Dolphin Hates iPads
Posted in: Apple, ipad, Panasonic, Today's Chili
I don’t know how much stock you take in the opinions of cetaceans–if
you’re a Douglas Adams disciple, for example, odds are that you take their
opinions pretty seriously. And while he doesn’t claim to speak for a whole
species, Merlin the dolphin, a resident of Puerto Aventuras in Mexico, has come
down pretty firmly on the whole tablet debate.
Put simply, Merlin doesn’t care for the iPad.
The bottlenose had been using Apples tablet since June, identifying objects
on the screen by touching them with his nose, as part of the SpeakDolphin
project, an attempt to bridge the communication gap between dolphins and
mankind.
Merlin’s trainers decided to switch things up recent, seeing
which tablet the sea mammal prefers. The answer, as it turns out, is the
Panasonic Toughbook.
“He was more comfortable with the Toughbook experience,
which offered greater screen visibility and sensitivity,” DolphinSpeak
president Jack Kassewitz told the press. “We were able to hold the Toughbook
notebooks closer to the water and our bodies, which makes the dolphin more
comfortable and willing to interact and learn.”
The iPad may have the human market cornered at the moment,
but Panasonic has just opened up an entirely untapped demographic.
