London-based interaction designer Crispin Jones has designed a PC for Poets — technically, it’s a UMPC (Ultra Mobie Personal Computer) and he did it for the Japanese tablet PC company PBJ.
Yesterday, I got a chance to attend 100% Design Tokyo, talk with Mr. Jones, hold the artifact in my hands, and also experience how it feels to use the special stylus — that was the most emotional part of my first interactive experience with this fully working device. (For those who are interested in 100% Design Tokyo, Pingmag has a series of articles on this and other relevant events.)
PCs for poets go beyond the purely utilitarian, much like suzuribako, the traditional Japanese writing boxes — Indeed, the design was partly inspired by suzuribako. So, that seems to explain why the stylus felt rather soft, giving me the impression of using a slightly hardened, elastic calligraphy brush.
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