I was commenting last month in this forum about Stanley Kubrick's
classic "
2001: A Space Odyssey" with respect to how the interiors of the Shuttle
cockpit, circa 2011, compares with the interior of the fictional Orion Pan-Am Clipper
shuttle, which was created for the movie during its production circa 1966-1968.
See
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...54&postcount=9
As I commented at the time, keep in mind that when the film was made,
computer graphics, let alone on colored monitors, is nearly non-existent and Kubrick
employed animators to create by hand what is designed to appear to be computer
graphics on various displays.
I
n an article today by Asher Moses in the Sydney Morning Herald, Samsung have cited
a scene out of
2001: A Space Odyssey as being used as a prior art defense
against an alleged violation of a design patent by Apple for the design form of the iPad.
Apple had won temporary injunctions preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab
10.1 in Europe and Australia and a similar case is running in the U.S.
In
2001: A Space Odyssey, the astronauts aboard the Jupiter-bound
Discovery spacecraft are seen using thin computer tablet devices whilst eating
their meal. See
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo
Sydney Morning Herald article here -
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/t...824-1j931.html
The article by Moses does have a factual error, where it is suggested that Arthur C.
Clarke's book of "
2001: A Space Odyssey" inspired the Kubrick film. In actual fact,
a short story by Clarke entitled "
The Sentinel" was expanded to form the basis
for both the movie and book which were created at the same time.
However, in the article by Moses, the following interesting lines are quoted from the book -
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Arthur C. Clarke. 2001 A Space Odyssey
"When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug in his foolscap-size newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers…Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort."
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It may be many more years until we see a patent dispute over technology anywhere
near as advanced as 2001's HAL.
Samsung - Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey" prior art to iPad
