Hilarious. There are at least five unofficial Star Trek tricorder apps to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a fake scanner. Beam me up Jobsie? The developers daren’t mention the name of the TV and film franchise, of course; presumably the word ‘tricorder’ hasn’t been copywrited to Paramount Studios, which is a surprising omission unless someone coined the term before the first series started to air in the 1960s. I don’t know. I bet there are Trek fans out there who do.

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The iPad was perhaps compromised in its development by the too costly pricing right now of one major component that would have made a big difference in how it was presented to us, and so we didn’t get an OLED screen that would have provided for less eye-strain when reading e-books. It was also compromised by the fact that Steve Jobs caved in to relentless pressure going back at least two years to produce a tablet computer, when his every instinct and conviction told him ‘not yet’. He should have listened to his own self.

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