is it? In that case, wouldn’t that link the digitizer, induction, tesla and his broad smile now?

  1372. I wouldn´t mind… if only because my netbook hates wordpress pages with more than 1000 comments.

  1374. Pixel Qi already demoed an active digitiser working with their screens in an earlier video too:)

  1375. Ok, something else cause I am reading the same things over and over again and the answers will be unclear atleast till the next blog of Rohan and most possible not even thne.

    I have a new question. We are all waiting for the adam to be in our hands. Lets asume we have it, played with it and know what it can do.

    How do we rehabilitate from our addiction to this blog, nothing to wait for anymore??
    I would like to know what you (and maybe me to) will be waiting for next and how we can forfill our needs for information about that object?

    Note: every answer will do EXCEPT adam2 cause that will be a given 😉

    Ramblan

  1376. +1
    Count me in! I prefer a big chunky Logitech (large hands!) over my Laptop’s touchpad.
    I don’t see why I’d use a trackpad instead of ADAM’s touch-screen.

  1377. @Ramblan1970

    We would be discussing use-cases and apps – the eco-system!

    For a more spicy answer we have to wait for gecko 🙂

  1378. @Phillip
    Right on!
    And Happy Birthday to you!!!
    Like Gecko said in an earlier post, sometimes is good to wait, you get more presents! I’d add better ones!

    Viva Adam!

  1381. LOL

    Maybe it is time to install a Christmas tree in that guy’s house, with a stack of Adams as presents.

  1382. So much technology packed into one screen! Touch – Qi – Wide view and now maybe this!? I wonder how thick the screen is now?

  1383. Rohan, I just want to let you know I have been following the development of this tablet since CES last year and am extremely excited to have one in my hands! Hopefully by Christmas I can be reading my ebook collection on my Adam around a cozy fire!!!!

  1384. Hi,

    I think we will have nice discussions about how to use the Adam in the best way. And of course we will be waiting for Rohan for THE answer on this question.

    Besides the first one I think everybody will be waiting for the next software update with more and better things to do with the Adam……………….

    For now we just keep on waiting for the Adam………………..
    For the things after we have the Adam I just started waiting………………..

    Edju

  1385. Pratik- here it shows that they only have a 12.1 inch wide version of the sensor board? Maybe that’s the reason the bezel of the adam is larger now (and not because of the usb)- to incorporate the difference between the qi screen and the sensor board? ok maybe i am clutching at straws there:)

  1388. Very dismaying – there a lots of reasons that Rohan could be smiling. He might have a toothache. Don’t you people have any compassion at all for Rohan? You want your Adams so badly that you don’t care how much his tooth is hurting? You’re all jumping up and down here and whooping it up for joy while poor Rohan grimaces in pain and tries to make time to see the dentist.

    If the mystery sensor is some kind of “shame” detector, it would be blinking red.

  1389. “Things are changing because of “touch environments” as we can see in applications, but to see how you can interact with wireless technology is yet to come,”

    That is the hint that may tie up what this means…Rohan talks about touch and wireless technology in this weekend special.

  1390. Remote Desktop. I’m a Windows Admin and doing ANYTHING on a server without a mouse is a Pain in the Ass. Having a trackpad (or digitizer) WOULD replace a laptop for me (most of the time).

  1391. Tom C:
    > The largest group ready to buy i pad were the 50-60 group. Being 61 I can identify with that.

    Ah, brings back fond memories, does it?

  1392. wow, with personal attacks like this, where does the constructive criticism come to play? Thank you both for your role in this forum as I am sure it will yield a superb product… congratulations for making people feel willing to speak and contribute along your sides.

    Tarwinia, does your husband listen to you when you tell him the conversation is over and to stop speaking also? I feel sorry for the both of you…

  1394. – Those who can program will go and create amazing apps.
    – The other will use these amazing apps

  1396. I too believe that it would be a huge boon for the Adam to have both DLNA server as well as CLIENT/media center-like capabilities (with thumbnail, imdb and movie sheet/poster views) for playback of all sorts of video and audio formats streamed from a home media server over wifi. This would eliminate the need to keep swapping media onto the local storage or SD card. Nobody has yet made such an application for Android to my knowledge and I think that this would be an excellent way to help Adam stand even further apart from the rest of those out there like the Archos 101.

    VLC Stream and Convert for Android works for most file types on my phone, but it has some major limitations and glitches. Somebody needs to really crack this because the tablet format can really be the ultimate consumption device as well as providing light to medium productivity capabilities. Can you imagine watching all of your Playon and other DLNA compliant content from a home media server on your Android tablet–anywhere in the world where there is an decent Internet connection? Wouldn’t that be amazing?

  1397. Whoa, that interesting and ties everything together. Now, I have another request. I use dip pens at home, so I’d like to have an electronic “inkwell.” You’d dip the digitizer pen in that every few words or so in order to recharge it.

  1398. Phillip, Phillip, Happy Birdday, Phillip, Phillip, we know you love to see your name in print, Phillip, and it’s past your Birdday so I hope you haven’t celebrated yet and are letting the presents and good wishes, Phillip, pile up.

    If that should have been “Dr. Phillip,” please use find-and-replace.

  1399. :), People will make app suggestion and request for extra accessory and merchandised stuff.

    ————————————————————————————————————————
    My Guess :

    1.) Induction Charging (Prestige, The movie also connected to magic and Nikolas Tesla)
    2.) IR Sensor
    3.) Back TrackPad (for sure!)

    -D5720A80

    A 3D plot

    Try Pasting it in “Wolfram Alpha”

    Hope you know Mathematics!

  1400. :), People will make app suggestion and request for extra accessory and merchandised stuff.

    ————————————————————————————————————————
    My Guess :

    1.) Induction Charging (Prestige, The movie also connected to magic and Nikolas Tesla)
    2.) IR Sensor
    3.) Back TrackPad (for sure!)

    -D5720A80 = -(D 5720 A^80)

    A 3D plot

    Try Pasting it in “Wolfram Alpha”

    Hope you know Mathematics! 😉

  1405. The red slashes across his face are particularly telling. Seems that the fights with his board have been pretty intense.

  1406. And thankfully so.
    I am glad that ADAM is not a sleek, *touch-me-not* piece of gadgetry. I like that it evolved into something tough and rugged.
    It’s the ‘Dude Among Tablets’! Nice catch-line right there. 🙂

  1407. Is this a day dream, Cathy, because if the posting times on your messages are any indication, you don’t sleep any more than Rohan does.

  1409. Interesting article, mentions not only Foxconn and Pixel QI, which we knew about, but also Inventec and Compalcomm, which we didn’t. Inventec makes notebook computers, etc., for Fujitsu, HP, etc. Compalcomm makes smart phones, 3G stuff, etc., and has a very strange website. At the top of the front page, there’s a picture of a pigeon, which is the bird equivalent of a cockroach, next to their slogan: SMART YOUR LIFE.

    http://www.compalcomm.com

  1410. Did anyone notice that this post is the only one with red font in it, everything else is grey. Could this be yet another clue about infra-red in front of our very eyes? Thoughts?

  1411. Ohmigod, the New Yorker Hotel is a dump, was built as an elegant hotel, but for many decades was owned by the Moonies (Rev. Sung Myung Moon’s Unification Church), I think might have been a major heroin house at one point. It’s better than that now, but not by much.

  1415. It does seem like Rohan is aiming for CES to get his exposure, and why not? It’s free publicity, and the entire world will see it. Look at what happened for him at the last CES, and he didn’t even have a finished product…far from it actually. The adam was a different beast then too. Just look at it now. He will allow us to pre-order before then…guaranteed, so he can say that it is available for order on that day. As for the special sensor, it will be his marketable selling point that day. The extra bump into stardom. Sucks for us to have to wait though, but Rohan is at the mercy of his investors. I bet they have said everything that I am saying now. More bang for the buck is what they are looking at. It’s a good idea really. Regrettably because of it…there isn’t much need for continuous scans of the blog. He can never substantiate anything here because it will lessen his bang power on that day. Too bad really. 😦

  1416. @Sowmya
    @Punit

    Well, December would be a too early present for me ;), not for Punit 🙂
    But I don’t mind if it’s late for me, as long as it is still early for our constant Adam defender Sowmya 🙂 🙂

  1419. Dr Wertz: The only personal attacks I’ve seen here are yours. I will add one of my own, so you don’t feel lonely. Here it is: Seeing your manners, I can only hope for your patients’ sake that you’re a radiologist.

    Now, please take Tarwinia’s advice and have some chocolate.

  1420. The Specs currently says GPS. It was A-GPS all the time. I hope this is just a typo.

    I have been playing with a Garmin 18x OEM sensor and have seen that it could take quite a while to get a FIX even when outdoors (cold start) and this is with WAAS (Only in North America). I guess having the almanac of the constellation shall give some speed-up. I have not used any GPS device with anything more than the WAAS,

    Does the A-GPS need network connectivity (WiFi?) to achieve quicker Fix?

  1421. good question and nicely sets the stage for looking and thinking ahead ….
    I think by then we would have a formal discussion board and I can already see dozen or more threads each discussing specific aspects of Adam and within each category folks disecting the s/w, UI aspect to the last bit/pixel… most likely crashing NI servers a few times before they decide to hire a whole data center …. etc etc and ofcourse by then we would have a few dozen sites dedicated for Adam and another dozen collating all to provide a summary and another dozen……

    PS: Adam2, Eve etc may demand their own sites too and assuming Rohan could be cloned we would still be ‘talking’ to him directly either here or on one of those sites….

  1422. @Daniel Clem
    You lucky. In a limbo you get to wish nice things! Just stay there a little longer. Dreams do come true.

  1423. @ Aghanim
    Thanks for the video, very interesting to see BumpTop.

    @lxt11
    Cool to know that Google acquired Bumptop. We have a nice future ahead of us with such interfaces.

    Now give me a pair of glasses that turn to different sides of the wall whenever I turn my head, and my ‘workspace’ really becomes my workspace.

  1424. The rear trackpad would certainly make it easier (possible) to use the device with just one hand. In one of the conceptual sketches it does show shaking/flicking the device to turn pages, etc. I can envision lots of precarious situations where it might be useful to be able to grip/hold the weight while still being able to do basic navigation with the same hand. As for an either/or choice, I’d love to have BOTH the TP and the Digitizer! (My fingers are crossed!!)

  1425. Rohan,

    I really like the Calendar. It will make it quick and easy to load in events. I do have one request which is that the user be able to customize the first column (birthday, appointment, etc.) It would be very helpful to be able to load in uncommon events and only have to type them one time and have them saved for the future. Maybe you have already planned this in, but if not please consider it.

  1428. ok show us your hilarious side then, please … am sure Atul and all of us would love to read those comments too

  1433. Rohan mentioned LiveShare, and with the Skype conference calling features, we could do some fun media collaborations. There are some music videos on Youtube that were compiled by musicians playing together from distant locations… I’d love to see that sort of thing happening LIVE. The Adam will certainly have the tools to take advantage of that sort of thing, once bandwidth, websites and apps catch up.

  1434. Richard you missed my point. I didn’t make those observations. They came from two different articles about adam that I found while searching the web.

    My intended use will be as an ebook reader, web surfing, and GPS if I can mount something that large in my truck.

    As for your point #3.
    What´s your focus on one hand use anyway? Do you visit a lot of adult sites?

    I have found through personal experience that the one who makes the most noise about something is usually the worst offender.

    …………………………….Tom C

  1435. actually … we just have to come up with the lines for the new blog post and Rohan would just smile/wink his way thru them… what about the pics/videos you may ask… thats easy too… we just have to extend the homemade Adam-project (Gigantor?) and have everyone take their own pics /videos of them and Rohan would run them by his smiley checklist

  1437. Not positive about user replaceable batteries?

    Never traveled and ran out of batteries?

    In addition batteries deteriorate. You want to buy a complete new Adam when all you want is a new battery for longer juice?

    Replaceable batteries seem to me a must and I always feel sorry for Apple users when their battery dies.

    By the way: Apple is very generous when you buy a new battery: “In a support document, Apple tells us that when you eventually send your iPad in to have its battery replaced, Apple will just send you a new iPad instead.” So not only are you without a machine for 1 or 2 weeks, you also loose your apps and data. (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/apple-free-ipad-with-every-replacement-battery/)

  1438. But you have to like all the theories about the mystery feature! They are amusing and genius!
    I personally filled a lot gaps in my tech knowledge base.

  1440. We all know…after US release, maybe in February. But you will be able to pre order on line.

  1442. @Edju

    🙂 , People will make app suggestion and request for extra accessory and merchandised stuff.

    ————————————————————————————————————————

    My Guess :

    1.) Induction Charging (Prestige, The movie also connected to magic and Nikolas Tesla)
    2.) IR Sensor
    3.) Back TrackPad (for sure!)

    -D5720A80 = -(D 5720 A^80)

    A 3D plot

    Try Pasting it in “Wolfram Alpha”

    Hope you know Mathematics! 😉

  1443. @ Pratik… reading on a bouncing train, mowing the grass, cooking dinner, who knows. For those of us who are compulsive multi-taskers :p

  1445. @Nishit
    Is Linux For You on line? If yes, can you post the link here?
    Thanks in advance!

  1446. Tom C said (smart):
    > The NI Adam will not be an iPad killer, it will be a netbook killer.

    Richard responded (not so smart):
    > Don´t think that you can replace your laptop with an Adam either.

    Now, I don’t mind not-so-smart, iguanas for example, but I think that even an iguana would know the difference between a netbook and a laptop, because it could see that one was bigger, even if some of the other difference weren’t so obvious.

  1447. I’m wondering if there will be an app from NI for video chat (optimized for adam’s screen size, etc)…

    Anyone care to speculate?

  1448. It makes sense for Notion Ink to discard the trackpad if they really do have an active digitizer. There’s an older video where Rohan describes the trackpad as being good for clicking small links in the web browser. A stylus coupled with an active digitizer can do this and Notion Ink wouldn’t have to worry about patenting the backside trackpad design. Also, I can imagine the backside would be much more appealing/smooth without the trackpad.

    Some clues that hint to this are the fact that the trackpad is not listed under the tech specs and the recent image of the Adam with the trackpad was never actually shared with us in a blog post. Or maybe Notion Ink is still getting the patent for the trackpad. I’m not really sure.

  1449. rohan said earlier nothing has been taken out and the reason for the track pad is so that we can enjoy the full suite of adobe flash player cuz you need a mouse in order for flash to work fully cuz the mouse has to hover for some options and click for others, well if there was no track pad then we would only click so then not all sites on the www would work so that is the reason, other than that i wouldnt really know why it is on there cuz it appears navigating with your fingers will be a breaze so thats the only conclusion i can draw.

  1451. @Sowmya: Yes I know but it is a brilliant one, don´t you think? With the video´s and all. Very well done. And be honest, wouldn´t you want your Adam to be able to make a cup of coffee? 😉

    @Tom C.: As you posted those observations without further comments I assumed they were yours or at least you agree with them. Anyway, it is interesting to see how the tablet market is developing and how people are dealing with the ever increasing number of choices of ultraportable devices like tablets or the MBA.
    And on point 3: great comeback! Don´t worry I am a decent guy, too busy visiting tech sites and keeping up with the comments here to look at anything else. And thanks for helping make the blog a bit more fun among all the ´Oooohhhhh I love Adam….I want it soooo much…..cannot wait…..please Rohan…please…my sister bought an iPad: I cried for three days!´-like comments 😉

  1452. @JuJu

    I’m leaning towards agreeing with you about the inductive charging. At this point, I don’t think that is the mystery feature either…

  1453. Sounds like it is! Unless Rohan wanted to say that he agrees with Aravind, not the Adam hast it. Bit I hope it does have it!! That would be GREAT!

  1458. Seeing all this hope/hype on Adam, what if the product is not as good as its being imagined here ? certainly there will be some let down but how much is a deal breaker ? for me the pixel qi screen’s usability/integration would play a major part and also the overall build of the product. A pleasant surprise will be a digitizer. 1080p, flash etc while good will not be my primary need.

  1459. iPad is 4:3, adam is 16:9. Measurements are made diagonally. So the diagonal measurement of ipad’s 9.7″ 4:3 screen is shorter than the diagonal measurement of adam’s 10.1″ screen.

    Yes, it will be the same size as the Archos 101. Both have a 10.1″ 1024 x 600 displays. And so do most netbooks and other tablets.

  1460. “give an update”
    “details given”
    These are two phrases in RED font, in entire blog-post. Read them and CONNECT them. If we do…..it is IR. So obvious, so revealing !

  1461. @Bharath B Lohray
    I think Rohan explained this in an earlier post. I can’t recall which post at this moment. 😦

  1464. bhavya….When your sister see yours in action she can sell hers on ebay then purchase an Adam. Although, by that time, they might be in back order status for awhile.

  1465. We shall have to see if pre-ordering opens before any review untis are sent out. It might seem a little odd if Notion Ink are expecting us all to pre-order umpteen adams each without a proper introduction video (showing hands on use) or the chance to read proper reviews from established tech websites. Could look like there is something to hide.

    Fingers crossed this is not the case, if it lives up to only the announced features list and useability (ignoring the secret sensor do-hickey) I shall be buying an ADAM without to much hesitation : )

  1466. @Gecko: Maybe you can read the post of Tom C again. Especially this part:
    “4. Computer dependance: Want to replace your laptop with an iPad? Sorry, you can’t. The iPad is a computer accesory as it relies on it for many of it’s basic tasks like downloading content.”

    I was responding to that part, and it clearly says LAPTOP. But don´t worry, I wouldn´t expect a gecko to have an attention span long enough to read a blog that is longer than two or three lines. (and let´s leave it at that and stay on topic from now on, you got to call someone you don´t know iguana and not smart so you´ll be happy)

    So back on that topic, dear Gecko, I agree that a lot of people will be choosing between a netbook and tablet and will decide to buy a tablet because that´s the hot gadget right now. But if they are still happy a few weeks after purchase will depend on their use. If you write more than just some emails you´re better off with a netbook than a tablet for example. And that´s why some iPad owners traded it in for a MBA. If the MBA wouldn´t be so expensive I´d get one myself instead of a tablet to be honest.

  1467. @VB: yeah in his enthusiasm Wouter Kapteijn may have put in more words than you were looking for.
    But the import of his remarks is undeniable : the NI-coterie will not bow to market demands or even cries from Adam enthusiasts, at the expense of their core aspirations for Adam.

  1468. I finally got around to playing with a Galaxy tab at my local outlet – gotta say it isn’t a shaby product. I can’t see that helping Adam’s market.

    Can’t wait until I get a chance to play with an Adam – hopefully they’ll be available in retail stores as well. Thinking about getting one of each and seeing which is more usable for me in the long run (or maybe keeping both lol). Or at the very least maybe a good Xmas gift for my girlfriend, which I could perhaps play with :P.

    The wait is unbearable lol.

  1469. I have suggested the mystery feature may be a digitizer for a long time now.

    And if not that, then I think it is a proximity sensor. Those are two features that every tablet needs and are missing from most, if not all tablets. And they both qualify as sensors. IMO they make more sense to me than some of the other possibilities being discussed.

    So I really hope that this is unofficial confirmation from Rohan. But on the other hand,
    with everything so secretive right now, and backlash from the investors over less significant information getting out, why would he provide confirmation right now? Though I know he is dying to tell us so maybe this is his way of telling us without really telling us. 😉

    I guess we won’t know for sure until December 9th, and that sure seems like an eternity away!!!

  1471. Wait, so why should I not wait for the update version to come out, probably with Android 3 on it? Will this be a free software only update or a 2nd generation hardware update as well?

  1474. Wow one nicely placed smile by Rohan and the blog catches fire with speculation! A digitizer would be awesome. I’m not a big track pad person so I would, if I had to choose, go with a digitizer. Rohan follows the blog, and that is getting harder to do with all the posts. Maybe he will give us a tidbit midweek to help break it up a bit. The best thing he might do for the blog followers here would be to give us a pre-order head start over the general public.

  1475. @Sowmya

    Even if adam 1 has a digitizer, I am sure Rohan has enough tricks up his sleeve that we will still want adam 2. I bet he blows us away with improvements in adam 2 even if adam 1 already has a digitizer.

    But no matter how good adam 2, adam 3, etc are… My adam 1 will be very special and I will never get rid of it. It will be kept in the family forever! Heck, it will be a new family member!

    …Wow, I just realized I will be a father of 5 very soon. 😉

  1476. @Rohan…I have a USB powered Blu-Ray drive (Plextor PX-B120U). Will ‘adam’:

    1. Provide power?
    2. Recognize the drive?
    3. Have NATIVE support for playback of Blu-Ray (and DVD) media?

    On a different note, about the thing that 1 nearly guessed…was it public or via an EAP submission app concept i(-case)?

  1477. I have to laugh at myself because less than a year ago I was in Sony store busting the salesman about the price of an ebook reader. Then my daughter gave me an old laptop and I suffered with the heat and weight and plain awkwardness of trying to read in bed.

    What I did learn though was I liked surfing the web while watching tv. I also started downloading movies and a screen in your hands looks the same size as a big screen 10′ away. I also played a couple of movies via a S video cable to the big screen. It wasn’t that great but the HDMI out should have real possibilities.

    So here I am getting ready to spend 4 or 5 times as much money as what I told that Sony salesman an ebook reader was worth. But adam isn’t just some ebook reader.

    …………………Tom C

  1478. …format didn’t come out quite as expected, I’ll try again and add to it…

    [color]i[cough](-case) & 2+2=1 “else”

  1479. … on my knees; hands touching fully on palms in front of me….

    “oh please, please let it be a digitizer. Its the only feature I can imagine for me that would take this device to a new plane.

    Please. I’ll never sin again. I swear it. Uhm, well, I’ll try not to. Ok ok, whatever – but please make it a digitizer anyway.”

  1481. Hello Rohan,
    my problem is not that I can’t wait any longer. Many people (including me) ask for the release date and for videos from a real ADAM. And they don’t get an answer!
    If an answers would be “I cannot show videos because…” or “3 to 4 weeks after FCC approval” that would be ok. It wouldn’t be the answer we want to here but it would be an answer.

    So: Silence is my problem.

    By the way: If you need more time to deliver a fantastic product: Take all the time you need. But tell us the delay. We’re hoping every day to get new information on when we can order and again after reading the next week end special we are disappointed.

  1483. OK, that smiley face got my hopes up again… but I’m a little afraid to hope too much… maybe that’s going to be part of the second generation adam??? Oh boy, I pray to the NI gods that this is real! Imagine what that would mean for all the professionals (myself included) that go to conferences/courses/meetings/doctors in office, etc. etc.!!!! Please, please make it so!!! I make a pact right here that if this is the feature I will dust and brush my OCR software that I’ve worked on for the past two years and make it available for the adam!!! Please please please!!!!

  1484. well since i don’t have kids but i still wanna comment.. let me say.. My brother would love it… he paints wonderfully..

  1486. Guys… International CES (Consumer Electronics Expo) is January 6-9…

    CES is HUGE and the Adam made a big splash there last year. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is where the final version is shown and announced.

  1488. Rohan

    I love the new features section. I surprised myself when I became excited by noticing the curled opening page of “The Light Fantastic”. I really hope you have a slick reader with the page turning feature. On your early demos the pages just slid across. I didn’t realize that was important to me.

    ………………..Tom C

  1489. Are you saying that Notion Ink do not need to setup their own bookstore because Adam comes with Adobe Air which can bypass all the DRM protection that these other companies put in their eBooks? Are you telling me that Adam is agnostic?

  1490. @gecko do you know the one about Princess Leia and Queen Amidala? I read it on slashdot, and it should have merited +5000 funny.

  1493. Flapping of a butterfly’s wings causes a tornado in Brazil

    My My!, a smiley from Rohan has snowballed into a huge speculation..

    Well if it is the digitizer, Greg – all credit goes to u for predicting it rite…. this will be second sixer with the first one for the binary code….

    if it is not a digitizer.. well, we will have another round of speculation for that…..

  1494. As per calendar app… Love it! But please include options for us to enter custom event descriptions, etc to the lists.

    I know you said “We integrated your contact list with the Calendar and entered a list of all possible events”…

    But I think there may be some events that are unique to an individual, though used frequently. So it would be nice to be able to add them to the list and choose them each time with a single tap.

  1495. The counter changes at CST, US. Does it mean that the event on Dec 9 is in a place that falls under CST? Like Chicago, Dallas etc? what big tech events are lined up for that day there?

    Or is it Rohan’s salute to Greg who found out about the counter’s purpose and who happens to reside in a place that follows CST?

  1496. Actually been up for a long time and trying like heck to get to this blog. Sucks that I had to take care of other stuff first…

  1498. @Gigantor,

    A) Install the android app of the relevant store
    B) Download the book you’re interested in
    C) Use the app bundled with ADAM to read

    Once the book is downloaded and authorized, you should be able to read it in any reader which can use Adobe

  1499. @RK, Greg is in MS(D)T timezone so as me :). Rohan why don’t you plan to visit Greg and me (I can drive to SLC if required)

  1500. @RK, Greg is in MS(D)T timezone so as me :). Rohan why don’t you plan to visit Greg and me (I can drive to SLC if required). If you can come over to Denver, I will for sure give you a everlasting experience like Colorado 14’ers (mountains over 14000ft, Rocky Mountain National park, Ski resorts just to name a few) 🙂

  1501. Does the email’d app have spell checker and the ability to keep adding new words to the dictionary?

    The dimensions of Adam are on par with ipad v1.0. Apple will announce their 2.0 in Jan which would go on sale Mar/Apr. Definitely it’s going to thinner and less bulkier with more storage etc. Hope Adam doesn’t end up looking the fat cousin of that model.

  1503. unique !.. ( i am sure Gecko is gonna pick this line)

    well yes there should be provision to enter custom events

    and also a kind of repeat thing ( i dont need a alarm) will be good -just say if i have to visit a doc at a particular time every week, or a friend for dinner..- it would be good if multiple instances can be created from single entry..

  1504. mile high city. been there one full winter. Nice place. Less populated compared to few states in US.

  1505. @Sowmya

    I don’t know that I want all the credit for predicting a digitizer…

    I mean, look at how excited everyone is right now at the possibility of a digitizer. If it’s not a digitizer, then I have to take the blame for getting everyone’s hopes up!

    No wait, It was just a logical guess on my part. Rohan posted the smiley face! So it’s his fault! 😉

    Well, I guess I can at least share the blame with Rohan if it’s not a digitizer and everyone’s hopes are smashed…

    And one more thing we can bet on. If there is not a digitizer in adam 1, there will be in adam 2, as well as every other tablet out there (eventually) because I’m sure all the manufacturers are going to realize the need for a digitizer.

  1507. Software glitch? Sounds like a nightmare.

    They better hope is not phishing!- That’s a lot numbers and e-mail addresses!

  1508. @Sowmya

    Thanks, but I’m going to be 45. At my age, the thought of more kids frightens me. Even if we are taking about an adam and not a real kid. LOL

  1511. @Rohan, Can you ship adam with a Protective screen film (as an accessory that is pre-installed) for few extra bucks. I always had the issue of bubbles appearing when ever I apply it.

    Everyone would be applying the screen protector for sure. how about have it pre-installed for extra $5-10 so that I don’t need to worry about screen from day 1.

  1512. @Rohan, hope the price of adam @ 399-498 doesn’t require a contract with a 3G provider (3G models). Please don’t tie us to a contract at the above price like others.

  1513. Although, there’s only so much data that is compatible with syncing with a service like Google Calendar – if it’s anything like my iphone and the contacts system that syncs back and forth between google and “loses data” and numbers sometimes (i.e. more than 3 indicies used to delete all other contact numbers for a single contact once upon a time) additional features and fields may not be the best service.

    I absolutely will be using some sort of subversion for all my contacts and calendar items, specifically (and most likely) Google; instant subversion is just too important a feature to worry about anything else.

  1514. I played with it too at a local BestBuy store. I was not impressed. I found it to be slow when I tried to use the Internet. Maybe it was the wifi connection, but it was slow.
    Granted that I was there for a few minutes only, and my wife wanted to leave the store. So, maybe I go back and try it again.
    I did like image they use for the the desktop.

  1516. Yep, Raj… I’m in the MST zone.

    As far as Rohan coming here to visit us…

    I was speculating he will be at CES in January and was trying to convince my wife to let me go. But since she said I have to decide on spending money on an Adam or on a trip to Las Vegas for CES… Well, both would be great but I figure I can buy an adam and then video chat with Rohan for now!

    Though it would be nice to meet him someday. You know, get my adam autographed and have a photo taken with him. (For now, I guess I’ll have to enlist Vector66 to put his photoshop skills to work and create a composite photo of me and Rohan – LOL).

  1521. oh my… ya thanks for helping me out… recurring events… (gosh. was thinking for a word for a long time…its only 12 and am already sleepy.. my brain is refusing to work)

  1522. On the other hand… you can say: Ok, next year I buy you an Eve, and I go to the event!
    Fair is fair.

  1523. +1.

    And regarding the optional protective film, most likely users won’t need it as Adam’s screen is scratch resistant and finger print resistant.

    Providing that option to add that accessory is a good idea though for those who need it. $1-$2 would be max. One can get at retail a protective film for that price.

  1528. @RK
    I would not get an optional protective film either, specially an expensive one, like those used in the Itouch! They are a headache to place. They are expensive, and they charge you to apply it too. If one is needed, $2 would be max (if you feel you need it), since the Adam will hardly need it.

  1529. Its there, actually there are BIG red PLUS marks there at the end of all the list items (not shown in this old shot). So now you can add “Read Blog” entry as well as an event!
    🙂

  1530. “Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common use by a people, and is known only in writings, as the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.” from http://www.dictionary.net/dead+language

    It is very clear that some of the people blogging here are not up to speed on American culture and don’t know the first thing about producing a product in the US.

    Rohan, please consult an American Company to proof your website and your paper publications to be included with the adam Tablet. Americans require everything to be spelled out for them and laid out in front of them to purchase your product. Without blatant specifics repeated over and over in plain sight, there will be too much skepticism for an “every day” customer to make a purchase. If a customer has to read through tons of information to find an answer, they will give up and buy another product. Please consider other US websites and their layout on their products. Everything is “spelled out” in an obvious and “in your face” format so there are no questions when attempting to make an informed decision.

    This will be my last post regarding this topic. It is clear that there are other people on this blog that wont stop until they have the last word.

  1531. You are right. The back trackpad would have been in the FEATURES section if it made it, but it didn’t. It’s handy, however, if you are holding the Adam in one hand and a sandwich or drink with the other while riding in a bus or train. Maybe the Adam 2 will have it instead. Right now, there are just too many features and we can’t have any more because of the delays. Remember it was suppose to launch in June but because of problems with investors they had to postpone the release to December. Why so late in the year? I think Rohan took that opportunity to add even more features which of course prevented him from releasing the Adam on Thanksgiving day.

  1533. @RK

    “Eve for an EVEnt as in eye for an eye”

    It is not a crime! How about kiss for a kiss. My wife would love that!

  1534. Doesn’t the counter just change at noon in India ? I am saying this because at my point of view (being in Europe) it seems to change when this blog shows 11.30.

  1535. Great! Thanks Rohan!

    Of course that “Read Blog” entry will have to be a recurring event…

  1537. More apt event would be “stop Rohan from sleeping” with an auto timer to keep posting comments to this blog at regular intervals 🙂

  1539. http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-pricing-and-more-1297402/

    “Where Adam initially was expected to ship with WiFi b/g, that’s now been replaced with WiFi b/g/n. Perhaps better still, rather than A-GPS, all versions of the slate – irrespective of wireless connectivity – will have true GPS. That’s been a key complaint about the non-3G iPad, and something we’re pleased to see Notion Ink address”

    Maybe I am misinterpreting what was mentioned in slashgear… Actually not sure if GPS is better than A-GPS. But apparently a true GPS is better than an A-GPS.

    I’m admittedly lost in a sea of GPS types. But as long as Adam’s GPS helps me find my way, all is good…

    What I do know is that they are saying all Adams, even wifi-only adams will have a true GPS.

  1540. Rohan sounded more optimistic on the use of backside-trackpad. He was probably referring to the section of people who would use it as an e-book reader. It may become a very big thing for readers for flipping pages… NI thinks it is the most innovative among new ways of input for browsing. It looked like he was hoping it may catch on among users even for browsing, gaming..
    h t t p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPowc1yM0NQ
    I believe I might like it. As Rohan said the Qwerty keyboard for cellphones did not look like much of a draw, but it did get its attention from the users as an easy way of input. As the interviewer put it “will take some getting used to”, especially because the screen itself is the primary input. Guess, time will tell ..

  1541. “Few came dangerously close,
    to change the fundamentals of light,
    but few realized the power of the same,
    and now it even works at night!”
    If you decipher the above lines it describes the characteristics of Laser. It can be dangerous to get close to them (high power ones). There are used in a variety of powerful applications and can work at night also.

    My second take on the Mystery Sensor is A super small Laser Emitter and Sensor built in Adam which opens up endless application possibilities like proximity sensing, gaming, bar code reading etc. Wow!! I’ll not be surprised to find Adam as a POS device in a Hypermarket or as a control panel in an industrial setting. Way to Go.

  1542. I saw proof of concept of this back around 2003 or so – thanks so much for posting an actual end-user product; I am very excited to see this and where it may lead to. 🙂

  1544. One cannot help but feel like the donkey from Shrek….. “Are we there yet?” “Are we there yet?”….nope not yet.

  1545. So many comments with the word “tesla” mentioned.

    I miss Warehouse 13 .

    Coming back to the controversial smiley Rohan knows the consequences of feeding a hype.

    Either its a digitizer for sure or something better.

  1546. Also, if you think back to the video Rohan showed not long ago it had an “x” in the middle of the screen. Some thought this may have been a tracking pixel for the trackpad. Perhaps it was the tracking pixel for the digitizer?

    [But no idea why it would be on while a movie was playing?]

    I would be happy to swap the trackpad for the digitizer. Seems a bit redundant to have both, no?

  1549. How can greedy companies like AT&T and Verizon make money if they will give out 3G for free? B&N can’t do it, Sony can’t do it, Samsung can’t do it, Apple can’t do it, so how is is possible for Notion Ink to do it?

  1550. How can greedy companies like AT&T and Verizon make money if they will give out 3G for free? B&N can’t do it, Sony can’t do it, Samsung can’t do it, Apple can’t do it, so how is it possible for Notion Ink to do it?

  1551. A-GPS is Assisted GPS; the time to the first GPS fix can shortened because a-gps devices can start with a rough estimation were they are (cell tower triangulation) and download the latest azimuth data from a server.

    1. GPS relies on the satellites alone to calculate its position while AGPS relies on both the satellites and an assistance server
    2. AGPS receivers are mostly equipped on mobile phones while most standalone devices have GPS
    3. AGPS can be more reliable than GPS in certain situations
    4. AGPS can be faster in calculating the actual location than GPS
    5. GPS is generally free while AGPS can incur additional charges
    6. Some AGPS devices are capable of working as stand-alone GPS receivers once they go beyond network coverage

    ( http://www.differencebetween.net/technology/difference-between-gps-and-agps/ )

    As long as point 6 it taken care off AGPS is much better. (AFAIK all popular android phones have a-gps)

    As the term a-gps confuses a lot of people it’s often left out of the spec sheet though.

  1553. @Jai, about the works at night… ever tried to write a letter (pen and paper) in the dark?

  1554. wow comments are hotting up! most flaming i’ve seen on the blow before.

    i have to agree with @Albert Wertz on his advice to make the product ready for main stream america. i really hope notionink has an english grammar specialist working so hard with the UI team that they have no time to proof the website.

    @rohan shravan, can you comment on the distribution channels for Adam? is it going to be sold exclusively online through your own channels, or major retailers, or are you going to partner with suppliers like NVIDIA through there retail channel or strategic partners in each local and international area to get Adam to the people?

    best regards,

  1556. Scrutinizing my accomplishment for the day before going to bed:-
    Morning got up and checked NI blog for updates.
    Went to office and read all the comments till lunch.
    Continued the same after lunch.
    Added comment. Forgot to wish Philip on the comment. Happy birthday Philip. :-).
    Refreshed the page frequently and searched for Rohan’s new smiley.
    Returned home checked the blog again.
    Posting another comment before going to bed.

    Hmm… Except posting comment, another usual day. Time well spent.

  1557. Why would any company give 3G for free. You know how much investment has to be done on the equipment, software, optimization and general maintenance of 3G telecom infrastructure? They are answerable to their shareholders and they have to increase profit every quarter. Where will this money come from?

  1559. I can’t see it being removed – intuitively it makes sense in a scrolling or moving capacity (rather than using the thumbs on one side and not gripping, using a single finger on the other and sacrificing nothing). As far as appeal goes, I don’t intend on starring at the back of the unit, much as I wouldn’t the bottom of a laptop.

    However, this would make getting a jacket/sleeve a little more interesting, as they would have to consider this also. ;P

    He was pushing it in basically every demo video to date – seems like it’d be a little odd to dispense of it now.

  1563. Same temptation here … Have a double trip in early January: Vacation with family in Florida; family goes home, and business trip for me in Las Vegas two days later. Didn’t seem efficient to go back to PA in between … What to do … 2 extra days in Florida or … arrive in LV in time for last day of CES … took the gamble and going to LV just in case, hence my dreams of getting an autograph on my “blog edition” red and black adam 🙂 Worst case scenario, I’ll get a little extra rest before my business starts 😦

    @gecko post way above here … No, I don’t sleep; small company with big dreams, never enough people, time or money … maybe that’s why I’m so hoping for Rohan and NI to succeed; it’s certainly why I’m always up no matter when Rohan posts 🙂

  1564. gimmick? Really didn’t try. But DJVU is essential as it provides maximum compression for books and is a standard format in e-readers.

    In fact, the more formats are supported, the better, of course. Did I mention *.flac and *.cue audio formats?

  1565. @Rohan. Plz answer this query.

    Will adam support devices like external dvdwriters and segatefreeagent(external HDD)

    Thanks.

  1566. I’m guessing the hardware for a 3 g is part of the cost of Adam. Not free, You will go to your local provider ATT@T, ect for a sim card or usb dongle if your provider isn’t GSM. You would have to sign up for a data plan. Adam is very much a non propriety device which gives you the option of choosing who you want. Sorry I don’t believe there will be any 3 g. Adam 2 will likely be a 4g device. Just guessing here.

  1568. @nd,

    I do not think the flac and cue formats are hardware(Tegra) supported. So, any app which allows you to play those formats will use a lot of raw processing power and drain the battery much faster than a hardware supported format like AAC or mp3.

  1569. I don’t know the details of the FCC tests, but laboratories like UL test the safety of the device in common hazardous situations (e.g. if water is spilled on a running air dryer then does it switch it off or does it catch fire, or does a steam iron press automatically turn off and not cause a fire hazard, how hot does it get etc).

    As far as I know UL certification is not required by law, but is taken into consideration by many when evaluating consumer goods (especially those requiring electricity).

  1571. Yeah my experience wasn’t very long either for all the same reasons.

    I tested out a couple of the key features they were boasting – it seemed relatively snappy, at least compared to a lot of hardware I’ve tried prior. The internet wasn’t bad for me, but I found rotating while on a page did have a negative impact on the performance, which strikes me as a little odd.

    Overall, for what it is and what I expect it to do it seemed pretty strong – of course, I’d really like to see an Adam on display next to it to really show me what I’m missing. 😉 One day soon I hopes I hopes.

  1572. dear friends

    Any volunteers to create a place so as to inform fellow commentors of this blog as soon as pre-booking starts.
    We can sign in somewhere – so that as soon as pre-booking starts, we all get email alert. this is in case Rohan does not announce in the blog beforehand…

    any easy method?

    yours
    shiva

  1573. Rohan just wondering when you are using the Pen for the active digitiser how is it with the matt glass? Is the pen noisy against the glass or does it glide smoothly? 😉

  1574. Can we get a mini projector like Nikon did with their Coolpix S1000pj. That would make this a really useful tool for both business and pleasure.

  1575. Greg:
    > …Wow, I just realized I will be a father of 5 very soon

    Congratulations – your currents kids will have a half-brother! Do you know who the mother is?

  1577. if there is a pen, does that mean it does not have a place to slide into the frame of the adam for safe keeping? None of us have noticed any such spot on the frame. Does that mean this hypothetical pen may be required to dangle via a lanyard? The LG Incite Phone tried something similar with a stylus and it just looked like a mascara stick. Very unappealing for men… much like a European Man purse? lol. Anyhow, I dont think it is a pen because there is no location on the frame for it to be hidden, you all picked apart the pictures and it was not there…. Unless…. there was a side of the adam not shown in a picture like the back? OMG it is a Pen because the holder for it is on the back next to the track pad we still have not seen ! WOOT! ><;

  1578. @Rohan
    Regarding production, a lot of companies (that are confident of meeting FCC requirements) go into production prior to FCC approval – is Notion Ink such a company that it has already begun production? Or are you guys waiting for the green light prior to that marker? (As even if it fails at the FCC, the produced units can still be marketed almost anywhere but the US, which I believe you aim for global distribution channels).

    This is just more of a “If the FCC misses a reasonable timeline” question – how long to get things pumping out? (I have heard production capacity of 100,000units/month, whether or not that is a rumour or fact is unknown to me, but still doesn’t answer my earlier queue).

    Thank you sir.

  1579. @send2dev – excellent. You even caught Greg looking off in entirely the wrong direction which for some reason seems so characteristic. The expression on his face shows the effect of the spicy tongue he’d had at lunch.

  1580. I’m pretty excited about Adam, though I’m starting to wonder now if I got excited about was the hardware and what I projected the Adam would be like.

    The crux of my concern is: Is Notion Ink planning to have an Apple-like closed software system?

    I was at first very pleased when I found out that Adam would be using Android software because of it’s open nature and how it opens the device to many layers of software evolution. i.e. The Android Market

    Now I understand that there is a revenue stream here that Notion Ink is trying to tap here by having their own market, surely there must be a way to toll-booth Android Market?

    The impression I’m getting now is that the Adam is going to have a pretty closed and limited market. i.e. A pretty closed and limited selection of applications.

    Now, if Notion Ink made a good quality software suite, this would satisfy the majority of users. But I think this could be the dividing line between an excellent product and just a good product. If Notion Ink could just it’s software suite development to a few select programs to make them truly excellent and then select some pre-made apps already available on the Android Market that are excellent in their own right… and then let users select their own preference of apps based on their tastes… that would be the difference between excellence and good, to me anyways.

    If Adam becomes as popular as I hope it to be and is also open as I hope it to be, there is high potential of it fostering it’s own developer community to create drivers and other nifty programs for it.

    Maybe I’m misinterpreting whats actually happening (I’m a follower, but admittedly not an avid one). I just want to see this cool lil device that I’ve personally bought into become the best it possibly can be.

    Though honestly, if it does come by default locked down, I’d probably just wait until a community member cracked it for Android Market and customization (just like every other closed Android tablet out there).

    regards,
    Adamdroid

  1583. @rohan
    is the 3g modem hspa or hspa+?
    the other thing that disappoints me is the pixel density.
    still the fact that it is pixel qi makes it much more practical than competitors, so I’ll probably get one.

    Anyways, I’m patiently awaiting the Notion Ink “Cain” with better pixel density, small bezel, 4g, and an active digitizer. will notion ink consider Mirasol display technology?

  1586. @ Rohan

    Sooo, how about all us following your blog like hawks get an email to our given addys for an advance pre-order? Just an hour or so would be nice. Im guessing there will be a long wait if you dont order early.

    Also, how do you think 4G will work on the adam, specifically verizon’s new 4G LTE? Just upgraded my verizon phone to the white droid 2 global so I can pop a sim in dis beoch!

    Thank you Thank you

  1587. I hope AlbertWertz is right, but am a little dubious. Evidence is mixed. (1) We did have a pic of the back showing the trackpad, although that was unofficial and we don’t know where it came from, but it didn’t show a place for the pen; on the other paw (2) we don’t have any actual photos of the Adam yet, so it would be easy to leave out a pen compartment.

    On the other paw (3), the pic of slashed-face Rohan was done, Rohan says, digitally (with fingers), not a stylus. On the other paw (4), that could have been done to misdirect us or because the stylus was misplaced because NI forgot to include a compartment for it in Adam. I’m willing to live with the 4th possibility, even if I have to carry a mascara stick around my neck.

  1589. Well, we can say for certain we are not allowed to see any confirmed pictures of the back, so there is something there or not there we are not to see yet. Dec. 9 may shed light on this … but I like your guess AlbertWertz

  1590. Assuming the hidden feature is in fact a sensor, it would have to meter, monitor, or receive.

    clues:
    1) Meeting with Nikolas Tesla in Missouri on 10th July 1856
    Tesla made a demonstration related to radio communication in 1893
    2) Few came dangerously close, to change the fundamentals of light, but few realized the power of the same, and now it even works at night!
    frequency of light, including radio.
    3) High Priority (high frequency? very high frequency? VHF?)

    I suspect it may be a TV tuner and or a radio tuner.

  1591. 1st time blogger.
    Have been following comments for some time.

    I would also be interested in receiving an email concerning pre-order before releasing to the general public.
    Wondering which carrier or carriers will be selected for 3G. I suppose we will not find out until Rohan lets us know.

    Keep up the GREAT work NI team !!!

  1592. I dunno, an Active Digitizer seems like a stretch at this point – they aren’t likely to do much with the hardware this late in the process (minor tweaks at best), and I suspect the Matte display finish wouldn’t play well with a stylus.

    With all the buzz about an Active Digitizer floating in the last 1000 posts though I think there’s going to be a lot of hype generated over something that isn’t there, which is really going deflate some elations.

  1593. I was under the understanding it would support the 3G network, not the (what might as well be called due to the actual nature of them) 3G+ networks? Maybe it will play nice with HSPA+ and LTE.

  1594. @Robin – It’s rally not pretty easy. I got really lucky (knocking on wood as I speak); my kids are very well behaved, good kids. Nothing like I was as a child. And I know it pisses my mom off because she always said I’d have kids just like me…

    @gecko. Way too funny! I was thinking the mother would be Eve, but Eve will be the sister, right? Nah… Adam is adopted. Rohan is the Father so you will have to ask him who the mother is. And in this context, I hope Rohan has millions of kids!

  1595. This may be a little off topic.
    I teach a course at Loyola College here in Maryland.
    Last week I had the class research NI and the Adam.

    1. No one in the class had ever heard of it
    2. None of them believed it will be out by Christmas
    3. All of them thought marketing wouild have to be seriously expanded to gain any market share
    4. Most agreed the specs are hot!
    5. Only a few of them were willing to take a chance on a start up.

    I only mention this to point out what an up hill battle NI has to establish a presence in the market which is currently dominated by major brands. Most of the students said if they couldn’t hold one in their hads prior to ordering they would not order on line. Please don’t take this as negative I’m just trying to be realistic. I believe in NI.

  1596. Rohan, your smiley brought so much hope and happiness in my heart!

    I have never followed or written on blogs (I’m not joking!!!), but since the discovery of your product I have been truly addicted!

    I hope with all my heart that it has a digitiser, because it would truly make my work much easier and better.

    I’ll go to bed hoping for such a Christmas gift! Thank you so much!!!!!!

  1597. Boy, we’re a pretty sorry lot here. Except for me. NI fixed up the website, and nobody said a thing about it. Except for me. Naturally, I have some more corrections:

    > What’s more the internal file browser, titled Sniffer, locates your data in record time and makes transfers even faster. The Adam is perhaps the friendliest, Most open tablet around, and accepting almost all external memory sources

    First sentence: “titled” seems a bit awkward to me; I’d write “called.” But if it seems natural in British English, let it stand (a Brit will have to issue an official opinion on this).
    Second sentence: downcase “Most” and change “accepting” to “accepts”

  1598. Yeah, im not exactly sure what the deal is with verizons new 4G junk. As far as i know they dont sell any 4G phones so it may just be a network upgrade?

    Im just happy to have a sim again……

  1599. Notion Ink is not giving 3G service away. They are simply including a 3G radio in the adam. It will be unlocked and can be used with any compatible voice/data provider. So those greedy mobile phone companies will still make tons money…

    The cost for a 3g component in the Adam is probably pretty small overall and NI will market the adam with enough margin to make a profit on their end.

    Then if you want to use the 3G in the adam you will have to pay a greedy mobile phone company for 3G service…

    Those greedy mobile phone companies don’t make much, if any on their phones and tablets, but they make a killing on their voice and data plans. That is why they are often able to sell phones really cheap or even give them away for free with a 2 year contract; because they will wring your dry over the course of those two years.

  1600. I too wish we had an edit button!!!

    “It’s rally not pretty easy” is supposed to read “It’s really pretty easy”, or “It’s really not that hard”.

  1601. Then again – an Infrared solar panels fit too; Tesla’s power from space and works at night.

  1603. My initial comment was more of a rounded functionality comment, as opposed to replacing Genesis, but I digress.

    The thing I have a little difficulty is are the number of demonstrations that have taken place and yet the lack of any sort of proper video documentation of the functionality of Genesis itself. Perhaps though I’m just a little too used to the Open Beta style of marketing most companies employ these days.

  1605. Hello — Regarding notifying us about preorders. I hope it is done by email, setting a time 24 hours ahead. Some of us may stay up 24 hours a day to get the blog, but there are some of us who need to get some sleep. With the many time zones, there is no way that everyone can get the notice at the same time, so a 1 hour notice is not very fair. If some of distribution is thru a store or the like, a copy of the email with identification would limit sale to adamites. If by web base, they would have names of those eligible. I feel something along these lines would be of benefit to all. Thanks for consideration.

  1606. is 4g availability even necessary when you can share the WiFi of a cell phone? If you have a 4G cell, just treat it like a modem or broadcast the WiFi to your adam… right? Why pay for 2 separate data plans.

  1607. i did noticed the changes in the connectivity, where before they only mentioned the Wifi and bluetooth. now they included 3g and GPS. They just updated the description to 3g to include the support of HSPA~! I think that belongs to t-mobile (USA), though i’m not sure about AT&T.

  1609. Look what’s been updated under the “Philosophy” section:
    “We believe in creative unity of hardware and user interface design. It reflects in the Adam’s build, which is easy on the eye and the wrist alike, in our home-grown apps and gesture-based UI”

    Gesture based UI 🙂

  1612. Its December…. do we have any news on when the pre-order starts? As far as the mystical mystery goes, i guess he needs to have something up his sleeve for the big debut, esply when people who have signed NDAs are releasing information.

  1613. I think many people will be disappointed when the Adam is launched, not because it doesn’t meet expectations but just because there’ll be nothing to speculate about.

    So Rohan, when are you going to start hinting more about Eve. And then will come Cain & Able. And we mustn’t forget about Lillith. When Adam launches we need more subjects to speculate about.

    BTW, somewhere it was stated that the countdown changes coincide with CST midnight. St. Louis, Missouri (where Tesla had some doings) is in that time zone. Could that just be a random datum?

  1614. And actually that Radio Communication demonstration in 1893 was done at St. Louis, Missouri…

  1615. This is very true for student community, especially when they are short in funds.
    They would possibly spend their money on an established brand, than take a chance – although most will embrace the concept.
    Enter the student discount scheme , and close partnerships with educational institutions.

    I am sure NI has creative ways of approaching this problem, and I am sure the NI / investors weighed these options during their feasibility study.

    All my cousins going to college are excited about Adam, but they say I am the only one who talks to them about it. I tell them to brace themselves for December 9th :), and just follow the crowd!

  1616. @Sowmya,

    >but pomegranate is just a mockery…

    Did you really intend to write that the pomegranate phone is a mockery (make fun of, a satire), or did you mean that it is a mock-up (as in a concept)?

  1617. @jadefalcon
    Nice class survey.Sure. Nobody will seriously sacrifice their money to the product of start up company if there is no well known news from tech review. I myself never thought of any product in the market from the start up company or unknow company even if there are million promises from the company themselves. It may be only few hundred (we die hard adamholic) here in the blog. NI needs good marketing campaign to reach these common people.

  1622. Ok adamadicts, if your bored (like me), tell me the significance of this clue…

    491097600

  1623. A pen without a compartment wouldn’t be a good idea. My old Toshiba Laptop had a compartment and nevertheless I lost the pen.
    I’m sure I will lose the pen without compartment.

  1624. LTE is totally different to UMTS and currently there are no LTE devices available. LTE devices shall be downwardly compatible but a device developed for UMTS will for sure not support LTE.

  1626. @Robin: An active digitizer would be useful in the sense that it would allow for “hover” movements, which would be useful in flash, in case you are on the go and couldn’t attach a usb mouse. However, 3D touch would also allow of hover movements as well. So I don’t think the general population of users would find an active digitizer more useful than 3D touch. If I have to choice between 3D touch with a capacitive stylus and an active digitizer I would choice the former. The little bit of accuracy gained by having an active digitizer wouldn’t compare to having the ability to move in 3 planes. Think of the possibilities for gaming and UI interaction. It would open up a whole realm of possibilities.

  1628. slayda:
    > I think many people will be disappointed when the Adam is launched, not because it doesn’t meet expectations but just because there’ll be nothing to speculate about.

    You can continue to speculate – there’s always Adam 2, and Rohan keeps talking about the “future,” sometimes even in scare italics, but a lot of us are probably just speculating to kill the time before we actually get an Adam. Then we plan to play with the Adam and resume our so-called lives.

  1629. Nice survey and the results are very good for NI. It’s entirely reasonable for the students (or for most people) to be leery of Adam before they can see one. That’s fine. Adam will get out to the techies, reviewers, lizards, and suchlike first, and build from there. NI can’t possibly supply a million Adams the first month; maybe in the first year. Plus there are bound to be glitches along the way – this is the 1.0 version of a machine from the 1.0 version of a company with a 1.0 version distribution network. Best to ramp up slowly, and deal with the inevitable burps and belches among those of us who know not to be troubled by them.

  1630. i think it will be a magnetic sensor – magnadoodle comes to mind … some cool magnetic accessories will allow all sorts of cool things to be done without actually touching the tablet (and leaving those icky fingerprints) –

    man… i feel like i’m in the da vinci code.

  1631. oh, and this:

    > The Adam makes room for all your storage requirements, with a memory expandable up to 128GB

    Does seem to imply internal memory (ssd?). Tech Specs page doesn’t really clarify matters, though.

  1633. Dominic You have just made a good argument for 3D Touch with capacitive stylus. Maybe Rohan’s smiley a while back was because he is giving 3d touch. I would say his non propriety slant would lend him to considering the general population. Oh … the speculation….

  1635. @Robin That is what I thought. I hope an A-GPS device can obtain a fix even if it started cold in the middle of Antarctica? The almanac data is not mandatory to achieve fix is it?

  1637. OMG! How people speculate? The server hosting the NI website happens to be in Arizona, so it defaults to MST.

    @Rohan, could/would you throw some light on the cloud vis-a-vis local storage for the Adam’s ecosystem? (WRT apps as well as data)

  1638. @Kam: “I think that belongs to t-mobile (USA),..”

    I hope you are correct. Then, I just transfer my sim card from my current gizmo to ADAM I.

    @Paul Kemp: “Hello — Regarding notifying us about preorders. I hope it is done by email, setting a time 24 hours ahead.”

    Forget a 24-hour notice to to pre-order adam I. Instead, please give me a 24-hour advance option over the general public to buy 10K shares of NI when it goes public.

  1639. For everyone who has been wanting the Adam for drawing purposes and you have an Android phone I would recommend taking a look at Autodesks SketchPad which was released today. I played around on it with my HTC Evo and it is pretty nice. Of course having a screen that is over double the size will make it much more enjoyable.

  1641. Speaking more about my last comment even without the digitizer I think that you would be able to draw very easily. If you just purchase a capacitive stylus I think you could create some really nice stuff.

    All I would really want on top of that is an app that will allow me to take notes from my classes seeing as how I can just use this sketchpad app to quickly draw up any designs I come up with

  1642. Can’t wait for this! I wonder, will it be available at places like Amazon or are we going to have to order it directly from Notion Ink?

  1644. Is NI planning on releasing shares or opening up the company for shareholders? Any plans in the future. I would definitely be interested if they were. What do you guys think? Is there any arrangement at present that is preventing NI from doing this?

  1645. Even I think the same, especially because Rohan had said in one of his first interviews that NI did a good research on the use-case scenarios and found it very innovative concept.

  1646. @Greg; thats an easy one: one of the main creators of Adam was born; some guy who wants to realize his dreams and who devours this blog daily ….

  1647. A questionable correction to the website – and certainly very minor. I am willing to be corrected by the gramma police, but I think the following two adjustments are valid.

    Under “Design”, looking at “the Curve”

    FIRST

    text reads “It adds a practical dimension, as well.” – I believe the comma is unnecessary here.

    further down it reads “The Result? Design that’s comfortable and practically elliptical.” This makes no sense to me at all. In fact, I cannot think what possible alternative word should have gone in the place of “elliptical”, maybe ergonomic, except that has already been said in a preceding sentence. What is meant by elliptical, adam is not elliptical anywhere.

    Good work on improving the language on the website over all

    Phillip (just to increase my name-counter)

    What do others think of these adjustments?

  1648. Yep. Too bad I don’t have a prize to offer you. But at least you can claim you knew Rohan’s birthday.

  1649. What about TeslaTouch? http://www.teslatouch.com/ Its a thin layer that simulates textures. It could simulate a keyboard or many other things such as paint. It works with touch screens and doesn’t have to have a specialized chassis.

  1650. Next correction,

    Under “Design”, under “the Material”.

    “At Notion Ink, We hate…”. The W should be lower case.

  1652. More than just a coincidence:

    Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone official launch expected on 9th December

    http://www.newsden.net/sony-ericsson-playstation-official-launch-expected-on-9th-december-5050/

    “Last time we saw spec sheet of PlayStation phone, it was said that it will be coming with Google’s upcoming Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. So is Google going to be announcing Android Gingerbread on 9th December too? Well there is no confirmation from both Google and Sony Ericsson over it, so will have to wait until the event day.”

  1653. Phillip:
    > I am willing to be corrected by the gramma police

    Oh, no, Phillip, did you set me up for this? Well, sonny boy, the gramma police are going to let you off with a warning this time, but next time it’s off to tea cozies and biscuits with you!

    (p.s. I still don’t think this stuff should be crowd-sourced)

  1654. It’ll be available first, according to Rohan, through NI’s partner distributors. Don’t know if Amazon is one or not, but it really shouldn’t make any difference. After that, there will be “shelf availability,” which most people interpret as meaning available in stores, but it could also mean that NI is partnering with Ikea.

  1655. that would be wicked BUT i dont think we’re there yet. All this speculation is leading you guys to drink a lot of kool-aid. LOL

  1656. @send2dev
    that was funny…
    oh poor greg is turning his face away.. Angry that Rohan didn’t let him pose with the ADAM..

  1657. @greg
    u are cyberstalking Rohan !!! 🙂 u seem to not only know the blog posts in and out but also his biodata….

  1659. Speculation never ends… but i guess the euphoria will naturally die down and we will be happy using the real ADAM … and MAY BE tune in on saturdays…. if the tradition continues…

  1660. @RK
    you dont need to sleep when you are living the life of your dreams…….and above all bringing all your dreams to reality…..#Rohan
    🙂
    Regards,

  1661. Uh, yeah, there’s an arrangement that prevents NI from going public. The investors don’t want it. In fact, we’re not even supposed to know who the investors are. It’s been widely speculated that Reliance is an investor, so you could buy stock in them. It’d be incredibly weird for them to go public before the product actually launches – why would the investors want to dilute their shares?

  1662. sowmya said I have a big butt:

    > Gecko u have a huge fan base…

    but then asked for pictures. Not of my butt. This is my sweetie, Calyxa The Fair:

  1663. Im leaning towards swapping my sim ….. no need to burn both batteries at the same time.

    I just keep seeing these ads for the verizon 4G network dont see any devices so im not sure if its just a network upgrade or actually something new that will require new hardware.

    The new Droid 2 global is the only one i know of on verizon that takes a sim. Just ordered the white one so when i get the adam i can just swap sims, i hope.

  1665. Oh, yeah, reptile math – arithmetic, really – is pretty well limited to 1 and many. But it does look like I can teach you a thing or, uh, many.

  1667. @RK

    The complete sentence that you are quoting is:

    The Tegra SoC houses 8 independent processors – in addition to the two Cortex A9 cores, there are processors to accelerate audio and video, a GeForce GPU and more.

    As you can see it says it has 8, and that those eight are composed of the 2 Cortex A9 cores plus the others for audio, video, GPU, etc.

  1669. What about TeslaTouch? http://www.TeslaTouch.com This is a way of feeling textures on touch screen surfaces. It’s paper thin so it doesn’t require a change to the chassis and can make it feel like you’re typing on a real keyboard!! It can also simulate a very wide range of other textures such as paint! Since he mentioned Tesla in this post it goes together. He also talks about how “touch environments” are changing! Just an idea.

  1670. That would probably be the most ridiculous thing ever…and would definitely relate to Tesla more with OTA electricity/charging. This would be a game changer. No other way to describe it.

  1671. but there was a picture leaked.. i guess its still there in the notion addicts forum, that does show the back of the ADAM with a trackpad… but not sure.. !!!!

  1672. Well Sowmya. I tried. I really tried to read all of them but they just grow sooooooo quickly. My original tactic was read all the initial posts and them read the new ones when manageable or at least skim. It’s only Tuesday and there’s already over 1,600.

    And remember, I’m not REALLY the Queen of Hearts, just her stand-in (this means I can eat her tarts) but don’t have the authority to actually chop heads (though I AM allowed to scream it in order to scare the infidels). Plus I had to assume a mantle of power in order to express the necessary righteous indignation required by Joshua’s post 😛

    And I am not a cult member, thought it might seem so. I am only 98% sure I’ll get the adam. It is the tablet that most seems to suit my needs and I DO need one, but I am also a VERY careful shopper. Between being a starving student and an environmentalist I have to be. Can’t go either wasting money or increasing my carbon footprint now, can I?

  1675. Rohan,

    I’m confused about the GPS. On the old website, it said that it was an AGPS, then it was later changed to GPS, as it also is now on the current site’s “Tech Specs”. But on the “Features” section, it says GPRS. So, which is it? Thanks.

  1677. Hi Rohan,

    Another small correction

    In the Features section,

    a. NVIDIA is written as NVidia and Nvidia. As per their website, they write themselves as NVIDIA.

    b. I assume that both NVIDIA and Tegra are registered trademarks. Hence, you should probably write it as NVIDIA (R) Tegra (TM).

    In case you haven’t already, I would urge you to check with the PR team at NVIDIA to get the official info.

  1681. Rohan,

    Well, there is sill hope that atleast this once I get a response to my Qs
    1. Any thing exciting like the FaceTime on Adam?
    2. Any invites to the launch event in India?
    3. Any insights in to the ad creatives for the Adam (in the US or India)

  1684. As someone who came to the US from India in the 80s, I have witnessed firsthand prevailing views about India progress from indifferent and negative to positive over the years. Early this year I came across Adam tablet on the Web, was delighted with the features and have been eagerly following it ever since. I was really disappointed when it did not release in July. I look forward to it being released soon as possible. I am a big supporter of Adam and Notion Ink.

    Having said that, a lot that goes on here seems like a geek fest. There is a lot of hyperbole about it being revolutionary, etc. where it really seems to be an evolutionary product. The mystery feature may make it revolutionary or disruptive, but that will only be known for sure in the future.

    Geeks already love this product, and so do I (I have been called a geek as well). However, I want Adam to be sold widely, not just to the geeks. Unfortunately, Notion Ink already lost the first mover advantage to the iPad. I am afraid it is also missing out on the Christmas/holiday shopping season in the US. I wish Rohan would seriously consider releasing it to the market as quickly as possible.

    Rohan is very intelligent, articulate, and marketing-savvy CEO. Through his blog he is continuing a two-way conversation with his customers, even before the first product is out. It is a great campaign, but again limited to geeks. It would be great if there were some kind of campaign for the general public as well. I understand, Notion Ink may not yet have the deep pockets for such a campaign that many of its competitors have. However, it would be nice to at least send some tidbits about Adam to not just the tech blogs, but general newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, etc.

    One other thing to add to the marketing campaign would be to send Adam for review to influential reviewers like David Pogue at the New York Times as soon as Adam is shipped to EAP participants. David Pogue will immediately compare it with iPad and other tablets. I’m sure Adam will win. David Pogue is widely popular and can help a lot with making Adam popular.

    So in the end, go Rohan and go Adam!!

  1685. You know no one ever noticed (or commented) on why this image of the adam was photoshopped??

    Bottom left hand corner is definitely photoshopped if you look carefully and enlarge it. The join or seam cannot be seen and looks slioghtly distorted and odd at where the glass joins. Maybe this is where the pen for the active digitizer will go – 🙂 rohan?

  1686. Also if you remove the trackpad on that side you propably have room for the pen to be stored (although i am not sure how much internal space a track pad takes up?)

  1687. That’s fine and understandable! 🙂 Even i would have done that!
    It really takes a long time to establish confidence on a firm, especially a new one. Its a slow process and takes a HUGE amount of consistency!
    We will try our best!
    Regards

  1688. Nice catch there; there’s no way that’s a reflection or JPEG compression artifact. If image 4 was doctored, though, it was a much better job. The lower edge of that area looks a little iffy, though, after playing with the contrast/gamma/brightness…


  1690. I was just thinking about the weather app and Ney York being shown as location, it must be the venue for the big announcement in USA.

  1691. I never heard anyone speak about this. Should there not be a way to make regular phoen calls from an adam that has the 3G built in? Is that mot more or less the phone circuits with a SIM in it?

    It would be cool to have an app to make phone calls too 😀

  1692. > Oh, no, Phillip, did you set me up for this?

    Maybe there was just a little gecko bait in that one.

    >I still don’t think this stuff should be crowd-sourced

    Can we still crowd-surf? pleeeeeeeeease

  1693. I can give you a response, but not an answer, and I suspect that nobody in Notion Ink is allowed to give you an answer to any of these yet, but don’t feel bad, many questions are awaiting the grand entrance!

  1694. Several peeps here mentioned that they are going to buy some other tablet or ereader if the Adam is not going to be released in time for Christmas. In fact, i’m sure some already have. And once you’ve bought a different device, it would be too costly to buy the Adam later. It would be wiser to just wait it out for the Adam 2. That means Notion Ink already lost a lot in sales for just this month alone.

  1695. There’s no guarantee that’s a stylus holder, but even if it were, there’s nothing particularly awful about that spot. Any proper holder for a digitizer’s stylus has a clicking action anyways (like an SD card slot), so gravity isn’t much of a concern.

  1696. In Defense of Language.
    At first, I was also puzzled by the way Rohan builds his syntax. But as I look more closely, I realized that it all makes sense. It goes hand in hand with what he has been saiyng all along about his vision and the Adam.

    About the meaning of Rohan’s words when he describes his vision/philosophy…
    I will refer to the parts mentioned by Phillip:
    “A design that’s comfortable” = the bezel – it is comfortable – it is round – sort of elliptical

    “and practically elliptical” =The bezel is elliptical in shape – yet practical. It is elliptical in a practical way. No elliptical in the way some galaxies are: nice view, but what can you do with them. The adverb practically makes a lot of sense here.

    So the key words here are comfortable and practical – they are both paired (coexist) with practical – meaning that the Adam was designed with the idea of confortablity and practicality in mind.That is the idea behind the bezel.

    The are many geometric figures where the golden ratio is present. This can see in nature as well. Think of shells, and even ears!

    Art and nature – aesthetic and practicality = Adam.

    Viva Adam.

  1697. @jadefalcon it’s correct,
    Even in India so many people don’t know about it.
    Whenever I told to my colleagues or other persons, they get surprised and asking me: if it’s so good why I don’t know about it? I don’t know what to reply them. It looks like all the hype is within the blog followers only. In India there are many people proud of this and ready to buy it. Almost all the college students and IT guys will buy this. You must know Indian people will be very suspicious if it’s a new Indian startup. You guys should seriously start putting advertisement on TV and make the product familiar to the masses.

  1700. Well, it’s possible, but Rohan did say this unit was a lab sample; maybe just photoshopped dings and dents out to post to the blog. Still would like that red and black model though …

  1701. My thought a while back as well; and now there is full sound on the thunderstorn on the website; as opposed to just on the blog post … just have to wait and see.

  1702. Why is it a bad location? definitely some sort of photoshopping going on there.

  1704. Here’s hoping that the “mystery sensor” somehow enables a productivity tool like the N-Trig pen. That pen is the only thing I’ve ever seen on any other tablet that has made me even look at something other then the adam.

    Personally I doubt it considering there would likely be a slot to slide in the electronic stylus build into the form factor but one can dream.

  1705. Normal voice calls, I doubt it but video calls/internet call (using skype) probably yes

  1708. Yeah you are probably right cathy- I am just really hoping that there is an active digitiser. I really don’t think Rohan would have put that smiley @ Aravind though as he would be well aware of the hype it would create. I always thought the mystery feature was an active digitiser and now am almost 100% sure. One more smiley from Rohan would really be great to confirm this.. Pleeeeaasseeee:)

  1710. Many people and a lizard or two await that grand entrance as well …

    While we wait … All this chatter and chat about wifi technology brings up an unexpected hazard … my sister has a dog so big that on Thanksgiving day when he moved, he blocked the wifi signal to 3 laptops reading this blog … poor big sleepy dog got chased out of the room … never knew why … yes, a true story, you can’t make this stuff up.

  1711. I´m sure NI would have liked nothing more than getting it on the market before the holiday season. But kudos for them not to place any half baken device on the market just to catch these sales which on the end will hurt NI more than releasing when it´s ready.
    (Just look at the Folio 100 debacle of putting an unfinished product on the market)
    Some may buy another tablet before it´s released, and some of those may find it too costly to buy Adam as well. Others either will simply sell the first device or just end up have two devices.
    I have a an other tablet on order but once the Adam arrives it will be given some other function (digital photo frame, wall clock or whatever)

  1712. Am back..

    I don’t have any FCC updates as of now.. but i have seen lot of people talking about Ships and Anchors etc…

    I am a specialized Mooring Engineer.. I do design mooring and anchors for Drilling rigs etc.. always available if required….. We are few mooring and drilling engineers would love to have a tablet as it is very easy handle while working harsh environments (6m high seas). there won’t be any internet in the middle of the Ocean..!!

    As some one mentioned about “autodesk” on android, love to see more engineering applications on “adam”.

  1714. @Andrew Britton,

    Oh, I’d really rather NOT be right; when I’m right, it’s usually a bad thing … maybe you’ll turn out to be the only one who noticed 🙂 I’m not guessing, or asking Rohan for any info; don’t want him to get in trouble with those smileys or that board. It’s 2:30am here in PA, and as usual, I’m working on a deadline. Some nights/mornings I wonder if anyone else is awake … anywhere … glad to have interesting reading on this blog to keep me company. Maybe some morning Rohan will say “Good Morning” … 🙂

  1716. Whelps. I can’t sleep(night shifts at the hospital mess me up) so I thought id hop on here, hoping for an update but no such luck 😦 So I re-read the main post and I think there may be something else to it then the Tesla clue… seems a bit too obvious, course who knows it could still be alot of different things as many have pointed out. I hope there’s an update tomorrow of some sort to get me through jury duty. Ill try and rest my eyes now… wish I had an Adam to type this on. This phone is a wee too small. See ya tomorrow Rohan?

  1719. Looks fantastic. Please make the entire OS viewable on a secondary screen through the HDMI connection–not just videos. It would make the entire experience more enjoyable and it would enhance the productivity as well as multimedia capabilities of the Adam.

  1720. it’s an awkward location because if you arre holding the Adam with your left hand in portrait mode which most people do, then the stylus will be stored in the underneath which is the bottom right. Most stylus are placed in the upper right so if you are holding the device with your left hand, you can easily pull out the stylus from the upper right corner. Rohan, being a perfectionist, will not allow an awkward location such as the bottom of a device for a stylus.

  1721. It should be very much possible to even have normal telephony voice calls, using SIP client software….

    there are services like gafachi.com that allow you to use any SIP client.. and make those calls….

    @ this point.. for example… they charge 1c per minute for US based calls and about 2.5 c / minute for a place like India…

    besides… the SIP client can be programmed to use the CELT protocol (http://celt-codec.org/) which provides CD voice quality @ 4kbps, therefore VoIP would work even over 3G or GSM networks

  1722. probably this is the best explanation:

    Some people confuse “aGPS” as “Antenna GPS” versus “Assisted GPS”.
    Also you should call “true” GPS as “native-only GPS” because Assisted GPS is also true GPS. Some people call antenna triangulation as “Antenna GPS”. This is incorrect. Sometimes people mix up “Antenna GPS” and “Assisted GPS” (The AGPS acronym) or make them the same thing. That is not true. One is true GPS and the other is not.

    Let me clear up confusion with Plain English.
    I’m writing this from scratch, here goes…

    Quality Scale
    OKAY: Antenna Triangulation or WiFi Location (Incorrectly called Antenna GPS)
    GOOD: Native GPS
    BETTER: Assisted GPS (except the Verizon type where you pay extra)
    BEST: Assisted GPS with fallback to Native GPS and Antenna Triangulation

    Lock Speed And Accuracy Scale
    ANTENNA LOCATION – fast lock, less accurate, works indoors
    WiFi LOCATION – fast lock, less accurate, works indoors
    NATIVE GPS – slow lock, more accurate, outdoors only
    ASSISTED GPS – medium-fast lock, more accurate, outdoors only

    Difference between Native GPS and Assisted GPS
    NATIVE GPS Can lock without phone reception, takes one minute to lock because it needs to search for satellites harder, slow lock, works badly indoors.
    ASSISTED GPS Downloads information over the network on how to find the GPS satellites more easily, locks much faster if you have a 3G signal, works slightly better indoors in 1-level and 2-level buildings that aren’t metal.

    What is Satellite Ephemeris?
    Native GPS downloads ephemeris directly from the GPS satellite to help it find the location of GPS satellites.
    Assisted GPS downloads ephemeris over EDGE or 3G from the network, to help it find the location of GPS satellites.
    Ephemeris is mathematical data to help the cellphone calculate its position. As a grossly over-simplified Math 101 or Excel Macro 101 example, you need to calculate
    “Location = ExecuteFormula(A, B)”
    where A is the location of the satellites and B is the doppler effect it is detecting in the satellite signal. (You’ve heard of doppler radar on weather forecasts.) It’s possible to download A over the Internet instead of getting A directly from the satellites. All kinds of GPS always needs to get B from the satellite signal, however A doesn’t need to be obtained from the satellite signal.
    Native GPS can do A and B directly from satellite signal
    Assisted GPS can only do B from the satellite signal, and download A over cellphone network.

    What is Doppler Effect?
    Doppler is the frequency/pitch change in signal from object moving towards or away from you. A train or car going towards you always sounds higher-pitched than when it is moving away from you. The phone listens to the varying pitch in the radio signal being transmitted by the moving GPS satellites, and uses that information to help calculate position.

    …

    Sometimes GPS can lock indoors in single-level and two-level buildings. For this, Assisted GPS works better than Native GPS because the location signal is easier to receive than the ephemeris signal (which can be downloaded off the Internet instead). Assisted GPS needs to download approximately 100 kilobytes of data for one day’s worth of GPS lock capability outside cellphone reception areas. Your cellphone will need to download several day’s advance of satellite ephemeris in order to gain GPS lock capability for extended time periods outside cellphone reception areas, if the GPS chip inside your cellphone has the inability to download ephemeris

    The best cellphone software can do all the above simultaneously, for maximum speed and maximum accuracy. Locks onto antennas and WiFi, followed by GPS once satellite lock is achieved. My BlackBerry can only do two of the above, but I notice its behaviour: When I first launch Google Maps, it gives me a 1000-meter approximation immediately. A few seconds to a minute later, it improves to 3-meter accuracy as it achieves GPS lock outdoors.

    Anything called “GPS” should be able to receive the satellite signal directly. Antenna Triangulation does not, while Assisted GPS does.. Native GPS is best if you’re outside of reception, my BlackBerry Curve can lock onto a GPS signal even without a Rogers signal. Some Assisted GPS requires both the GPS signal and cellphone reception available simultaneously, so sometimes “GOOD” and “BETTER” needs to be swapped around for some people. Also, once Assisted GPS has locked on, you can safely go outside of reception, it’s just the first lock that may not work on cellphones outside reception that only has Assisted GPS if it has the inability to download satellite ephemeris [wikipedia] over the GPS airwaves. More technical information found on Wikipedia and gpspassion.com

    Devices with multiple location capabilities [i.e. support both assisted GPS and non-assisted GPS], can locate through multiple sources for maximum speed and accuracy. Less inaccuracy, less waiting for lock [and cellphone network reception becomes optional].

    Source: http://www.blackberryforums.com/gps-mapping/141895-faq-difference-between-gps-vs-gps-vs-antenna-triangulate-all-3-different-things.html

  1723. But Rohan’s also mentioned Nikola Tesla. And Nikola Tesla spent many years in New York. He was also known as the Lord of the Lightning. Though I think you’re probably right. Just throwing that out there!

  1724. #billreyn, Lightning references in one way or another run as a thread through all this; I very much doubt any of it is accidental … Just sitting back, intrigued and waiting to see what December 9 brings.

  1726. May I interest everyone to my new mock-ups of Notion Ink logos for the Adam? I have Photoshopped a few more. Doing this to keep me from going insane waiting for the release of the Adam. And since it doesn’t seem like the winning logo is a go…maybe Rohan can get some ideas from my mock-ups. Before every mock-up is the logo in its full realization. ENJOY!

    [gigya src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" width="320" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625462983056/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625462983056/&set_id=72157625462983056&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true" ]

  1727. 1) 3d gestures

    2) Wireless Charging

    3) Digitizer

    4) TV/Audio Tuner

    5) IR sensors.

    not bad Rohan now he knows what people want/expect from the the 2nd product that rolls out of Notion Ink.

  1729. Sometimes it’s not about the battery.

    I agree, however, that MP3 should be quite enough for a mobile device.

    In my opinion, FM-transmitter would be a nice option too, especially in your car. Or if you just want to listen music via your HiFi home system without cables.

  1731. btw, have we found out what is special about the date Dec 9, 2010? It is a Thursday, so very unlikely an announcement… and cannot be FCC approval date also since it is a variable…

    🙄 🙄

  1732. @Andrew – good observation! If you look at the adam image on the home page of the notion ink site (which Rohan has confirmed is an actual image) there is a small cut on the same location (bottom left) – seems to have something there!. Any my nokia has the stylus stored in exactly the same location.

  1734. @Rohan
    You really need to look at this logo by Gigantor.
    Notion Ink Logo Harun A (revised)
    I am not a graphic artist but I have been visualising logos for my clients. Of all the logos that I saw (including the ones from the contest) this one looks most promising.

    @Gigantor
    Try a sample of this logo on the Adam with the red and gray color combo “notionink.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/for-blog-14.jpg”.

  1735. Hey Rohan=:D

    …It’s(this blog) been a live documentation of the Adam Coming to life!—ROHAN
    just thought how about converting this Live document in to some kind of E book or COMICS (:))/or any similar slide show for ADAM ; this can also include your first initial sketch of ADAM/or first thought , complete Time line ,sharing the ups and down , choosing some comments (+ve and -ve) from this blog , how number of comments have grown over the period etc; in short sharing the whole experience of growing “ADAM” with all those people and rest of the world , who will buy ADAM and might have missed out these excitement as they may not be the active member of this blog.
    Lets call it ‘ A journey called ADAM” or some thing more catchy .many of our blogs friends are good at this. 😀
    I would love to read this one on MY FIRST ADAM and I’m sure all of our blogs friends too ; as we always want to cherish these moments of growing our SON Together Called ‘ADAM’……

  1736. @Jai: a digitizer would work at night. Remember that you are writing onto a lid surface. You could perfectly work at night, whereas with the original equipment that Robin referred to, this is not possible. Well, you could write blindly on a piece of paper, but well… not desirable…

    @Greg: not a problem. The praise could go to good Greg, the blame to evil Greg 😉
    For all those who don’t know whether to hope for a digitizer or IR equipment or RCA charger (http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-rca-airnergy-charger-harvests-electricity-from-wifi/) I can tell you what to do: just hope that Adam comes with a digitizer AND IR equipment AND RCA charger 😀
    The above link mentions that batteries will hit the market that have an RCA charger integrated. That might better explain why the camera had to be moved from the middle to one side. I think, Rohan said it was because of interference with the GPS, WIFI modules and batteries and I don’t understand why a battery would cause an interference. It hold current, yes, but this is all static. There’s no electrical oscillation and such, right? Well, I’m not an electrotechnician, so I can’t bee too sure about that, but it sounds strange to me. I would have thought that batteries would rather be able to shield the camera from the wifi/GPS interference. (BTW: GPS shouldn’t cause that much interference either, right? So it’s rather the wifi module). Again, why should the wifi stuff not be moved aside instead of the visible camera? It’s completely irrelevent where to move to wifi module to but there are ergonimics for the camera’s placement. Now, with RCA-equipped batteries, there’d be another source for interference, OR, the wifi module could be RCA-enabled, reusing the same circuity for wireless connectiviy and charging.
    I said before that I don’t believe an RCA equipment is possible for ADAM1 because of the price range. It used to have a price of 80$ as an external equipment and the above link mentions 40$, again for external use. Hmmm, well, it COULD be within the price range if one would chip of some dollars for just needing an internal module and due to the fact that the 40$ price seems to be an end consumer price. Plus, Rohan said that NI is not making money but selling the hardware. They even seem to have some sort of overhang financing in place to deal with something Rohan mentioned before, namely that by the time you get your product out at a fair price, new technology will already have hit the market at an even lower price… The RCA would also work at night. The only thing that doesn’t fit, is that it is no sensor.
    So, digitizer and/or IR equipment will probably be the mystery feature. I’m more keen on having IR equipment as I laid out in the comment section of Rohan’s previous post that it would have many applications/use-cases and would cost almost nothing. I can buy a stylus, digitizer externally and carry it around with me like any other pencil or pen, but I don’t want to buy an external IR dongle for 100$ and have it stick out of the Adam like a pole, having to be careful not get caught in something and unintentionally rip out the USB port.

  1737. >> BTW, somewhere it was stated that the countdown changes coincide with CST midnight. St. >> Louis, Missouri (where Tesla had some doings) is in that time zone. Could that just be a >>random datum?
    good point !!! 😀 My thinking would rather be that the conference, keynote or global event that NI will be using to announce their product might be in the CST area.

  1738. BTW: the link I gave above leads to an article about the RCA charger and it says in the text:

    “Unlike a solar charger, it works at night and you can keep it in your pocket.”

    let me narrow the quote down a bit further:

    “it works at night”

    😀 how’s that for heating up the speculation? 😀 But I still guess/hope it’s IR equipment. 🙂

  1739. Happy to know cos i have lot of questions but lazy to type Rohan… hint! Hint !

  1742. yes … we found out and it’s been confirmed like a week ago … it’s the date that pre-orders will start.

  1743. PPS: the RCA product availability doesn’t fit into ADAM’s timeline. So there’s that. If Adam should come with wifi charging capabilities it would have to be from a different vendor than RCA, but no one else seems to have arrived at a good enough efficiency yet. So my guess is that there might be wifi-chargeable battery replacements for Adam as accessories LATER, but the Adam will not come with such stuff builtin on it’s first launch. Adam’s batteries can be exchanged, so that would be possible.

  1744. We assume that because of Andre’s tweet, I guess. However, how would they start pre-order without confirmed FCC? However, my question was regarding the date itself rather than the activity associated with it! I was wondering why this date was chosen? 🙂

  1746. Correct me if i am wrong… If Android is meant for mobile phones the OS will naturally support voice calls… Will NI take away such a feature ?

  1749. welll we haven’t hrd about the logo yet.. may be they gonna unveil a new logo on Dec 9th.. otherwise i think it may be the day when ADAM will be licensed to EAP ppl.

    Dec 9th
    according to someone else, it is supposed to be a muhurth day or whatever… auspicious day.

  1750. Pre orders you can take with or without FCC… the thing they cannot do is shipping the Adam to the US until FCC approved

  1751. @Rajeswaran, It´s not “taken away” but it depends on the 3G module if it supports voice calling, many don´t.

    BTW Google TV runs android as well, but you can´t make a voice phone call with it, can you.
    So far the only Android tablet supporting voice call is the Galaxy Tab (and then only outside the USA)

  1752. well.. i guess once the product is out in the market and people feel it (touch it play with it and get a first hand experience), get good reviews it can make a huge difference. another observation: It’s more of Brand Rohan doing the rounds than Brand NI (Esp in this blog) – It’s one way good – It can definitely be leveraged in India. and i guess once the investors’ names are out that can also add to its popularity…

  1754. Any news about the CE certification?
    Would it be possible for NI to sell the device in Europe first if they pass CE before FCC?
    Really can’t wait to have the ADAM in my hands =)

  1756. @Sowmya – that’s a possibility. But is that such a big event to put a counter in the web site, I wonder? 🙄

    @Robin – Rohan himself has mentioned that they cannot use the payment gateway unless it is a valid product which can be sold (or something to that effect). This was the issue for EAP participants, right? May be they can do a pre-order and accept money. Shipping will be only later, which is possible I think.

  1759. welll…
    could be…Genesis….

    or may be they chose a auspicious day to ship the first set of ADAMs to the EAP ppl..

  1761. I have A-GPS on my iPhone. I am in Korea, and to be honest, although it is fast, I find GPS only devices tend to be more accurate. Maybe it’s being “assisted” too much. But I would prefer GPS only as well. Although A-GPS is should supposed to be “better.”

  1762. They cannot use the payment gateway AND actually ship it before FCC. They can however open the pre-order using payment gateway, wait for certification and then process payment + ship

  1764. … I guess first they will go a for big launch, get good reviews on the first day, make some impact… get FCC and then only start taking pre orders.. just my 2 cents.

  1768. 🙂

    Yeah!

    Notion Ink’s Adam with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 and Pixel Qi

    Lots of tablet to be launched

  1769. New products announced at the 2010 CES include:

    * Asus Eee PC Touch Series tablet
    * Boxee Box by D-Link
    * Dell’s Streak tablet
    * enTourage eDGe
    * Ford myFord Touch interface
    * Freescale Semiconductor Smartbook tablet
    * Innovative Converged Device (ICD) Vega and Ultra Android Tablets
    * Intel Reader
    * Kodak Pulse Digital Frame
    * Lenovo Hybrid IdeaPad U1
    * LG 15” OLED TV
    * Motorola Backflip Android-powered smartphone
    😉 * Notion Ink’s Adam with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 and Pixel Qi
    * Panasonic 152″ 3D TV
    * Parrot AR.Drone
    * Pocket Radar
    * Samsung world’s first transparent touch active matrix (AM) OLED display MP3 player

  1771. Yes but notion ink is not currently listed in the 2011 one..
    despite the fact that that article suggests that some have made plans for the 2011 exhibition. :S

  1773. You guys are on the cusp of something very special. Way to go guys. I can see another Apple (Notion ink) and Steve jobs (Rohan Shravan) in the making. You guys are making India proud!

  1774. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE… No changing the name !!! It’s the ‘ADAM’s FAMILY’… can have any tag line though… 😉

  1775. @tarwinia
    well true… but considering the tablets out there, i guess this is more energy efficient and power saving…

  1780. I have been following Adams development for a few weeks now but still fail to see With THE FEATURES now kinda finalized how the upgrade to Android 3 will happen.
    specially with the screen resolution – 10.1″ WSVGA (1024 x 600)

    Doesnt gingerbread recommend a higher resolution?

  1781. You have to take into account the fact there might simply not be room any where else for it. I really there’s a digitizer as that would make the adam a definite buy for me rather than just being an option.

  1782. That’s not gonna be fun at all… with the HDMO cable always coming in the way and the high possibility of the HDMI circuitory to loosen up and eventually break…

  1783. Talking about anagrams… Bratin brought it up this morning:

    TESLA is quite interesting when it comes to shuffling letters…

    At LEAST we know that the adam is on it’s way.
    The adam will make the iPad taste quite STALE
    In terms of pricing – let’s hope the adam is a STEAL considering the tech specs
    This blog is a nice collection of TALES about the adam…

    But most interestingly… might the adam be a real SLATE?
    You know… to scribble on it with some sort of stylus – or digitizer maybe??

    🙂

  1785. @ Rohan
    “I promise that won’t happen! We have tons to share with you all!”
    That is nice. We will love all those things.
    Best regards.

  1786. I am a Adam well-wisher; I have bought both Nook color and Samsung Tab and have played with them. I like Nook for reading (better than STab) but it is not meant to be a tablet. Ok for occasional writing or emailing. Still worth it for a lot of people but feels surprising heavy (even more than STab).

    Samsung is something I am quite impressed. It sure is a practical device (not too large but larger than a typical smart phone for serious viewing, even typing) and everything seems to work quite well. Not heavy but haven’t tried it as a phone and I agree that without some sort of headset it would be awkward to use for calls. Very satisfactory so far! Blackberry might be a good competitor for this device (same size but has no phone, only wi-fi; may be a mistake!).

  1787. Sweet! Nice anagrams ^^
    I wish it was the digitizer or something like that. But from the sketch on the photo, it looks like that’s not the case here.
    Just hoping 9th of Des. is a great day for all of us.
    Rohan and his team is doing a great job, lets hope the hype is equal to the product. I’m hoping for the best.

  1788. I am a Adam well-wisher; I have bought both Nook color and Samsung Tab and have played with them. I like Nook for reading (better than STab) but it is not meant to be a tablet. Ok for occasional writing or emailing. Still worth it for a lot of people but feels surprisingly heavy (even more than STab).

    Samsung is something I am quite impressed. It sure is a practical device (not too large but larger than a typical smart phone for serious viewing, even typing) and everything seems to work quite well. Not heavy but haven’t tried it as a phone and I agree that without some sort of headset it would be awkward to use for calls. Very satisfactory so far! Blackberry might be a good competitor for this device (same size but has no phone, only wi-fi; may be a mistake!).

    Reply

  1789. I disagree. I just paid an extra $30 for a blu-ray that included it so when I upgrade my phone I could take advantage of DLNA. Considering the Adam will be faster than most phones out, have more storage, and a larger screen to pull up media…it would be 10x better to have on a tablet than my phone. $10k (as long as it’s a flat fee) would be a VERY small investment if he’s planning on selling a decent amount of these. Seriously, Rohan, don’t overlook DLNA.

  1790. Hi

    I’ve been following this blog for quite a while and I’m looking forward excited to the release of Adam.

    There’s one question I have regarding the OS:
    Recently Google has published that Gingerbread will be Android version 2.3 (and Rohan already confirmed that this upgrade will be available for the Adam). However I also read that the real “tablet-optimized” OS of Android will still be version 3.0 (known as Honeycromb) and that there will be only minor fixes/enhancements for tablets in version 2.3.

    Therefore my question: Will Andorid 3.0 (Honeycromb) also be available as an upgrade for Adam?

    Keep up your very promising work!

    Greetings from Switzerland

  1791. now there’s a though. i love it. telsa touch 🙂
    that would indeed be awesome wouldn’t it. imagine the possibilities with gaming

  1792. @ Andrew

    GPS – Global positioning System.(Navigation System)

    GPRS – General Packet Radio Service (Mobile Data Service including 2G and 3G)
    Refer :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Packet_Radio_Service

    Both are available in Adam.

    Originally AGPS (Assisted GPS) was announced, but this is now full fledged GPS which talks 43 languages(in beta as of weekend special ix).

    If you read carefully, the features section in the website under “wifi and bluetooth” also talks about GPS.

    @Rohan and NI – it may be a good idea to add GPS under a different header in the website.

  1794. Good point DarkWinter, but there are also multiple variations of the Adam [ wifi, 3G, pixel Qi or regular screen, memory choices from 8 gb -X gb flash memory etc.] that probably compound the ability to produce these tablets prior to a pre-order.

    The sooner Notion Ink gets up the pre-order site, the better they’ll understand exactly what kind of demand they have for differing builds of the Adam. Yes, they may be able to produce 100,000 of these a month, but it would be wise to know what builds the public desires before pressing the big red manufacturing button. Else they run the risk of having shortages / overstock in certain builds.

  1795. @Soyma

    Only as much as you are cyberstalking Tesla…

    (His birthday is on his facebook page)

  1796. Although you are correct in your analysis of that sentence, you are incorrect in saying it is okay to be left there. That website is not just for those who read this blog, it’s for all potential customers. The ambiguity is unnecessary and the sentence should therefore be rephrased.

    I suggest something along the lines of, “A practical comfortable elliptical design.” Which is to replace “Design that’s comfortable and practical elliptical.”

    Furthermore the word practical could be removed as one would assume that a comfortable design is in fact practical, otherwise why would one use it?

  1798. @gecko… What did you ask about Canada? My use of Japanese is not too advanced (I barely know 250 kanji) and I’ve never seen “ke” used like that. Unless you meant “ka”.

    I suppose that was Hindi? Yeah, I don’t know a lick of Hindi. I’ll have to see if google translator or Babylon can help me out.

  1799. @Tarwinia

    > I am only 98% sure I’ll get the adam.

    Well I’m at least 102% sure I’m getting an adam. If we average our commitment, we are both 100% sure. So fee free to borrow 2% from me. I’d hate to see you deprive yourself. 😉

  1800. More good info:

    The world of mobile phones is changing, daily it seems. All the rage these days is 3G, third-generation telephony, such as mobile Web browsing and other advanced functionalities. These 3G protocols are manufactured on the building blocks of 2G technologies, which were themselves revolutionary when they began to be used widely. In between these two technologies is General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).

    GPRS is a series of functionalities that allow mobile data streaming and transfer to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phones. GPRS is sometimes called 2.5G, since it predates 3G but is more advanced than 2G. GPRS also boasts communication speeds of up to 115 kilobits a second, a vast improvement over the GSM standard of 9.6 kilobits a second.

    GPRS allows multiple users to share a transmission channel by opening the transmission for transfer only when each individual user needs it. Very few users need always-on data transfer capability, so GPRS works for a vast majority of users. Such new-technology functions as Web browsing, instant messaging, and real-time email reception require intermittent data transfers and are perfect examples of the successful functionality of the kind of shared bandwidth capability that GPRS offers. This kind of shared transmission is called packet switching. GPRS also facilitates streaming video, location-based Web services, and multimedia messages. These functions involve larger, more continuous streams of data, however, and usually require the user to wait a bit longer for such data transactions to take place.

    A close cousin of GPRS in the technology family tree is Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE). EDGE allows higher bit transmission rates at a price of lower bandwidth available for plain old phone calls. EDGE is particularly useful as a GPRS solution for the larger data services described above, such as streaming video and video conferencing.

    GPRS is a necessary bridge between 2G and 3G mobile telephony technologies. GPRS also makes possible the use of laptop computers as GSM devices, operating either on satellite or WiFi Internet connections. In this way, the line between mobile phone and mobile computer is further blurred.

    Source = http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-gprs.htm

  1802. I am actually writing software that will do that.

    Currently it only does DAAP but it will eventually do DLNA as well as other formats.

    It’s in BETA now and is called Infinite Stream.

  1803. i belive that video is changed too. now when there is lightning you can also see the city light up too (suggestion from the blog) and they have it now.

  1804. @tarwinia
    nope not hindi…
    google says Welsh language – spoken by people in Argentina and Wales..
    Oh Gecko.. from which part of the world are u from ????

  1805. I usually keep my random thoughts to myself (Tis better to keep your mouth shut and thought of as a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt), but I had to throw this out there as a “why not.”

    Tesla can, by many definitions, be considered the father of radio. Many people here have mentioned his Radio presentation in Missouri. Point is…..Radio Signals….Can be VERY dangerous. If you change the fundamentals of light to standard broadcast RF, then back to visible light……You get television.

    I am not suggesting a TV Tuner by any means, but (as pure speculation), perhaps he is referring to an advertisement anouncing the “Bonus Mystery Feature.” I don’t remember reading anywhere that the clues given had to do with the sensor specifically. It was stated that they were just clues. But clues to what? Did we just assume he was talking about the “sensor?” He even said to focus on the number. Perhaps that’s the point. He wouldn’t want to let the cat out of the bag a bit early, now would he?.

    I mean, what better way to market a new product than to have something that everyone wants, and throw it on TV, Radio, etc…..

    And I thought I remembered reading about an Engineering Expo going on in India on the 10th……..Any plans?

    :end crazy thought:

  1807. listen to news on TV as you browse/ read a PDF on ADAM. How about an app for TV remote?

  1810. I would buy this immediately if it only had the ability to write with a pen on the screen. I want a tablet that I use at school to take notes

    the adam is realy cool its realy sad i cant use it

  1814. get back to me when the adam’s ready. i’m already working on this and have something working for my HTC hero right now.

  1815. Gigantor:

    > Doing this to keep me from going insane

    Doesn’t seem to have worked. I enjoy the products of your one-man logo factory, but you’re absolutely out of your mind.

  1816. My biggest burning question with the Adam is if it will be as easy to sign up for 3G service and then cancel on the device like you can on the iPad. This may not seem like a big deal for some people, but I don’t want to have to be on a contract for the device and I don’t want to have to go through the hassle of signing up for service on wireless provider via phone or whatnot. (Wouldn’t do website because in my case, if I was signing up for 3G, that means I wouldn’t have any service.) Since I live on a college Campus, there is WiFi pretty much everywhere. However, when I travel somewhere else… If Notion Ink was able to work some deal out like Apple did with AT&T, then I would snatch up an Adam in a heartbeat.

  1817. hi things are getting excited here. just curious to know other then charger and user manual is there anything extra the NI guys will be giving us along with the adam? . for instance samsung is giving a nice leather cover and bluetooth headset with galaxy tab , olive pad is also giving a nice leather case (infact that is only great thing abt olive pad ) can we expect such cool things with adam also? now this is very small detail but a case would be a great thing because since adam has a unique shape its really going to be hard for all of us to find a right case for adam.
    by the way if the mystery feature is 3d then it will be just great.

    1 question to all the folks here who know more abt tech and patent things . if apple has pattened 3d thing under their name is it possible for NI to use in adam also ? or is it that only from now on apple can only use it first?.
    hope 9th dec brings something great , even if its not a pre-order announcment atleast a cool video showing adam in its full action would be more then enough just dying to see how the final adam will look and how will it function. hope u guys are having a great day ahead and desperately waiting for saturday 😛

  1818. krzysztof = Polish? Polish people are very interested in history, maybe because Poland has so much of it. At the Polish books stores here in New York, the largest sections are usually not trashy novels, but history books. So it’s natural for Krzysztof to fill us in on CES history.

  1820. Maybe NI has reserved space under another name or is using some other device in order to preserve secrets until they’re ready to reveal them. I doubt that I’m the only one to notice this particular pattern.

  1821. The problem with “practically elliptical” is that “practically,” in that position can only mean “for all practical purposes,” that is, not it’s not perfectly elliptical, but it’s close enough. This may not be what NI intends (although it’s hard to tell). Otherwise … what Gauntlet said.

  1822. Don’t be too disappointed.

    In reflective mode (B/W) the screen has a resolution of 3072×600.
    I would love to read on that.

    Have fun!

  1823. Thank you for your update.. Can’t wait to see it in the US. If this works out maybe you should migrate to the 4″ cell phone market. Or, maybe even do what Archos has done with sizes going from 3″ to 10″, or even do them one better and offer 12″ and 14″ tablets.

    You might even consider some kind of docking port at the bottom to allow for secondary marketing device addons.

    One note.. On your web pages under the design tag, you reference your camera idea as being new and revolutionary.. You might want to examine the camera design of the old Nokia N800 device. It popped out of the side, and could swivel just like yours.. Granted it was lower resolution, but given how old that device is.

    You also should have increased the res of the camera and included led flash capabilities, hopefully you allowed for reducing fingerprints over the lense.

    Anyways for the anticipated prices this is a great device, I hope it will be available soon. Should have really been out for the US’s Black Friday..

  1824. Many are all ready behind you Rohan. If your new Adam comes close to being what it appears to be you will have opened the door to success. Now going through that door will be the trick. The fact that we may soon be holding Adam in our hands gives us a clue that a lot of things are being done right. Keep up the good work and may you be blessed with many many years of success.

  1825. And it’s raining in NY now, so maybe Dec 9 (or 10) will come early this year, on Dec 1.

    Oh – that’s the clue to the secret sensor. One person did come close to guessing it: it’s a water sensor. And everybody wants it: you hold the Adam over your head and it prevents you from getting wet in the rain. It even works in the dark!

  1826. I hope the conspiracy theory of Gecko (that NI has already registered under a different name at CES) will turn out to be true. To me it seems a good example of wishful thinking.

  1827. Lets boycott this blog for few hours everyday (no comments) so that Rohan can have some good sleep else he will be too tired for adam’s release. 🙂

  1828. well i dint see any deadlines on registering.. so i guess it is still open and they can do anytime before the actual CES starts..

  1831. All the GPS talk has my head spinning. I guess I am coming at it from a different angle.

    If I have the Adam with GPS. I am not using 3G with it. And am not tethering it to a 3G phone. And I am driving on a U.S. road where there is no Wi-Fi. *IF* I had the Google Navigation App on the Adam – would I be able to receive voice navigation over the GPS?

    I have assumed I would be able to – but maybe I am wrong on that.

  1832. Maybe some day there will be the Adam Phone. Actually it would be easy to have the phone ability built into Adam. How many people would make good use of that kind of feature It is hard to say. Apple does enjoy all the money they make by having their devoted customers owning both an I Phone and an Ipad.

  1833. Tarwinia:
    > What did you ask about Canada?

    Oh, problem with Japanese is lack of word separation. But “Canada” would be カナダ, no?

    > I barely know 250 kanji

    That’s what I complained about. And you know more Japanese than I do. I know mostly kanji for foods.

    > I suppose that was Hindi? Yeah, I don’t know a lick of Hindi.

    If you don’t know a lick of Hindi, then I could pretend it was Hindi, except I’d probably get caught, since I don’t know a lick of Hindi, either (except that I know that all the sentences end in “he,” or at least it seems that way).

    Sowmya got it:

    > Welsh language – spoken by people in Argentina and Wales..

    And spoken by geckos, where? The Argentina is the remnants of a 19th-cent. colony called “Y Wladfa.” Most people there speak only Spanish now.

    > Oh Gecko.. from which part of the world are u from ????

    There are geckos on every continent except Antarctica. My Welsh is kind of crappy. I studied it for some years, but it’s mostly rusted out by now (sometimes I watch the BBC News in Welsh for practice, but it’s not all that interesting)

    I’ll have to see if google translator or Babylon can help me out.

  1834. My take on this issue is that having the Genesis market is only a benefit for Adam users, not a limitation. Whether or not the Adam comes with Market access is irrelevent as all the other tablets out there take about 1 week before some one details out how ot get it on there. So if it does not come with it it will shortly. Even so, I believe Market will be there when Honeycomb comes out.

    So whats the benefit of Genesis? Apps that are created to take advantage of everything the Adam has to offer. Its hardware, its screen specs, other software maybe. Whatever. Generic apps on the Market will probably work well on the Adam but will not take advantage of the Adam. Genesis Apps will and I am willing to bet if your an Adam user you will find them to be a better user experience.

    Just my opinion but its what I believe.

  1837. That would be awesome!

    @RandomMinds – Your URL link (inifinitestream.net) does not work. I wanted to check it out but…

  1839. Yesterday, I had a dream of receiving a mail notification about a new post (subscribed notifications for new post). The new post is about receiving FCC/CE certification :). Checked for new post immediately (around 2:00 AM MST) and was disappointed. Checked again the first thing in the morning to see if there is actually a post? 😦

  1840. Hoping it will eventually stream video too, and able to do it from anywhere in the world, not just on local LAN…

  1842. What is the one fundamental of light that people came close to changeing?

    Fundamentals of Light – Wavelength, frequency, amplitude.

    Were they able to change a light’s path (bend light) without obstructing it?

  1843. Rohan by any chance the secret feature is “Mobile Telegraphy” that can be used to communicate (using ADAM) on board aircraft/ships.

  1844. Well in that case u r diagnosed with OCD -is an anxiety disorder and is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
    Performing these so-called “rituals,” however, provides only temporary relief, and not performing them markedly increases anxiety.

    Please do not try to explain your behaviour.
    “People with OCD can use rationalizations to explain their behavior”

    ( am sorry a little bored with no new stuff to talk about)…

  1845. Well put and I think any corporation using this more democratic business model will be more likely to produce a higher level of relevant/desirable devices. Under the usual model product development, marketing strategy is most important, consumers are told what to buy because of artificial (fabricated even) demand-heavy supply/demand trends. Mediocre product combined with savvy marketing has proven to be very successful, but leaves a smarter consumer wanting. Combining a true demand induced product with the resulting “it can-do” [what you want it to] product then the proponent marketing effects for such a product will be a hard force to stop. Then, put side by side with a lesser, competing product, all the savvy marketing in the world won’t help that lesser product in the end.

  1846. @earthzero

    > Please make the entire OS viewable on a secondary screen through the HDMI connection–not just videos. It would make the entire experience more enjoyable and it would enhance the productivity as well as multimedia capabilities of the Adam.

    I believe Rohan has stated that that it will work that way. What you see on Adam’s screen is output to HDMI…

    Mesides mutimedia capabilies, you can hook up a keyboard, mouse, and monitor with HDMI input and you have a basic workstation.

  1847. concerning patents: if apple has patented the 3d thing, then Apple can choose to license it to NI but isn’t required to. OR NotionInk can develop a 3d technology that works differently. Only the method or process to an end can be rightfully patented. NotionInk can then patent the differently realized 3d tech and sell it to others if they like.
    Also, patents are restricted to the country/countries for which they were issued. If Apple only has a US patent on the stuff, then NotionInk could use the same technology without Apple’s permission or paying Apple any licence fee, IF NotionInk were to distribute their product on the Indian market only.
    But, but, but: none of this matters or has ANY relevance at all because – and here starts my own opinion – the intellectual property and patent thing is an amoral anachronism that allows for more misuse and damage than doing good. Companies can sue the living sh_t out of other’s for no other reason than to make profit. None of the software-patent lawsuits that made it to the media during the last couple of years had any grounds.
    For example: Kodak sued Sun microsystems for their java applet stuff because Kodak holds a patent on “stuff that can be executed in a distributed environment”. Kodak never grew the brains to ever detail how that could be achieved, nor did Kodak ever develop or bring to market any product based on this patent of theirs NOR is Kodak a software company dealing at all. All they do is making foto equipment. Yet, they were able to successfully sue Sun Microsystems for billions of dollars. However, no one forced Kodak to also sue Microsoft who were doing the same thing that Sun was doing (ActiveX controls) and Kodak didn’t because they were probably afraid of the echo. This lawsuit was the downfall of a legendary company. Sun doesn’t exist anymore because they had to sell their body to the wolves.
    There is so much intrinsically wrong or unachievable about patents that I do not know where to begin. So, in essence: there is nothing that NotionInk could do to be on the safe side concerning anything they craft. They can be sued for trivial stuff. There are patents on silly things like the one-click-patent that Amazon has. Ever wondered why it is so difficult to check-out and pay on online-store websites? It’s not because the developers of these sites were too dumb to get their business workflows right, but simple because Amazon thinks that it is the owner of the idea that something can be achieved via a single click on a button. Now, everyone needs to contrive their payment processes in an artificially and intentionally intricate way so not to infringe Amazon’s patent. There are countless examples. The only way for Notion Ink to at least get some security is to file as many patent applications as they can afford. That doesn’t buy them sh*t in the end, but it’s the best they can do and they know it.
    Still, there are companies that have more patents you could ever count in a lifetime and still get successfully sued by others. So they sue back and in the end the money always ends up with the party that has the least stake in the matter: either the patent troll company or the laywers. The governments of the established industry nations earn well by keeping the patent system cookin’ and it is a way to block competition. What stops an established industry nation from granting as many trivial patents to their own people as possible and then forcing foreign companies to pay licence fees for that stuff on the domestic market? The more patents they grant the better for the domestic economy.
    Microsoft is paid 20$ for each ANDROID device that HTC sells, although M$ has never come up with anything that is used in Android, nor were they ever able to contrive an equally well mobile operating system. The amount M$ is asking of HTC is ridiculously high and they can do it because of their patent portfolio.
    So, in essence, there are only two things you need to know about patents: they are wrong and the only thing you can do if you want to have legal security is to wait till the whole system hopefully collapses some day.
    I for one, spent my lifetime learning, studying, creating. But I will never be able to release anything of *my* personal magic or vision to anyone because my stuff will either fail or be moderately successful in the market, thus not returning the effort spent in marketing it, or it WILL be successful in which case there will be companies envying the success and trying to get a bite out of my profit cake. As there are arbitrarily many parties who can sue, I could end up not only with no profit but even with dept. So there I am, fully fledged but unable to realize my own visions but instead only work for established companies, helping them to turn their mediocre ambitions into mediocre products. I hope I could help 😀

  1848. @ GlennM
    Saw your question in my email, but couldn’t locate it on the blog – so don’t know if it was answered. Your assumption is correct. If you had A-GPS then it might make use of WIFI, but would still need to link up with at least 3 satellites for triangulation calculation. If just GPS then will not use WIFI, but link up with satellites directly. The WIFI assistance may make it a little faster. GPS as near as I know does not make any use of 3G phone service. Hope that helps

  1849. @Richard @Gecko

    If you go through Rohan’s post (before CES 2010), the ODM includes Foxxcon.

    However if you go through the slashgear articles and Rohan’s post and the TIMELINE, its obvious they changed ODM (some disagreement between ODM and the original investor (?Airtel).
    I had also commented that Aadm’s supply [or the initial one before manufacturing is ramped up (which requires flush funds)] may be affected if Foxxcon is still the ODM. I know that the reason will be obvious.

    Currently my worry is:
    1.)NI cannot start mass production before FCC approval. So if FCC is delayed then we have to deal with further “waiting frustratingly”. And whether the current ODM can handle the expected surge in demand?

    2.)Currently FCC approval is not achieved (atleast my search didnt reveal anything)

    3.)If 9th Dec announcement include pre-orders (very likely) , will it complicate things if somehow NI couldn’t get FCC approval?

    4.) CES 2011 is my best bet yet NI has not registered till now (which is obvoius waiting for FCC approval). If delayed then what “event” can be of global nature ? Could Mobile world Congress 2011 qualify?

    5.) I feel if not pre-order NI should announce all their partnership and retail outlets on 9th dec and give date for pre-order.

    *with a sense of gravity*

  1850. @Sowmya
    Here is a little topic to kill your boredom:
    Why did Slashgear stop posting regular updates on ADAM?

  1853. I’m just hoping adam can handle much of the basic PC functionality. Will it play all the file formats like m4v, flash, quicktime, etc? Will it do streaming and conferencing such as Omnovia, WebEx, Adobe Connect? Can it handle full Microsoft Exchange integration? Does it handle other streaming web content such as Youtube, Hulu, Channelsurfing.net, fancast, etc?

    I’d like a super convenient and portable media device that I can take with me and read my documents whether they are Word docs, PDFs, ebooks (epub, etc.) or some other format, watch videos such as movies or downloaded presentations, tune into to live content whether it’s a TV show, webcast, business collaboration meeting, etc. and be able to surf the web and my email as well as communicate via IM or skype.

    I also just want to be assured that apps developed for Android generically will work on adam and not need to be specially designed for adam’s Android? I would hate to see a bunch of cool apps developed for Android and not really work on adam.

    Cheers.

  1854. Raj:
    > Yesterday, I had a dream of receiving a mail notification about a new post …. Checked … and was disappointed.

    I had a dream about playing with a dog in an airport. Checked when I woke up – and I don’t have a dog. Was also disappointed.

  1856. Greg:
    > you can hook up a keyboard, mouse, and monitor with HDMI input and you have a basic workstation.

    In fact you don’t even have to hook up a monitor – every Adam will come with a built-in screen!

  1857. @VB
    well i had wished i had a edit after i wrote it, i dint complete the sentence, but i tot the meaning was communicated. (fruit based mockery of apple+blackberry=pomegranate and also well the concept )

    @Richard
    Ofcourse i want my ADAM to make more than a cup of coffee but its kinda far fetched.. but i would love to have a pico projector… 😉
    But if a gadget can do everything.. it will be scary…I still love reading hard copy novels – its nothing like feeling the books and smelling the pages…

  1858. Rohan please tie up with regional newspapers in India.
    Or at least give them some kind of tech support so that they can serve an Adam friendly version

  1860. Are those suppose to be light rays bending on different angles? Being able to bend light without obstructing it defies one of light’s fundamentals. This is in Rohan’s riddle. What if you change the color to a faint yellow (to look more like light)?

  1861. Nvidia is having a presentation on 9th December @ Barclays Capital — Global Technology Conference. Here is the link:
    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/nvidia-announces-upcoming-events-with-the-financial-community-2010-12-01?reflink=MW_news_stmp

    Though it may not be the launch event for Adam, Nvidia people may talk about the upcoming Notion Ink tablet during their presentation (I guess on the same day, Notion Ink may also reveal their plans based on the countdown on their website). Earlier, during investor conference call for Q3-2010, Nvidia’s CEO could not reveal details of upcoming tablets based on Tegra2 due to various reasons.

  1862. @bruce
    > Rohan has said in a recent interview that he expects FCC during Christmas or just before christmas ( i have a doubt … IS FCC organisation also closed during holiday season and might lead to delay cos of this…)
    so Dec 9th as a preorder for general public cannot be the case, ( people would like to wait for FCC i suppose so)
    > if Dec 9th is indeed a pre order as tweeted by Andre – it can be the preorder date for EAP waitlisted candidates .. or it can be the date when the finalized EAP candidates get their ADAMs..

    > we haven’t still heard on the logo.. and we still need to see more videos..

    >CES 2011 is very much possible as they have an option of registering even late. so they are waiting for the FCC…

  1863. “You will be prompted to sign in through Facebook Connect when you start Liveshare.”

    It’s highly unprofessional to tightly bind an application to Facebook. I cannot believe that a reputable company can make a Facebook connect the only available way to login to their service.
    Personally, I cancelled Facebook account this spring because I don’t want to support FB in its attempts to replace the whole Web by itself http://goo.gl/eIRm. That bubble will burst sooner or later anyway and Liveshare will disappear together with its big brother…

  1864. I’m driving everybody around me crazy,
    can’t talk about anything else,
    made my computer at work crash refresing these pages over and over again.
    Soooo glad i’ll be off next week on thursday and friday.
    And this saturday… maybe the last blog from Rohan?
    Whatever the feature may be eventually, it will be all i ever dreamt of!

    ‘One of these days’ i’ll ‘Run like hell’ to get my Adam,
    sit down ‘Comfortably numb’, and play with my ‘Crazy diamond’.
    ‘Wish you were here’ already…

  1865. You can now root the Nook Color to use as an Android tablet, play Angry Birds and whatever app from the Android Marketplace. What is B&N going to do about it? I hope, nothing. Because if they let people hack their Nook, it means more sales! More people would rather buy a $250 tablet rather than a $500 one from Apple. It takes some technical knowledge to root the Nook but it will only be a matter of time before you can root it by just using a program that you can download in a microSD card and install in the Nook.

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/212113/nook_colors_jailbreak_what_does_it_mean_for_barnes_and_noble.html

  1866. Talking about dreams, last night I dreamt Rohan confirmed that they NI would be developing a phone next year…

  1867. I was going to add from that, “…not that i’m already out of my mind!”, but you got it!

    As long as I’m having fun with them and learning as I go along then it’s all good. Any request for logo mock-ups will be gladly granted 🙂

  1868. Agreed! Many people are afraid to really explore this line of reasoning, because so many have something to lose in giving up rights to what we call intellectual property, just as much as one would lose in giving up physical property. There was a point in time when I tried to dismiss completely the idea of ownership, while trying to hold on to things which I need and use like clothes, laptop etc… All I could do was say, “I do not own this, because ownership is a made up thing, but I make use of it all the time, and it is a good idea to make sure I can continue to use this.” I tried to eliminate words from my vocabulary like “mine,” “yours,” etc… and avoided using the possessive. This turned out to be sort of cumbersome and yielded little to no change in how I go about life. All of this was very conceptual and abstract and had no real concrete impact until….

    I read something by clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn, an article titled “Who Listens if You Care?” (This title was a pun on another article, which Evan did not like one bit called, “Who Cares if You Listen”) concerning royalties on music. He argued that royalties and ownership of music as intellectual property hinder the advancement of music as an art form. Ideas in music could be developed thoroughly only if any one and everyone is allowed to take some one else’s idea and continue to develop on it, without legal ramification.

    But how then can a musician or artist support one’s self to continue to create? This was an important question to me, as both a musician, and a socialist sort of person who believes completely in what Ziporyn is saying. This forced me to come to a new understanding about art, and it’s place in the free market. I should never expect to be able to use my art to generate income. Not only does this allow me give it away for any one to use, but it also frees me from forces which may otherwise compel me to make my art differently than I would like, in order to make it more appealing to a market audience. There are many philosophers who have tackled this before, going back at least to Aristotle, if not further, who would imply that once art is in exchange for money, it is no longer art, but mere commodity.

    So this just means that an artist must simply maintain a day job, just like every one else. I felt like this took me right back full circle, because, of course, that’s how we do it anyway. Very few artists can afford to quit their day job, and I am no exception.

    But then another thing made itself apparent to me, and that was the method by which I was beginning to see many of the local musicians here (New York City) selling their music: Many had begun to offer full length albums for download in any format (including uncompressed full quality) for a donation of $1 minimum, and some with no minimum at all ($0). Brilliant! While many people will pay the minimum, which is ok because that gets much more exposure for the artist, other people like me, who are willing to support artists I like, pay more than the minimum. I’m sure there is another group out there who have more money to throw around and they might even pay more than what is generally expected as a price for an album (above $10 or $15).

    This seems like a win-win approach. The art is not disturbed and changed by market forces, it is available to anyone with a dollar, and there is a mechanism by which larger donations can be made, if any one wishes to give.

    I know this is far unrelated to the main purpose of this blog, but it is interesting to explore what happens when we question and suspend certain concepts that seem like they are as much a part of the world as rocks and dirt, but really are totally imaginary.

  1869. I have been reading this blog for quite a while now (it seems to be taking much of my day lately) , but it is my first time posting. I am very excited about the upcoming launch of ADAM.

    I get frustrated by the products released by big companies that abandon a product as soon as its released (as far as the software updates go). Notion Ink seems pretty dedicated to their ‘baby’ so I hope to see it supported with updates for at least a few years even when they move on to their newer products.

    I also hope the readers of this blog have an opertunity to order one before the rest of the world. Please!!!!

  1870. one question is ms getting $20 only from htc for android devices or everyone else too? if not then why..really liked your post..

  1872. My wife thinks I am Totally crazy too and going against my own logical thinking of buying brand “new” product, which are:
    1. something that I have never seen in person, (Pictures are different than Reality)
    2. something that has no +ve reviews or constructive critic in any open forum to be sure what are the shortcomings (features , hardware, software)
    3. something for which I am willing to pay TOP dollar (w/o any Black Friday or Cyber Monday Deals)
    4. something not sure when it is going to be available.
    5. Lastly, something I never buy to show off !

    I think I am going out of mind.

  1874. We can end your disappointment; will loan you the dog from previous post … the one so big it blocked the wifi signals to the laptops on Thanksgiving day. Pretty sure you can’t get it into an airport though …

  1875. Sorry… I had the link wrong… (apparently I can’t spell) I fixed it on this post and someone did post a correction.

    And making the appropriate firewall changes let’s you access it via the net from anywhere and as well as over you’re wi-fi…

    I don’t want to get anyone angry so we probably shouldn’t talk about non-Adam stuff here. There is a forum at InfiniteStream if we want to discuss further.

  1876. Not crazy thoughts … in fact, this brings us back to other dots … Dec. 9, midnight, NYC and lightening striking … which brings me to a connect-the-dots that may be way off base, but I like it …

  1878. Oh, fun! Thanks for helping entertain us while we wait; great effort on the anagrams all.

  1879. Don’t think this was confirmed; as Jai says, the blog assumed so because of binary code pointing to Dec. 9, and Andre’s tweet, which was removed.

  1881. @ Sowmya
    I think Burt has solved the riddle (secret feature) for us all!

    Interesting arrangement, re-arrangement of alphabets!

    TESLA > LEAST > STALE > STEAL > TALES > SLATE

  1882. Slashgear stopped because Notion Ink didnt release anything that warranted a new release. To be fair to them I would imagine they are trying to make sure that they are not seen as fanboys themselves, they have given almost unquestioning praise on Notion Ink and in Tech websites thats not allowed. Look at what happens with Engadget and apple stuff.

    I also think that Slashgear are the only guys to have had some hands on with the adam, is that right? (it was a long time ago)

  1884. Rohan, is your response to the dream about the phone or about the dog? Or both? ie: NI will be developing a phone for my dog??? 😉

  1885. @rohan ,
    please don’t say later we didn’t warn you about a new haters club for you is getting created – of all the spouses think their partners spend much more time here than with them …

    I just checked on wikileaks and confirmed there has been substantial risk to you bcs of this new club .watcha

  1886. yaarji your wife may think your crazy, but your not really. In the chance that you are then I and a number of others are floating in your boat. I never usually pay top dollar, yet I will for Adam. I have seen no actual reviews of the finished product. I have not seen Adam in person. I don’t enjoy showing off anything I purchase. I’m right there with you on all of these things. Yet, here is why I’m going for it. I discovered the idea of Adam last January after CES. I began to like the idea of a touch screen tablet. I was eager to see the Ipad when it came out. My father in law purchased the I pad and I got to play with it. I was disappointed in it’s total propriety vibe. It’s lack of connectivity. I kept remembering Adam and started to read all I could find out about it. I spent hours researching every Tablet I could learn about. At one point I even considered a cheap Chinese tablet just to get something in my hands. Yet I just kept coming back to Rohan’s Adam. Nivida is a known company with a decent reputation, the fact Rohan was using their tegra chip was helping me wrap my head around the Adam. The more I read and learned the more confident I became that there was nothing out there like Adam at any price. I have never spent this much time trying to glean information on any product I have ever purchased. The product looks great. I lot folks here on this blog are obviously very technically educated and many are ready to spring for Adam. Will Adam be perfect? Some will think it is perfect for them. Some will not. Will something better come down the pike? Sure, but Adam 2 will probably be on that list too. So with calm, (Trying To Be) excitement I await my chance to order a red and black Adam ( Or Grey and black) if the Red is a no go. So yaarji you and I may be out of our minds, but I doubt it. Perhaps we suffer a bit from extreme “anticipationitus.”

  1888. @GIJoe

    Thanks for the clarification. I remember Rohan telling us that they moved from AGPS to GPS per popular demand, but the website confused me. With people throwing around the “GPS” term for smartphones that don’t really have a standalone GPS in them, I just wanted to make sure.

    @Rohan and NI

    I agree with GIJoe. Have a GPS section or at least, comment on the fact that it contains a standalone GPS, free from any 3G connection.

  1889. Yay! It’s official! Rohan confirms! Every Adam will arrive with a puppy!

    Slashgear, please take notice. Endgadget, you can drop your skepticism now. (Unless you hate puppies).

  1890. Taiwan is now breeding puppies 🙂 Damn, how can they bread 100,000 puppies a month? 😦

  1891. Looks like NI has a logo. You can see it on the left corner of the address bar when you go to notionink dot com in Firefox, and on left of the tab heading in Chrome. It looks different and was not in the top 43.

  1892. Good spot sir.

    I shall await a higher res image before sayinig anything about it (but looks okay ; p)

  1893. calm down, just Breathe and Speak To Me. don’t feel Sorrow. it’s just Us and Them in here. I have High Hopes the 9th will be A Great Day For Freedom followed by The Happiest Days Of Our Lives

  1896. What is the transmitting power of WiFi? 0.5W? 1W? How much of that will get lost in the air on the way to Adam? There will be not more than probably 0.1W or less, that’s too few to do anything needful but transmit data 😉

  1897. Hey! I think someone on the slashgear site figured this out before we could?

    If you put -D5720A80 into Google maps…

    It will bring up…The Empire State building…

    That is….ominous.

    GOOGLE maps…New York…Gingerbread release? Has to be. Or maybe that’s when Notion Ink will reveal it’s collaboration with Google?

  1898. Meh. Disregard. Any input with a – will give the same output. Crud. I got myself excited there for a second 😦

  1899. raj:
    > my wife feels i love this tablet more then her

    You just have to use her picture as your desktop background.

  1900. Raj, the manufacture is in mainland China, not Taiwan, so they can simply buy the puppies from the food markets. “Buy an Adam, save a puppy.”

  1902. My wife told me she loves me… Not to be out done, I told her I love her more than the Notion Ink Adam. And that’s saying a lot!

  1905. Two things worry me the most about the Adam Tablet.

    1) The weight. I just purchased the Viewsonic G Tablet which is ~50-70 grams lighter than the Adam tablet. Yet it feels uncomfortably heavy. I guess I’ll just have to get used to it.

    2) The amount of customization. While this can be awesome if done right, will there be any real android left in it? :/

  1906. Just found out that the HP slate has a active digitizer (knew that all along) but no pen silo.

    So that gives me hope that the adam still has a chance at an active digitizer

  1908. Don’t even begin to compare Steve Jobs to Rohan!!! Rohan Shravan is actually a human being. Steve Jobs is a self absorbed, egotistical turd.

  1909. Well I tried it, I went to the Mediamarkt (the Dutchies/Germans and perhaps more) know this shop. Went to the Apple department and opened notionink.com on the iPads.

    I don’t think I made a lot of impact on the shoppingcrowd =).
    Worth a try right? Perhaps tomorrow more luck.

    Greetz.

    Daryl.

  1910. Much of Adam’s weight is towards the barrel at the top, so although it might be heavier it would theoretically feel much lighter than its weight.

  1911. @RK
    Not so much MIA as just having a little trouble keeping up with the blog all over – its getting rather bloated these days. 😛

    I’m surprised you remembered that post on the Apple patent on the shape shifting membrane – I’m still somewhat surprised they were able to get a patent for that, since I didn’t think it met the standard patent criteria, since it’s really just a modification of existing current-shifting membranes.

  1912. Indeed, I was thinking about that also; my personal hunch would be very few LCD units, and I’d suspect for the extra dime most would lump the 3G in also, but hunches don’t make for great models. I assume they have a couple of similar products in mind that they can use as a base for determining, at least ephemerally, what kind of breakdown they can expect.

    I doubt they’d be pushing at full capacity prior to their FCC release anyways; it was more of a will they be able to begin pushing units immediately kind of question, even if the supplies are limitted, as that really could make quite a difference in the Christmas rush (setting aside our fanboy rush. :P).

    I doubt I’d realistically see a response on a topic like this anyways, but thought it was worth a shot lol

  1914. @ Sri, thanks for you comment and liking one of my modified finalist logos. I find it fascinating that I can do these things in Photoshop. It’s fun, I love the effects that I can do! The one that you like the most is originally the logo by Harun (#5) — i believe he goes by another name now. With a little work I thought I can make variations of it (first 5 of slideshow below). Then I got a suggestion requested by max3d to make thought bubbles out of the dot along the N. Smallest dot originating from the center of the N, then medium dot intersecting with the N and finally the largest dot outside the N resulting to the 6th and 7th image.

    If you can find me a better view of the red Adam, i’ll fufill your request.

    Gecko has a wild imagination. He thought of swamp gas when he first saw it but that’s only one opinion. However, I thought I can combine it with Nikos’ logo (from the top 43) where the largest bubble is shaped like an ink droplet to reperesent INK. Maybe it will not look like swamp gas.

  1918. As one of the silent majority, I am concerned at the momentum gathering for the idea of an early notification to only those who submit a post. I like many have followed NI since late 2009, reading all available info on the internet and reading all the entries on wordpress, many more than once, unintentionally but difficult to avoid. If the only way I can have any hope of getting my hands on one of the initial batch is to submit a post, so be it. I know the wait will be worth it I just don’t want to wait longer than I have too. Hopefully my email address will be added to the list, if that idea is adopted by Rohan

  1919. Its the same weight as the ipad. So if u have played around with one then you will know its like a solid feel to it

  1920. Its been their for quite long (remember seeing it prior to the site update if I am not wrong). Some how can’t open the image (typically its called fav.ico I think)

  1922. I’m with you.
    Rohan and NI seem to be all about openness and not being locked in to requirements like this. I hope this doesn’t hold.
    JT

  1923. I have heard similar comments from a prominent developer here in Nashville. I’m sure there very busy folks right now. But there is a lot of intrigue in the product and app development will make or break Adam.

  1924. OOOOOHHHHHH!!!! its wireless charging cuz telsa introduced electrodynamic induction on fifth ave. in new york which is where the weather report is that missouri just through you off that was just saying that rohan would have loved to see nikola as a baby at one day old. haha idk but my bet would be wireless charging. what exactly would be the major benefits of a digitizer?

  1925. Well, with an active digitizer you actually take notes with a pen-like stylus instead of having to use a soft capacitive stylus. If present, the experience will turn out to be exactly paper like because of the presence of the matte pixel-qi display which is also finger-print and scratch resistant). This is actually a “make or break” feature for me as I want to be able to use a tablet to replace notebooks.

  1927. I see that the blog is riddled with questions like these that seem to backup @Albertwert’s claims that American’s like everything spelled out and in many places or they may become too skeptical. I would agree with this statement myself. I believe it is simply a product of current marketing techniques. JMO

  1928. Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel….
    Rohan, you have 8 days left to make all jews on this board very happy on Hannukka 😉

  1929. @Sowmya

    What if you could actually feel the book and smell the pages in such an all in one gadget?

    Does the 3D touch have to be through a membranous contraption only? Why can’t it be ethereal? Can we have controlled transmission of electromagnetic waves? Was this something Tesla was looking at?

    @Rohan

    Шта ви кажете?

  1930. I totally agree with you. If he can provide some easy framework so that not only Indian regional news papers but for other countries too.. If I have package like $10/month for any 5 news paper of my choice I would happily pay that.

  1931. @Jerry R: The site says, “The deadzone-free naked eye 3D displays, including the 15.6-inch full HD and 10.1-inch WXGA panels are be expected to be mass produced beginning Q3 2011”. So i dont think the Adam 1 will have that, maybe Adam 2

  1932. We have to wait for a superpower to destroy itself to avoid such silliness as American patents which help the lawyers, the big companies who can feed such wolves, the politicians who are thrown some crumbs…not little people…it will be the day when Asia takes over as the main economic engine (just like over 500 yrs ago?). Most of us won’t be there to witness it..:(

    Then it will be for a different superpower to behave the same! Man has come out of the caves but has the same silly brain!

  1933. Rohan…

    Please please please please hire a copy editor for the website (and the blog once adam gets mainstream popularity).. pretty please ? with cherry on top ? with gingerbread on top ? honeycomb ? The grammar has large room for improvement.

    Oh btw, i’m looking forward to seeing NI offer the most IIT placements next year :D.

  1935. I can do no better than echo gecko that’s it’s a shame that NI’s marketing geniuses have to depend on us Lexicographic Irregulars to correct basic English on your website. Lose the auteur conceit and hire some professionals, please.

    In the ‘Philosophy’ section: ‘home-grown’ sounds a little too much like potatoes, even if they are intuitively organic or even practically elliptical. Something like ‘custom apps’ is better. Also, ‘fully loaded’ sounds too casual. Slang is not colloquial. And perhaps you want to introduce, in a subtle way, some contrast with other unnamed firms that merely scale up an iPhone and call it an iPad, which is what I thought you were trying to do before you went all mumbo-jumbo with the organic retrograde geometries.

    In the ‘Curve’ section, its better to spell out things like “you’d”. It’s not hip (I know hip. I have one). And lose the comma before ‘as well’. But what on earth is ‘practical elliptic’? There’s nothing ellipse-shaped as far as I can see in Adam, so what would even ‘practically elliptic’ mean? Unless you meant to throw the reader for an elliptic loop — elliptic also means ‘concise to the point of obscurity’. Not a bad idea, really.

    In the Material section, when you say ‘as good as the day you bought it’, the goodness refers to the day, not what you bought. So ‘as good as it did the day you bought it’.

    In Features->Display: you have an orphan line with just ‘fps’ on it. Bad typography. Do proper kerning to avoid widow and orphan lines in text.

    In Features->Storage. ‘titled’ is pretty awkward. “What’s more, Sniffer, the internal file browser’ is better. Avoid stray capitalizations like M in ‘Most open’.

    On the whole, your spiel is beginning to sound decent, but much more work to do. The person who wrote stuff for the ‘Features’ page is not the same one who wrote the stuff for the ‘Design/Curve/Material’ etc., or else that person relies too much on insipiration, which is always unhealthy for a professional. Leads to drink and ruin.

  1936. Lest the dangerously bright minds on this blog become bored waiting for Dec. 9, something that might be of interest …

    Just announced today and taken from the NASA WEBSITE:

    “MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167

    NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST Dec. 2”

    “WASHINGTON-NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday Dec. 2 to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

    The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency’s website at http://www.nasa.gov.”

    http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

    More details on the website, including list of participants (sorry I don’t know how to post this as a direct link; hope I got it right, although if you just go to http://www.nasa.gov and poke around a bit you’ll find it too. Might be interesting …

  1937. Summing up some of the speculations so far…

    1) Active digitizer: Most likely I guess, if not in ADAM 1 definitely in ADAM 2. However, i’m unsure how exactly its related to Nikola Tesla and Rohan’s clue of “it even works at night”. It would change the mechanics a little bit, and is a sensor.

    2) Wireless charging: Personally, I think its quite improbable. Apparently it’s pretty expensive to implement, and I don’t’ seem any benefit so far. However, it is very much related to Nikola Tesla … still, the night clue doesnt figure in. Its not a sensor nor would it change the mechanics a bit.

    3) 3D Gesture support: With the camera and some sort of an infrared sensor, there can be support of gestures like flipping changes. This will probably be the biggest breakthrough. I’m not sure how nikola tesla fits in, nor am I sure how the “night” clue fits in, but someone said something about infrared sensors working at night or something. It would change the mechanics by a HUGE amount. I think this is more of an ADAM 2 feature, given his clues in this post about the race with Apple and seeing only parts of Bliss in ADAM 1.

    … There’s a good chance its none of these either. Still, if I were to make an educated guess it would be with the digitizer. Now how do we fit Tesla and night into it ?

  1938. @Gauntlet
    I’m back. Work, family, house work make it hard to come back when you want. This willbe my last comment. It’s 10:36 PM here! So, a la camita, a la camita!

    First, thanks for your comments.
    1. In any case, in my analysis I tried to find the positive elements in Rohan’s grammar, and use of words. I maintain my opinions. Language used must reflect your philosophy, specially if you have already been public about your vision/philosophy. I believe Rohan is trying to be as honest as possible.

    2. I never said that the wording should stay. I said that ”it all makes sense”. There is always room for improvement. I regard Phillip’s comments very sincere, and probably more correct than mine in a different level (I will comment later).

    3. My comments about Phillip’s comments are very formal, detached from any personal feelings. On the other hand, I think Phillip’s comments steam from a desire to make Adam better. As a fan I see nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, there is nothing better than that. In that way, Phillip is an Icon here. I respect that.

    4. If Rohan decides to leave it the way it is now, the public will understand the philosophy. I don’t think the wording will affect Adam a lot. If he decides to change it, as long as they don’t signal double stance, is fine too.

    Waiting for the Adam!

  1940. Some more on Mr. Tesla, that electrifying genius. I would actually love to have a wireless charger, even if its not on the cards for Adam the First. The economics will work out when things are scaled, and there is emerging consensus on the Qi (that word again!) standard for wireless power. By the way, all this absurd excitement about Adam has helped me learn a lot of things about new and emerging technologies, and that’s never too bad, is it?

    A link or two to consider. From TI, the bqTesla:
    http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/gencontent.tsp?contentId=66542&DCMP=hpa_pmp_contactlesspower&HQS=Other+PR+contactlesspower-pr

    and from Fujtsu:
    http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2010/20100913-02.html

    I do worry, perhaps out of naivete, that all this burst of EM radiation in the environment introduced in the last 15 or so years can’t be all that healthy. Well, at least we might die happy clutching our Adams.

    Not to mention Eves. Rohan has been teasing us with Adam. Will teasing us with Eve make him guilty of “eve-teasing”? I think its a phone in the guise of a headset, minimal and stand-alone, but fully complementary to Adam, tethered to Adam via bluetooth, capable of providing a mobile hotspot, with full controls for audio streamed from Adam, and AM/FM and whatever else NI’s futuristic vision will provide. Such a phone offers tremendous potential for very clever, foldably compact design. I hope NI are up to the challenge.

    And, of course, a headset looks vaguely like a rib. Thus Eve, from Adam’s rib.

    P.S: ‘eve-teasing’ is the Indian euphemism for sexual harrassment (of females, obviously — he said, needlessly).

  1941. Oh ho.. what a discussion !!! Your wives should check this blog !!!! 🙂 and see the way you people drool over an inanimate object…

  1945. Has anybody speculated about the novel ‘The Light Fantastic’ by Terry Pratchett, and why it appears on the Features page? Rohan is going to force me to read it, it seems.

    Again, the phrase is a reference to L’Allegro by John Milton:

    “Come, and trip it, as you go,
    On the light fantastic toe;”

    Wonderful poetry. Perhaps I should re-Kindle my interest in the classics. Nah, I’ll wait for Godot.

  1946. Either Rohan and Notion Ink as a company have a secret business strategy that they are not yet willing to divulge, or that they need to seriously reconsider their marketing strategy.

    Considering there’s only a month or maybe even less before the product is released, I think its time to give some serious thoughts into:

    1. Advertisements. This could be in the form of a teaser – a short clip of the product and what it could accomplish, and it SHOULD highlight the features that make it stand out from the rest of the other tablets.

    2. Finalize the specifications and price of all versions. I believe this is important because in a few weeks the holiday season will end and Notion Ink needs to attract the attention of all potential buyers that it can. Many, if not most, are very sensitive of the price (and specs) and they need to be told what they will get for their hard earned money. As of now, though Rohan has mentioned the prices in interviews, this has not been put up on the website and people who plan on buying a tablet computer can only speculate the how much they will cost. And if they are can’t be sure about the price as well as the release date of the Adam then it’s probable that they will buy an alternative such as the iPad which are already on the market rather than wait for a product, the prices of which are yet verified.

    3. Hiring a copy editor, preferably a native speaker.

  1947. Does anyone have any information on when more information will be open to developers? I did not get into the early developer program but I still would like to be able to make some applications for the Adam. I still am not totally sure what I will want to create (depends on what is announced with the device) but the earlier I could get an sdk and emulator of some sort the easier it would be.

    Also will all of Notion Inks programs be open source? I would especially like to be able to use the animations from the weather program in my own applications on the adam because so far they appear to be very nice.

  1948. Well Notion Ink may have planned to participate in many upcoming shows like CES. But there is a chance for Notion Ink to get access to Business leaders from various countries within India, Yes it is DAVOS being organised by Gujarat Govt. Well i feel its a good opportunity to make better contacts.

  1949. These critique blog entries are the hardest for me to read. It dates back to my total abhorrence for English and grammar in high school. I know the intentions are good. I do think Rohan and his staff have taken a lot of these kind of comments to heart. The language barrier does not help them. Gw8 suggests a copy editor and that is who should be addressing these issues. Perhaps that is not in their budget at this time. Notion Ink should not have to be depending on blog comments to get their web site in good order. Hopefully someday they won’t have to.

  1950. It can’t be a digitizer, as per Rohan this is a missing feature none of the tablets have (I read in this blog some HP tablet (slate) has it already. Even if not, its just an accessory that any one can buy for few bucks. so not sure if it would be this.

    Hoping it would be revolutionary

  1951. I seriously doubt. IITians are highly paid and NI would not probably waste money in recruiting more (they can get 4-5 guys for the pay of an IITian). NI already has a bunch of IITians which is self sufficient.

  1952. @Andrew, they haven’t said yet. I made a comment earlier that I don’t think the SDK will be released before the product itself because an emulator might well contain reference to the “secret feature”, but we might get lucky. I am waiting for the SDK as well, should be fun!

  1953. Come on Rohan, enough with the technology explanation (though i like it) .
    I’ve (as have others) been following Adam since Day 1 waiting for it to launch , 1 year has gone buy and no sign of an release date.
    This is really getting frustrating for us wanna be Adam owners, especially when many of our friends are going and buying ipads, galaxy tabs and other android phones.
    Please update the blog with at-least a tentative release date, 2 months more and you will loose a lot more market.

  1954. waiting for the weekend special…in the meantime…Dec 9 -> since the link points to specs page, it is going to be the announcement of the secret sensor than anything else… my 2 cents…

  1955. I do not believe it is a good idea to wait till the product is released in order to release developer tools.. why would Notion Ink want to delay having more apps that are made specifically for the device. I am sure that they want to be able to have as many as possible. I know that they are having somewhere around 400 developers that get the sdk with the eap but that doesnt mean we will have 400 apps developed when the Adam is released.

    I also am really hoping that Rohan will confirm that the Adam will come with the Android Market on it from the factory. That would be great to have and will probably stop many people from purchasing it if it does not come with it. I am aware that you can always install the apks other ways but it is much easier to have the market.

  1956. well, this is NI’s decision totally but
    it’s an individuals take… .
    it’s not about the number of zeroes in the paycheck, it is about how meaningful they are, even if they are less… money is not always an aphrodisiac …

  1960. The Light Fantastic!!!! I just remembered. The BBC had a four part documentary a couple of years ago. It was on Discovery and I didn’t catch all of it. It is still available online if you Google it. Parts three and four may have our clue.

    3. The Stuff of Light
    Episode three charts the discovery of the true nature of light and its impact on the modern world. All of today’s technologies – electricity, mobile communications and our ability to illuminate the world 24 hours a day – stem from unravelling the mystery of light.

    4. Light, The Universe and Everything
    In the final programme Simon Schaffer finds that as more people were able to manipulate light, the more puzzling and tricky it became. This led to investigations into the strange relationship between light, the eye and the mind, and the development of new technology such as photography and cinema.

    Notice the use of the word manipulate in part four. I haven’t seen it and I’ll be quite busy tomorrow. I hope someone can run with this. Here is a link with more info.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/light.shtml

    …………………………Tom C

  1962. Hi Rohan – perhaps you can develop a small app on the Adam to grab the latest news every Saturday

  1964. I could be wrong, but I really don’t think that’s how open source works… It’s not a license to plagiarise and thieve.

  1966. Hp slate has only just now been released!- and Err also how is it just an accessory that u can buy for a few bucks!??
    Active digitiser would be incredible- especially combined with the pixel qi as it should give the effect of literally writing on paper!
    It really turns it from being a toy into an actual tool for productivity (IMO)

  1968. I wonder if the secret is some sort of glove that we use as a 3d mouse. It could have some metallic parts that are detected via em induction perhaps (thus linking it with tesla). And it would work at night.
    Also, that way we could even use it to write precisely like a digitizer.

  1969. With nothing else to do, just dissecting Rohan’s words: “and it all happened in front of your eyes”. In the image of the photo editing application, if you carefully look at the ‘right eye’, isn’t that the image of a digitizer!!! (in front of your eyes???)….a non-touching pen drawing a line????

  1970. Capacitive screens don’t support a pen-like stylus. You have to use a capacitive stylus which has a soft mushy tip (which tricks the screen into taking it as a finger-touch), not at all conducive for taking long notes. However, an active digitizer layer (or a passive one like the one Wacom uses) allows for proper pen input, sometimes even with pressure sensitivity (depending on drivers). So it’s not something you can add after-market.

    Currently, only HP slate has it. It’s easy for them to add because Windows drivers for these digitizers have been in use for convertible tablets for a while. I am not sure about android.

  1973. Greetings fellow Knights who say NI
    On the specifications page the System on a Chip section
    “implies” that the Adam has a Tegra 2, Dual Coretex A-9 and a ULP GPU.

    Since the Tegra 2 contains all of those components the text should just state Tegra 2 and have it link directly to the NVIDIA Tegra 2 description page for further explanations.

    Also all acronyms should be spelled out first time of use. Instead of SLC (Salt Lake City) it should state Single Level Cell and maybe describe why that is important.

    As to wish lists an ATSC tuner would be the cat’s meow.
    Lee

  1975. Great job Jai !!!! Picture of that pen on the left eye does look out of place, therefore maybe intentionally added.

  1977. lol i did the same here in cologne, but no one was in the apple store.

    im going to give it anouther try for a laugh sometime on the weekend as we will be shopping for xmas presents.

    i hope you get your Adam soon (damn good name if i say so myself lol)

  1978. Lucifer should be reserved as a code for Steve Jobs. The IPad could then be Cain and ADAM2 be Able 😀

  1979. I wasn’t reading to much into the book title. For me it mostly says that Rohan is a bit of a geek, because anything Discworld-related is the domain of geeks, including myself.

    Ofcourse we already knew he was a bit of a geek. Who else would put so much attention into the detail of getting it just right.

    ***
    The preparations normally took several hours, but the combined powers of the senior wizards shortened it considerably and, after a mere forty minutes, Galder chanted the final words of the spell. They hung in front of him for a moment before dissolving.

    The air in the centre of the octogram shimmered and thickened, and suddenly contained a tall, dark figure.

    Most of it was hidden by a black robe and hood and this was probably just as well. It held a long scythe in one hand and one couldn’t help noticing that what should have been fingers were simply white bone.

    The other skeletal hand held small cubes of cheese and pineapple on a stick.

    WELL? said Death, in a voice with all the warmth and colour of an iceberg. He caught the wizards’ gaze, and glanced down at the stick.

    I WAS AT A PARTY, he added, a shade reproachfully.
    ***

  1981. Woooow Jai, I wish I had the time and the patience to dissect every word and picture like that. It’s a very good observation and I would love it to be true.

  1982. the weapons of people with no IQ or creativity, the lesser man succumbs to his failings a better rises above and dismisses them.

    i am not a fan of the patent system, but the point is it is a system that exists to protect peoples property, there are people/companies that abuse the system as it is not perfect, and no matter which model we have as a system there will always be people who will abuse it.

  1983. the number changed to 111 from 1000. i was expecting some sort of a countdown

  1985. I’m certain 3d gestures will be on the Adam. I already posted this in a previous comment, but I’ll share it with everyone again.

    The “Philosophy” section of the website was recently updated to include this:

    “…It reflects in the Adam’s build, which is easy on the eye and the wrist alike, in our home-grown apps and gesture-based UI, the choice of a power-saving processor and a sunlight-friendly screen and in the wide range of connectivity options provided.”

    Gesture based UI = 3-d gestures? 🙂

  1987. What are the manipulations of light that can be done, outside the world of science fiction?

    1. Amplification, as in LASERs
    2. Polarisation

    Well, also reflection. Please add more.

    What can we do with light composed of EM radiation of different frequencies? Diffraction and refraction.

    But what does it have to do with sensors and dynamics?

  1988. i think there can be inbuilt projector in adam-2……it will be useful for business people, teachers and doctors and even we can enjoy live cricket and football matches wherever we are using 3G or wifi

  1989. Gesture based UI might just be about allowing you to Zoom in / out, flip, maximize, minimize, move back and forth, etc. based on touch screen gestures, rather than making you press buttons. I don’t read any 3D in there.

    On a completely unrelated note, can you develop dyslexia in adulthood? Why is my typing skill getting messier?

  1990. Also, I think the wireless charging clue is not about the Adam itself, but the active digitizer. (Active digitizers can be powered by induction.) 😀

  1991. It looks more like those Japanese anime characters, which have some warpaint-like facial markings at times.

    Even if the Adam turned out to have an active digitizer, I would believe that the clue (if you can call it that, seems a stretch) was unintentional.

    It seems to me that everybody has fallen in a ‘Da Vinci Code’ trap, and is trying to credit Rohan and Team with too much of a cloak-and-dagger game than might be the truth.

    Come on, people, they don’t have so much time! They have a product to deliver, and soon!

  1993. @Wouter said, on November 27, 2010 at 21:10

    Not just *any* book by Terry Pratchett, but ‘The Light Fantastic’.

  1997. Fits the clues, and fits with Rohan’s confirmatory smiley up above!

    By jove I think he’s got it!

    “Rigth in front of your eyes” – good job!

  1998. I think some people are thinking way to far out there when it comes to the secret sensor. I would bet my life on it that its not any 3d gesture thingy ,projector etc ect.
    Its almost definitely an active digitiser! Firstly Rohan basically confirmed it and secondly it would really make the adam so much more useful- For business, offices, out in the field, hospitals perhaps, graphic design (providing the screen is of a high enough quality) -the list is endless!

  1999. Isn’t an active digitalaser way too expensive to build in for the price given?
    I think we do a lot of wishfull thinking.

  2000. Been following NI the past several months…came very close to buying an iPad but was these posts have helped me control the urge.

    hope to start 2011 with Adam

  2001. the FIRST of the Discworld series.

    Eve should be ‘the Colour of Magic” then. And then what about the LIGHT fantastic ? (still dreaming about a picoprojector 🙂

  2002. Yeah that’s what really puts some doubt in my mind although it may be an option and may not be included on the basic models? I guess we will find out soon but i still think Rohans smiley confirms it.

  2003. thanks to all for liking my post. Whenever I lament about patents to people in my country, who have been impregnated by the local education system with ten good reasons for why intellectual property is a holy cow, I tend to receive harsh criticism. It is interesting to see how these tables turn, once the lamentation is directed to a different audience.

    @bhavya: M$ is getting the money only from HTC. Microsoft is currently also trying to sue Motorola in the same matter. That’s one of the many flaws of the patent idea: There is no system in place to guarantee competition fairness. A company can sue one competitor for billions of dollars but there is no mechanism for ensuring that all other direct competitors who are equally “guilty” in the matter were to pay the same fine.

    Here is a chart of who’s currently suing who in the mobile space: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/04/microsoft-motorola-android-patent-lawsuit

    In regard to the competition fairness I mentioned above, it is also worth deliberating about a further field of malpractice:
    The European Office of Fair Trading regularly sues US companies for unfair competition.
    For example, Intel had to pay over 1 billion Euros to the European Union as a fine for unfair competition directed against their direct competitor AMD – and rightfully so. This means the office of fair trade assessed that the financial unfairness dealt by Intel to AMD amounts to 1 billion Euros.

    Now, the market share taken away unfairly from AMD by Intel equals the market share gained by the latter, resulting in an unbalance of assets of these two competitors, right? So, lets say that due to unfair trading, Intel was able to corrupt AMD of 500 million Euros of their assets and increase their own by that amount. The resulting difference in assets/accounts is 1 billion dollars because what AMD has less then usual, Intel has more than usual. Intel’s assets are now 1 billion above AMD’s assets in relation to where they WOULD HAVE BEEN in the ABSENCE of unfair trading, right?

    Therefore the European Union correctly balances out the scales by fining Intel to pay 1 billion Euros to the European Union. This money is KEPT by the European Union!

    An alternative way of balancing out the difference in accounts between these two competitors would have been to fine Intel to pay 500 Million Euros to AMD. RIGHT??
    The difference being that both Intel and AMD would end up having 500 Million Euros more in their pockets in relation to the way they were actually fined by the EU. This money taken away from both companies have cost and will cost both Intel AND AMD employees their jobs.

    So what basically happened is that the European Union confiscated the market share which was unfairly taken away from AMD by Intel !! The result is that a third party (EU) devours the food that two competitors were bantering about after one of them had unfairly seized it.

    But at least, fair competition IS being installed. It is being installed in the most opportunistic and damaging way to the concerned parties, but still, the aim is met. All the while hords of bureaucrats scan the market for unfair competition, there is enclave of anarchy shielded from their grasp, in which it is legal for competitors to deal out competition unfairness by directing intellectual property claims uniliterally to an arbitrary subset of competitors, teaming up and forming kartels to their every whim.

  2005. HP Slate vs adam.

    I’m following this blog and the adam now for quite long and I was nearly ready-for the first time in my life- to order something, before it was thoroughly reviewed.
    However, someone mentioned the HP slate in this comments and as I was not aware of that tablet I just checked it out.
    There are a couple of point on the plus site for the HP Slate. I really like the concept of the in-built stand, it’s a very good idea for video chat or watching movies… Don’t think this will be similar comfortable with the adam, lying flat (+3°C) on a surface. I even more liked the active digitizer! It think that is a major draw back of the capacitive touch screens! I’m planing to use my tablet in a more professional way, meaning taking notes, reading PDFs and so on. But who knows? Probably the adam will have a digitzer as well? I don’t like the design and Windows 7 as an OS, although it has the advantage that I can use my standard desktop applications (like Firefox + Zotero).
    On the plus site for the adam, is the great design. With the majo feature being the swivel webcam, giving you equally good quality (relying that it is a good camera) for Webchat and photos. I really like Android and all the applets coming with it (relying on the promise, that googles market will work on the adam). It’s much better optimised for touch input than any Windows 7 software can be. However, I’m unsure if special application (like Zotero) will ever be ported to Android… And of course the major advantage (for me) adam has the better display: PixelQI. No use of a library (Zotero) if you can’t read you PDF…
    So it’s a close head-to-head. The “serious business man” against the “beautiful, arty, revolutionist”. We’ll see how this race ends for me… reading about the “mystery sensor” all the time, this might severely influence the outcome of this little race, so I’m looking forward to the 9th of December.

    Best,
    Jan

  2006. @Cathy – maybe it was a joke,
    but rather than laugh I thought I’d inform, just in case 😉

    As Nishit says, Pranav may be the other half of the 10 people in the world who don’t know binary.

  2007. @Nishit – yeah…it could be a total coincidence! It could very well be the case of looking into clues which will fit our wishlist :D. However, it could be purely intentional also!

    Rohan himself has said that he will point back to this blog in the future after he reveals the secret. That was why I tried to read between his lines. If the Tesla clue was intentional, why cannot this too? And apparently, Rohan amuses himself by playing these games with us!!

    And as he has mentioned, his developers do designing when they are not programming! It could be one of the naughty ones! :D.

    The line in the picture seemed to be out of place to me….hence my post!

    Jai

  2008. @wtff
    well may be intel was well aware of the laws and they ddint want major rival AMD to benefit anyway… and they still wanted to retain their market share, so good thing was to pay other computer manufacturers and end up paying a fine as well..
    They would have thought thro it.
    but i guess EU has stringent rules to stop exclusion practices…

  2009. how can a digitizer help a common person ? i mean common person means some 1 who will use it for web surfing, watching movies, sending emails ? iam not a tech guy i will be using adam mainly for web surfing, watching movies, sending emails , playing some games ,video chat . 1 more question to tech guys here do you think the user experience of adam will be better then ipad ?

  2010. well jai whatever you pointed out to
    could mean a lot
    > an exclamation mark
    > someone poking a eye with a pencil
    > Notion ‘ink’ so a pen
    > someone called a kid to make a drawing and that poor kid scribbled all over..
    >well it can also be a digitizer – if it really was intended to be a digitizer – ppl at NI (or whoever did this sketch) needs to seriously consider taking drawing lessons ….

  2014. IMHO for the activities you have mentioned here, I think IPad would be a good choice. About user experience, it is difficult to comment now as none of has seen the product / used it. As far as “common persons” are considered, the following are the benefits from adam IMO.

    1. Currently, IPad does not have a camera, so not possible to do a video chat. (I understand it is coming in IPad 2.0)
    2. Better screen for reading. If you plan to use it as an e-reader (which is how I came across ADAM in the first place), Adam would be far superior (if you the PixelQi screen)
    3. Far powerful processing power including memory. Much better user experience is guaranteed.
    4. Multi-tasking – Adam will provide multi-tasking so that you can do 2-3 things at the same time rather than like IPad where you can run only one app at a time.
    5. Independent usage – IPad does not have even a USB port. You need to have a laptop/PC attached to it to transfer anything including music, videos etc. And for me, ITunes is not the best of the sync tools. With adam, you will be able to directly access your USB and copy files from it.
    6. Adam will support FULL HD 1080p movies and also has a HDMI connector. Because of the superior processor, you will not only be able to view HD movies, but you can connect to your BIG TV too..So it will act as a media player toooo!

    These are the points which suddenly came into my mind. There could be many more which the experts here would be able to add.

    Jai

  2015. Mmmh…. wondering what happened to my comment… Was it not authorised due to the fact I compared the adam to the HP slate…?
    Well both products seems to have advantages and disadvantages. The most prominent disadvantage for me (the missing digitizer) might actually vanish on the 9th of december… Looking forward to the announcement 😉
    Best,
    Jan

  2016. @ raviraj: I agree that “the common person” (i.e. the anonymous customer) is vital for NI to survive in the future. But let us not fall into the trap and presume, that NI is solely focusing on the gadget-market. They are dreamers, idealists, philosophers and led/driven by their imagination and not by hard cash (@Rohan: This would be a good spot for a smiley to allow us some sigh of relief).

    Rohan himself said some days ago that he “inked his notions” down on paper when he still was a student, attending lectures. Why the “ink” in the name if I could not write and take notes on the adam?

    If he really drew his ideas from his experiences as a student – there is no way he could ignore note-taking, PDF-reading & marking and so on. “Learning” is a word often used in his explanations, as well as the idea of using the swivel camera to” capture live-lectures”.

    From the starting point, it WAS a “student” device, I guess. It just evolved into something bigger and better. And even if there is a perspective of earning some serious money – there would not be any need for the adam to deny its sources.

  2017. the reason i asked the question was because i saw most of the tablets. samsung tab is good i liked it but its small, olive pad other then the leather case nothing to talk abt it, toshiba ugly looking and very confussing, ipad looks great and i loved the overall feel but wont buy it because no camera and other things which jai mentioned. my basic resaon i know its a emotional one but what to do being a indian i will support a indian company. all my freinds are already making fun of me when i told that the first tablet i will buy will be ADAM no matter what , they find it silly because they say they never heard of the company and what matters them most is that they dont trust the coustomer support of a new company.
    i get in arguments with freinds because they are apple fanboys they say nothing can match quality, looks, and the overall feel of apple products. and what i want to do is sit with their ipad and my adam and show just how adam can beat ipad in every aspect. iam not against apple products iam just against the belif that nothing can be better then apple products.

  2019. never pay for information… that too if the information contains ads beside it.

  2020. You do not háve to use LiveShare. It is just one of the many cool Android apps that will work éxtra good on the Adam. In this case because of the camera.

  2021. Now the Easter egg hunt has calmed down there are only 3 main reasons to follow the blog daily for me –
    1. Gecko
    2. The amusement of reading all the helpful financial insights ppl give NI into the need for launching before Christmas etc and how devastating a later launch would be.
    I’ve learned so much about this, I’m surprised things come out in Q1…..ever.
    3. The anticipation of the rage I’ll see if the Dec 9th sensor announcement isn’t one of these active digimajigs….

  2022. If I had a package where I would pay like 200 euro / month for my house I would also happily pay that. Or am I just being unrealistic? 😉

  2023. As far as I know the Adam will run standard Android, with a highly modified skin. Probably they are trying to get the Market available on the device, but even if the Android market is not available you will be able to sideload the apps you would want to use.

    Some highlights:
    – Omnovia doesn’t have an Android client as far as I know. (I might be wrong)
    – Adobe Connect requires Android 2.2 and Adobe AIR and should work fine.
    – Android 2.2 has Exchange integration natively and well working (including pushmail).

    Most of the other stuff you name will work because it is included in Android 2.2 anyway.

  2024. Hey guys am back 🙂

    can one of u summarise wht been happening ?
    saw the digitiser thing 🙂
    f’ing awesome 🙂

  2025. If it is an active digitizer, would it mean that hand touch won’t work? I am not sure about the technology…anybody can perhaps enlighten?

  2027. We are saying the same things over and over again at this point. Usually happens around the end of the week because we have run out of things to speculate over. When you hit 2,000 comments, I think it’s all been said. LOL. However, I don’t need a digitizer. I would rather have the 3D infra-red sensor. Just sayin’.

    http://www.myspace.com/siriusstyle

    Rohan, if you need some music for your commercials, I can do that for you. Let me know

    simbasoundproductions@gmail.com

  2028. digitiser= em field across screen measures changes due to coil in pen brought close to the screen and positions it along 3 axis xy= along plane of screen z= pressure sensitivity =normal to screen.

    capacitive touch = very fine grid under the screen am guessing not sure. measures changes in local capacitance. sensitive only to human skin / specialised styluses/stylii ?

  2029. Let’s practice the rage a bit 🙂

    Somehow I am a little reluctant to belive in fireworks of magic technology, too.

    Some of us here are rather critical about NI’s marketing strategy – but wouldn’t it be rather foolhardy of a… (I dare not say ‘inexperienced’) upcoming company to be mysterious about an absolute chartbreaker?

    If this mysterious feature really is something completely stunning, new, exciting or yet unheard of – would they let it drop silently in the Tech Specs with a smiley? This is fine for the die-hard fan (um.. Geek?) but for the large crowd of potential “Gadget”-Customer out there? Far too casual.

    And do not forget it is a “bonus”. A bonus usually is NOT a prominent feature, just some sort of (inexpensive?) giveaway, added perhaps with a wink towards the fan-community. And not the killer feature you’d buy and/or die for.

    I rather guess that it is something we are all going to love, but it won’t be the heavy-weight straw on the iCamel’s back. The adam already is – by it’s specs and NI’s approach – superior to many other devices out there. I’d rather expect something more modest that will make us smile if we use it… but anyway we will be so busy loving all the other nice features that the bonus-thingy is just the cherry on top and not the cake itself!

    Rohan is just playing (nice & entertaining!) games with us fanboys and -girls and surely is chuckling all day.

    BUT (ere you start sobbing out of frustration or unleash the rage mentioned above) – I might as well be totally wrong! 😀

    It MAY as well be the killer feature – yet obscured because of patent issues or anything else. Kept secret until the day of release and so stunning that everybody will tear the shops apart, bring the servers down and make any other marketing effort unnecessary. But if so, then it better be GOOD!

    Having said all that, I might as well add a little speculation of my own:

    “It now even works at night”…

    The idea is rather profane but fits into what I meant with the “bonus”-character:
    LED illumination that allows you to use the reflective display in the dark of night? It would certainly be consuming less energy than a full LED backlight, but yet sufficient for reading? jacknone triggered this idea in his reply to the poem. It is a nice gift, yet easy to embed and thus a sweet bonus.

    Well – to raise expectations: add some bits and pieces (as Rohan said: “just adding little extrapolations and imgaination”) and we might get an UV-active layer and a black light UV-LED, giving us a decent read of violet-blue glowing letters at almost no power consumption a dark environment… (btw – Having transferred UV light into glowing colors would sufficiently account for changing the fundamentals of light – from a poetical point of view).

    But of course I still have less modest ideas/dreams – still hoping for the digitizer. To use the adam as a SLATE (an inductive TESLA-SLATE??) i.e. to write and take notes, is certainly one of Rohans first inspiriations, I am sure.

    Yet I cannot forget the line in the last post, concerning apples 3D-touch technology vs. “our” (NI’s) technology: “BOTH are wonderful yet work quite differently” (…but are somehow comparable…? achieve the same goal?).

    “It’s yet obscure”, the fanboy sighed
    As of today, we shall not know
    Read blog at day and work at night (!)
    There are still 7 days to go…

  2031. Can you please break your words and make it simple so that poor souls can understand, please?

  2032. Or he is driving us crazy…..
    Although an active digitalise would be awsome I have my hopes up for ir wireless charging
    It would also fit his little riddle “power of the same”
    Only It working at night part doesn’t get coverd
    I guess your guess is as good as mine….
    We wil see next week……
    In the mean while we can let the time past by drewling over what could be 🙂

  2033. I agree 100%, you translated in a perfect English what I wanted to say a few hundred posts ago 🙂

    Anyways I’m happy I’m back to Adam, I wanted to cheat on it with Dell’s last net-tablet/book but it looks like it’s not such an amazing product.

    The waiting restarted…… :))

  2036. Hi Notion Ink,

    I was wondering – and I apologize for my lack of knowledge – what does “1GB SLC” mean? I found it on your website in the “features”-page below “memory+storage”.

    I hope you’ll answer the question soon 🙂

    regards
    Simon T-L

  2039. no capacitive screen will ensure multi touch finger gestures …
    u need a special capacitive stylus to write
    else u can have a active digitizer – will ensure input from pen (the special stylus u need for active digitizer)… will support great writing and drawing.. and you can essentially hover and also click with a pen (while it cannot be done in passive digitizer as contact is required)…
    but now cypress has come with a proximity sensing in capacitive screens capable of detecting hover without theuse of active digitizer,..

  2040. We can see developments all around and many firms are striving to integrate the latest, but that’s not what Notion Ink is all about. We wanted Apple to introduce their 3D touch technology in the iPad 1, which would have forced us to work even harder on our technology (both are wonderful yet works quite differently), but everything takes time to reach maturity and production quality. I spend hours looking at the recent patents and if you also do so, you will be as excited as I am, by just adding little extrapolations and imagination.

    (I apologize for being little mystic in this post, but I want to point in the future, back to this post and tell you that I shared a secret and hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes! )

    http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20101106/auo-announces-deadzonefree-naked-eye-3d-notebook-panel/

    This is really new technology, but the hints do bring me to this.

  2041. Hi,
    still wondering about timezones, trying to figure out at what time December 9th the pre-ordering could start (if at’s what it means)…
    India (NI) and Europe (my humble person) differ 4,5 hours; Europe and New York (the rest of you?) differ 7 hours. All together 11,5 hours.
    So, would the time in de ‘software movie’ mean anything (9.30 PM)?

    And how about the 4.20, 2.43 PM, 04.14, 42, 41 degrees and 12.30 in the pic on the homepage?
    Aww, I got the suspicion desease now as well…
    Please, release my suffering…

  2042. I am casting my vote for infrared sensor in the camera. I think it ties together all of the clues that I have seen. Tesla did a lot of work in the infrared spectrum. The camera would need a sensor to capture that portion of the spectrum. It would then “work at night”. No other tablet that I have heard of includes one. The two problems with this are (1) there would need to be some sort of infrared light incorporated for it to be used and I haven’t seen anything in the pictures that would indicate that and (2) this isn’t really a game changer as I don’t see any great use for a night vision camera on a tablet.

    My other contender is a remote control. Tesla developed one of the first remotes in 1898, it uses infrared which could tie into the whole “work at night” clue. But again, this isn’t really worth holding out on until the last minute as it isn’t exactly a new thing. PC’s and Phones have incorporated infrared sensors to work as remotes for ages.

    Meh…I give up.

  2043. I have known this for many days but sadly was sworn to secrecy by my evil overlord masters.

    It actually doesn’t work thát well in the dark. Sometimes you will still get a bit wet.

  2044. I dont want to pay for information… especially when the information has ads besides it

  2045. There is an interesting article here.

    http://www.cultofmac.com/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-the-full-interview-transcript/63295

    It is a little long but it gives a look into the mind of apple’s CEO.

    This part that describes an apple store I find very interesting.

    “Another example, which has been brilliant, is what he did with the retail stores.

    He brought one of the top retailers in the world on his board to learn about retail ( Mickey Drexler from The Gap, who advised Jobs to build a prototype store before launch). Not only did he learn about retail, I’ve never been in a better store than an Apple store. It has the highest revenue per square foot of any store in the world but it’s not just the revenue, it’s the experience.

    Apple stores are packed. You can go to the Sony center — go in the San Francisco center at the Moscone. There’s nobody there. You can go into the Nokia store, they have one in New York on 57th St. There’s nobody there.

    But other people have the stores. They have the products to look at. You can touch and feel them but you walk into an Apple store and it’s just like an amazing experience. It is as much the people who are there shopping alongside you.

    Again, it is like necktie products. It’s like being in an Apple store says, “here’s how I want you to see me. I’m here. I’m at the genius bar. I’m trying out the products. Look at me: I’m like the other people in the store.”

    I have read that apple owners are snobs but perhaps it is their manic belief that nothing can be better then apple products that makes it seem so. Then when they start quoting Job’s like he is a prophet that I really get nauseous.

    ………………….Tom C

  2046. re: air gestures

    In one of the first hands-on videos, at the 2:27 mark, Rohan says accelerometers are so 2007, and then asks ‘can you tell me what I’m doing?’ as he gestures ‘without touching the screen’.

    http://tv.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-tablet-full-demo-hands-on-835/

    re: digitizer

    In the ‘a letter to a friend’ blog post, the academic market seems to be touched upon. This professor needs a stylus to annotate journal articles. (Students, of course, need one to take notes. I know Ipad’s have note taking software and capacitive styluses, however, I know very very few students who stick w/ this before eventually reverting back to paper; I do know many students who *do* stick w/ tablet PCs that have digitizers.)

    If a part of NI’s vision is, indeed, to change the way tablets are viewed, from a mere media consumption device to one that also changes the way people work, changes the way students learn, etc., then this might fit.

    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/a-letter-from-a-friend-part-ii/

    Lots of possibilities… (Though I do, too, fear that many of us may be getting our hopes up if the feature is, in fact, a small ‘bonus’ rather than a game changer.)

  2047. Actually Notion Ink does not have to defend Nvidia’s trademark.

    The symbols ® and TM have not a lot of true meaning, just “I am stating that I have registered this name as a trademark.” Observe that it is usually the trademark holder that will actively use the symbols. (See http://marklaw.com/trademark-FAQ/faqbasic.htm)

    It is entirely possible that Nvidia will ask Notion Ink to use the trademark symbols on their site, but this is not something that is governed by law as far as I know.

  2048. Oops. Watching the video again, and looking what’s on the screen, I think he’s actually just flicking the entire tablet, or something like that, rather than the kind of air gesturing people might be thinking of…

  2050. Here’s a feature that I would love to see on the Adam. It would be nice to have a Display Port “USB” and be able to use your Adam as a secondary / portable monitor. It’s great that I’ll have an HDMI output to hook my Adam up to my 100″ 1080p projector however I’ve been very tempted to buy a Samsung Lapfit display for my mobile computing needs however if the Adam had a DisplayPort it would be yet another much needed feature that no other tablet has. Let me know what you think 🙂

  2051. Superb!! I really applaud your knowledge of grammatical nuances of English. I think NI owes you one Adam. I think they really need to hire a technical writer not someone who uses fancy words to showoff.

  2052. 3D? Personally, I’m not a fan of 3D. I’m not looking for that kind of experience with a tablet or any computer or tv for that matter. I don’t even bother with going to to 3D movies. Please lets get the product out and into the market. I’m not a fanboy of Apple and I’ve already got approval from my boss to order an ADAM when its available. I like the current specs and 3D is wasted on me and I think the business community as whole. I was dizzy on the harry potter castle ride and don’t wish to feel queasy when computing.

  2053. Well, yes, it does seem to be the best viable option. That 2% is reserved for anything that might end up happening while I figure out what is the best way to acquire one. If while I am looking into that reports come back that they’re exploding in people’s hands, brainwash customers, are portals for the tickle-me-hellmo dolls, or are actually artificial life forms that sprout tentacles and mechanical legs aand then clamp onto your head to impregnate your tongue with their larvae… then I MIGHT not get one (I like being able to use my tongue).

    But I wouldn’t be convinced not to get one by sites like engadget or crunchgear which have shown themselves to cast a negative light on the adam without justifiable cause. I think crunchgear’s just sore and envious after the whole joojoo/crunchpad debacle.

  2055. And Rohan said that you could use a capacitive stylus with adam – I guess if you left your fingers at home, as long as you didn’t leave your capacitive stylus at home as well.

  2056. I have this bad feeling that it’s coming out on the 9th and I don’t get paid til the 13th so I’m gonna log on and find that they are all sold out of “pre-order” and I’ll have to wait til March to get it at Best Buy or Walmart something.

    New secret thing, how about an led light on the camera so some low-light pictures/video can be taken?

    RF transmitter, so I can use it like a big remote control?

    Digital Decoder and antenna so I can watch local TV?

    Port to connect a larger powered WIFI antenna would be AWESOME…can pick up wifi from miles away with one of these. (can anyone say WarDriving?)

    Small remote control that comes off of it allowing you to do simple tasks like Play/Pause/Shuffle Music, Video, or Pictures?

    3D Glasses??

    Infrared Leds so the camera can see in the Dark?

    Micro USB – (It should seriously already have this so my droid phone can connect to it and make sweet love).

    Fricken Lasers!!

    -Well those are my guesses…seriously, it should have a micro usb..I don’t know any smartphones(android based) made now that aren’t using micro-usb, and it would be excellent if I could tether up my phone and use my existing 3g service while at the same time getting a charge from the Adam at the same time.

    What will Adam’s secret “Rib” be???

    -David

  2057. if you like, take a look at these comments:
    // things that can be done with IR support
    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/new-site-is-up/#comment-18644
    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/new-site-is-up/#comment-18653
    // more advanced stuff
    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/new-site-is-up/#comment-18609
    there are a lot of other posts in the “new site is up” blog on IR caps

    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/new-site-is-up/#comment-18572

  2058. adam:
    > i am not a fan of the patent system, but the point is it is a system that exists to protect peoples property

    No, it exists to create a temporary legal monopoly in order to further the development of the sciences and useful arts, in the (approximate – I’m quoting from memory) word of the US constitution. There are no “property” interests here because there’s no such thing as “intellectual property” – the things which are lumped together under that term – patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights – actually don’t have very much in common. The term “property” is used as a red herring, a distraction. It’s especially useful in a place like the US, where property rights are held in very high regard. But there’s no real property involved here; the term is misleading.

  2059. I was merely suggesting that – in a post some scrolls way up.

    TESLA is quite interesting as a source for anagrams: LEAST, STALE, STEAL, SLATE…

    Even more: depending on the spelling of Tesla’s first name, NICOLATESLA gives a huge bunch of funny and intriguing anagrams, e.g. “LOCALISE ANT”…” But I do not think, Rohan has gone so far – apart from the fact that I would not go crazy over a device capable of tracking lost formicidae…

    (If you write Nikola Tesla with a k, you may as well chew up something including NOKIA ALL SET… 😉 )

  2061. I’m grumpy, not adamizing in stores until there’s an order form, or at least ordering information on the site.

  2062. In weekend special, I will really like to see picture taken by ADAM.
    Hello Rohan, you listening?

  2064. ATSC tuners are available as USB add-ons, but I’m not sure if there are any Android HOST drivers or SW for them yet. (fingers crossed, for next hurricane season weather tracking)

  2065. @raviraj:
    > how can a digitizer help a common person ?

    It depends on how common you are. If you view things such as handwriting (taking notes, for example) or drawing as elitist, then you’re too common and a digitizer won’t help you.

  2067. I really hope this UI ends up being really nice because it looks like NI just got some tougher competition now that RIM has purchased The Astonishing Tribe. I am sure the BB Playbook will have a really nice UI now.

  2069. @david swan if you want to be able to connect your droid to the adam to charge you can just use the usb port and use a data cable to the phone.

  2070. “*paycheque ( i better look at the screen when i type)”

    Paycheck would be ok for the US I guess, but since NI maybe paying in Rupees currently paycheque would be proper. 🙂

  2071. @everyone
    Afaik u dont need an IR led for the camera to see IR at night. So u can strike that off the picture. Just google night vision mods for webcam. they will recomend u use leds but u can do without. Leds even ir ones are a big power drain so thats not good if the adam uses one.

  2072. You can connect your droid to the Adam with the standard cable (which is normal usb to micro usb) that came with it. If the Adam would have used only micro usb than you would need to find a micro-usb to micro-usb cable which are very hard to find (also you would have lost to possibility to connect flash drives)

  2073. you mean to say, “only for writing” we need to use active digitizer, for normal clicking hand will do, is it? In that case, there will be special applications only in which the digitizer will work, is it? Because technically, hand is a passive digitizer, right? and that is possibly the disadvantage of a passive digitizer since it is unable to differentiate a valid touch from an accidental one?

  2074. Tom C:
    > I have read that apple owners are snobs but perhaps it is their manic belief that nothing can be better then apple products that makes it seem so.

    Doesn’t the second part of your sentence support the first? The snob appeal is part of a deliberate marketing strategy, and a very sophisticated one. The two Apple Stores I know in New York, for example, don’t even have “Apple Store” signs on them. It’s obvious where they are, but there’s a subtle reinforcement of your feeling of belonging to some elite clique. There are probably hundreds of others examples of this sort of thing in their “Think Different” market campaign, etc., etc., etc.

    I hate the atmosphere at Apple Stores. It’s all manufactured, calculated excitement. Excitement is fine, but this is a commercial venture, and I don’t like having my mood manipulated so that they can pick my pocket.

    A friend of mine used to manage the Genius Desk at a local store. It’s a burn-out job.; few managers last more than a year or 2. Apple does this on purpose – they even give everybody weird work schedules to encourage them to hang out with each other rather than with outside friends. The churn rate of Apple Store employees isn’t that much different from McDonalds.

  2075. Unless adam will be 3 pounds heavy, two times thicker and have finger massaging capabilities while you swipe left and right… point is, I sincerely doubt that on top of a PixelQI screen with capacitive touch you can add the 3D without seriously lowering the quality…

  2076. oops i dont think what i said was right . Except for cmos sensors to pick up even far infra red . Most webcam cmos sensors pick up only near IR so need additional light source

  2077. > New secret thing, how about an led light on the camera so some low-light pictures/video can be taken?

    Very novel idea, never saw that before… but it´s not a sensor

    > Infrared Leds so the camera can see in the Dark?

    is not a sensor

    > Port to connect a larger powered WIFI antenna

    Is not a sensor

    > Fricken Lasers!!

    useless, dangerous and not a sensor

    > RF transmitter, so I can use it like a big remote control?

    Most remotes use IR not RF so limited in use, also it´s not a sensor

    > 3D Glasses??

    AFAIK incompatible with QI display

    > Small remote control that comes off of it allowing you to do simple tasks like Play/Pause/Shuffle Music, Video, or Pictures?

    Buy a Sony Liveview

  2079. hmm…i think i got it..could be wrong…you actually need to turn your touch-screen off to enable the active digitizer mode…(which is actually a capacitive touch + active digitizer together). I understand there need to be a manual switch for it as the screen may not be intelligent enough to understand the modes…

  2082. Guys, a tip: ePub is the ebook file format addopted in most Brazil eBook sellers. Think about support this format.

    I loved the specs of Adam, I’ll probably buy it when it arrives.

  2084. rohan you evil evil man! i’ll absolutely go bonkers if the digiter is really real, don’t tease me man, tell me already and put me out of this torture! now i’m 99.9999% convinced. this is huge. this one feature could single-handedly blow the ipad and galaxy tab out of the water.

  2087. Hi

    I’ve been following this blog for quite a while and I’m looking forward excited to the release of Adam.

    There’s one question I have regarding the OS:
    Recently Google has published that Gingerbread will be Android version 2.3 (and Rohan already confirmed that this upgrade will be available for the Adam). However I also read that the real “tablet-optimized” OS of Android will still be version 3.0 (known as Honeycromb) and that there will be only minor fixes/enhancements for tablets in version 2.3.

    Therefore my question: Will Andorid 3.0 (Honeycromb) also be available as an upgrade for Adam?

    Keep up your very promising work!

    Greetings from Switzerland

  2092. Probably working on Saturday’s update. It is obvious that these updates are important to him as well as us. They are not just created with snap of fingers.

  2093. The ones who get upbeat about 3D are those who don’t have anything exciting going on in the *actual* 3D around them.

  2095. “Yeah, well how come I can’t see it?”
    Not sure if Gekkonidae can see IR, my advise for them would be to test their eyes for Rhodopsin.

  2096. NI missed one more market again. Although many people would have still gone for iPad (crazy/show off Apple products). If adam is priced around Rs. 25K they should probably capture some geek market

  2097. wine:
    > When you stereotype anyone you become one yourself.

    You become what? The thing you stereotype? If I stereotype a Japanese person, I don’t become a Japanese person.

    Maybe you meant you become the kind of person who stereotypes. But stereotyping someone doesn’t make you into the kind of person who stereotypes, at least not if you have any regard at all for the sequence of cause *then* effect.

    I’m guessing there was a misprint, and instead of stereotype, you meant steopygia. Big butts are contagious, at least metaphorically. This blog is obvious proof of that, but any comment section about any topic on the Internet will demonstrate this principle equally well.

  2098. i just came back home now . i visted the apple store in a mall today and i saw the 11″ mac book air today and belive me its a amazing thing apple has made. i just wish that notion ink guys could give that kind of finishing to adam it will be a super duper hit worldwide. its wrong infact to compare apple and notionink , but i just wish the finishing of adam must be like macbook air its just super. and i still hope adam will come in a white and silver combination .

  2099. Wow, you are such a smart boy. Were you the headboy of your class? Or did you spend a lonely unloved childhood and you feel the need to avenge this world with your pointless sarcasm?

  2101. people asking for Rohan’s smiley reminds me of how unmarried woman vie for the bouquet thrown by the bride… (just a joke)

  2102. I hope that this weeks update is more than just showing off 4 different keyboard skins (which he said he would have more information about the next week).

    What I would really like is

    1) A short video of the Adams interface in action but im sure that will never happen…

    2) Confirmation of if the Adam will have the Android Market on it or if it will have to be hacked on at a later date. I am almost thinking that the Adam will just ship with Gingerbread and have market support that way because of how long its taking to be released.

    3) More than a smiley in regards to if the Adam has an active digitizer or not

    4) More information on the 20+ apps that will be available on release. (Images at the very least videos would be better but we know we wont get that)

  2104. @Jai : guess you have been playing a lot of klueles !!
    I am sure you would noticed these which don’t go so well with your lead:
    1) Choice of words :”your eyes” does not blend so well with your idea, IMO
    2) Rohan already noted “Yes drawn on Adam with fingers” :
    if “and it all happened in front of your eyes” was meant to be a clue to the sketch on Paint app, Rohan may be a mean guy. 🙂

  2108. Yes, it would be that. But I have seen situations where people use hiragana instead of katakana and I’d no idea how much Japanese you’d know.

    Ahhh, Welsh. Yes… that seems to fit with what little I’ve seen of that language from Doctor Who and Torchwood (which is like two lines). I just assumed Hindi as it’s the second most common language on here 😀

  2109. NOW i am ready! and I’ve descided to buy an Adam. My wife thinks, it’ ok, but she don’t understand why…please help me reach the end of explanation so than I can really SHOW it to her!!!

  2110. Using my brothers IPAD and pretending its an ADAM is very depressing 😦 … but once I get my Adam I’ll let my brother play with it and he’ll be the one depressed 😉 … insert evil laugh!

  2111. To this point I am still on the fence like your wife… what will really make the difference is actually seeing the UI and how the tablet works. To this point we all have our own image in our head to what we hope it will be and that is partially why we are in love with it. Once we get some videos of the UI in action then we will really be able to decide how good this device will be. I know I certainly will not be able to pre order before seeing at least some videos of the UI and apps.

  2112. Tarwinia:
    > I’d no idea how much Japanese you’d know.

    Just enough to get food in Tokyo, provided I don’t get anything really weird like a donut stuffed with potato salad, or cheese-flavored orange juice. (Amazingly, these are for real.)

  2113. @ in my previous post i meant
    capacitive screen will ensure multi touch finger gestures …

    the ‘no’ was stray…

  2114. @Tarwinia

    रोहन बहुत चतुर है, हमें उलझन में रखा हुआ है.

    That is Hindi 🙂

    @gecko
    There are 2 phrases in that and both end with your favorite – he 😉

  2115. i agree with andrew. 1 thing i just dont understand is why cant NI show us the final model and some apps .every company like acer, asus, are going to ship the tablets say in march-april 2011, but atleast they are showing the models and a little of how it will function. i seriously hope that NI shows us atleast a little of it.
    1 more thing i know its a emotional thing for NI but printing at the back “made with love from notionink” at the back of adam simply is not proffesional , if they write that on the box or say put a leaflet in the box its ok but the machine must be as clean as possilble and must look sleek and profesional. they can make a limited edition if they want make it red in colour and write that its just my view.

  2116. Ugh….I wrote out this huge comment about the times and dates from the countdown timer to engineering expos to proper countdown technique and…..well….stupid thing never posted….I give up….

  2117. Oh, according to my computer, Hindi script consists of a bunch of empty boxes. I admire the spare esthetics of that.

    > There are 2 phrases in that and both end with your favorite – he

    heh heh

  2118. Is it possible to change the:
    “Weight: ~1.6 pounds” from the tech specs page, to something more understandable for someone like me, for example in Grams, or at least add it so more people understand how heavy (light) it is. =)
    This would be great.

  2119. showing a little bit of the product can infact help the company since its festival season people can see it and hold their purchase and wait for adam . like for example my friend is crazy for the asus tablet he knows he will be able to buy only in april but he says he will only buy that because he liked it a lot. same thing can happen with adam too people who r going to buy ipad for example can infact wait for adam if they see how it looks in real and how it functions .

  2120. Just. Want. It. Released.

    (slumps over desk, exhausted from reading all these comments, wishing there was a true FAQ and less rampant speculation.)

  2122. @ Patrik
    This It was just a suggestion so that the webpage would be more understandable for all.
    I know how to “google”. 😉

  2126. +100, I couldn’t agree more. On paper (with regard to hardware, features, etc), so far the Adam seems fantastic, but as you said Andrew its going to be all about the real-world UI videos/demos, and THAT’s what is going to be the big factor in my decision to buy this product, especially in a pre-sale scenario without the benefit of tons of existing hands-on reviews by tech bloggers. REALLY can’t wait to see some thorough UI videos!!

  2127. Scott, hold on, help is coming … only 2 days till Saturday, and Dec. 9 is on it’s way too 🙂

  2128. Hey I know this question has been asked in one form or another on this blog, but has anyone come across any info regarding any potential drawbacks of the Pixel Qi screen versus the standard LCD? With the Pixel Qi, is there any loss of viewing angle, clarity, color tinting, etc? Rohan, any chance you might be able to shed some light on this (no pun intended)???

  2129. I have been reading this blog for quite a while now (it seems to be taking much of my day lately) , but it is my first time posting. I am looking forward to the release of ADAM.

    I get frustrated by the products released by big companies that abandon a product as soon as its released (as far as the software updates go). Notion Ink seems pretty dedicated to their ‘baby’ so I hope to see it supported with updates for at least a few years even when they move on to their newer products.

    I also hope the readers of this blog have an opertunity to order one before the rest of the world. Please!!!!

  2130. They aren’t going to pre-announce the ipad2 in January, they will announce it within a few weeks of release maybe only days. As soon as they announce it, ipad1 sales will almost stop completely. The way you will know the ipad2 is almost here, there will be shortages of the ipad, because apple will be trying to clean out inventory. Then they will announce it, have a fire sale on ipad1 and the ipad2 will be released.

  2131. UI concept – An older post from Rohan (December 2009)
    ————————————————-

    Look at these UI concepts:

    http://gizmodo.com/5428619/mag%252B-concept-from-popular-science-publishers-shows-thinking-outside-the-tablet-box

    http://gizmodo.com/5394234/htcs-virtual-book-ui-patent-could-be-sense-uis-successor

    These are links that Rohan showed as interesting UI developments in his blog in December 2009.
    https://notionink.wordpress.com/2009/12/

    But in an interview with Vincent Ngyuen of Slashgear, we are shown some sketches similar to the Mag concept above, but Rohan is quick to point out that it is even further developed !
    May be I am wrong, and I am reading too much into it, but I have a feeling that the UI is going to be something similar to the above. Check out the video on this link from 1:21 onwards.

    http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/

    Exciting stuff!!

  2133. Uh oh…I think I triggered the moderator with my previous post…Here I go again..

    User Interface concept – An older post from Rohan (December 2009)
    ————————————————-

    Look at these UI concepts:

    http: // gizmodo.com/5428619/mag%252B-concept-from-popular-science-publishers-shows-thinking-outside-the-tablet-box

    http: // gizmodo.com/5394234/htcs-virtual-book-ui-patent-could-be-sense-uis-successor

    These are links that Rohan showed as interesting UI developments in his blog in December 2009.
    http: // notionink.wordpress.com/2009/12/

    But in an interview with Vincent Ngyuen of Slashgear, we are shown some sketches similar to the Mag concept above, but Rohan is quick to point out that it is even further developed !
    May be I am wrong, and I am reading too much into it, but I have a feeling that the UI is going to be something similar to the above. Check out the video on this link from 1:21 onwards.

    http: // http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/

    Exciting stuff!!

    Reply

  2134. Any news about the EAP? retail price? if the pre-sale date is Dec 9th… someone at Notion Ink has idea about the retail cost of these babies… and now FCC is not until Christmas… can Notion Ink pre-sell prior to FCC and EC?

    I feel being walked… anyone else?

  2135. I am also very interested in hearing about the pros and cons of Pixel Qi vs LCD. For someone who will not be doing that much ebook reading are they better off getting the lcd variant?

  2136. > printing at the back “made with love from notionink” at the back of adam simply is not proffesional

    +1^googleplex

  2138. Grammar Nazis, correct me, but isn’t made with love from notion ink wrong english ? if you said made with love from aluminum, it would make sense. Shouldnt it be made with love by notion ink ?

  2141. I just noticed they have an app called “Gestures” with an icon of a hand in this old pic from Slashgear…

  2143. you could assume that there’s an implicit comma or period – created with love (stop) from Notion Ink. But the whole thing is so wrong on so many levels, that the grammar is really beside the point. They should put it only on the special edition that comes in pink with cutesy pictures of rainbows and flowers.

  2144. LOL!!! Cldn’t resist posting this in case some of you guys aren’t on the Notionaddicts forum.

    all credit to brennanyama

  2145. 1) anyone know of how expensive it is to implement an active digitizer thing

    and some possible problems with the active digitizer theory..

    – If it requires a particular input pen or whatever, shouldnt/wouldnt there be specific provision in the tablets itself for the pen to attach to ? if you get what i mean..
    – i dont get how it fits the it works at night clue..

    maybe its not a digitizer… i just hope its not something lame.

  2147. @S019

    You forgot one…

    4. Getting to chat with all the awesome people you have made friends with through this blog. 😉

  2148. Rohan did state in an earlier blog post that the full android market would be on the adam, and he has highlighted how the panel system will even help existing android market apps run in a panel and look better, then if they were stretched to fit the entire tablet screen. The genesis market is to help separate the adam from the generic android tablets out there. But he made it clear they would support the full android experience, and if developers did a little fine tuning, then their apps would be able to take advantage of the additional adam features, such as the multitasking, the panels, or the full screen. like the back trackpad, the mystery sensor etc.

  2150. I believe that was shown in the slashgear hands on video.

    You will be able to draw a “W” as a gesture on the display and it will open the web browser… If I’m not mistaken, the gestures app simply shows you how and which characters to draw on the screen to execute various shortcuts, like W for web browser.

  2151. – I guestimate between $20,- and $40 maybe cheaper when done in bulk. There is no need for a separate touch screen sensor if the latest wacom sensor is used (it can do both multi finger touch as pen based)
    – Many devices have a build in storage space for the pen but not all
    – It’s difficult to write a letter with pen and paper in the dark, on a backlit screen you can see what you’re writing

    Maybe it’s not, maybe it is

  2153. What about a google search for “pixel qi review” ?

    Screen quality is about the same as all the LCD’s in netbooks but with the advantage of having a low power function and sunlight readable.
    My guess is that the quality of the “normal” LCD version of the Adam will be the same as the QI but witout said advantages.

    I never read e-book but will surely go for the QI

  2154. I think even Notion Ink knows this, everyone keeps saying where is the marketing etc. They know how many they are going to be able to produce, he said in an earlier post around 100,000 per month capcity, At the level they don’t need much marketing, they will sell that on the current word of month, and industry reviews.

    They want a slow controlled ramp up.

    think about the nintindo wii. it was a huge hit right from the start, but even nintindo did not just open every factory they could, they had backorders for well over a year after release. they knew at some point it would slow down, and they didn’t want to be caught with excess capacity, it was better to sell everyone they could produce, then it would be to produce more then they could sell. Notion ink is a startup, who from the time line release on slashgear a while back, had as few as 15 employees after they lost their first set of investors back in june, since then they have gotten the new investors and have been ramping up ever since. Last we heard they were at 80+ employees in October and were adding 15% per month.

    Apple samsung toshiba rim, has 10’s of thousands of people. Notion ink seems to be takening a very smart and measured approach. They have funding for a certain level of production and they are matching advertising to make sure they hit that level, what would be the point in having demand for 500,000 a month if you can only produce 100,000. You would just upset customers. Instead get the product released, establish the demand, and you will get the funding to produce more.

  2155. Great Article! Notice it mentions 16 or 32 gb of flash storage. I wonder, if this article is correct, what the up charge for the 32gb will cost. Time frame for release ( mid December) seems to be what everyone is hoping for. Let us pray it all is true.

  2156. @Rohan, would the market access (android + genesis) would be part of a single interface? Ubuntu has it for quite a while .
    If we can have single interface where we can search for apps from both the world (icon differentiating whether its from android or adam) and a single click install (including dependencies if any?)

    Can you throw some light on it?

  2158. Zaghir, you said you wanted it understandable for someone like you. Then you changed your mind – now you want it understandable for someone not like you because you know how to google. So it should be understandable for someone who doesn’t know how to google?

    I think Rohan should leave it in pounds because Americans probably form the biggest part of his dumb-people market. That’s why he’s launching here first. We’re slower than anyone else.

  2160. They may just be showing with Nivida, they don’t need a separate booth. Nivida has a pretty big booth.

  2162. Missed Saturday and Sunday reading this blog. Been reading with every free moment since Monday morning to get caught up. Never before have I been so engrossed in whether or not a product has arrived and what will its features be. It feels like a suspense novel that never ends with many twists and turns. I don’t even read about hot rods this much, and I LOVE that stuff! I don’t read up about the Blues, or about other good music this much. I (am ashamed that I) don’t even read my Bible this much (wishing I did more of that). That almost scares me. I don’t have a good excuse ever again for not exercising, or doing any of those other things. Or for not calling my girlfriend last nite. I read until I was late getting home from the office. I read after supper until I fell asleep. Woke up in the middle of the night to read some more. Woke up about 4 a.m. and read until 7:15 before going to work. Off and on at the office, read a few hours (lucky this is our down time of the year. If we were busy, I would be two months behind on this blog in just a few days). This has been the case for almost two weeks. I really can’t fully understand why I am so riveted to this.

    Unless, you figure out that there is a lot of humor, and a LOT of learning. Some of you people are some of the smartest folks I have ever spoken/typed to. I am intrigued by all of this.

    Rohan mentioned something a few days back. He talked about getting so excited about all of the new technology that is coming out, based upon his reading of the patent applications, etc. All of the ideas that have sparked his imagination (as well as his team of cohorts), and that have been passed around here are being discussed by all sorts of brilliant people. Then, I noticed that it is not only Rohan, but other people on this blog who have become inspired to go and look at these same pages. Other people are coming up with ideas, and sharing them in a worldwide collaboration. More or less for free, we are seeing an explosion of interesting ideas!

    Just imagine in the next few months–in the next few years–what ideas we may bring forth in this generation, and how the world may change because of it! Hopefully I will spend more time reading about the things that I love during that time. But I truly will remain interested in future technology, and the world of ideas that are coming from this venue. It is exciting that Rohan has not only changed the world with his own handicraft, but so many others have been inspired to go out and change the world by putting their talents together.

    All the best,

    Marcus

    P.S. Still can’t wait to get my Adam!

  2163. Advent Vega Tablet Unboxing and Demo –
    http://www.slashgear.com/advent-vega-unboxing-hands-on-video-02117314/

    Hmm! Again, no app store supported. This will be the key differentiator with the adam.
    I am impressed by the speed of the Tegra processor in a product available on the shelf.
    Both Viewsonic and Advent are selling well. Although user feedback remains to be seen.

    Folks, buying NVDA – nVidia – stock is a good idea. There’s a flood of tablets using Tegra 2.

  2166. It seems no one has really cracked the mystery sensor yet.
    @Greg, your guess does not meet the “also works in the night” criteria.

    Has anyone else figured it out? Besides folks interpreting Rohan’s Smiley as a “confirmation”, it seems there really isn’t anything substantial yet.
    My two guesses that I have mentioned earlier in the post are –

    1) Pressure Sensor
    some sort of sensor pressing which will turn a passive stylus to have a varying degree of stroke weight – i.e. less pressure on mystery (perhaps using finger from other hand) sensor meaning thin line, more pressure meaning thick line.

    2) light amplifier for providing backlight using room light (or something similar)
    some sort of super sensitive sensor that produces a concentrated source of light as output, or amplifies existing light from the room to a level sufficient to make the pixel qi screen work while backlight led is turned off. Ofcourse, this is assuming that the current it takes to amplify existing room light is less than the current it takes to power the backlight LED.
    Put another way, it could also mean, generating enough current from the room light (using a super sensitive solar cell to generate enough current to power the backlight LED in a low power mode to power the pixel qi screen.

    Happy blogging folks, until the next post from Rohan.

  2169. IF they used the Wacom sensor both Multi touch as pen based work and there is not manual switching involved; it’s multi touch and automatically switches to pen when it detects one. Just like the Wacom Bamboo (“performance is pretty much faultless, and the ability to lift the pen and make multi-touch tablet gestures with your other hand is just excellent.” http :// http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/wacom-bamboo-pen-touch-review-154201-7.html

  2170. > @Greg, your guess does not meet the “also works in the night” criteria.

    Sure it does… A digitizer or a proximity sensor will work just as well at night as it does during the day. 😉

  2172. I’ve been wondering what NI has in mind for the drawing/photo editor: Often I encounter a problem when I’m selecting a region of space using the free-form select tool, and you’re zoomed in for precision, but end up having to go beyond the border of the displayed area – some programs don’t pan at all and hard limit how far you can go, others pan at a slow rate and you sometimes grab more than you need, which I imagine will be magnified all that much more by a touch interface (certainly was true on my old tablet & stylus anyways, and a finger will be even less friendly for this function).

    I guess adding a toggle that allows you to add or subtract from this selected region would be necessary (as there’s no keyboard, so SHIFT, CTRL and ALT are unavailable), but wondering what NI has already done regarding this (as it’s a pretty fundamental yet absolutely necessary function of any image editting software).

  2174. But, not that it was not already working – i.e. hand/finger touch and the passive sensors already do work in the night. It is not like a digitiser/proximity sensor made it possible for that to work in the night. Isn’t it?

  2175. But, not that it was not already working – i.e. hand/finger touch and the passive stylus already do work in the night. It is not like a digitiser/proximity sensor made it possible for that to work in the night. Isn’t it?

  2176. that is good explantion.thanks.

    when does any perticular patent expires?
    can one patent can be used in other country?

    thanks
    shiva

  2177. Where in the different type of sensors below, does it mention that any of them required light, and would not have worked in the night?
    So how does that equate to the criteria mentioned by Rohan about “and now it also works in the night”?
    Not rhetoric, just curious? Take it easy !
    Expanding on the various touchscreen technologies that can be used for
    Touch Tablets (not all are used today with the pen & tablet design often
    seen with current Tablet PCs):

    What types of touchscreen technologies are there?
    There are several types of touchscreens manufactured. Each has their
    pluses and minuses. These are the four most common:

    Analog Resistive
    Capacitive
    Acoustic Wave
    Electromechanical

    Analog Resistive
    Analog resistive is the most popular and stable of all the technologies.
    It is the basis of our TouchSTAR PSR1 technology. An analog resistive
    screen converts the analogy of putting pressure on the screen into the
    equivalent of clicking with a mouse. The pressure point on the screen’s
    surface determines where in the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) axes the
    computer relates the click event. Analog resistive touchscreen displays
    require the installation of a multilayer overlay to the screen. This
    overlay is connected to a controller that converts the analog
    information into digital information. This controller is then connected
    to your computer using serial or USB connections.

    Capacitive
    Capacitive touchscreens also require an overlay and controller. The
    overlay typically uses fine wires to make the grid across the screen.
    Capacitive touchscreens don’t require pressure to function. They
    determine their X & Y location by calculating the change in electrical
    capacitance. Typically this occurs with a touch of a bare finger on or
    near the screen’s surface which slightly drains the electric energy
    where touched and this change in capacitance can be calculated into an
    X-Y location. Capacitive screens do not have the highest resolutions and
    typically have issues with drift of the calibration. They cannot be used
    with a glove hand or a stylus.

    Acoustic Wave
    Acoustic wave technology places transducers (like tiny microphones) on
    the corners of your display. The controller sends an inaudible sound
    wave continuously through the transducers to make a cross hatch pattern
    over the screen. As an object blocks the sound wave a touch is detected
    and that determines where the X-Y click should be. While this technology
    does not put an overlay on the display, the transducers are quite
    fragile and dirt or moisture on the screen will impact its performance.

    Electromechanical
    Using a combination of electrical components and a mechanical components
    (often embedded into a proprietary pen type stylus), the
    electromechanical touchscreen is not affected by multiple simultaneous
    touches and so it is ideal for drawing while resting your hand on the
    screen. Electromechanical touchscreens can account for variation
    pressure, pen tilt and other attributes that other touchscreens cannot.
    But they also cannot be used with a finger or generic stylus.

  2178. I couldn’t imagine it having a digitizer for only $498 maxed out. This mystery sensor can’t be THAT big of a changer or it’d probably be put on the website as one of the big features. I’m thinking of a sensor with less usage than GPS…

  2179. I cant wait to hear more about pricing… I know that we have always heard that they want to keep a below 500 price point but that may just be the lowest lcd model… I would like to know what the different price points will be.

    Its driving me crazy that their is still so much I want to know about this Tablet!!!

  2181. This thing looks hot! I’ve been following for a while now and I really know that this is the tablet I want but the more you show, the better it looks.

    I hope your still looking at sticking to the original pricing plans (or cheaper, of course 🙂 ), I’ll be trying to get my hands on one as soon as possible – hopefully that won’t be too difficult in Spain.

    Any chance of a surprise release before xmas?

  2183. @Robin , Thanks a lot for that link. So does this mean that we will only be seeing one storage capacity? I had been hearing 16gb and 32gb

  2184. Dr. Phillip is a kind man. And I sympathise; before this blog, I left Binary behind in school a LONG time ago; have learned a lot from the kind people on this blog; please keep informing 🙂

  2185. Writing with pen and paper does not work in the night (ever wrote a letter without any light) but with a active digitizer on a backit screen this is no problem.

    You quoted text about sensor is a bit outdated (BTW it’s always nice to refer to the source if you copy and paste something)

    The Wacom G6 sensor combines multi (finger) touch with pen ( http://www.imaging-resource.com/EVENTS/ICES10/1262634106.html )

  2187. Greetings fellow Knights who say NI
    I am currently using a 25″ touchscreen which uses IR to detect multi-touch.
    Problem is any time any insects touch the screen the cursor snaps to their
    landing location. Other than that it works quite well even with sunlight hitting the screen.
    The IR doesn’t seem to be bothered by other light sources. Other than a few games, I prefer using the wireless mouse to navigate. Plus you don’t have to keep cleaning the fingerprints off the display. ;> I’m looking for something with similar capabilities in an easy to carry configuration, Hence ADAM.

    I also thought of an image I’d like to have on the case. If I was better with GIMP or Photoshop I’d post it. “God’s” arm from the Sistine Chapel touching the Adam display instead of “Adam”…

  2188. That’s actually one of the key parts for us AT&T users here in the States. That’s one of the reasons I got a Galaxy S i9000m from Bell Mobility in Canada for my AT&T sim. (Bell uses same 850mhz 3G bands). AT&T cannot read your device IMEI unless you update them or it’s one of their devices. It shows up as a ‘regular non smartphone’, they do not auto add data plans, and you can get unlimited data for $15. No contract required unless NI informs all cell providers about their hardware IMEI to auto load data plans, which isn’t happening. We can merely pop our non-data AT&T sims in adam, wait for it to update to an unregistered device on the AT&T website, add the unlimited $15 data plan and viola, unlimited data on AT&T for $15 removable at ANY time. Debranded devices are ALWAYS the creme de la creme! Thanks Notion Ink to have my name and nvidia on the same product brings a tear to the eye! 😛 Au revoir!

  2189. @Ronak Rathod

    Wow. I was just teasing; trying to be funny… I guess I better leave that to gecko from here on out. Sorry you went to all the trouble of putting that long post together to make your point when I was just kidding around.

    I do see your point, but IMO Rohan’s poem isn’t necessarily a clue to be taken in the literal sense. And just because it references “night”, it may not necessarily mean the feature has to work at night, or specifically be for night time use. His poem may not even be even be a clue to the mystery bonus feature. It is a poem, and poetry is subject to interpretation. Poems are often full of symbolism and creative narratives. So I don’t necessarily agree that the use of “night” is to be taken literally and may not even be significant. Only Rohan knows.

    The clues to specific criteria from Rohan’s other comments that we do have are that the feature is going to change the dynamics a bit, it is missing from other tablets, and we want it. Furthermore, if the hidden comment in the specs page is to be taken literally, then we also know it has to be a “sensor” as opposed to some other feature.

    Again, this is just my opinion and what makes sense to me. So please don’t be offended.

    I think all tablets need really good handwriting and drawing support, whether it be from an active digitizer, a passive digitizer, or some other technology. So that feature makes sense to me as a possibility for the mystery feature.

    Improved gesture support can be a feature that would make a tablet much better. So some kind of proximity sensor used for 3d gestures, etc could be logical choice and makes sense to me too.

    But again, it is just my opinion… 🙂

  2191. digitiser – special pen
    capacitive – works with fingers or another type of special pen

    perhaps adam could detect when digitiser pen is present and disable capacitive detection to allow hand to rest on screen while using pen?

  2192. Yeah, I was wondering about that myself from the pricing scheme – I assume they’be just jumped to the 32 GB elective – not that the expandable microSD slot won’t be useful to add to that (my figures are probably dated here, but I’m pretty sure you can get up to 32 GB now on one).

    That said, I recently bought a 64 GB USB stick for a plethora of operating systems, but this is another consideration for anyone who uses these kinds of devices – a USB key binder has quickly replaced my old CD binders of old, and fits in my pocket lol.

  2193. 4a. Getting to ignore the less awesome ones unless they issue you a special invitation to make a comment, also known as “bait.”

  2196. Today I arranged to take December 9th off work! has anyone else done the same or am I the only person that addicted?

  2197. Hey gecko, I seriously was going to write “you geckos just don’t understand what love is”, but then I watched this and realised how wrong I was, you passionate reptile, you.

    www . youtube . com/watch?v=NaP5AY673ws

    Phillip – by the way

  2198. +1, go there and comment, its good to encourage other sites in their positive reviews

  2199. This does seem to fit quite a number of the clues, and doesn’t appear to be in another tablet at the moment. I thought it was suggested long ago, but with all the guesses about pico projectors, etc., now I’m not so sure. For myself, I would love this as it would make Adam even more a replacement for my laptop, for writing copy, etc. … looks too me to be a little pricey to be included in the proposed pricing? Even though it’s one more thing to carry around, I would buy one as an accessory if necessary; included in some version of Adam would be fantastic.

  2201. I am off too (for an other reason though). They would declare something on 8th night (as per MST), so you a whole night not to sleep. Your holiday would be IST night so not sure if its worth unless Rohan wants to come to Denver for delivering me a adam (autographed by him). If Rohan does this I will surely share our picture. Rohan, I can buy you a lunch/dinner/drink and a free ride to the popular skiing resorts here (all expenses paid vacation for you from the heat :)).

  2203. @Greg,

    Unfortunately I will be in the middle of the ocean without internet… 😦

    If it at all that is the day for pre-order.. I will be missing “adam” for more time..

  2204. Hmmmm … coming from Greg … who seems to have birthdays and all kinds of secret info … good enough for me. I’m working from home … but the question is do we block out time Dec. 9; or midnight Dec. 9 and day of Dec. 10; didn’t someone say the time was midnight, somewhere so far back in the blog I can’t find now, or am I just confused?

    As for addicts … I did rearrange that plane ticket in Jan. just in case … does that count?

  2205. Love this post, Marcus; you are so right about all the smart people I’ve learned from on this blog.

  2206. I have a question in regards to the calendar app.. I really like how you have removed a lot of the need to use the keyboard but will this still be able to sync with google products? This is probably an obvious answer because it runs on android but it is still very important to ask. I know that many people here us Google products and it is extremely important for everything to sync.

  2207. Marcus:
    > I don’t even read my Bible this much

    Interesting concept for an ad campaign:

    Adam – better than the Bible

    I can foresee some problems with this.

  2208. Phillip by that way – is that just Incidental Phillip? I’m deeply, deeply offended.

    Good idea to stock up on extra-sturdy Thai ceiling tiles, but real geckos can fall from the ceiling without noticeable inconvenience (except the inconvenience of having to crawl back up again) because of their optimum size. Larger creatures might have some trouble – a crocodile might get seriously injured, and they’d have to give it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. It’s easy to see that that wouldn’t be so good for selling ceiling tiles.

  2209. Oh, Phillip By The Way, by the way –
    did I say offended? I meant grateful. I’m deeply deeply grateful that you troubled yourself.

  2210. OK, let’s just put it in terms that everybody can understand.

    Adam weighs about the same as a pound and half of coffee.

  2212. Lee:
    > Problem is any time any insects touch the screen the cursor snaps to their
    landing location.

    Every Adam comes with a free gecko who’ll hang on the large bezel and take care of the insects. Come to think of it, no other tablet has one and everybody wants one. Geckos even work at night.

  2213. Gecko finally solved the code, now we can move on. Would certainly change the dynamics a little…

  2214. @robin writing on a tablet, so was lazy switching between safari browser instances 🙂
    I would not type such a big post on iPad ever.
    :p
    @Greg – yes, Rohan alone knows if each word of his narrative leads or misleads us w.r.t the sensor.
    But considering that it does we guess based on that.
    Well counter is at 111 need to wait just a few more days.
    Just as slash gear / engadget catches other devices heading to FCC, why has it not done so for Adam yet? It is in FCC certification stage, so …. .

  2215. I am addicted too!!! Can’t wait to order one! Too bad I will be traveling…will be in the flight on Dec 9…I will try to order “adam” from the flight or will do it as soon as I land in the airport on Dec 10 early am. I hope there will be one left for me to order!!!

  2217. Yeah, I planned to take off the 9th too. Oh … I’m retired now so I have every day off. I forgot. But I’ll definitely be watching her starting on the evening of the 8th for the whole weekend or until we hear something.

  2218. @Marcus

    Humans have always an inherent spirit of innovation, of discovery and rediscovery. I guess it has something to do with our chances of survivability (Darwinism!!). WE have always a mutual “attraction” ( ?psyche) in certain themes pertaining to spirituality, ethereal sense, love, doing good, kindness etc.etc. So certainly this blog fulfils one of the ingredients of that “attraction”. I am in certain awe of “this” mutual “connection” I get everytime I looked up through these posts!!! and certainly it is shared irrespective of our differences in age! I have shared not only humour, penetrating intelligence but also impatience, empathy, irritation, and occasional immaturity!!!

    So why is it that we feel so attracted here? IMHO Rohan’s and NI’s integrity, a vision of technology compliant with user, a promised platform of mutual creativity, and the ultimate “TEASE” for human innovation and productivity. 🙂

    Or am I too much of a dreamer?

  2219. Woot! I cant wait for more information on the keyboard! I really hope they have a similar feature to the Sywpe keyboards, it would make typing way easier!

  2220. >“God’s” arm from the Sistine Chapel touching the Adam display instead of “Adam”…

    Why not the other way around?

  2221. @bruce
    There is a famous theory – “opposites attract” 😉

    but i guess lets put it as people with similar wavelength attract..
    but i guess more than anything it is the freshness, the energy, the spirit not only of NI but also of the people here- there is great amount of civility yet freedom to air your views… so i guess it is just the mixture which keeps it sailing…

  2223. hmmm… well it does sound good to the ears for the people here, but may be the general public may find it too lovey-dovey …
    as someone suggested, it can come with a sash or a tag which says “created with love by notion ink”

  2227. @sowmya

    agreed 200%

    *however finding a bit difficult to share this “waiting” 🙂 9th should be what it should be – an end and a beginning 😉 ;-)*

  2228. Marcus, You can get an Android Bible app (there seems to be many).. So you are indeed waiting for your ideal Bible 🙂 (The gospel of Adam?)

  2229. @Sri

    Thanks, and yeah, I kind of knew that. But often you’ll find people writing a phonetic equivalent when a) they don’t know the tongue that well, b)when they don’t have the input system activated (this is why I am used to using three different keyboard layouts), c) they don’t have the writing system/fonts installed (like gecko with his boxes :D)

    And yeah, the only languages I actually know something of are English, Spanish, Catalán, Japanese, and a skosh of French. I can recognize Portuguese, Russian, German sometimes, Chinese, Korean, possibly Basque/Euskera. I can MAYBE recognize languages from the region of Norway, Finnish and stuff (but I can’t identify the actual/specific country), Hindi, and Arabic but these last ones ONLY if written in their native writing system (can’t read it, but do tend to recognize them).

    And thanks to google translate I can respond to your comment. He hasn’t so much confused me, but rather intrigued me 😛 And one more week to see if the Dec. 9th guesses are right (if so would it be Indian Dec.9th? a full two days before the Weekend Update?)

    @Gecko Quick question… what should we feed the gecko? Every time I see that small white head poking out I get the impression it wants a snack… Or is there a “Don’t feed the Gecko” sign that I’m missing?

  2233. Rohan, I suspect, is travelling to the US. Sometime soon, Google is expected to make big announcements about Gingerbread, as well as Google Editions, their new online book service. They will also introduce their partners in this latter venture, along with supporting devices. I suspect NI will be one of them. I also suspect Google are investors in Adam, perhaps thru their investment arm in India. Google has gotten too big as a company and they are losing some talent to Facebook and others. I hear via some interview with Andy Rubin, who is headlining the Dec. 6 event in Frisco, that they are looking at a different model, sort of like some giant tree in the forest that provides shelter for many animals. All independent and free to do as they please, but in symbiotic ways. Thus, non-compete clauses drawn up in such a way that Google avoids anti-trust scrutiny and Google becomes a venture capital firm on the side. I am extrapolating from very thin premises, of course.

    What’s that got to do with NI? Nothing, perhaps. I am just suspicious by nature.

  2234. I do! But I have to keep myself aways from entering into unknown territories 🙂 and hence little bit of silence!
    In the mean time try listening to Pachelbel’s Cannon In D
    Regards

  2235. Just as slash gear / engadget catches other devices heading to FCC, why has it not done so for adam yet? It is in FCC certification stage or is it not so …. ?

  2236. @Tarwinia Dec. 3 10:12 post, last question:

    People in the know say geckos eat perfectly prepared pizza, but there is no proof …

  2237. I would love it if Google was an investor for NI, I would love it if the Adam ended up being the Nexus Adam lol. This would confirm frequent Android updates as well as full market access but that isnt happening.

    I am so excited for this weekends update, I cant wait to see what Rohan has for us this week. I really hope that he gives us some info that is beyond the prototype stage and is more recent.

  2238. Given that Adam will have both GPS and a digital compass, it is reasonable to expect some fine location-aware apps for the Adam. From things that tell you the nearest gas station (petrol bunk to those of a subcontinental persuasion), to the nearest Chinese restaurant, to nightly star charts for the amateur astronomer that lets you identify the constellations you are looking at, to Accuweather Doppler radar for your current location, along with other weather information, to location-aware wikimapia to, and this is somewhat far-fetched, a location-aware version of Flight Aware that tells you which commercial airline is it that’s passing overhead, etc. etc. Thoughts on other such apps?

  2239. @Rohan,

    Stay silent and safe … we know you are working hard. Music always helps work go faster. Thanks 🙂

  2240. It will be nice to have an app that lets you annotate a document or book you are reading, but one which leaves the original pristine and optionally lets you share your marginalia. I have been tempted to write on the margins of books many times, but restrain myself. Sitting in the train the other day, I watched a gentleman juggle his thick document and sheets of paper on which he was taking notes, indexing his notes to the proper line in the document. Clearly, the man lacked an Adam.

  2242. Google already has android and chrome to ponder over. I don’t think it will be supporting genesis or adam.

  2245. How about a biometric fingerprint sensor? And also a carbon fiber body instead of plastic?

  2247. I guess everyone’s putting so much thoughts behind what it could be the Hidden secret!! A digitizer.. an induction charger.. the n why not a some magical genie!!!.. Guys Looking at what we have today from any vendors across, i feel notionInk is way beyond forward than them in their thoughts of making things Real!! One company.. Zero Product in the Market Till now.. Its Roaring the strongest … The Noise in december is just NotionInk..
    Just waiting to Welcome Adam!!!

  2248. I work for an airline. I’ll fly him here for free:) But I want in on the spoils as well hahaha

  2250. As far as I understand (and this is a laymens interpretation) no one will see it in the FCC logs until the device has cleared. Stay tuned.

  2251. Is there any hope of being able to physically remove the camera? (or better a released model without a camera)… I would love to have one of these and be able to take it to work with me but my work has very strict NO camera policies (not just software disabled)…

  2252. The Adam displayed on the web site is facing to the right implying the user is also on the right, hence using “God’s” arm. Otherwise you’d need to alter the photo of the ADAM to
    flip it so that it looked like it was being used from the left, in which case you could use Adam’s arm instead. Just like the colors and the imagery…

  2253. Okay, one more guess about – D5720A80 .
    It equates to 3581020800 in Decimal. This has already been stated earlier. It just occured to me to interpret this in Julian Calendar format.
    358 th day of 2010 at 8:00 am/pm is 24th December 2010 at 8:00 am/pm. Christmas Guys!

    Could it be that the Pre-ordering will start on that day? Or that Genesis will open up then? Or maybe they have a press conference to release adam on that day?

    What say Guys? Feedback welcome!!

  2256. I have a Gecko sculpture which is designed to sit on the corner of the monitor. Unfortunately it doesn’t bother the bugs. Nothing worse than to be typing while looking at the keyboard and then discovering the cursor moved to a different location on the screen do to unwanted “help”. ;>

  2259. Hi Rohan,

    Could you please talk about the touch sensitivity / response of the product …

    i saw an old video of adam.. showing some touch response delay… i guess you have improved a lot from that point…

    the apple touch-based products seems to sell… mainly bcoz of its smooth and ease of touch navigation….

  2260. I must say that I feel like Batman on the old Batman tv show! Trying to solve one of the Riddler’s riddles!

  2261. @Jan

    Rohan did mention sometime back that the Adam’s (artistic) packaging will be re-usable, doubling up as a stand.

    Also, with Rohan’s vision of what a tablet should be, we are sure that all your needs will be addressed 🙂

    @Rohan, why not show the packaging in tomorrow’s post? Or does it house some secret things?

  2262. I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though light is my father, I can work in a shield
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the need
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field!
    🙂

  2263. I’m sure someone from EAP will leak the product info(pics & videos) and reviews will be out before the official release.

    what’s the latest on EAP, by the way? anyone got latest update on that?

  2264. ok, I stopped going through these comments for about a week now!!!!

    These comments are addictive than booze or even drugs!!!

    Will come back for sure, when I have time to get addictive once again!!!

    Keep rocking ADAMHOLICS 🙂

  2265. What Rohan is referring to in this new clue?

    ————————————————————————–
    Rohan Shravan said, on December 3, 2010 at 12:20
    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though light is my father, I can work in a shield
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the need
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field!
    ———————————————————————————

  2267. alright.. there more crumbs for us knights…
    I have taken the age old advice of Buddha.. patience
    lol (I don’t want to acknowledge that I have run out of ideas .. well i just did)

  2268. @Ronak – that was an intelligent observation….good job curious george. Now it is to be seen who is right….Rohan has his plans all set 🙂

  2271. You should use a log function, each person tells 2 people, tells 2 people, tells 2 people. Might predict the amount of posts more accurately.

    🙂

    Plus, I think we are well over the 2,121 you predicted.

  2272. The thing Rohan was hinting might be a gyroscope.

    gyroscope is more a device than a sensor. but it feels the orientation of the device.
    – Iam there since Big Bang, I am still the need – ‘Gravity’
    – My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field! – could be the gyroscope as it works with gravity concept. could also be the accelerometer but it’s already announced.

    and ‘I can work in a shield’ – could mean it can be put in an enclosure..

    ‘The light is my father’ – this is the part that could change all the conclusion. so, the ‘thing’ is something born out of light or light interacting with something. could well be through laser technology though. or is a gyroscope based on light principle? or else does ‘light’ mean ‘low weight’ here?? 😉
    ’cause ‘low weight’ again relates to gravity.

  2273. lets all hope this weekend special brings some sort of video or news about colours which are finally decided and like andrew said some pics atleast of the ui

  2274. that clue only shows in my rss feed as of now… huh.. well i think that it is solar panels above the screen cuz technically they can be considered transducers and not sensors and the fact is that they harness energy from the sun like every thing on this planet does. idk that is what i think. we are in need of them also cuz we are burning all our natural resources.big bang was when sun was created and we only created this cuz we had the sun and it was tesla who made the first if not one of the first solar generators. i dont know how this can feel though

  2277. Light is the father.. It got to be some energy!!! Induction somewhere around with tesla’s connection!!
    Is it something related to wireless gesture based hand movements.. easier to play with adam without touching it at all!!!!

  2279. iam very sure its going to be a digitzer because tha is what so many people were asking for , not many tablets have it , and it will be will be helpfull for so many people here .

  2280. my guess…
    Adam will be a desktop replacement. Eve is a dirt cheap e-reader with a lot of content.

  2282. well ur line of reasoning seems good…
    Though he didnt build the solar cell first he did obtain a patent on “Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy”
    but do all of us need a solar cell…??

  2283. @Rouz

    No way to know that right now. Just like we didn’t know if adam would be upgradeable to 2.3 until Google released the requirements.

  2285. Hello Rohan, I write here to offer me (freely of course) to translate to spanish your web or apps or what you like if you need it. Just send me emails with texts etc and I will return to you translated if you like. I offer this freely because I like very much your project and I would be happy if I can help you a little in this way, thanks in advance!

    (My english is very poor writing, but I have translated many techncal books to spanish and my spanish (European sort) is native)

  2286. I forgot to mention, I can translate the entire manual if that would helpful for you, best regards and thanks for all people comments here 🙂

  2287. Is he talking about microwave radiation? His clue seems to point at Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. Discovery that microwaves can be used for communications opened the telecommunication field for mobile phones.

    Now the first two lines…

    It is not a sensor, so is it a receiver?

    Light is its father, and it can work in a shield…microwaves don’t pass through certain shields, and they are siblings of the visible EM radiation, so a wrong turn here.

    Radio waves travel through most shields. Time (as per our understanding) has been ‘since’ the Big Bang (the mainstream theory).

    So, confused as ever.

  2289. atul i thought eve is kind of OS which will be used on top of android in adam .pls correct me if iam wrong.

  2290. Gravity, as someone else also said, is another option, which brings a gyroscope into the picture, but then it does not fit with the whole riddle.

    But then again, rebirth of gravity – does this have to do with Einstein’s theory replacing Newtonian gravity?

    I need time to consider the gravity of his words.

  2291. here he says
    “Light is the father” which eventually means the creator -using light to produce something kinds…
    it has to do with photoelectric effect (very broad term again) – Tesla explained it first i guess…

  2292. Actually he should refer to Einstein and the Photoelectric effect then, don’t you think? There should have been a hint about a Nobel prize or something.

  2293. well
    i guess my previous post needs some further explanation
    Einstein won the nobel prize for photoelectric effect concept
    but Tesla did have some role in describing photoelectric effect and radiation….
    i guess i am gonna wait till Dec 9th

  2294. Yes, you humans are finally realizing that life is not as easily defined as you once thought. Finding a microbe that uses arsenic as a building block. It’s time for humans to throw away their misconceptions of what constitutes life. You’ll recall the Star Trek episode “The Devil in the Dark” where we encounter a silicon based lifeform. I would think it obvious that life is much more varied than what you know.

    Link to it http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

  2295. @Sowmya Tesla did ‘explain’ the photoelectric effect, but it was Einstein who later strongly refuted the existence of the Aether, and proposed the concept of the speed of light being constant relative to the observer.

    I believe the Photoelectric effect was more of a placeholder for the Nobel prize, as the Special Theory of Relativity was either too obscure or too controversial for the Committee to refer to it directly.

  2296. Few came dangerously close,
    to change the fundamentals of light,
    but few realized the power of the same,
    and now it even works at night!

    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though light is my father, I can work in a shield
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the need
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field!

    Solar cell,it is not a sensor but it can feel the light, store energy and work in the night.
    The solar cell under the matte surface (shield) work fine …!!! It is there since big bang the evolution of sun(light).. Still needed for photosynthesis process.. new era is to use as energy sources a new playing filed…

  2298. @Sowmya I think you are underestimating the general public. Dont start thinking like a suite at a big corp marketing department, then you’ll lose the magic. Dont worry 😉

    @Philip I would prefer to live in a world where it isnt.

    with love from/by henkeman

  2299. I like your use of Pink Floyd. It gave me the idea to paraphrase Alice Cooper

    I feel that Ipad has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child-king long enough!

    And as his empire crumbles, my precious adam shall rise as his most fitting successor!

  2300. Just was checking the tech page……

    There was supposed to be 3 USB ports. But now it list only 2 USB………

    So as speculations it looks to be like a IR port or is the mystery sensor….

  2301. photoelectric effect =>solar cell but why ‘re-birth’ ???
    may be to say that usage of natural resource to produce electricity …
    here ‘I’actually refers to what the solar cell or??
    cos he kinda uses it in different ways thro the poem..

  2303. it is the re-birth of light and using it as solar power…
    I agree he uses a different way in the poem..

    the reason for the bezel is to accommodate solar cells ???
    The reason for solar cells is PixelQi (you can read properly under sun) ??

  2305. …and ppl have speculated about what that might be since the blog post which included those pics. I happen to think it is in fact an IR port, but who knows. I don’t think it’s the mystery feature, but I do think that the Adam will be able to be used as a remote and/or a remote will be able to be used on the Adam.

    Considering that we’d be able to connect it via the HMDI to a TV, or even watch it while propped up on it’s stand (part of the packaging we’ve been told), I think having a little remote (an additional accessory for sale?) for the Adam isn’t an unlikely idea. My husband’s laptop, which is very media-oriented, came with one. It’s a nice little addition.

  2306. @henkeman
    >I think you are underestimating the general public. Dont start thinking like a suite at a big corp marketing department, then you’ll lose the magic

    oh, that was pretty straight… well if i was to think like one in the big corp marketing dept – i would have pretty much put my foot down on even a tag/sash with those words leave alone in the tablet.(they are boring ppl)

    i am not underestimating the general public. I am fine with it but i was wondering how many out there would be able to connect with it ..
    It’s fun, crazy no doubt… just a tot that people might want their device clean…

    Well, i tot abt it, If apple engraves ‘Created with love by apple’, all of them would say brilliant. that’s just because they rule the market. If a unknown player says it, it might cause some ripples…

    nevertheless i woudln’t mind receiving a tag/sash with every product…that’s a lot more fun..

  2307. Actually, I don’t think it was. It might have been 3 regular, but no where did I ever read or see 3 +1 mini. (And I just looked back through old tech site posts to check)

    Not that it really matters. Two and 1 mini are plenty, and we’ll find out what the unknown black port is soon.

  2309. Just to be safe, I will take 8th, 9th and 10th off. Don’t want the timezone issues to mess things up. I further propose the 9th of Dec to be declared Black Thursday in India and everyone should get a paid vacation. It would please everyone if the President of India called up Rohan to personally congratulate him and confide that he/she is a popular and frequent commenter at this blog. 🙂

  2310. Rohan,

    If at all there is any public announcement regarding “adam” on 9th, Can we have live streaming on Youtube ? Will work our for your marketing also..

  2311. I was going through the technoholic video, rohans interview. Heres the link.Rohan mentions about the 3 usb ports. But this interview was during the mobile world conference during feb this year…… So things might have changed….

  2312. i still think it’s a RFID sensor / antenna, maybe also used for other similar near-field communications (e.g. contactless payment solutions)

    having adam work both as a portable inventory management (RFID capability) and point of sale unit (contactless payments) would be HUGE and would have a large market for such a tablet.

    Now, all i can worry about is where do i get a rugged case for my future adam tablet?

  2313. The Philosophy section under Design already mentions that the UI is gesture based.

    http://notionink.in/design.php

    “The design philosophy for the Adam draws from the school of sacred geometry, where all lines and curves flow in accordance with the golden ratio. We believe in creative unity of hardware and user interface design. It reflects in the Adam’s build, which is easy on the eye and the wrist alike, in our home-grown apps and gesture-based UI, the choice of a power-saving processor and a sunlight-friendly screen and in the wide range of connectivity options provided.”

  2314. Let’s say you figure out the mystery sensor(or feature), Rohan is not going to confirm that before Dec 9th. So I don’t see a point in solving this riddle(unless of-course Rohan announce free ADAM for the winner).

  2316. Andrew, besides being able to see the display better in the sunlight than the lcd version, Pixel Qi variant can also save power with the backlight switched off. This should also be considered. Don’t forget that most of the times you will also browse the Internets and will be dealing with text info and not just video.

    Having said the above, I would also mention that the contrast ratio (and thereby the effective color) and the brightness of Pixel Qi is slightly diminished when compared to the standard LCD.

    As with many technologies, there is a compromise – albeit a good compromise IMHO.

  2317. Scott dude, being able to speculate rampantly is what is allowing the folks to ease the mounting suspense and pressure. Besides, everyone likes to give an opinion and the ability to speculate gives an avenue for this too. Just like this comment from me. 🙂

  2318. Not really sure what your point is, but I guess mine is that I’m in the mood to argue. I said that it might have been 3 normal sized in the past, and apparently that was the case. However, you came back saying it was 3 normal and 1 mini… but it wasn’t.

    I watched your video. It’s only noted on the screen under features that it has 3 USB, unless I missed him actually saying it, but don’t think so. If you actually want to hear Rohan talk about them (and point them out), this is a much better video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQvefuCHZds&feature=related He says that there are 3 USB and an HDMI. I’m sure if mini had been included at the time, he or the interviewer would have mentioned it. Obviously the black port isn’t there either.

    So yeah, ok your point again was what? That instead of 3 normal size USB there is now 2 and a mini and an unknown black port….that we saw weeks ago and already speculated was an IR port?? Ok

    The only thing interesting in your vid (imo) is what’s on the screen at 2:40.

    RF is listed as a feature. Interesting

  2319. -Wow, what a great connection, the induction technology fits perfect.
    – Here is a list of other devices using the watcom tech “h t tp://www.wacom-components.com/english/partner/index.html”
    -Rohans comment that we noticed the device was bigger confirms some important change was made.
    -At CES 2010 he already had a working prototype, lcs and pixelQi and when he opened it up very few component space existed, he even noted that the largest space hog was the ports.
    -Rohan also had the ability to interact with watcom during CES 2010
    -I have noticed a lack of images depending on how you look at it (cylinder on the left) depicting the upper right hand corner. (stylus?)

    wait and see…

  2320. >Will Andorid 3.0 (Honeycromb) also be available as an upgrade for Adam?

    No clue. No information related to this has been released by Rohan thus far.

  2321. Now there are two host ports (normal size) and one slave port (mini) the third port may now be used internally (for example to connect the mystery sensor)

    The black square looks to me like the button to switch on/off the backlight of the Qi… (I hope it is as it will be easier to use than a multi function on/off slider button)

  2322. So, while having a little back-and-forth with dhiv above, he posted this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EK1sL03dQF8

    (I wanted to post it again because people might be too bored by our argument to have actually watched it and noticed one of the features listed on the screen during the interview.)

    Forward and stop at 2:40 RF is listed as a feature.

    I’ve never heard of, or seen that listed before anywhere. It’s something that’s only recently been speculated about around here with all the talk of a “mystery” feature/sensor.

    Hmmm

  2323. My guess (from the second verse)… something magnetic
    … which leads back to the non-contact charging .. so definitely a feature not a sensor.

    Maybe we find out tomorrow … or on the 9th !

  2324. @dp,

    Though Robin’s comments may have given the impression that he was being sarcastic, I don’t think this was intended. I expect he merely wanted to point out the obvious, and share any practical issues he saw with David Swain’s comments. Just my $0.02.

  2325. If you search for the text SLC in the comments on this blog, you will see that it has already been discussed.

  2326. “The Adam comes bundled with Adobe Flash and is expected to support AIR when it launches.”
    This announce is awesome with an application that will bring to us all tools to developpe multimedia contents : http://rome.adobe.com

    => It’s a shame that the Project ROME by Adobe was intended to explore the opportunity and usability of creative tools as software-as-a-service. After weighing this initiative against other projects in development, we have made the difficult decision to stop development on Project ROME.

    However we can use it in the notion ink because the commercial version of Project ROME will remain free to the public via Adobe Labs, http://bit.ly/LabsROME

    My test on a Linux Ubuntu Air Version was cool.

  2327. What Rohan meant is that there is no point discussing unnecessary things like you ppl are doing. So all of you calm down and listen to some soothing music. 😛

  2328. Hey rowan……

    Sry if i put you in the mood to argue…… I just put what my understanding was till now….. Nothing more and maybe i am wrong…. Sry again……..

    And its she no he 🙂

  2329. Hey rowan……

    Sry if i put you in the mood to argue…… I just put what my understanding was till now….. Nothing more and maybe i am wrong…. Sry again……..

    And its she not he 🙂

  2332. With this I am almost certain that the “sensor” is Wimax or LTE capability. As I have oft repeated, with Reliance as an investor, they would certainly be looking at devices which can work with their licensed (broadband) spectrum in India. Although Reliance hasn’t committed on whether it’s LTE or Wimax, it appears that Qualcomm is beating Intel in the race (equipment availability notwithstanding!). Cosmic Microwave is around the same spectrum as Wimax/LTE. Although I must admit that I am missing “working in a sheild” link.

  2333. Oh, now I remember! I think I am close now!

    The Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is said to be the remnant of the big bang. It was actually the light (visible EM frequencies) released at the time of the event that degenerated into microwave radiation as space stretched (universe expanded). This was actually proposed as (and then became) the proof for an expanding universe model.

    See, what happens is that the light is released at the time of the big bang, but the light does not ‘escape’ the universe, as it is a part of the expanding universe. But with the expansion, which stretches space, the apparent frequency keeps on reducing (a bit similar to how the Doppler effect works), and it was theorized some decades ago that it should have degenerated to microwave frequencies by now.

    Later, just by chance, two AT&T (or was it Bell?) employees working on their new giant Microwave receivers found that they could not get rid of a specific interference however hard they tried cleaning the antenna and maintaining their circuits. They later discovered that this was because there was background microwave radiation spread almost uniformly throughout space. And thus Radio Astronomy was born.

    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though light is my father, I can work in a shield
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the need
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field!

    So now light is microwave’s father, the radiation has been there since the big bang, and it has enabled both cellular telephony and radio astronomy. So what is the receiver, Rohan? Just a phone chip, or something much more grand? Please please tell us!

    And give me my surprise Adam prize!

  2334. I might have got some facts horribly wrong in my haste and thrill, but I guess I am in the same ballpark. I still can’t figure out the ‘shield’ and ‘need’ part though.

  2335. What a coincidence! Please read my post of December 3,2010 at 17:13 (IST, my computer, yours is 17:12)! Thanks for confirming my theory, and for the additional info about the Wimax / LTE frequencies!

    I too was wondering about the shield, but now I think it is because some Microwave equipment (like ovens) need shields for safety. About the need part, it may be because the CMB is still being studied, and some recent evidence points at the possibility of cyclical big bangs and gnab gibs.

  2336. let me try… i feel that it has something to do with magnetism…. in the past (800 years ago) in hindu temples, they used magnetic rocks to make statues float (those temples were dertroyed when muslims occupied india). and now magnetism has revived the interest in magnets (maglev train, brain scanning, electric guitar etc…). light is made up of electric field and magnetic field oscillating perpendicularly ( light is my father). and the are soft iron can act as a magnetic shielding, protecting sensitive electrical components. And tesla worked with magnetic induction (transformers, ac motors, ac generators etc..).

    just my stupid guess….. another possibility is IR-integrated camera…

  2337. You sound a lot like the awesomely acerbic editor at my first writing gig. She was usually right. Mental-picture reference : http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg
    *Spot the unnecessary hyphens and pointless alliteration in this comment thread and you could win an autographed Adam.

  2338. Skimming through the comments, I guess most of us are still thinking what is the mystery feature even with the new ‘little poem’ Rohan gave.

    Let me throw my spanner in too. 😀

    To basically understand what Rohan meant, it would take a multiple disciplinary approach from across different fields. Mainly; electronics, physics, a wee bit of cosmology and maybe throw in a dash of hoping.

    To be not a sensor and yet be able to receive inputs (feel), it would meant that it could be a receiver.

    Visible light is only a key on a piano spectrum miles long, from radio to gamma. Restricting to those that would not kill its users for its intended usage (bad for business!), that leaves us to the 1nm ~ 1m spectrum.
    UV is out, Adam is not a tanning bed.
    Visible light seems viable, but it needs to work in a shield. Can’t represent information when it’s hidden from eyes eh?
    Infra-red sounds promising but would need a direct line of sight to work.

    Which leaves us to Microwave and Radio as two highly possible agents. But first, to the next clue.

    Since the Big Bang, it is still needed. Radio was first made use of and then came microwave (which is still heating up Thanksgiving turkey today); But Radio was getting a little outdated due to the power of the WWW, information can be dissipated rapidly through the Web rather than broadcasted and hoping someone’s listening (Yea, SETI). But in much developing countries with no direct access to the information grid, radio is still very much the way to go.

    Going back to the first part of the poem:

    Few came dangerously close,
    to change the fundamentals of light,
    but few realized the power of the same,
    and now it even works at night!

    It basically draws us to the point that, many people tried and had harness the fundamentals of light (still, one long piano here) but they didnt realise the power of it and it could be used in ways that was not thought of.

    In conclusion, my bet would be a RF receiver of some sort. Could be wireless charging, and/or a new way of interacting with the Adam (since NI has thrown a good deal of man-hours on making the HCI as natural as possible).

    P.S: I dreamt of Adam again. I told my wife, and she’s not really happy about it. 😦

  2339. I saw sometime ago a PPT of that temples, very beautiful…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konark

    As per the legend, the Statue of standing Sun-God was in the middle point of the room with equal distance from all six sides. The research-students predicted that there were six huge magnets to keep the balance of the statue, and during the British Rule or before that during the invasions of external forces with Kalinga (old name of today’s Orissa province) the magnets were taken away and lost. In the case of a Magnet, science has the proof that even a permanent magnet would not exist so long with its magnetic powers and in case of an electro-magnet, uninterrupted electricity is required. However, during ancient times, Indian were aware and informative of such miraculous metals and stones. As a proof, it is said that during the reign of Travancore Kings, who brought industries to Kerala, in Southern India, one King named ‘Moolam Thirunal’ had designed a model of the Universe with nine planets revolving around the Sun without any solid medium in a building called “Nakhatra Bungalow” (or Star-bungalow) in present Trivandrum (Kerala State). The Star Bungalow is still remain there, without the so-called historical monument…

  2340. Would love to read about the levitating statues. Any place you could point me to would be very much appreciated!

  2341. Also :

    a pound and a half of feathers.
    1,5 pound of water.
    and many more stuff as long they’re 1,5 pound.

    Hmm, I long for the weekend.

    Have a good one (weekend).

    Daryl.

  2342. Hi ! all
    I am new here. Please don’t mind my novice question.Will we be able to install other operating system on ADAM?

  2343. Words in italic: “before time”, “cloud”, “forced”, “future”. Rohan mentioned some keywords in his riddle… (Big Bang, playing field, sensor, etc.) I hope we can decode now this hidden feature he is talking about. Thoughts, anyone? n_n

  2345. First, the familiar words.

    Few came dangerously close,
    to change the fundamentals of light,
    but few realized the power of the same,
    and now it even works at night!

    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though light is my father, I can work in a shield
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the need
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new playing field!

    My thoughts.

    The tablet is not a device in a vacuum, by this I mean it’s purpose (and Notion Ink’s philosophy) is to enhance humanity. Something we will always need is human contact. One of the ways this is “felt” is warmth. Infra-red is part of the electromagnetic spectrum (fundamentals, light is its “father” i.e. it is a subset of light), it also is relevant and detectable day and night. Something that is purely a sensor simply detects, but a “feature” does more, but to be a useful thing it must sense even if it also does other things. (Even a screen senses in the way of sensing electrical signals which are then translated into combinations of pixels being illuminated). So even though its not a sensor it must still sense. Finally, Infra-red has been around since waves and particles started partying together. (big bang)

    What I am suggesting is not merely an IR detector, but some form of IR interaction. So not like a TV remote, but more like heat and movement detection that can be picked up and transmitted and received. What if there was a way that you with your adam could transmit “warmth” (feel-ing) to another adam somewhere else in the world? Perhaps “touch” your loved one’s hand from a distance. The Japanese (I think) have been working on sensor arrays and transmitters that mean you can “virtually pad your dog” on the other side of the world. What if Rohan has got something where if you wave your hand its warmth is picked up and the movement and warmth is IR projected onto the hand of another person.

    This is my current bid, and my thoughts before I sleep tonight. If I was in India, I could adam-call my wife in Australia, see her face to face, tell her I love her, and transmit a loving touch by waving my hand. She would see and hear me, and if she put her hand near the IR port, it could beam out the warmth of that gesture repeated now onto her skin.

    Of course, this sort of detector could also be used to generate music, or control a character in a game, or even save and close a document, or turn a page, or open a web browser, depending on the degree of sensitivity in “feeling” the heat from my hand.

    So, will this be it? I don’t know, and I genuinely suspect that even if this is exactly it Rohan won’t give me even as much as a smiley because he’s not allowed to yet. Rohan, just by placing these clues you have inspired a whole new realm of possibilities. You are an inspiration, sir!

    Good night all,
    tell your loved ones you love them,

    Phillip (because this entry was so long and you might have forgotten my name from the start of it)

  2346. the only thing that is left out is fibre optics, and therefor a TOSLINK / PCM connector. I shudder to think NI will add this. It would be a major case of feature creep.

  2347. No, they used Unobtainium. Don’t you see how Hindu gods resemble the Na’vi, especially Rama, Krishna and Shiva?

  2348. Just checking if I’m the only one crazy enough to search for a connection between Pachelbel’s canon in D and the mystery feature….
    Rohan said: But I have to keep myself aways from entering into unknown territories [referring to space?] and hence little bit of silence! In the mean time try listening to Pachelbel’s Cannon In D.
    If this sounds like sliding towards admittance in a psych ward, let me know! We have still 6 more days to go and losing it while we are on the verge of a breakthrough is not an option!

  2349. For reference:

    Amit Tambe said, on December 3, 2010 at 17:12

    With this I am almost certain that the “sensor” is Wimax or LTE capability. As I have oft repeated, with Reliance as an investor, they would certainly be looking at devices which can work with their licensed (broadband) spectrum in India. Although Reliance hasn’t committed on whether it’s LTE or Wimax, it appears that Qualcomm is beating Intel in the race (equipment availability notwithstanding!). Cosmic Microwave is around the same spectrum as Wimax/LTE. Although I must admit that I am missing “working in a sheild” link.
    Reply

    *
    Nishit said, on December 3, 2010 at 17:35

    What a coincidence! Please read my post of December 3,2010 at 17:13 (IST, my computer, yours is 17:12)! Thanks for confirming my theory, and for the additional info about the Wimax / LTE frequencies!

    I too was wondering about the shield, but now I think it is because some Microwave equipment (like ovens) need shields for safety. About the need part, it may be because the CMB is still being studied, and some recent evidence points at the possibility of cyclical big bangs and gnab gibs.

  2350. Let’s see what mystery feature has to satisfy:
    – must not influence design
    – can be hidden, even though a lot of materials was released
    – must be usable/cool/helpful in app development
    – cannot be revolutionary, otherwise it would become a key marketed feature
    – must be cheap – again, it would be marketed otherwise

    So I’m with the gyroscope … 😉

  2352. noone else has one…it would assist it working at night….light helped us play baseball @ night…I am just saying…lol

  2353. IT IS SOLAR POWER RECHARGE — HE KNOWS WE ALL ARE IN NEED OF IT.

    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though LIGHT is my father, I can work in a SHIELD
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the NEED
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new PLAYING FIELD!

    solar power has been widely used in the recent games.
    http://www.ril.com/downloads/pdf/PR07042010R.pdf (playing field)

    Few came dangerously close, (nuclear physics and solar power closely related – nuclear power plant research scholars might know )
    to change the fundamentals of LIGHT,
    but few realized the (solar)POWER of the same,
    and now it even works at NIGHT (solar energy at night (a NANO research ))!

    ENERGY is not a sensor and can be felt — light is the father of energy. solar energy is still the NEED in every field and also currently the missing feature in all other devices around.

    remember what ROHAN said

    CPU HOT PLUG : can do some cool POWER optimizations. On low BATTERY(and one more area where we are awaiting PATENT ) we are already using it.

    cpu hot plug could allow the screen act as a SHIELD and turn on solar cell powering. (probably waiting for a patent for this one )

    Thanks all for the intuitive thought provoking posts.

  2356. “and now it even works at NIGHT”

    The utility grid can be used simultaneously with solar power, and would power your house at night or during a cloudy winter day. The battery bank on other hand will convert solar energy to electricity throughout the day and store it for later use. Battery bank concept has proved to be highly successful for small scale power generation and efforts are being undertaken to use this concept at large scale. Streetlights working on solar power are the best examples of use of solar energy at night. The solar panels located above these streetlights conserve solar energy throughout the day, and this energy is used to light the lamps throughout the night. !

  2358. Solar Panels With Nanoantennas
    Conventional solar panels have only 40 percent efficiency, meaning they can only convert 40 percent of the total solar energy they receive into usable electricity. More recently, however, a new variant of solar panel with 80 percent efficiency is being developed. This solar panel is designed to work even after sunset. In this new technology, solar energy is harnessed by using nanoantennas i.e. the square spirals of conducting metal embedded into a sheet of plastic which can be easily folded. The earth absorbs the infrared energy of the Sun and releases it after sunset. The new solar panels absorb this infrared energy released by the Earth at night and direct energy from the sun during the day. Thus they harness energy during the day as well as at night. At a size of 1/25th of the human hair diameter, they are very small, but when it comes to efficiency, they overshadow their conventional counterparts with immense ease.

    This answers the intriguing question, how do solar panels work at night? With technological advancement, solar power harnessing techniques will just get better. More importantly, being on the verge of climate change and fossil fuel exhaustion, we are left with no option but to find out an alternative energy source as soon as possible. Among the available sources, there is no doubt that solar power is our best bet.

  2362. The whole picture is rotated for your convenience – Mr Job is hanging on the wall with his iGecko toe pads. You can see this easily if you rotate the picture 90 degrees so that the Adam screen faces the right way.

  2363. After Dec 3 and Rohan’s new poetic clue..

    Some magentic field sensitive device to detect motion for gestures!?

  2365. VLC is a multi-threaded application, and has not yet been ported to Android. Its multi-threaded nature meant that till recently, mobile device processors could not handle it.

    Currently, it is available for the following systems:

    Operating Systems with Binaries

    * Windows
    * Mac OS X

    * Syllable
    * iOS

    GNU/Linux

    * Debian GNU/Linux
    * openSUSE
    * Mandriva Linux
    * Arch Linux
    * Slackware Linux

    * Ubuntu
    * Fedora
    * Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    * ALT Linux

    Source and other operating systems

    For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required libraries and build them yourself:

    * FreeBSD
    * NetBSD
    * OpenBSD

    * Gentoo Linux
    * Solaris
    * QNX

    (ctrl+c, ctrl+pg up, ctrl+v)

  2366. Most CMOS sensors operate out to the near IR (silicon based CMOS sensors are sensitive out to ~1.1 microns, InGaAs based sensors are sensitive further out, but are not much use for visible wavelengths) , most cameras use a filter to cut it out. So it’s not really much of a stretch to have the camera be IR sensitive.

    Gingerbread is speculated to be launching on the Galaxy S on the 6th of December, 3 days before the end of our count down.

    Samsung has move 1 million Galaxy Tabs to date, and has a 10inch Tab version on tap for Q1 2011, which of course means that it should show up at CES (Jan 4th).

    The other perspective Android tablet manufacturers have all announced plans for 10 and 7inch form factors.

    Pixel Qi is scheduled to announce availability of it’s 7inch screen at CES.

    @Rohan: Is there a possibility of Adam 2 being available in both 7inch and 10inch versions.

  2367. the problem with this is that we were told the screen wouldn’t just turn on and off but have variable settings for different power consumptions. A slider would work better for this than a simple on and off…

  2368. @Tarwinia –

    Geckos like food. Please feed geckos food. That is what they like to eat. (And thanks for asking.)

    @ Cathy – my pizza crust rant got out of hand. I thought that since pizza crust is so quick and easy, that writing about it would be ditto. Mistake. I’m just going to post what I have after a quick profread.

  2370. Well, the Wacom sensor board works beneath a shield, so its magnetic field doesnt’ interfere with the rest of the on-board electronics. It is a touchy-feely sensor, so it fits the bill, and works on Tesla’s magnetic resonance principle, which is seeing a huge resurgence in wireless power and this sort of thing. The thing that doesn’t fit is ‘light is my father’.

  2371. eve is going to be a mobile phone that can access your adam from anywhere as long as both are on the internet…><; As the story goes Eve was made from a piece of Adam, so I believe the two will be very closely linked and syncable. Maybe since the camera on the adam is not a high grade one, Eve will be a phone with a high MP camera?

  2373. now, why would a gecko need an alibi 😉 ? especially one in NY, where one could just say I was in the subway riding downtown when I was allegedly eating all the flies on your adam :p

  2374. In some Bible translations, Eve is a mobile phone, but Bible scholars are actually in deep disagreement about this. Some believe she was just an extra rib (or rib-eye steak? The language isn’t clear.) However no Bible scholar – and I’m quite sure about this – believes that Eve was an e-book reader.

  2375. it makes sence for a “spouse” to be the compliment of the other, what features is the adam missing? Phone, Remote (IR), High MP Camera… Could the phone/camera also be the remote for the Adam through the prev mentioned unknown black usb sized port?

  2377. adi:
    > i still think it’s a RFID sensor

    OK, I try to make fun of Rohan, although it is beyond my capability to write verse as awful as his:

    Rohan said is not a sensor
    Maybe you’re incensed it’s not a censer
    Either this make sense or
    It doesn’t.

  2378. Can we have a grip/loop to hold or wrap around the wrist to prevent adam from slipping and falling? We see them around in digital cameras, torches. In fact those days they used to have a built-in clasp for locking the laptop to the desk’s leg. Seriously…

  2379. @Rohan: Is there going to be Tesla touch tech in the Adam for touch feedback?

  2383. If you’re really bored, like I am, and you blow up the pic of the mystery black square (and a minor mystery is why it’s called that, since it’s a rectangle), you can see that one side has a circle stamped into it, perhaps an “on” sign, and the other has a circle with something inside, perhaps an “off” sign. These are very far from obvious, may be products of my over-pixellated imagination, though.

  2385. Phillip,
    Share your love with one and all and we will end up with basking in the bright light – including ultra/infra – light.
    Your opening verse is beautiful. I wish somebody wud set it to music.

    luv
    Rom

  2386. If Adam can function as a radio telescope, that would be extremely impressive. I don’t see that point of having it work inside a microwave oven, though.

  2388. jacknone:
    > dreamt of Adam again. I told my wife, and she’s not really happy about it.

    Some people really need to learn to keep their mouths shut

  2389. I don’t need an alibi (I’m clever enough to leave my Adam at home so it doesn’t track me), but it should be painfully – no, make that charmingly – obvious from reading the comments that many of the people here lead somewhat shady lives and would rather have Adam as a helper than a hindrance.

    I hasten to add that I mean no condemnation. In fact, I’m proud to be among this motley crew of ne’er-do-wells (although I kind of hope that none of my friends or family sees me here). It’s not like anybody dresses up as a Tolkien character (well, maybe some of the crowd that Phillip hangs out with).

  2390. What a dismal piece. I can summarize it in English: nothing happens.

    (puts on musicologist hat)
    To give Pachelbel his due, though, he intended only a little throwaway piece as part of a larger suite. He had no idea that some dreadfully gaseous Frenchman (Jean-François Paillard) would someday rip it out of context and inflate it to hideous proportions.
    (takes off musicologist hat)

    (it’s cold. puts back musicologist hat. goes outside like that. impresses everybody.)

  2393. Sounds like magnetism to me. Light is an electromagnetic field doesnt make it a father to magnetism exactly but similarity to fields that can form a barrier has always been around and is a constant part of the world today. It also can “feel” and react. What kind of feature or sensor I don’t know.

  2394. The mystery feature better be really good. Else it will be a nightmare for NI for playing with the Consumer’s expectations!

  2395. Actually, Cain was the farmer. He murdered his brother Abel, who was a shepherd, out of jealousy because God was not pleased with his offering but was pleased with Abel’s.

    The other son that is named in Genesis was Seth. He was born when Adam was 130 years old. However, Adam & Eve probably had at least 50 sons and daughters in the 930 years that Adam lived! That translates into a lot of follow-up products from NotionINK! 🙂

    If you’ve never read Genesis, it’s definitely a great read. Even if you don’t believe, you should give it a read. If for no other reason, it will give you some insight into a lot of the correlations that Rohan and the boys have tied into their products. Who knows, you may actually enjoy it. It may even change your life!

    ~CopierITGuy

  2399. “Wireless USB” or “Wireless Video” as the mystery feature??
    Tegra developer board has three USB-A and one mini-USB ports while the ADAM has 2+1. ADAM can easily implement one more USB port. Is it internal and wireless?

  2401. @Gecko
    I, like many others, enjoy reading your comments, but this one took the cake in my book. I laughed out loud during a board meeting reading this! Thank you for that!

  2403. Rohan, got any info on the colours yet? Want to mull over whats avaliable before pre-order starts, dont want to waste precious time trying to decide while everyone else is placing their order!

  2407. I think all the detectives already earned their respect and kudos to all their efforts for keeping the blog active and educating all along the way not to forget the fun

    Have a nice weekend all…

    See-gra-meva Adam praap-thi-rastu! (Wish you get an Adam soon!)

  2409. aahhh forgot about the grammar police folks… may be a closer literal translation would be: Wish you a speedy arrival of Adam …

  2411. well good/bad/better/worst are all relative… its a very relative world out there…
    as we know the mystery feature is also a bonus feature … unless there could be such a thing as bad bonus we are guaranteed to have a good feature!

  2412. Strange!!!! I try to reserve my places at CES 2011 and I cannot find Notion Ink on as exhibitor!!!!! Am i too dumb to search it correctly or they will not be there?! can somebody clear it please!

    Thanks
    cheers,

    —

    pj

  2413. Will Dec 9th be the pre-ordering date ? Seems unlikely without the release of color options ? Many colors options were discussed but so far there is no list and pictures of final colors.
    I think Dec 9th will be the launch of another or final version of the website or naming the mystery interface.

  2414. I agree, I have used many digitizers, for writing notes, remember grafitty on the palm, or the apple newton, it was great for taking notes, in fact I just sold one on ebay for $250, their is still a market for them. handwriting recongintion is great when it works. int he early years, ie palm pilot, you have to learn how to write letter so the machine would recongnize them, if they can prefect it so you can use standard letter format, rather then specialized formats it will be really nice for the average user.

    Start up your calendar, create an appointment and write a note all without calling up a keyboard would be great.

  2415. I will be honest, I am refusing to read any more until i get my adam so i can read my safari books. you are costing me valuable learning time, and my skills are becoming weaker the longer i await my adam! common notionink im gettin desperate!

  2417. Your comment is awaiting moderation.???????

    IT IS SOLAR POWER RECHARGE — ROHAN KNOWS WE ALL ARE IN NEED OF IT.

    I am not a sensor though I can feel
    Though LIGHT is my father, I can work in a SHIELD
    I am there since Big Bang, I am still the NEED
    My re-birth opened a new era, a new PLAYING FIELD!

    solar power has been widely used in the recent games.
    http://www.ril.com/downloads/pdf/PR07042010R.pdf (playing field)

    Few came dangerously close, (nuclear power plant research scholars might know )
    to change the fundamentals of LIGHT,
    but few realized the (solar)POWER of the same,
    and now it even works at NIGHT (solar energy at night ( NANO research )!

    solar energy is still the NEED in every field and also currently the missing feature in all other devices around.

    remember what ROHAN said

    CPU HOT PLUG : can do some cool POWER optimizations. On low BATTERY(and one more area where we are awaiting PATENT ) we are already using it.

    Thanks all for the intuitive thought provoking posts.
    Reply
    Hari R said, on December 3, 2010 at 18:57

    Your comment is awaiting moderation. ?????

    “and now it even works at NIGHT”

    The utility grid can be used simultaneously with solar power, and would power your house at night or during a cloudy winter day. The battery bank on other hand will convert solar energy to electricity throughout the day and store it for later use. Battery bank concept has proved to be highly successful for small scale power generation and efforts are being undertaken to use this concept at large scale. Streetlights working on solar power are the best examples of use of solar energy at night. The solar panels located above these streetlights conserve solar energy throughout the day, and this energy is used to light the lamps throughout the night. !

  2419. I know they’re working hard, I have seen them making developer/eap site progress in fits in starts, was able to login, then not. One page url was “order.php”, some others had “eap” the url. Found some pages via google, then they disappeared (or I ridiculously lost the URL in firefox history…).

    As a web and android developer, I know it can take a couple of shots before you get a site right and it appears they are working toward that. I’d even volunteer if it would get me an Adam faster. Really hoping to see SDK released so we can poke around. I know it’s moving forward, I’m obsessing about substance.

  2422. Read up on the nature of light, otherwise known as “electromagnetic radiation.”

    “Light is my father” could refer to this relationship.

  2423. i don’t think so! you can already buy a solar power charger (i already see a solar power charger + mechanical charger for 90$). and solar power charger have another problem is the efficiency! it could be useful for a keyboard but not for a tablet!

    Cheers,

    —

    Pj

  2424. I have been following Notion Ink and this blog since April, 2010, and am very excited. Below are different items I was planning to buy this year and had to hold off due to ADAM.

    – Light weight notebook computer
    – Media PC with HD output that could be connected to a HD TV
    – eReader
    – Mobile Broadband USB device for internet access on the notebook

    I soon found out that ADAM could be my Swiss Army Knife All-In-One device that could do a lot more than my needs. Very much looking forward to ordering, receiving and opening a box imprinted with the words Notion Ink ADAM.

    I am very confident that Notion Ink will be a very successful company. Any plans for Notion Ink going public? That would be a profitable stock to buy!

    Best Wishes

  2428. There is one basic question which I know I’m not the only one who has been wondering about for quite a while:

    Is the Pixel Qi version of the Adam shipping with the latest gen “wide view” Pixel Qi display?

  2431. Great find, I watched that video a long time ago but never caught that.

    RF is clearly listed as a feature.

  2433. Well Rohan, the constant delaying has finally taken its toll; I have lost my desire to get the Adam. Sure, it is feature-packed and does a lot, but I have come to the realization that it is something that I don’t need, plus it doesn’t accomplish anything my dual-boot MBP can’t. Plus, I have come to appreciate a real book over any e-book (and its a lot cheaper to use the library).

    It’s not you, it’s me. Anyway, best of luck with the company’s future, maybe my interest will grow back for the Adam 2.

  2436. 20% discount – let’s see. Everybody wants it. No other tablet has it. It’s not a sensor. Big Bang started at 100%, since has cooled off to microwave background radiation. Let’s call that 20% (the scale doesn’t have to be linear). You might have a point.

  2438. OK. Just down to the wire here on the old Christmas present for the other half. I’d really love to give him an Adam. Please don’t make me buy an iPad, which is my next best option!!!!!! 🙂 Seriously, are there going to be preorders starting on Dec. 9? I mean, don’t keep us in suspense here forever. . .

  2440. Lovely thoughts Phillip; as you say so eloquently, it’s the creative imagining that’s keeping us so interested. Good dreams 🙂

  2441. Nobody can find NI there, either. They may be there under a different name, perhaps as part of somebody else’s exhibit, or they may not have registered yet.

    You may, in fact, be dumb, but that’s an entirely different matter, and I don’t have any information one way or another on that.

  2443. That is known for a looong time now (compared to the blog-commenting-frequency during the rush-hours).

    If I look at the back of my laptop, I have a similar rectangle – to flip open and upgrade memory and stuff.

    But I am gladly willing to accept that it IS in fact a trackpad! 🙂

  2444. Have a look at some of the works by “The Astonishing Tribe” (-http://www.tat.se/videos/)
    May be NI is working on something similar to this 2D -> 3D UI
    -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBOO8jrnM0

  2446. Could the infrared sensor (if that’s the mystery feature) be used as a proximity sensor for automatically switching on the Adam when the user is near (‘sensing’ the warmth of the person)?

  2447. Grammar Police Comment:

    Rohan,

    You seem to use “little” and “a little” interchangeably. However, they have vastly different meanings. In most of places you actually meant “a little” when you said “little”

  2448. I’ve got a nice one of those from Logitech at the office. Didn’t realize it had the backlight until after I bought it. Pretty comfy…

  2449. OK, here’s my 2 cents on the mystery feature: as many have pointed out, it’s pretty much established that Tesla, Big Bang, EM fields and probably Winnie-the-Pooh are working together to make the Adam kool… I’m sure @Gecko would like to be there too, but let’s face it: who would buy insurance from a British lizard? Anyway, I digress…

    I seem to remember a hands-on video with NI Adam from slashgear that had a very interesting part towards the end. I can’t seem to find it, but maybe somebody else has an idea about this video (it’s got Rohan showing some UI concepts). At one point somebody takes a cell-phone and places it ON the tablet (Adam). Now this may seem pretty random, but now it reminds me of the microsoft touch table (microsoft.com/surface), where just by placing your camera or cell on the table you would have instant access to its contents. Depending on the implementation (obviously) this might be a nice feature. In a broad sense, this would be a new way for Adam to integrate with your other devices. The exact technology of this process escapes me, I don’t know if it’s IR sensors, wireless, proximity, etc. etc…., but it probably involves Tesla, Big Bang and (OK) Geico (oh, I’m sorry, Gecko).

    Right now, I don’t know if this feature first of all is the ONE, and second how useful it would be in a tablet. But I’ve been consistently amazed by Rohan & NI and they definitely put at ease my fear that they would behave like the other big companies: include some random features and then claim that this is exactly what you wanted/needed but never realized it. I’m sure that if this is indeed what they included then it will be awesome!

    Anyway, sorry if somebody else already mentioned this, there are so many comments and so little time…

  2450. I agree with Hari, it might really be a solar power charger and that would be seriously cool 🙂

  2452. Not likely for two reasons: There may, in theory, be times when people want to be near their Adam without having the machine switch on. Also, Rohan said specifically that it’s something that everyone wants, and this won’t work at all for reptiles.

  2453. Would be very useful for me if it held a honing stone for emergency sharpening of a razor, but not everybody uses straight-edge razors, so that’s unfortunately not it. Unless NI is going to market primarily to Victorian-era murderers.

  2454. well, that picture doesnt shed any light on a backside possible compartment for a pen…

  2455. Klang:
    > there are so many comments and so little time…

    Most people complain about how long the time is before the next update or Dec 9 or whatever. Your attitude is much healthier.

  2456. Hopefully tomorrow’s special would include the battery calculator. I wish the calculator would also have the option of Pixel Qi and the normal LCD versions..

  2457. @gecko LOL!!! iGecko toe pads..ROFL
    @Abhi Guess, we leave the sarcasm to gecko 😉

  2458. Hmm…

    Based on all the info released by Rohan thus far, I speculate that the special feature in ADAM is similar (if not the same) to the Eco-Drive feature present in Citizen watches [http://www.citizenwatch.com/COA/English/faqs.asp?topic=Eco-Drive].

    “Citizen Eco-Drive watches use the simplest, yet most technically advanced power generating and storage system in the Watch Manufacturing Industry. A Solar conversion panel and energy cell are the power provider for these Quartz Watches. Eco-Drive’s ability to use light from any source to generate electrical power means that the supply is limitless and free. The absence of any added complex power generating machinery that would require additional upkeep is another big advantage.”

    I remember this feature as I gifted a watch with this feature to my F-I-L.

    Here is the logic behind my speculation:

    1. In one of the earlier riddles Rohan mentioned that it also works at night –> This can imply that it works even when there is no sunlight but he did not allude to the fact that it did not need any kind of light. At night we do have ambient light (e.g. florescent light) around us at home.

    2. Rohan mentioned that it originated at the moment of the Big Bang –> Light

    3. Rohan mentioned we still need it –> We still need light at night as there is no sunlight.

    4. Rohan mentioned ‘re-birth’ and ‘new playing field’ –> re-birth could imply that solar energy is now all the rage again (after a dismal start), and solar energy is bringing a new energy generating era.

    5. Rohan mentioned ‘work in a shield’ –> simply means that is has a casing. Shield does not mean that it is blocked, but could very well imply a transparent shield.

    I am fairly confident about my speculation. I think.

    Question is whether this feature is built into ADAM itself, or is a feature of an external attachment that comes with ADAM (after all NI patented the charger so there must be something special in it).

  2459. It totally depends on you provider, here in Spain you can buy prepay SIM cards either for a specified time (a week, two weeks, a month) or amount of data (1Gb, 4Gb, 10Gb)
    This way you only pay for 3G when you need it.

    Anyway the Adam is provider free so you can stick any SIM inside.

  2460. @ Sri

    Per your request I took Christian’s logo #3 and made a mockup for the Adam. I’m not a fan of the background. I don’t see it as an ink droplet, I guess they are 2 conjoined ink droplets but I don’t think it’s necessary. Take a look and tell me what you think.

    Here is the original:

    And here’s the mockup:
    [gigya src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" width="320" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625462983056/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625462983056/&set_id=72157625462983056&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true" ]

  2461. Cooler than a solar panel would be something similar to Airnergies upcoming product. 😀 Scroll up to obrowny’s comment for more details.

    Not that Adam will see this technology in this generation of the product.

  2462. @justin

    At least am valuable enough for my management to put up with ma bs!

    Try to understand wat sm1 says instead of jumpin to criticize!!!

  2464. Very nice – and a lot of hard work went into those – I hope you get some reward as well as the satisfaction of producing them.

    PS are the funky radiation warning signs something to do with the new sensor ?

  2467. P.S.: I’m actually still hoping for a digitizer, but unfortunately it doesn’t fit too well with Rohan’s hints…

  2471. Rasheed:
    >@Abhi Guess, we leave the sarcasm to gecko

    Oh, no, there’s plenty to be sarcastic about here. I welcome all attempts. I especially welcome failed attempts because then I get to feel superior.

    Abhi’s attempt failed because it wasn’t sarcastic. If somebody posts a picture of a “bear” that’s really a dog dressed in a bear suit, it’s not sarcastic to say “That’s a dog in a bear suit.” In fact, the only possible response to “That’s a dog in a bear suit” is, “Welcome to the Internet.”

  2474. This is actually a good idea. Driving around today, I was wondering how I would secure the Adam to the car’s dashboard so that 1) the GPS maps are visible 2) Adam stays put. Instead of a cumbersome stand (A. is long compared to a std. GPS gizmo), perhaps a belt or loop is in order, one that goes around the rear-view mirror.

    A set of such well-designed accessories would be nice. NI can make some extra cash off these sales as well, giving them an incentive to drive down the price of Adam itself. Elsewhere, I had facetiously mentioned a 22-carat gold accented version of the Adam for the Indian market (and a red enamel and gold one for the Chinese market), but I hope they get the drift. Keep the basic model price down. Make money off the pink one with the Swarovski crystals and the crocodile leather cases.

  2475. Rohan said that the newest version of Android will be on the ADAM as soon as it’s released, what about the newest google OS??

  2476. Once you subtract out all of Greg’s posts, it becomes a whole lot impressive… 😉

  2477. lol@gecko for this year CES the registration is done for 2011 but maybe you are right and they are under a different name! i think maybe they should be at nvidia but when u have a look at the map of CES nvidea stand is not that big…..

    i’ll not start speculating about it so let see what rohan will tell us! have a good Weekend all!

    bests,

    —

    Pj

  2479. @Pert, actually I should add that if you look at the “graph” and look at the far right of it, then you should see…

  2481. Could be someone we know they’re partnering with (Pixel Qi) or someone we hope they’re partnering with (Wacom), or someone we don’t know about yet. I’m a little wary about an unknown partner since there are some pretty horrifying possibility. Hello Kitty isn’t exhibiting, are they?

  2482. its been said several time all over the blog by Rohan that it will run android with the customized UI! but if you want you can uninstall and install chrome OS or Linux on it!!!! but no by default it will not be the chrome OS.

    cheers,

    —

    Pj

  2484. @gecko said, on December 3, 2010 at 20:17

    You are correct. I incorrectly wrote that Robin was giving the impression of being sarcastic. I meant ‘over smart’, but I wrote ‘sarcastic’.

    Nevertheless, the gist of my comment is still valid (that Robin’s intention was probably not to given the impression of being over smart, etc etc).

    dp = dyspeptic. LOL.

  2485. @ Peter lol

    @ PJ Yea, this place moves faaaast. I wonder what % of potential buyers all us posters are?

  2486. @klang, you can find that video here http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/

    Interestingly, when the dude from slashgear places the mobile on the top of adam, and asks can adam recognise devices (about 11:10 on the time), Rohan says something like

    “can’t answer that yet”, or “can I answer that off …”, the video cuts and is very indistinct (even listening with earphones I can’t quite get it).

  2487. I imagine the following scenario. It’s bed time. I turn off the TV which was playing a Swedish detective series streamed from Adam, with my universal remote app. I check the Adam forum before turning the light off. Some kind soul from NI has responded to my query on the forum written barely a half hour ago and articulated–with insight, clarity and compassion–how I might fix a particular problem I was having with streaming HD video. It turns out not to be a problem with Adam itself but a simple error on my part. Ah, to err is human, I tell the young person. I should indeed have read the Adam manual — beautifully illustrated and wonderfully written, by the way — more carefully. What a pleasure it was to hold that compact manual and read its crisp prose and study its illuminating graphics, eight months ago when I first received Adam. It rivalled a Tintin comic in its desirability and narrative magic.

    I stifle a yawn (it is late) and place Adam on its low stand with its porcelain sheen, its valley snugly enfolding Adam’s own elegant curvature. Of course, it only looks like a stand, although it could have come from the Museum of Modern Art: it’s a wireless charger that immediately lets me know the battery level and goes to work on the deficit. I turn the light off. The ambient light sensor inside Adam immediately switches the screen saver on in Alarm Clock mode, where it glows softly in the dark. Of course, Adam knows what time it is too, and thus differentiates this loss of light from when I merely place it inside its custom leather case on my way to work, when it promptly goes to deep slumber.

    Speaking of slumber, I am asleep while Adam, now fully and very quickly recharged, keeps vigil, the hours ticking by. During the night, a thunderstorm rolls in, and the weather app, listening passively to alerts, wakes up and intermittently shows the weather information. Of course, I am fast asleep. In the morning, the alarm goes off (an audio clip of my choice, of course), and when I am back from brushing my teeth, Adam has detected the ambient light and, since I haven’t touched it yet, switched the screen saver to photo gallery mode. I complement my wife on how wonderful she looks in the morning, just as she did in that picture now gliding by on Adam, all those many years ago. She has, of course, forgiven me for all that time spent on the Adam forums after I got her the very expensive black, adamantine version of Adam, the one with the real platinum accents.

    I am wasting time on a Friday, of course, and forgive me if I set up too high an expectation for Notion Ink. I know it is unfair, but it can’t be helped.

  2488. I hope the 3G version at least allows you to access a few websites (especially for the upcoming Google bookstore, and also the LongBox) without a subscription to any providers.

  2489. Yes, Yes, that’s the one!!!! The sound is pretty bad (on purpose, I’m sure) but you can hear them talking about Adam being able to identify objects! Now I’m thinking more and more that this is going to be the feature.

    I’m sure Rohan can’t openly say if this is it, so let’s do a test… Rohan, if this is the hidden feature then DON’T place a comment in this post!

    …..
    …..

    waiting ….

    ….
    waiting …

    ….

    CONFIRMED!!!!

  2491. Really Now, I probably shouldn’t respond to a troll request.

    But I will anyways. He has given a detailed timeline of the entire process, told us where he is at in relation to the timeline process.
    On the November 4th blog post, he updated us with:

    Dear All
    Little updates:
    • Logo: We were waiting for the Winners to send back the signed agreements back and we are processing them on our front now. Result on next week-end special.
    • EAP registrations have been closed. In total 6800+ entries and around 70 have already been selected. We need to talk to each one of them so its little tiring process. But on 10th, all the selected ones will be informed (this is a festive week in India, so did some prior arrangements that this goes on time). We received entries from a lot of different kinds of groups, like Police Departments, Nuclear Reactor firms, Kindergartens, Space Organizations, Universities, Doctors and a lot more people working in extremely exciting fields (nuclear science!).
    • FCC: We are on time for this and you could hold devices in your hands on or before Christmas (and as hinted earlier, if we miss Christmas, then CES or New Year). Pre-booking will start in early December (if the case id prior). Already received FCC for the chargers!
    • Countries: Through online booking you can order in most of the countries, thanks to our logistics partners!
    • Strength: Notion Ink’s head counts increased by 15% in last month.
    • Android Version: Its 2.2. But expect upgrades as soon as its out there!

    Then a few days later in the post “the baby is here”, he gave use pictures of the first samples of the line, who can forget Ferrari Red !!!
    For over 3 months now he has given us at a minimum a weekly update on the progress and process of bringing a tablet to market.
    If you have been following since day one, I don’t think you could have missed that, so I say
    Go away troll, buy your ipad and leave us alone.

  2494. The idea that geckos might need to sharpen a straight-edge razor on an EMERGENCY basis puts a whole different perspective on geckos …

  2495. where is the update!!! i can not wait anymore!!!
    Rohan go on 😀

    Kind Regards from Austria

  2498. Maybe the hidden feature is that the black border around the screen is covered by mini solar panels.

    Ok maybe is a bit improbable, Rohan please take note of this idea to develop in ADAM 2 😉

  2500. @Andrew
    Well, but it was announced a while back, if you check this link http://www.fastcompany.com/1607631/unconfirmed-ipad-competitor-hp-slate-specs-and-price-leak-is-this-the-antipad you will see that way back in April HP said that they would have an Active Digitizer, so I am guessing it is not going to be an active digitizer. Based on the logic that “no other tablet has it”
    @Jai
    I agree that an active digitizer would be awesome, but as you know the HP Slate is catered for business use and the company promotes it as such. The 2011 edition of the HP Slate that will catered for consumers will be using WebOS without the active digitizer.
    @Prakhyat
    There are Linux drivers for most Wacom devices. Wouldn’t be too difficult to port to an android device.

    I suppose that we can make a point for the active digitizer and say that it lets you “write” in the day and the night because of the LCD’s back-light and tie that it into Tesla and Rohan’s hint. But to be honest, do I really want to “write”? I can type much faster that I can write. If the Adam used infra-red to project a keyboard onto a surface that allowed me to type, that would be a really awesome feature. If I want to write/draw occasionally, I can use the capacitive pen. Infra-red can let you do a whole lot. 3D gestures, the aforementioned keyboard, microwave eggs, etc…

  2501. I also think the wireless charging idea is just silly, it would be more useful on the HP slate which is supposed to have a speculated battery life of around 4-5 hours. The Adam, under a “normal” use case, would have between 15-16 hours. In E-reader mode that becomes ten fold. I don’t understand how wireless charing would be useful, I mean… assume that the average person, not someone at Notion-Ink or patrons of this blog, sleeps 6-8 hours a day. We are down to 16 – 18 hours of wake-time. And also assume this person does not do anything in-between, you know things like eating, showering, etc. you could still use this device from the time you wake until the time you go to bed. Also for those that only sleep six hours, if you really need some more “juice” switch over to E-Reader mode, and you can squeeze out the extra 2 hours before you go to bed.

  2502. Is that a new favicon showing up on my Chrome Notionink.com page tab? I forget how to enlarge it.

  2503. Repost:

    @Andrew
    Well, but it was announced a while back, if you check this link http://www.fastcompany.com/1607631/unconfirmed-ipad-competitor-hp-slate-specs-and-price-leak-is-this-the-antipad you will see that way back in April HP said that they would have an Active Digitizer, so I am guessing it is not going to be an active digitizer. Based on the logic that “no other tablet has it”
    @Jai
    I agree that an active digitizer would be awesome, but as you know the HP Slate is catered for business use and the company promotes it as such. The 2011 edition of the HP Slate that will catered for consumers will be using WebOS without the active digitizer.
    @Prakhyat
    There are Linux drivers for most Wacom devices. Wouldn’t be too difficult to port to an android device.

    I suppose that we can make a point for the active digitizer and say that it lets you “write” in the day and the night because of the LCD’s back-light and tie that it into Tesla and Rohan’s hint. But to be honest, do I really want to “write”? I can type much faster that I can write. If the Adam used infra-red to project a keyboard onto a surface that allowed me to type, that would be a really awesome feature. If I want to write/draw occasionally, I can use the capacitive pen. Infra-red can let you do a whole lot. 3D gestures, the aforementioned keyboard, microwave eggs, etc…

    I also think the wireless charging idea is just silly, it would be more useful on the HP slate which is supposed to have a speculated battery life of around 4-5 hours. The Adam, under a “normal” use case, would have between 15-16 hours. In E-reader mode that becomes ten fold. I don’t understand how wireless charing would be useful, I mean… assume that the average person, not someone at Notion-Ink or patrons of this blog, sleeps 6-8 hours a day. We are down to 16 – 18 hours of wake-time. And also assume this person does not do anything in-between, you know things like eating, showering, etc. you could still use this device from the time you wake until the time you go to bed. Also for those that only sleep six hours, if you really need some more “juice” switch over to E-Reader mode, and you can squeeze out the extra 2 hours before you go to bed.

  2505. @Gigantor

    Looks nice on the Adam. I still think that background of ink-drop(s) needs to be there. Why? See the background of this icon on the Adam’s side in below image:

  2506. Oh my god!!! It looks like I have figured out the mystery feature! They didn’t approve my comment with my guess and the link demoing the technology. Okay I will play nice and wait for them to reveal it. Being an entrepreneur myself, I don’t want to play spoilsport on another young startup! May be they will give me an discount 🙂

  2507. What if the rectangular piece at the back is not track pad but just a cover that laptops typically have over memory. It may be a slot for upgrading memory thats why he mentioned 8+ rather than any fixed memory size. it is unintutive to have track pad on the left.
    Rohan didnot confirm or deny existence of track pad.

  2508. most people are right handed… so although we use a mouse with our right…In the case of a tablet, we would be holding the device with our left hand… and “tracking” with our left as well.. while we “touch” with our right… so I think it would be intuitive.

  2509. I posted the following comment elsewhere in this blog:

    Based on all the info released by Rohan thus far, I speculate that the special feature in ADAM is similar (if not the same) to the Eco-Drive feature present in Citizen watches [http://www.citizenwatch.com/COA/English/faqs.asp?topic=Eco-Drive].

    “Citizen Eco-Drive watches use the simplest, yet most technically advanced power generating and storage system in the Watch Manufacturing Industry. A Solar conversion panel and energy cell are the power provider for these Quartz Watches. Eco-Drive’s ability to use light from any source to generate electrical power means that the supply is limitless and free. The absence of any added complex power generating machinery that would require additional upkeep is another big advantage.”

    Here is the logic behind my speculation:

    1. In one of the earlier riddles Rohan mentioned that it also works at night –> This can imply that it works even when there is no sunlight but he did not allude to the fact that it did not need any kind of light. At night we do have ambient light (e.g. florescent light) around us at home.

    2. Rohan mentioned that it originated at the moment of the Big Bang –> Light

    3. Rohan mentioned we still need it –> We still need light at night as there is no sunlight.

    4. Rohan mentioned ‘re-birth’ and ‘new playing field’ –> re-birth could imply that solar energy is now all the rage again (after a dismal start), and solar energy is bringing a new energy generating era.

    5. Rohan mentioned ‘work in a shield’ –> simply means that is has a casing. Shield does not mean that it is blocked, but could very well imply a transparent shield.

  2510. im so bummed my laptop’s inlet (think thats what it is) is lose so when ever my power cord it stops charging and now i need to buy a new laptop and use the money i had set aside for the adam…i guess ill have to keep waiting to buy it.

  2511. This week’s update outline
    1. The keyboard
    2. The track pad on the back
    3. More FCC news
    4. Mysterious language with hints and/or secrets
    5. HQ pictures of the Adam for your background/fb profile pic
    6. Invitation to be the sales agents!
    7. Some contest to get your adam first/free (it will be a problem you have to solve)
    8. A book – Biography of Rohan – the next generation of young CEOs
    9. Details about a web browser enhancement
    10. Release dates.

  2512. We should be very near our next week end special and I was reflecting on all the time many of us have spent reading and writing on this blog. Speculation has been running high on several fronts concerning this or that feature. Personally I have came to the conclusion that what I know for sure about Adam is that I want one. If there isn’t a track pad and Adam ends up not having a writing digitizer, or there is no special infrared sensor it will not make a difference to me. If can’t be charged by wireless means and won’t brew my morning tea I’ll still putting my order in. Adam is feature filled enough in they way it has already been presented. If performs any where close to expectations I will be very very happy.

  2514. How are you going to type a quadratic equation? How are you going to type notes for Chemistry class? Sorry, a digitizer for students would be huge benefit IMHO.

  2515. @Dominic – I mentioned this before, but no sense in not repeating myself, the purpose of a wireless charger would be so you don’t have to plug in the Adam when you’re asleep and maybe trip over the cord when you get up to go to the bathroom.

  2516. @Rohan First let me say how very excited I am to about the Adam. It’s about time someone raised the bar to this level.

    While I don’t expect you to read this let alone reply, I’d like to ask this anyway. Many of us are becoming more concerned about the environment and sustainability. Since the Adam will “change everything”, is the Adam a device that is built to last more than a year or two (durable? upgradeable? recyclable? product take-back?) or is it just another “designed for the dump” device we’ll be throwing into a landfill when we buy Adam 2.0?

    Anyway, congratulations on a fantastic device, and best of success to you all. I can’t wait to meet Adam in person!

  2519. @Wally, yeah, adam as revealed is fantastic, everything else is just cream on top, unless you’re allergic to dairy, in that case its gravy on top – which admittedly is very weird on ice cream and pancakes, but hey, if you’re going to insist on gravy on your dessert you’ll just be eating alone, that’s all. But you’ll be eating alone with your adam, so that might just do, you weird dessert eating freak. Sorry, what were you saying, oh yeah, adam – that’s one fantastic gadget.

  2521. @Elango said, on December 4, 2010 at 02:39

    The Philosophy section under Design already mentions that the UI is gesture based.

    http://notionink.in/design.php

    “The design philosophy for the Adam draws from the school of sacred geometry, where all lines and curves flow in accordance with the golden ratio. We believe in creative unity of hardware and user interface design. It reflects in the Adam’s build, which is easy on the eye and the wrist alike, in our home-grown apps and gesture-based UI, the choice of a power-saving processor and a sunlight-friendly screen and in the wide range of connectivity options provided.”

    So am a little unclear on your speculation of the hidden feature. Or did you mean that the stated gesture based UI is controllable via an infra-red sensor (like Wii or Kinetic etc) ?

  2522. @Sam,

    Yes! This is the one I found to listen to last night after Rohan left the “smiley” …

  2523. It doesn’t work that way. See where it says “comment awaiting moderation”? It’s very Zen. There is no moderation. There is no moderator. This is an automatic service of WordPress, which thoughtfully consigns some messages with links to permanent limbo. The more links, the more possibility that the message will never been seen again. Try reposting your message and disguising the links, for example by putting some spaces in, like this:

    http: // apple . com

    but don’t, of course, send us to that site.

  2524. Nishit:
    > Solipsism. It has its merits.

    Ah. Please explain. You’re in a unique position to be able to do that. 🙂

  2525. Hmmm, well, if you get your pizza post ready I have Calamata olives ready and raring to go. Not to mention some Argentinean parmesan cheese should you like some of that on top. Run gecko, run free across the pizza and devour whatever crosses your path that may entice you.

  2526. Fuck me, wonna buy one of tis magic-crap, ready to pay 1k $, gimme) Ipad is dull shit in compare to this device.

  2527. @gecko You got at least one thing right by considering yourself the centre of the Universe.

    >Also, Rohan said specifically that it’s something that everyone wants, and this won’t work at all for reptiles.

  2531. I did like the radial menu interface on the Mag device. Seemed pretty intuitive. Thanks for the post, GiJoe.

  2532. Well then i guess i may as well help break the record too.

    All i have to say is that if this weekend’s update doesn’t come soon I’m going to go crazy

  2534. Well I guess I might as well help break the record too.

    All I have to say is that if this weekend’s update doesn’t come soon I’m going to go crazy

  2535. gecko.. my very first post here was moderated. it was longish and had a bunch of edit suggests. took a long while.. after that no moderation… so maybe its only for first timers. but yes, it could be automated moderation.

  2536. Really want those hq pictures of adam for my desktop. As mister Tom Petty said the waiting is the hardest part.

  2540. nsriram:
    >. my very first post here was moderated.

    There used to be moderation, when there were only a few hundred comments per posting, but there hasn’t been any since we got more voluble. The moderators likely died of heat stroke.

    Wally West:
    > Aw come on……give it up…..No one will laugh if your wrong.

    Speak for yourself.

  2543. BTW has anyone read “Light Fantastic?” Is there by chance anything to do with that book that will reveal the mystery?

  2545. really 40% ? citation please 🙂

    this is what they have reached in a lab under controlled conditions!

    mass produced solar cells don’t go above 1-4% thermodynamic eff which is what counts!

    stop spreading myths!

  2546. Well, at least we exceeded last week’s entry count. Hope Rohan isn’t waiting for 3000 or something, cause that’s just sick. Rohan? Buddy? New Post please?

  2548. Let me see if I can follow your logic.

    I say: Reptiles exist.

    You respond: Therefore, reptiles are the center of the universe.

    I don’t dispute the conclusion, but the logic escapes me. Let us put this in more formal terms:

    Rohan: Everybody (= all creatures) want the mystery feature.

    Me: Some creatures reptiles.

    You: Therefore, all creatures are reptiles.

    If I can’t quite put my finger on the flaw in your logic, it’s because I’m sitting on your argument.

  2549. Cheers to all Notion Ink fans …

    Eagerly Waiting for the next weekend special.
    Its 11:45 AM in India now and I see some slowness in the Notion Ink site. Hope they are revamping the site to publish more info with a BANG !!!

  2550. Hi guys,

    Long time reader and first time poster. Looking forward to the Adam being released and will be definitely pre-ordering. I decided to post to help us beat the number of comments from last weeks Saturday update.

    I hope today’s update comes in sometime soon, just in time for dinner here in HOT Adelaide, Australia.

    Take it easy guys, I will definitely keep following this blog, the specs of Adam just keep getting better and better.

  2553. Aargh!

    That is because your premises are flawed!

    I am not implying that everyone is a reptile. Rather, that because of solipsism, you analyzed the phrase ‘something everyone wants’ in light of the proximity sensor from a reptile’s point of view, and this led to the ‘correct’ inference.

    >If I can’t quite put my finger on the flaw in your logic, it’s because I’m sitting on your argument.

    Solipsism can take care of that 😉

  2556. Recall the days when 16 MB RAM was 500 bucks? I actually recall selling it for this much after using it for a couple of years!

  2557. Its 1:38 AM EST… I was hoping to have a posting lol I guess I will have to wait till 10am when I get to work like usual to see a post 😦 , each week that goes by I get more and more into the adam and just want more infoooo

  2559. @rohan

    Here is what i expect from my weekend post. No pressure of course 🙂

    1. Some more details about the insides of the product . ie chassis/thermal solution.
    2. details about the SoC’s capabilities in terms of audio- does it have I2s/spdif out ?
    what about FLAC ? (audiophile)(+ we know all about the video capabilities)
    3. some videos/pics of the final UI.
    4. details of some of the apps the EAP chaps are coding.
    5. Has production started ?
    6. How are you going to market it and where ?
    7. Is there going to be a native VNC type app / processing outsourcing to a local computer
    over wifi ? I can come up with a lot of uses cases for this as a mechanical engineer in
    CAE. this because the UI I hope will be 3D enabled. so we can actually feel / manipulate
    digital models 🙂

    thats all i can come up with now 🙂

    cheers

    jayanth

  2560. Interesting fact:
    Some users (real adamholic) sent more than 100 messages in this Week-End Special Part – X. Guys, please hurry up sending your message to hit 3000 before Rohan presses another weekend special..

  2561. i wonder if or when notion ink will start their promotion/advertisement. There are so many people that would love a product like this but have no idea of its existence!

  2563. Agree.
    Weight distribution. If we were to hold the Adam by its bezel, the rest would feel much lighter. Plus, it would be much more comfortable to hold because of the shape of the bezel.

  2564. I am visualizing Rohan sitting with his legal team to chuck out the “not to be shared yet” portions from the blog post and giving it final touches.. will hit the publish button in a little while 🙂

  2567. Working late; listening to good music, and waiting patiently for Rohan and our team to push the Update button …

  2569. I have a feeling we wont be seeing anything for another 4-6 hours … 😦 I really hope that we get some good in depth info this week. It has been killing me all week to see what we are told on saturday.

  2571. I finally found time to write a little.
    This is my present take on the importance of December 9.
    -I think the 9th. marks the end of a phase in NI Adams life.
    -The next day, the 10th., Rohan will disclose the important news we have been waiting for.
    -It has been in front of our eyes all this time, day and night, by means of this blog.
    -Tesla was born July 10. Is there a better day to give a public announcement?
    -The details of the announcements have been probably guessed correctly by someone in this blog.

    A quote by Tesla:
    “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

    I think the quote describe many of the bloggers here, and specially Rohan, who won’t go to sleep as long as there is new post in this blog.

  2572. Wanted stay up late hoping to see the update but these tired eyes can wait no longer. Hopefully in the morning it will be waiting for me.

  2573. For a limited time custom colors for the Adam, from Jet Black to Neon Orange, are now available on pre-orders!

    Hurry while supplies last!

    [gigya src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" width="320" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625398727709/show/&page_show_back_url=/photos/7642865@N02/sets/72157625398727709/&set_id=72157625398727709&jump_to=" allowFullScreen="true" ]

  2574. Waiting for these weekend updates is going to be the end of me.

    How has a device that has not even been released And details unknown, totally captures our attention to this extent.

  2577. Is it just me or is the Digital Compus a new added feature under the GPS in Tech Specs.

  2578. I live near notion ink office in Bangalore. I came to know that Rohan is away this week. Therefore no blog post this week. Bye all.

  2579. Also looking through it there are other added features to the page but most are already known and just been added to the page.

  2582. (I apologize for being little mystic in this post, but I want to point in the future, back to this post and tell you that I shared a secret and hint with all of you, and it all happened in front of your eyes!:))

    Wonder what that’s going to be!!!! 😀

    COME ON ROHAN!! 😀

  2587. @rb

    No, Windows will not work on it. Windows can’t run on an arm processor. You’d need a tablet with an atom processor in order to use windows.

  2588. I am up… hehheh .. its afternoon here anyway.. i am watching the coast.. go off to sleep ..
    and let me be first to comment 😛

  2589. @Gigantor,

    Thanks for doing this; these are fun; like the metallic finish and the rainbow of colors! The red one still has my heart, the blue is sleek … suspect I’ll have to settle for some version of black, titanium, greay in the real world thought; unless I resort to art and give my Adam a little “bling” … ah, well, as long as I get an Adam, the color doesn’t matter. There are rainbows on the posts in a couple of places though, and a rainbow is from light, so … maybe!

  2591. @yogi,

    3 am here on east coast of US … you can be first; no competition from me; my eyes are too blurry to see straight 🙂

    OH, WAIT! 🙂 🙂 🙂

  2594. Good Morning Notion Ink … now off to read details; love the first 3 paragraphs already!

    Thanks for all the hard work. 🙂

  2595. I am hungry for some more news. Feeling like a little boy, who can’t wait for his birthday present. Actually, my birthday is later this month. So maybe .. 🙂

  2601. At last we have the much awaited good news. Looking forward to buy my adam at the earliest.

  2602. So I may be going out on a limb here but thought I’d add to the speculation.

    After delving into the Tesla info, I only really came away with him ranting about the amazing properties of light. I’ve seen talk on here about an IR sensor to detect depth for 3d interaction which sounds pretty cool. However, what would really make it awesome is for 3D viewing too.

    Now here’s the the limb, if the Pixel Qi screen is transparent would it be able to act as a polarization filter for 3D capabilities if the screen had a 120Hz display?

  2603. @rb No you cannot install windows as billreyn said windows cannot run on arm processor but i think you can run windows on your favorite virtual machine if you install linux ;-)!

    cheers,

    —

    Pj

  2604. To add to my ideas about December 9.
    Hanukkah ends that day too. A very busy day.
    Hanukkah is a Celebration of Lights. Candles are light up at sun down. MMM…light, light…at night.

  2605. I can’t wait anymore. Every weekend I am just waiting for new infos and the order date 😀

    Thanks for all the work and informations!

  2611. +1 for Belgium 🙂 Rohan stated that they already have a marketing team in Europe so i’m sure things will work out for dutchmen like us.

  2616. @Cathy
    you just wen to sleep ( A FEW POST AGO!). You are in danger of becoming Rohan.

  2618. I have MS and I have been waiting for a tablet computer I can leave on my lap in the wheelchair. I can’t wait for the adam to arrive.
    the specifications look very good indeed.
    When will it be sold in the UK please.
    Tony

  2619. Yeahtaht would be of help at least… Let’s hope there will be a stylish cover, which also cna be used as a stand.
    I’m really excited about the 9th. Let’s hope it is a digitizer, than I definitely go for a adam!
    Ja

  2620. i like that idea of the calender entries without having to actually use a virtual keyboard…

  2621. Probably not because if you take the hex code on the website and translate it to a number then translate that number through a binary to hex translator you get “3d”.

  2623. This is the device I have been waiting for.

    It maybe also be saving grace for Newspapers!

    Good bye netbook and notebook!

    Greg

  2625. Aw, I’ve been reading here forever! 😦
    I wish I could have made the first cut for pre-orders! But hopefully the next?

    Long live the Adam!

  2628. Hi ALL,

    INMHO… please stop posts that are kind of , “I have been doing advertisement , raising awareness and promotion of ADAM and I need pre order privilege.”

    plz don’t portray ourselves as having a marketing distribution GUY kind of deal with NI.

    It’s ALL soul to soul and not a DEAL for a DEAL thing.

    We got the Priority (pre ordering) because of the purest form of love we all (including Rohan) poured in without any restrain.

    What ever we give, we will get it for sure. because the universe itself acts in that way 🙂 .

    We got this because of the unconditional LOVE we have shown on a first blossoming flower from a common garden which belongs to all of US 🙂

    HERE it is all soul to soul relationship.

    Everyone who followed is going to get this (priority) pre order. and also pre order is gonna continue fr long.

    since we have followed,We r one among those who r AWARE of it in prior than the rest of the world. and in any case, we will be the first to grab it. 🙂

    UNCONDITIONED COLLECTIVE INTENTIONS ARE THE GREATEST THING IN A BEING.

    OUR SELFLESS THOUGHTS ARE THE REAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE AUGMENTED REALITY.

    “AWARENESS it’SELF could alter the reality, because they form a world of POTENTIALITIES or POSSIBILITIES rather than one of things.”
    -Werner Heisenberg

  2631. Yes! Finally some details about the interface. One thing I would suggest the developers to do is to put a lot of value and effort into making the Adam text reader friendly (i.e. options for annotations, note taking, etc..)

  2632. Waiting anxiously for Adam and hoping we can get in India the pre-orders. Rohan, please let us do that. Wonderful features and will see how Adam is going to trounce ipad.

  2635. Many greetings from Germany, we are waiting for these wonderful tablet. Please, no A-GPS.

  2637. A new Star is born……. Adam……here Name…..come to me…… please
    Life is to short to be without Adam!

  2640. This was the first time i have followed a blog so thoroughly. It has been so long. And finally…
    Notionink is here.
    Congrats to the team. Congrats Rohan !
    Next step is holding one in my arms.. lol.

  2642. Your system is raising tremendous interest in the accademic community too, where the open software aspect of Android is seen as a key benefit of the system. A few of my colleagues are eagerly awaiting the release to try and see if the system can be used efficiently in science teaching and experimental control / simulation and note taking.

    Keep up your sterling work and if al your promissses come true it wil be a really ground braking piece of hardware .

    It seems that you are getting very close to the goal line, Good luck and see you on the other side with finished product.

  2643. Will I be able to pre-order moderator? Looks like you are deleting comments so maybe you can reply through email?

  2645. Ok, so either the blog is time traveling, or whatever time the comments displays is in the future. Also, pretty sure people are now posting on older posts in hopes of being able to get on the preorder list. To which I’m posting this, as it’s silly.

    While I’ve been lurking forever, the only time I’ve posted before this was on the announcement blog post. If I don’t get in the initial preorders, that sucks, but it is understandable.

  2646. Aw waited eagerly, following/visiting blog since agust almost everyday 3 days last months almost everyday,.. I cannot pre-order yet! 😦

    Still hoping the best, keep it up!

  2648. Fantastic news, hoping to get one shipped to sweden – it will rock my ea world

  2649. I’ve being a silent observer of this blog for sometime and personally can not wait to pre-order this device. Cheers

  2650. Hi Rohan

    Like most here am queuing up to buy, I want to stress I am not an Apple fanboy, I have never owned an i-anything as hate the way apple insist you can only use the products their way itunes, flash etc.

    However it must be said I love the web 2 feel of the icons on the iphone/ipad within their ui.

    Use of different colours within icons makes it easier to find what I’m looking for, i look at my desktop on windows and I can pick out an application I want to run easily due to the icons being very different in appearance and colour.

    Looking at the icons above they are very uniform in colour and in my opinion may slow down the user experience.

    A smart way around this would be to let the user decide, have 2 icon sets offering both options that can be switched.

    When being sold in a store some users may decide not to buy purely on what the UI looks like, ignoring all the tech benefits over other tablets, with apples dominance they have come to expect a glossy feel.

    At least by offering a choice the users will be able to decide what they like the best.

    Regards and good luck.

  2652. hi,, Rohan talks about preorders to the one here who registred, how do you register, i also who have been keeping up here but not witing would like to put my name on the list for preorder,,, ,, paul

  2654. hey the other post leaves al my comments as waiting for review, is that normal?, i didn’t put any links on them so they should be alright, if you can see this comment put on a reply please.

  2655. I agree with Matthew. I think a dual-digitizer solution would be fantastic! The Lenovo X201 comes to mind. Especially for artists and students, or pretty much anyone really. They don’t call these devices “tablets” because they look cool. Might as well give them more “pen-to-paper” functionality that their name implies, imho. Plus, with active you don’t have to worry about juicing the cpu trying to figure out what’s going on when your palm rests on the screen as you write or draw.

  2656. i have been checking the site every day for month for the word “Pre-order” now we just need the link 🙂

  2657. does this make sense related to the mystery feature

    ”Alpha decay can provide a safe power source for radioisotope thermoelectric generators used for space probes and artificial heart pacemakers. Alpha decay is much more easily shielded against than other forms of radioactive decay. Plutonium-238, a source of alpha particles, requires only 2.5 mm of lead shielding to protect against unwanted radiation”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

  2659. Too bad this is my first post but i have been following this blog and the hardware closely. Hope its available soon in india..

  2661. Disappointed – I’m a little sad to see you have to comment to be able to pre-order – I’ve voted on the logo and the colour questions etc, and followed every step of the journey since someone first hinted at combining LCD and digital paper.
    I (and I imagine quite a few others here) have been the sort that read, and listen and only post when they have something new to add. There’s enough useful commentary that I’d never needed to add my noise to the chorus.
    I certainly wish you all the best with this device, and to be honest, wouldn’t be in a position to pre-order even if I were allowed, but it does feel sad to know that I miss out because I’d never felt a need to be heard.
    Best of luck,
    Chaos Crafter

  2662. really…i m disappointed to know about pre orders n commenting
    though i never actively participated in commenting on ur posts but i have been following it like a FBI secret agent
    i can even write a 3 page answer if asked about notion ink ADAM
    though i m a medical student still i know adam’s tech specs like i hve been a computer science student studyin in an engineering college
    i hope u cud allow new people commenting to pre orer ASAP
    keepin my fingers crossed

  2663. Too much comments at the recent post, so I’m jumping back here to post.

    I was thinking it through; What if the secret feature is something like what Sony Ericsson had came out with recently, like the LiveView?

    But of course, with more features (wireless charging?) and a better UI. For the last 2 mystery models, for a little more dollars it’s rather economical to implement a small OLED wearable display with BT and communication functions (Twitter, SMS, emails etc). In this case, for fellow like me who are intending to use the Adam as their sole tricorder would appreciate a gadget like that than bringing out the Adam out each time there’s a tweet update.

  2664. well its seems it the moderation thing disappear all ready, 😀 time to sleep XD (3am on mexico good thing its sunday XD)

  2667. This tablet looks sweet. I think the mystery feature is something to do with charging the device without plugging it in. Will be nice to have this built in rather than adding a 3rd party case.

  2668. I’m kinda hoping its 100%

    @Rohan my little web dev company want to help out with the Adam community. Would it be ok if we made a community site for the Adam? It would really help with organizing everybody here rather than just in the comments sections.

  2669. Well hopefully payment portal will be up somewhere this week. Since I really cant wait much longer :). Curious if the immense interest wont be to much for the available Adams??

  2671. What a pity, I follow this blog for quite some time, but never really participated! If I had known that, I would have just always wrote some little note down to become prime member of pre ordering…but okay, just have to wait a little longer

  2672. This tablets has the best specs I have seen so far and I would very much like to see the Pixel Qi display in real life. 😉

  2673. @Stefan:

    The problem NI has is that the UI must also be usable if you are using the Pixel Qi screen with the backlight on, or the backlight off. Normally the Pixel Qi screen has less colors than the iPad IPS display, or even the NI LCD display. When you turn the backlight off, the icons and text must still be distinguishable and usable. Rohan has previously discussed this challenge in designing the UI, and why stock Android won’t suffice.

    Still, I do find the text below the icons to be almost unreadable. For the text, I would prefer a little white outlining, which would effectively disappear when the PixelQi backlight is off. Google Maps uses this technique, which is why their maps are more legible than Bing or Yahoo.

  2674. I am so ready for adam!!
    Been waiting since it was introduced at CES.
    And I am so excited about this product, and the possibilities it brings.
    I hope for a good implementation of a PDF reader, with the possibility to add notes.

    Keep up the good work, it have been nice to be this close to the creation of the product, and that the fan’s is given the oppertunity to contribute process is just fantastic.

    I would pre-order if I am given the opportunity.

  2675. Yes I was wondering if by members you meant members of the notion ink site and EAP program or members of this worldpress site

  2677. Wow, im really excited to get an Adam, now i just need to wait for pre-orders to open and get one (and show to my colleages at work here in Mexico)

  2678. Great news and what a delight to see Adam being born! Keep up the good work and hopefully, we will get a Christmas present!!! 🙂

  2680. Many people signed up for email updates in the beginning. I hope these people get to pre-order as well

  2681. I can’t wait. I was in the Apple store yesterday and goggled this site on an iPad. Even the salesman was impressed with the possibilities of this tablet.

  2682. While my expectations may be high, I think you guys will pull it off. Have you seen the poor excuses for interfaces that have shown up in other android tables? You guys are going to set the gold standard!

    -Greg

  2684. hello brothers and sisters! =D
    after having problems posting in the blog, i reactivated using proxy, and am finally in the family.
    So everyone celebrating: have a nice nicholas-feast day tomorrow!

  2685. My wife has been hounding me for weeks to purchase an Ipad and I keep telling her to be patient, a better product from a better company is coming soon. Although I have been following the blog and the evolution of the website for weeks, I am disappointed that I will be treated as a second class citizen for not spewing my thoughts on this blog. I can’t hold her off much longer and she is getting quite a kick out of the “keep it in the family” mentality. I’ll probably just go ahead and purchase her an Ipad now and I will continue to be patient and wait for my turn to purchase an Adam because I just seem to love the abuse. lol 🙂

  2686. I’m totally excited for this to come out. I wasn’t so interested in the whole tablet concept at first, but I’ve had a change of heart about it. I’m sure I won’t need all the power Adam offers to read books. But, why settle for less?

    As soon as I can order (and pay) I’ll be buying one of these.

  2687. Wow just saw the video of that tactile touch technology. Teals touch would make an awsome and plausible addition to the adam. And as far as I know that and the pixel qi screen would make the debue device for two awsome new screen technologies.

  2689. avid follower of your tablet. i’ve been telling everyone in los angeles about your product… haven’t commented just due to the volume of comments and everything had already been said but since there’s a chance to get in on it early, i’m in… like i said, huge fan and waiting to get one in my hands since april… held off on the ipad just for the adam… appreciate all your hard work.

  2690. rohan the only way to do preorder since there will probably only be like 500 family people is have everyone preorder with an email, then just go through and enter those emails in and people that match up just put them as high priority or just have those shipping labels print first. something like that cuz to post you need an email, and u have access to all those.

  2693. I agree with a # of folks – didn’t bother commenting – although did keep up with the blogs and news once every two weeks. Will just have to wait until the chance to order Adam.

  2696. I am also one of the silent majority, who loves to sit back and digest all the blog comments and ideas. I will be gutted after all this time faithfully following your every blog and waiting on Adam being born that I will miss out on the main gig and am unable to pre order…..Such a shame.

  2699. In March, LG will introduce LG Pad….10 inch tablet with Android 3.0. So it will be interesting to see how fiercely market before LG Pad comes out. We all know that LG has the big marketing money to squash small competitors.

  2700. Looking forward to playing with one in the flesh. Hope it’s not going to be difficult for us to get hold of one down in New Zealand.

  2701. Awww man. I’ve been loving this for so long, even putting down the ipad owner in the house telling him adam will be amazing. I did vote in the colour thing and I submitted some logos for fun but I can’t remeber if I posted and I don’t know how to check.

    looking forward to the release so bad! good luck and god’s speed!

  2704. I’m moving in the other direction. With this blog, Rohan is developing a Reality Distortion field of his own. My tradition of waiting for v2.0 of any device might be not last. I have been able to resist buying an eReader but it looks like the Adam will have multiple innovative (and useful) features beyond just the PixelQi Screen.

  2705. Suspense is right!! Yet my will is strong. Laurence Parris here and I’ve been following for a short while but this my first post. I’d love to get be part of the family and help support in through the come up. I’m ready to show mine off to the world!!

  2707. The many references to Tesla certainly suggest wireless power/charging. . . .Maybe the ability to charge just being in your office/study?

    Please don’t forget the notion ink Facebook fans!

  2709. Hey. I put comments and followed you on Facebook. I don’t think I left any on here though. Will I still get first dibs?

  2710. Rohan & Team,
    Great job thus far. Good luck with FCC and we cant wait to get our hands on this device.

    Ram

  2711. I have been a long time lurker here, but it looks like we are getting really close. I really hope the preorder opens on the 9th, as that is my birthday and the wife gave me the go ahead for the adam!

  2715. I have been following the news for your Notion Adam ink for some time now. Hope that it truly becomes available this year. Very interesting specs and features.
    Am holding off on a tablet until yours launches.

    Ed

  2717. Missed this post due to exams. Bilss sounds heavenly. 😛 Eagarlt awaiting the release of the adam. Is it gonna be a December release or a Jan release?

  2718. I guess the only thing holding me to order this tablet when it comes is wondering whether it will one day be compatible with Android Honeycomb…Might still jump on board though…Too tech addicted for my own good.

  2719. I did following the wordpress blog for 2 months now. And I am looking forward to the next blog post about the notion ink adam. It is really nice everything notion ink have made.

    Good luck and waiting on the next blog of today.

  2721. Will you be selling in Australia?

    I have been watching this website for 2 months now, waiting patiently here.

  2722. I’m very happy, and I wait with great interest the release of the tablet.
    are hungry for news, sorry for bad English
    greetings from italy to all

  2723. do you think guys we will able to get it before the Xmas?
    I can not wait more, think to get the Viewsoinc G-tablet!
    this NI Adam take ages …….!

  2725. Wow! I am impressed. I started following Notion Ink and its Adam a year ago. It did not appear to be anything groundbreaking at the time, except it looked like a tablet, and a slick one. Checking from time to time, every fortnight or so, then less regularly as so-called competitotrs like the joojoo got caught in more press releases than work…

    And then I finally catch and Wow! reviewing the various posts make the wait hardly bearable. I am sorry for those who followed diligently. They must have lost some sleep on this 🙂

    Anyway, It’s 2:44am here; I am working late tonight, and wondering whenever I take a break what time the news will come 🙂

    Looking forward to what’s coming.

  2727. Woahh.,…gr8 news :)!
    it would a nice idea to couple the Pre-booking with steeping discounts for the loyal followers(commenters, EAP registered ppl) 🙂

  2728. Wow I am so excited…. guess i should have posed before now 😦 My wife think i am crazy for how excited i am. I will b on your website fist thing the day you go live for those of us that did not post before now! UGH so mad at myself

  2729. Excellent Post!

    Will NI have its own case/portfolio?

    Anyone hear of any good options that will fit the dimensions?

  2730. I’ve been telling everyone about the Adam and what it can do… they all think it is too good to be true, but they don’t know the power of Notion Ink! Can’t wait!!

  2731. Does anybody know if it will have a kickstand. I thought I had read that some time ago. Can’t wait. Hope santa is listening….

  2732. I’m very happy, and I wait with great interest the release of the tablet.
    are hungry for news, sorry for bad English
    greetings from italy to all and i hope for pre-order!!!

  2733. I may not be part of the selected bloggers, but for a long time i am following this Blog. Hope that it is to be released soon so I can order one.

    Till now i have not seen a better tablet.
    Great job guys, keep on with it and please open orders as soon as possible .

  2739. I have been waiting on this tablet since it was first announced! All my friends with the iPad tell me that I am crazy, but I just keep updating them with the new information and looking forward to the release!

  2740. I’ll have to gift myself on this one, as my wife just doesn;t get my gadget need! This one will actually be useful in many ways. Getting ready to return to school for my PhD and will be teaching part time as well. Looking forward to integrating the Adam into the process.

  2741. The details identify usb 2.0 ports. Is there any future consideration for USB 3.0 for faster connections or is it constrained by the android os.

  2743. I’ve been trolling for a while and can’t wait for the Adam to come out, it certainly seems as if it will beat anything on the market hands down.

    here’s one question though….will you be able to run android marketplace?

    Someone please let me know.

  2744. I received an iPad as a gift; but, I really like Android better. I’ve been waiting for the release of ADAM forever, can’t wait to give the iPad to a friend and buy the ADAM.

  2745. Rohan said you can use the cardboard box it comes in as a stand. Some 2-3 weeks ago, maybe.

  2746. It is evident that the whole idea of providing the pre order benefit for the real admirers is gone.
    Anyways, it is a positive sign that the reach is going heights.

  2748. I’m very excited about your product! I’ve been watching and learning about it for well over a year now! I hope to be one of the first in Ohio to own your tablet. I also work in academia..and the day I get my tablet, I will be calling a meeting on campus to demonstrate it…as well as champion the idea as a possible table to start evaluating as an offer for our students (we have close to 30,000 students) to use as well. I’m very very very stoked!

    I also think that the way you have handle the communication, as well as offering input from people around the world during your product development truly shows your commitment to your success! Tablet technology is one of the most important innovations along the way in changing the way the world thinks technology wise. Your product will serve as a new benchmark for all others that follow! The Adam by design is far more superior than the iPad.

    I’m a huge fan, and ready to buy soon as we are able!

  2749. Hola,
    Los saludo desde Argentina!!, estoy muy ansioso por poder probar esta tableta, todos me dicen que me compre la Ipad… pero NO, desde que salio la primera vez la noticia de esta estoy como loco esperandola.

  2751. Anxious and excited, all at the same time. Kinda like a first kiss… but with Android. So it’s better..ish.

  2756. The specs for this tablet look great – I love the idea of being able to install ChromeOS when it comes out, and/or update to new versions of Android quickly. I noticed that the developer section of the website does not show anything at this point – do you know when anything is expected to be revealed there?

  2762. Unbelievable Rohan! Your eye for detail and knack for design really come out in this post! Good luck!

  2766. Binary Counter on Website says 10….

    2 days left for the launch I believe 🙂

    Adam will eat Apple once for all 🙂

  2769. Hi Rohan & Team

    I just came across the first demo of Android 3.0, Honeycomb at the Dive Into Mobile conference by none other than Google’s Andy Rubin. He also showed a proto of unreleased Motorola tablet running Honeycomb.

    http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/20101206/googles-andy-rubin-dives-into-android/

    I would really appreciate if you could let us know answers to following questions:

    1. If I buy Adam running Gingerbread, will I be able to upgrade to Honeycomb later? OR would you make it available only in Adam 2?

    2. How do you plan to optimize, customize Adam for Honeycomb – considering the fact that it will be the first distro optimized to work with tablets (and looking at the demo, it seems to be a huge improvement & a breakthrough).

    3. Can I get fully and successfully upgrade from Adam + Android 2.3 to Android 3.0 when it becomes available?

    I would be really thankful if you could answer these questions for myself and fellow Adam Fans.

    Thanks & Regards
    Harsh

  2774. I have been chasing through internet about Adam and believe that this is “THE THING” and definitely going to change the wholeTablet market.

    Good to see someone really taking up the big guys and coming out with very new and innovative features.

    Gr8 work and waiting to grab one!!

  2779. I have been following your posts for two months now after discovering I have a real need for a tablet/pad styled computing option. I refused to buy an iPhone and fell in love with my Android phone as soon as i bought it, so when I started looking for a “pad” I knew I’d have to do my research. It didn’t take long and I have been following along ever since.

  2780. That wasn’t supposed to send yet…

    I know I have other friends who have been counting the days as well. I cannot wait for this to finally be released!!! I must say that I find that I am sad that because I didn’t comment “this is awesome” or anything of the sort (which is nothing new to you) so I will not be a part of the early pre-order category. 🙂 Hopefully there will be enough in production that I won’t have to wait too long.

  2783. I attempted to post yesterday and never did see it but want to make sure you get me in your “pre order” list as I’ve been following you for at least 4 months now…

  2785. Been following this for some time. Posting in hopes of making it on the preorder list.

  2788. Rohan please give me any date…… even a false one will work for me…. i just cant wait anymore…. 😦

  2789. dude i’m waiting for Adam since 2009 when i first saw your interview on a news channel…. I bet you know that its a long long waiting….. so please give us a favor by giving us a date… I think i’m having a nervous breakdown…. 🙂

  2790. I think comments are off or gone wonky. None of mine showed up yesterday. I have been following the Pixel Qi screen from the beginning and Adam as soon as it appeared on the radar with it. Hopefully I will finally get a chance to see one at CES next month or before they add me to the preorder list.

  2792. I am SO excieted for the Adam. I sure hope that it comes in time for next semester!

  2794. CPU Hot Plug would essentially be able to shut the CPU off entirely upon low battery state, when the screen is off.. correct? That sounds very interesting.

  2797. I am also interested in seeing the Adam pre-orders. It looks like a really slick device, my concern is that they have a good marketing program. I would hate for it to fail because of marketing like the turbografix 16

  2801. I’ll second this request…With phones it has proven true that those with skins (like htc sense) take longer to get updates. Will this be the case here?

  2803. Hey Rohan,

    I am love the way you post in the blog, I enjoy reading everybit. I would love to preorder and would like to know how.

    Best Luck for the launch…!!

  2804. Well according to the binary counter now at 1, it should be in the next 24h, at least as pre-order…

  2805. I wonder on which time zone “1” will become “0” 🙂 Counter counter…

  2806. Just bring it on already. I was hoping for a X-Mas gift for myself, but it looks like a Q1/Q2 2011 release I’m afraid 😦

  2807. I have been trying to figure out those riddles that have to do with the unannounced special feature. I am hoping it will be AM/FM radio receiver since I listen to Coast to Coast every night. It would make sense since the iPod has a built in FM radio. I just hope Notion Ink would go the extra mile to out do them with AM and FM. AM radio has been around for a little over a century and Tesla held the first patent for that technology so maybe so huh? Just a guess.

    Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter “S”, telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message in 1902.

    Nikola Tesla
    In addition to Marconi, two of his contemporaries Nikola Tesla and Nathan Stufflefield took out patents for wireless radio transmitters. Nikola Tesla is now credited with being the first person to patent radio technology; the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943 in favor of Tesla.

  2814. Have been waiting for this release for months. i usually don’t posts on blogs, but the possiblity of being able to pre-order early just made me do it. Thanks for all the good work you guys have done. good luck !

  2819. I am right there with you Paul! I’ve been following this product since August of this year and am very excited about it. I know that there is interest in this product at one of the local universities here in South Carolina and I will be reviewing it’s potential for use in the clinic where I am a director. But most importantly, I just can’t wait to get my hands on it for my own personal use!

  2820. I’m so excited, i just can hide it….
    Show me the tablet and make me scream…..
    Please take me to the pre-ordering!

  2822. Whereabouts are the team in Europe?
    Do we have an opportunity to see the unit or the team tell us more about the tablet?

  2825. Dear Rohan,
    I have follow the blg and sent via email my interest to be considered in the members list but have no response yet. Hope this one gets to you, I also sent this comment in another post. I’m looking forward fo Andrew to be realeased, Friday is my B-day and I was hoping that Andrew could be the Best B-day present ever!. That goes for Christmas too :-).
    Best Regards,
    Myra.

  2826. Incredible journey…… reminds me all of the pains I experienced as part of a start up team… keep up the great work. Way to go!! Cheers to Rohan and more importantly the team and all the people behind the scenes to make this a reality

  2827. This looks sweet. A real Android! Lets bring it to market already, so we can get our hands on this.

  2830. “We can probably expand the system for those who post on this one”

    Here’s hoping 🙂

  2831. Can’t wait! Hopefully I will be on the pre order list, I’ve been following for a long time, 7 months, and posted a couple times but just signed up now. Here’s to hoping!!

  2833. The only thing which bothers me as an indian is the quality of indian products. The last thing i would want to hear about adam is its inferior quality in terms of material and plastic used. more over it should not come out as a replica of ipad with a few added features as china does with things lasting for a week or two and then not working at all, turning out to be a dumb machine leaving the buyer with a feeling of being cheated. I am myself waiting for adam’s tablet . Would feel proud as an indian if it beats ipad.
    best of luck guys……. 🙂

  2834. where can i find the models and their respective specs along with the price? pls specify about the material used (glass,plastic etc) also how good the touch is going to be in comparison to ipad ? thank u

  2842. looking forward to get one for myself 🙂 ………..plzzzzz include me and provide the required links to purchase one

  2843. I’m Super Excited about this—and now I’ll be glued to my e-mail until my turn to order is available. All books, and my laptop will be removed from my backpack, and depending on how well I can use it as a sketchbook. . . maybe that too.

    I just feel like my life is lightening.

    And yet it can do so much more!

    I’m so glad that I went against my Lurking Ways and got involved in the conversation here at the blog early on.

  2844. oh my…ohhh myyyy… how can i get one…?? i am from the Philippines and i want an adam…. sooooo bad..

  2851. January 6?, thats nearly a month away. The more I think about it after I read the comments on the slashgear post from niranjanrao, what are we getting? We have no live shots of the final device, no video reviews, nada. Why send off $400 or more for something that has not *proven* to be real yet? Its almost as if they are using this pre-order thing to gain working capital to build these over the next month. I still want one, I just think we are getting the cart before the horse.

  2853. I’m not worried about the January 6 shipping date. I’m a student and need it for next term, which starts January 10!

  2857. Ahw yeah that is so true why didn’t I bring that up. good job!
    That dude is smart 😛 Watch Rohan little smile xD when he tries to face him.
    “so is NI then able to recognise objects as well?” ^^ (Though again, what is the benefit of that)

    🙂

  2858. Got mine… ! (PA-USA).. Now.. To decide what to do? I have another 2 hours till my Time to order Starts…
    Gamble the $500.00 and Hope that it is what it can be..or no..? I feel that I trust this company.. Arrgg.. It goes against alll I know..

  2859. Then you be their marketing!

    I’m mentioning it to everyone I know. Probably going to walk around with it for a long time when I get it (probaby would have anyway, considering it’s a new portable toy =P)

  2861. Not sure if anyone saw this, but I don’t remember ever hearing Pink Floyd sing ‘Baby, Baby, Baby, Ohh’ 🙂

  2865. @ Rohan TWO Suggestions to help manage the community better:

    [1] Ask people to subscribe to twitter and post updates to twitter stream
    [2] Use Disqus comments plug-in for managing comments

  2866. The rumor is that the investor is a giant Indian conglomerate …so I don’t think they will h have any cash issues….The pre-order is more likely for gauging the demand – figure out how many units to manufacture in the first batch…my guess (without playing with any numbers) the break even would be just around 100 thousand units or may be even less, which I think they can easily achieve in less than a year…hope they learn from their mistakes and execute their plans like world class company..

  2867. It cant be real, it cant be real that a guy that owns such an important company does not post on his blog explaining what happens. I think he may be dead by now. Apple is a big company.

  2869. Everyone stopped comenting during 2 hours? wow this is 6.51 pm here, Perú, dont know why at 5.20 is my coment being realized. -5 gmt

  2871. ordered! open to everyone now, i did not get pre order email.. front page changed!

    had no issues ordering, ordered with amex!

    good luck

  2872. Prepare:

    Backlit LCD, Wifi only

    Ships 6 to 8 weeks

    $375.33

    Backlit LCD, Wifi + 3G

    Ships 6 to 8 weeks

    $425.33

    Pixel Qi LCD, Wifi only

    Ships 6 to 8 weeks

    $499.45

    Pixel Qi LCD, Wifi +3G

    Ships 6 to 8 weeks

    $549.99

    Plus $50.00 Shipping on all.

  2875. From ordering page:

    “You may cancel your order any time before the device ships, subject to a 5% cancellation charge.”

    “Notion Ink holds no responsibility for the shipments delayed or lost due
    to unforeseen & unavoidable reasons arising due to Man Made or natural
    circumstances.”

    Basically, NI can hold your order indefinitely. Sure, you can cancel if you fine paying them 5% cacel fee. What a deal.

    I guess now I know why other tablets with actuall presence and support in US cost so much more.

  2879. Hm, according to suite101.com tablets are duty free, HS code 8471.30.01.00

    So the cost is: ADAM+$50 shipping+ GST/VAT

    Still 180 days warranty on baterries and only 1 year on the tablet is disapointing. In addition, every time you have a problem you pay $50 for shipping + $9

  2880. Oh well oredered mine but sooooo annoyed! I never got my pre order email even though i hads previous mails telling me i would. I feel its so unfair! I have been following Adam for a year- posted well over 100 times on the blog:( Anyone else the same? It says shipping wont start for 6-8 weeks which is ages:( very annoying/sad day 😦

  2881. Wow just looking around the net and Notion Ink is getting some really bad press. It looks so bad i am actually worried about my order now!

  2882. this is a big joke.

    global pricing?
    does not make sense unless NI is ready to bear all taxes and duties.

    $549 = Rs29999/- as per their conversion… you guys are charging around 20% more for conversion? and +5% we would have to pay for mastercard…

    This is too much for a product without any review. Im sticking with Viewsonic G-Tablet.

  2883. For better or worst, I just ordered two Adams without an issue with my visa debit card.

    Had to go through the process for each order, but received confirmation number as well as an email from ccavenue detailing the transactions.

    ***NOTE TO ROHAN***

    Despite being disappointed in the promises of allowing logo designers a “steep discount” on your product, I have payed FULL price for two Adam’s. I have faith in the upcoming product and hope that you will deliver on your claims.

    I have defended Adam to the last and decided to put my money where my mouth is, I hope the company you’ve so dearly portrayed here will benefit from OUR FAITH in the future.

    Once again,
    Here’s to a successful launch,

    Send2Dev.

  2884. Ok Guys, What exactly, are the benefits of pre-ordering? I was going to pre-order then I was like, why? Why not just wait? Is there some great discount or perk if you order early?

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