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Tablet Newspaper (1994)

Matt Novak

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This 1994 concept video from Knight Ridder demonstrates a vision for a touchscreen tablet newspaper, later used as prior art in patent litigation.

paleofuture.com/blog/2007/5/14/tablet-newspaper-1994.html This video was originally uploaded to Google Video on May 13, 2007. Looking at the newspaper of the future from 1994.

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What people say. Recommended as historical prior art showing that rectangular touchscreen tablets with rounded corners existed long before the iPad.

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For the interest - video of the Knight Ridder Newspad (from 1994!), that was used as a prior design by the court. Very interesting, if a little too talkative link to this video

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On “What Happens to Tablets in Europe if Apple Wins in Germany?”

There are many devices which look very similar to the iPad dating back to at least as far as the first series of Star Trek. And there's this electronic newspaper from 1994... link to this video

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On “US Judge denies Apple request to block Samsung tablet sales”

Judge also considers Fidler/Knight Ridder work from 1994 on tablets as prior art and believes overall value of Apple's design patents reg. tablets is rather low. see 1994 video at link to this video (from 2:21 you have your rectangular screen with rounded corners as a functional tablet from 1994)

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On “A device with a touchscreen and few buttons was obvious”

Few buttons, PDA. Tablet with news, Knight Ridder tablet. link to this video Icons finger sized in a grid. Well given we already had desktops, and given it's a handheld device, then it's insanely obvious to have fewer icons in a grid at finger size. Low resolution screen compared to our desktops, hey maybe we should have fullscreen as the default. Pinch to zoom, multiple sci-fi movies. Slide to unlock. Phones already had something called "unlock', and physical bolt locks already slide... So we make a visualisation of what amounts to a sliding latch when when have the touch screen, pure genius, nobody besides Apple could have thought of that, right? "Trade Dress" to stop competitors should also be entir…