{"id":227624,"date":"2010-01-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5455844"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T15:00:00","slug":"tablet-sutra-how-are-we-supposed-to-hold-this-thing-apple-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/227624","title":{"rendered":"Tablet Sutra: How Are We Supposed to Hold This Thing? [Apple Tablet]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Speculation and guesswork aside, if Apple’s got a tablet, we need to know how to handle it, physically. So, with two pieces of cardboard, scotch tape and Photoshop, we crudely mocked one up. It was… unusual.<\/p>\n

Tablet PCs have been around for years, but they’ve got keyboard, ball-jointed necks and all manner of extraneous fixture and features. Smartphones are sort of like this new slate-like variety of tablet, only they’re too tiny. Buttonless, slick, slab-like tablets do<\/em> currently exist, but they’re rare, and no one has found the right software pairing to make them particularly versatile. A 10-to-11-inch tablet wouldn’t be totally new, but since none of us are really clear on how you’re supposed to handle it in real-world situations, we built our own.<\/p>\n

Here now, in the darkest, dingiest corner of the tech world’s favorite rabbit hole, we’ve performed a hands-on with our cardboard version of Steve Jobs’ mythical product. So, before it exists anywhere outside of our collective imagination, step into Tablet Sutra<\/a>, the at-times-awkward position-by-position walkthrough of tablet handling:<\/p>\n