The Tablet as Nexus
The tablet really presents a welcome addition in the spectrum of our personal electronic devices. As shown in this video about Fatsarazzi using the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a tablet can be used as a nexus for our media activity and instruments. This can really increase the range of artistic or other endeavors. Devices that give greater ease of use can spur greater inspiration. That means inovations as well as more people feeling free to explore what they can do. For example, my office gave a tablet to our boss who was retiring. He loves it and is really using it many ways that is enhancing his life. Recently widowed, he's really glad to have videocalling on his tablet and the freedom of movement with it. He can more easily take it with him, around his house or garden, or out and about, than he could his laptop. He also uses it to listen to music. A really wonderful development is that he has decided to write his memoirs, and is using his tablet to combine his notes and images for the project. I half wonder if the idea for the memoirs might have been prompted by the possibilities that the tablet opened up for him!
Having ease of use, control, and access of our media can be really freeing. I will always love and respect paper and pen, actual books made with paper, and movies in cinema houses…but the freedoms that arise from a device like the tablet are truly amazing and inspiring. What do the possibilities inspire you to explore or create? I hope you enjoy finding out! After all, the history of portable electronics itself demonstrates how possibilities build on themselves.
