(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_500x_tabletkamasutra__124_copy.jpg) (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_tabletkamasutra__124_copy.jpg)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.
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 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.
Read more: Tablet Sutra: How Are We Supposed to Hold This Thing? (http://gizmodo.com/5455844/tablet-sutra-how-are-we-supposed-to-hold-this-thing)