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 * Tablet Computing**

**Overview**
Tablets are lightweight portable computers like as iPads, kindles, and galaxy tablets. They are a cross between a laptop and a notebook. Typically the sizes of a thin book, tablets usually are 7 to 8 inches wide, by 9 to 10 inches and weigh about 2 to 3 pounds. They have the ability to wirelessly connect to the internet and can be accessed by a stylist or tapping the touch screen. Some even come with a detachable keyboard. They use the same operating system as laptops and have the ability to download special applications and games. Tablets are used in various fields in the world such as business, education, and entertainment.

Business **Impacts**
Companies also use tablets to enhance their business. Many employers are providing tablets to workers to use in the workplace. Tablets are cheaper then laptops and allow users to read reports and take notes. Businesses can also buy apps to manage sales, take inventory, organize their day, and sell their product. Companies also create their own apps to just sell their product. Popular companies such as YouTube, Facebook, ESPN, CNBC, and Webster Dictionary are all examples. Companies can also advertise their products through other apps. Pandora, a radio app, does this. While music is playing they have ads and short thirty second commercial breaks in-between music.Tablets are an important liability to businesses.

**Educational Impacts and the Future**
Tablet computing in educations has taken a much bigger step as it has in the world. Not only has it affected the people of the worlds, but also, how students learn and look at their criteria they work on in school. According to chemistry teacher at the Ohio State University, Matthew Stoltzfus, had said that he could never get his students to see chemistry the way he sees chemistry without adding a digital component to his lesson plan. Just this one example, shows that students immediately become somewhat interested when an interactive element is introduced. Stoltzfus also stated that students won’t just see a chemical equation on the blackboard, but with something that is digital, interactive and even handheld; they will see a “bucket of different elements and molecules” as he, does. With surveys done with students learning with and without interactive elements, students learn better, and are proven to have a more enjoyable time, according to [|**www.wisegeek.com**]**__. __**

**Entertainment Impacts**
Tablet computing has had an effect on our entire social structure, especially entertainment. Without apps, tablets would literally be nothing. Whether the apps that are pre-downloaded (videos, music, email, etc.), or apps that you can download from the tablet store (Facebook, twitter, angry birds, etc), they make tablet computing what it was mainly made to be: fun and entertaining. With iPhones and other types of revolutionary smart phones just being introduced, they had everything almost everything a tablet has, not counting phone and texting. So you have a smart phone that carries communication systems, entertainment systems, games, books, movies, etc. So manufacturers who had previously designed the smart phones, wanted to design something revolutionary—again. With not just a bigger screen, better quality, a bigger amount of space for memory, etc. they were being used for so many everyday things, that in a way, changed our society.

**What are Apps?**
A mobile app is a software program you can download and access directly using your phone or another mobile device, like a tablet or smartphone. If you have a tablet or other mobile device, you use apps to play games, get directions, access news, books, weather, and whatever else you want. Some apps are distributed for free through app stores.The developers make money in a few ways, some sell advertising space within the app. The app developers can earn money from the ads, so they distribute the app for free to reach as many users as possible.Some apps offer their basic versions for free. Their developers hope you’ll like the app enough to upgrade to a paid version with more features. Some apps allow you to buy more features within the app itself. Usually, you are billed for these in-app purchases through the app store. The apps keep on getting better and better and they are improving the way that we live our lives.

**Other Tablets**
Many companies have tried, and failed, to create successful tablets until Apple came out with the iPad. The iPad was so successful that other most other IT companies were forced to create similar products just to compete with the iPad. The tablet allows the user access information instantly, interact and share data from almost anywhere, onto the Web. After the iPad came out, other companies such as Amazon and Samsung were forced to make their own tablets. Samsung created their own tablet on the same year as the iPad, the Galaxy Tab. Other tablets include the Motorola Xoom, Blackberry Playbook, Toshiba tablet and Kindle Fire.

Innovation
Tablets can really connect to innovation. Innovation is a new method, idea, or product. First tablets will used for education. They are are a quick and easy was to take digital notes. They have WiFi and 3G, so you can get online anywhere. They have a calendar management and you can also record auto and the ability to read books on the iPad. In Washington D.C, schools are switching from the old fashion textbook to the tablets. "We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools' chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. In Austin, more than 2000 iPads have been distributed, costing about 1.2 million dollars. The iPads can help people that speak foreign languages. Tablets are also very portable. You can get more freedom as an artist when drawing on iPad. There is a lot of personal preferences on tablets. It is a great tool for a lot of tasks. 27% of middle schools and 35% of high schools now use digital textbooks. It is about time for a change in our middle school and high school so we can be up to date with other schools.

Tablets of the Future
In the future tablets will be a lot more complex and interesting. Instead of the same old tablet shape they will be able to become slimmer, even paper like. Ongoing innovations in nanotechnology, including nanowires made of copper, could lead to flexible newsreader tablets that will be able to fold like paper. In the future tablets will also have the ability to interact with wireless sensors worn or implanted in a users body. They would also interact with sensors in the environment allowing it to weather information. In the future tablets might even be able to detect if you are going to have a heart attack, before you even see the symptoms. In the future tablets will probably be able to powered in a different way, solar power. A panel would be placed on the tablet which would allow for your tablet to be powered by light energy.

Tablets and Education
Tablets will influence education in many ways. For new people coming into the country and don't know English can use tablets for language functions. Tablets can also be used in art classes. They can be used in art classes because it allows students to draw on the tablet which allows more freedoms for the artist. Instead of wasting paper to draw on a tablet you can reuse it over and over again, and if you like one of your works you can just save it on the tablet. Instead of textbooks tablets will be used. Tablets are lightweight, portable, and can store many textbooks. Students won't have to lug heavy textbooks around. Also for students who don't like to read their textbooks, the tablet will be able to read to them which will help people understand concepts better. Tablets reading aloud will also help children who don't understand words that well. Also the tablets are interactive which will help students who like to interact instead of just reading. Overall tablets are a great improvement to education.

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