"The only to make this sound reasonable is..."
Editing error! I assume this was supposed to read "the only WAY to make this sound reasonable is..."

Looks like the typo has been corrected, making the previous posts seem confusing to anybody who sees the corrected story.
Damn you, Joystiq! You've made me look the fool for the last time!

He's like Darth Vader, only more emotionally disturbed.

Thanks for the recipe. I tried to make butter cookies before, but I didn't know there were more ingredients than just butter.

Little Red Riding Whore.

To paraphrase Fry from Futurama: Wouldn't a solid crystal speaker weigh hundreds of pounds and sound crummy?

@REP96st: I agree. And, contrary to what Stromm says, its "only claim to fame" wasn't that it used an optical disk storage. It was famous for it's graphics and sound. It had full motion video with real voices, sound effects and musical score. When you saw this in arcades alongside the sprite or vector graphics based games of the time, which had little more than bleeps & bloops for sound, it blew your mind. While it lacked in the amount of control the player had, that didn't stop people from coming back for more.
And, like it or not, it had a huge amount of influence on video games. In addition to pushing the limits of graphics and sound design, it also pioneered the use of what later became known as "quicktime events."

Well, I didn't look at the video til now. I guess some of what they're doing is trying to change the experience. But the core experience for most magazines is reading articles and looking at pictures, which can be done on websites just as well.
Why doesn't SI make their website look like this tablet concept? Apart from the touch interface, wouldn't that be possible? Instead of coming up with tech demos for devices that don't exist and will be too expensive to gain mass marketshare, they should try to deliver a better online experience for their website.

Y'now, I used to be of the mind that a tablet type device would be great for magazines. But these concepts are all just attempts to recreate the same experience as a paper magazine. Do we really need it? We have websites that deliver content much better than magazines do. They'll have to come up with something that innovates the magazine experience rather than just recreating it.

Hello, I like your pants.