Notion Ink Adam software demo released. Exciting interaction

Many of us were concerned that the lack of a software demonstration of the adam, and the limited photos were a sign of either a delay or a non existent delivery of the Notion Ink Adam tablet. Today, Notion Ink delivered a YouTube video to one of their critics, the AndroidPolice blog and it’s available for viewing now. It does NOT dissapoint. This tablet out of the box looks like a powerhouse.

Below you’ll notice the interface is a fresh overlay of android, called Eden and it is a “Panel Engine”. Many original elements in the interface look very exciting. Browsing through applications has a coverflow style gesture and some of the apps work in panel form splitting the screen. A multi-panel screen might be slid left to right or back to expose more panels and there’s a nice springy indication when the last panel is reached.

Book reading of PDF looks as you would expect and has a very responsive multi-touch zoom feature. Other notable features, a tab switch for browsing, a convenient appointment book plus calendar and calculator all in one, the original email app called Mail’d, a crisp mapping app. And not to be understated a wireless USB mouse was plugged in and a cursor was mobile instantly. The advantages of this for presentations are huge. A graphic app called Canvas looked very sketchable and responsive – the caption indicated that it was also an image editor with effects and layers. Wow!

Omitted from this video was image browing, video viewing and it’s hard to tell, but file browsing in the system didn’t really get touched on. Despite this, the important things were hit. The GUI works and looks to work very well. People who have preordered are not going to be disappointed with seeing this finally. I’d say it’s as magic as the iPad any day, with a few bonuses that certainly make it a cut above.