A second video on Notion Ink Adam – a few additions

After the 1st video made the rounds today on the Notion Ink Adam, the Eden interface, a 2nd video was released to the Notion Ink Blog, which we’ve embedded below. Today’s blog posts discusses that though they had hoped to keep it under wrap, it was something they had to release early.

Rohan has been managing 60 developers doing long hours to get the software where it needs to be. Though it might not appear dead to perfection in the demo, it’s definitely great and we know incremental updates will smooth things out. A unique software design such as this isn’t going to appeal to everyone. People have their habits and expectations, BUT many of us are excited about the change of pace and the multi-panel view is something new and may end up being more productive. Time and comparison testing will tell. I’m happy it went this direction.

We’ve also been informed that we can expect a new video every day until CES. That’s on January 6-9. So almost 20 videos before then! If that doesn’t satisfy people like me who have been begging for a view of the real deal, nothing else will. We’ve now seen the on-screen keyboard in this new video and the view of the tablet in Reflexive (no backlight) mode in the Pixel Qi screen. This is essentially the epaper view, though remember that this screen is always a much better refresh rate, it just has the advantage of a sharp epaper mode. That’s the magic of the Pixel Qi screen that people have been so interested in it for. Because it spans the tablet / ereader technology.

What’s left? Well we still want to see some pretty photo browsing, maybe some video chatting, and playing a video. I suggested to Rohan in the blog to grab some demo videos from the Blender Sintel, Big Buck Bunny, or Elephant’s Dream project as they are free to use videos for just this occasion. No reason to risk copyright infringement by playing something from Hollywood. I’d like to see a few documents being opened like Word, Excel, ODF, slideshows, and some flash, maybe an Adobe Air app such as Tweetdeck!