Days before CES 2013, a mysterious new tablet computer has emerged, along with a short film that gives us a brief look at the device. Apparently, the enchantMOON is some sort of “hypertext authoring tablet” designed for the creation of HTML5 content.
Specifically, enchantMOON is described as “a digitizer pen-driven tablet device designed to let anyone program and share HTML5 games, applications, and interactive publications without writing code.” Presumably, the tablet renders code using the Open Source enchant.js framework, since it appears they’re both coming from the same company, Ubiquitous Entertainment.
The concept sketches here by designer Yoshitoshi Abe doesn’t really tell us much about the tablet, other than the fact that it doesn’t look like any other tablet out there.
Nor does the early prototype photo taken here with Ubiquitious Entertainment CEO Ryo Shimizu:
Image: AV Watch
It’s got a science-fictiony look to it that makes it look like some sort of gadget out The Matrix, with a built in handle that can be used for carrying or as a stand. From an article over on Japan’s AV Watch [JP], I’ve gleaned that the tablet will have a magnesium alloy body, and a 7-inch screen. It will also have a minimal user white-on-black interface which is centered around the use of handwriting recognition and converting drawn images to vector art. Specs are sketchy at this point, but it appears that it will run on a ARM Cortex A8 CPU with a Mali400 GPU, with Android deep under the hood.
Image: AV Watch
And to go along with the Sci-Fi/Anime theme, they’ve created an enchantMOON short film series, inspired by Alduos Huxley’s Brave New World, and directed by Hiroaki Yuasa. Japanese film director and animator Shinji Higuchi (Evangelion, Gamera, The Floating Castle) is also involved in the project as “CVO” – Chief Visionary Officer. Gee, I’d like a title like that. I guess since I’m the boss, I can do that.
Here’s the first part:
And here’s part two:
Nope, still doesn’t tell us much about the tablet, but they’re definitely going after a part of the market that other tablet makers haven’t been too successful at – content authoring. I think my iPad is a stellar device for content consumption, but I’ll still take my desktop or laptop over it in a heartbeat for web development and authoring. I’m hoping that they’ve got something special up their sleeves, but if nothing else, they’ve piqued my curiosity.
We’ll have to wait a few days until CES starts to find out what all the mystery is about enchantMOON, but I’m definitely intrigued.
[CES 2013] The kind of names that different people can come up with these days for their products. I miss those moments when we called a speaker, well, just that – a speaker. Now we have audio clutches, and how about the Stellé Audio Pillar? Sheesh. As a rose would smell just as sweet by any other name, so too, does this speaker, er, Audio Pillar, sound. This $349 purchase will provide wireless connectivity to compatible audio playback devices thanks to the wonders of Bluetooth technology, although you have the option of hooking up to your music device over USB or with the included 3.5mm stereo input cable.
[CES 2013] VIZIO, today announced a record-setting holiday season with its LED2 Smart TV line-up. According to a VIZIO’s VP of Product Marketing, Lily Knowles, “As we celebrate our 10-year anniversary, we are thrilled to be ranked ‘Highest in Customer Satisfaction with HDTVs’ by J.D. Power and Associates. Thanks to the recognition of savvy consumers who count on VIZIO to deliver the best technology at the best value, we’re consistently a top-selling brand of LED HDTVs overall in the U.S. and are currently America’s #1 60+ inch HDTV company.”
[CES 2013] Just like how you do not come in between a Nazgul and its prey, so too, should you know better than to come between a lady and the handbag of her choice. Case in point, when you lay your eyes on the STELLÉ Rebecca Minkoff Limited Edition Clutch, you know that you are going to want one – or die trying, anyways. This stylish audio accessory will open itself up to deliver a world of rich and clear sound, despite coming in such a compact form factor. Touted to be a powerful Hi-Fi audio system, it will even be equipped with digital stereo Bluetooth connectivity, now how about that for sending audio wirelessly and seamlessly from any Bluetooth-enabled device?
