THE VIDEO SHELF · tablet design concepts
Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet
A short concept video of Microsoft's unreleased Courier, a dual-screen tablet designed as a digital notebook with clippings and annotation. It was first leaked by Gizmodo in 2009.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats it as a gold-standard concept demo and a what-might-have-been for dual-screen and digital notebook devices.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Neowin
- Topic
- tablet design concepts
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'm not sure if anyone remembers the Microsoft Courier tablet demo, which came out before iPad's announcement: [VIDEO] This video left me with a strong impression of future general computing usage patterns. It has also been my personal gold standard of a superb video demo. …
widgetycrank on Hacker News · 2011-02
In The Next Six MonthsI thought the Courier was a great idea not just for the dual screens but the software as well the scraps and notes seemed like a great idea. [VIDEO]
dhughes on Hacker News · 2013-08
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Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.