A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

From iMat to iDesk: The Future of Engineering Appliance

From iMat to iDesk: The Future of Engineering Appliance
Oleg
Oleg
28 January, 2012 | 1 min for reading

What do you think about the future designer workspace? I assume some of my readers remember drawing board in multiple variation when it was a primary working place for engineer and designers.

However, time is running fast, and we probably need to think about the future of engineering workspace. Few years ago, Microsoft was talking about surface computer. I was monitoring recent CES event in Las Vegas and trying to find anything that can lead me to the future trends. 82 inch Gorilla-glass multitouch display was presented by Perspective Pixel. I didn’t find any engineering and design examples of such big-screen usage, but I can imagine them.

Now let me dream a bit about the future. I was laughing some time ago, when the following set of Steve Jobs pictures was published – iPhone, iPad, iBoard, iMat.

At the same time, things can become serious. Navigate your browser to the following article in MacLife. Rethink Apple- iDesk.

What is my conclusion? Thinking 10 years ago, it was hard to predict today’s computing realities. At the time when computers soon to become accessorizes (e.g. iWatchz), the future of iDesk for engineers can become a reality in 5-7 years. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
20 August, 2020

There is a new cool buzzword in the PLM universe called “low code”. If you didn’t hear about it yet,...

5 August, 2010

Six months ago, I posted “Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?“. After Google’s announcement about Google Wave termination...

1 April, 2019

There are endless debates about the scope and definition of PLM in the industry. One day I thought to collect...

16 September, 2013

Application integrations is a complicated topic. Especially when it comes to enterprise. I can confirm decades of different attempts to...

22 December, 2024

It is that time of the year again. As we are approaching the end of the year, I like to...

22 April, 2018

I enjoyed the discussion around the article I published earlier this week – Model-based confusion in 3D CAD and PLM....

30 August, 2010

I read the following article “Oracle v Google: Why?“. I found it as a very deep analysis of the latest...

23 July, 2020

PLM Sales is one of the topics, I have a special passion for blogging about. Some of my previous articles...

17 December, 2023

Selection of PLM technologies and software can be a daunting process. In a competitive market of PLM vendors, the decisions...

Blogroll

To the top