Why are necessary the tablets - like the Apple rumor one.
My friends and relatives, in these dates plenty of gifts always specs that you (as a geek) can inform (or have) about the newest tech gadgets... This year I doesn´t buy anything "special" and many people ask me why this. The reason I'm waiting for the Apple Tablet ( http://is.gd/5EosX ) Off corse I want it, one reason I think that feels a part of my digital life that the iPhone or the Laptop can resolve well, is a "wearable" display that is not a phone. But I'm not going to talk about this personal uses; I think this kind of device has some characteristics that makes it special for new kind of human-machine interfaces. First that all I'm thinking in people with some kind of disease that restrain, impede or hamper verbal communication or locomotion. I'm thinking in paraplegics, product of strokes, or other kinds of brain illness. Like the recent case of Rom Houben ( http://is.gd/5EovD ); in the study of Schnakers et.al. ( http://www.biomedcentral.c...