Did The iPad Kill Microsoft Courier tablet?

April 29, 2010 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

Microsoft’s Courier project was an exciting and fascinating concept. When it first appeared last year, the folding two-screen tablet was one of the most incredible things we’ve seen out of Redmond for a long time. Similar in concept to Apple’s Knowledge Navigator concept device, Courier used a combination of touch and pen-based computing to generate a lot of buzz and interest about what was going on in Microsoft’s labs. Read more…

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iPhone Home Screen Concept Becomes Reality

November 14, 2009 :: Posted by - SoSly :: Category - News

The Teehan+Lax iPhone home screen concept is about to become a reality thanks to saurik.

Initially the concept will materialize as a lockscreen widget via saurik’s new Cydget framework. Dubbed Element, a beta will hopefully be available by next week.

You can see from the screens it’s essentially just a scrollable list of applications and notifications. We envision it behaving in much the same way that the list view does in the Calendar application. Read more…

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