"Do you like it?" I asked, knowing this was literally the first business day he'd begun using it.
"It's good," he said, "for what it is."
And as I looked around, I saw the usual high-definition TVs, but I also noticed a Canon hooked up directly to his microscope. "It takes great video," he told me.
I started to imagine the new digital clinic, all these gadgets applied in interesting ways to modern medicine. It's the iPad in particular that showed me the potential of tablets--as office tools for a more face-to-face office. Neither of us had to hunch over a screen or walk to another room. He simply brought the iPad over, I typed a few things, and he looked at a few images.
I'm imagining the future clinic, the future office, where the iPad is integrated seamlessly w/ desktop computers. The iPad becomes a second monitor most of the time, but when you want to edit an image with precision, you place it on your lap and doodle away. And when you want to show someone something, you can get up and show it to them at their desk, tablet in tow.
Sort of like this new Wacom Cintiq 21UX (tell me - why are non Apple products named so unappealingly?):
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