<story><title>Samsung cites Kubrick&apos;s &quot;2001&quot; as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/samsung-cites-kubricks-2001-film-as-prior-art-defense-against-apples-injunction-request/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwolf</author><text>I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer.&lt;p&gt;I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is a challenge, but the basic outline does not seem to be hard to imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpeterso</author><text>Heck, Star Trek even called the tablet computer a &quot;PADD&quot; (Personal Access Display Device).&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Samsung cites Kubrick&apos;s &quot;2001&quot; as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple</title><url>http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/23/samsung-cites-kubricks-2001-film-as-prior-art-defense-against-apples-injunction-request/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rwolf</author><text>I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer.&lt;p&gt;I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is a challenge, but the basic outline does not seem to be hard to imagine.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>Off-topic slightly but the thing I loved about that was Picard would routinely have several on his desk as if other crew members had handed them to him with reports to review on.&lt;p&gt;So you invented the tablet computer but not cloud computing? Or even network file shares...</text></comment>