Clarke's NewsPad appearing in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the description of the Calculator Pad in the 1951 novel Foundation by Isaac Asimov, the Opton in the 1961 novel Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in Douglas Adams 1978 comedy of the same name, all helping to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience.
Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century, with the depiction of Arthur C. Another important enabling factor was the lithium-ion battery, an indispensable energy source for tablets, commercialized by Sony and Asahi Kasei in 1991.
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The rapid scaling and miniaturization of MOSFET transistor technology ( Moore's law), the basic building block of mobile devices and computing devices, made it possible to build portable smart devices such as tablet computers. The development of the tablet computer was enabled by several key technological advances. In addition to many academic and research systems, there were several companies with commercial products in the 1980s: Pencept and Communications Intelligence Corporation were among the best known of a crowded field. The first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting text recognition instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital computer dates to 1956. The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1914. The tablet computer and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and the development of tablets has deep historical roots.
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