Smithsonian "Kontrol Surface" KS-1974

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> Yeah, my son played with an iPad 2 that his therapist has, to learn how 
> a conversation works. You need to press a question or remark that is the 
> best (to either start a conversation or continue it), and then you 
> answer the question that the iPad asked. At the end, the app plays the 
> whole conversation, of what it said and the recorded voice. Seriously 
> cute - but I wonder if such a thing would be available on Android as well.
> 

Android currently has *serious* flaws in its audio subsystem design
(fixed soon) that have precluded doing serious audio-generating apps in
that environment.  This might change in a year, but in the meantime iOS
is dominating this field, technologically.  Android has a *lot* of
catching up to do ..


> Incidentally, yesterday I found out that I can use my Nokia E72 to have 
> the BD-player play a file on my PC, all via DLNA. And this is installed 
> by default no less.


I installed VLC from source on my iPad and can do all sorts of wild and
wonderful streaming things with it .. also, MAME-for-iOS + iControlPad
== amazing.  :)

Also, iPad supports MIDI devices and audio routing like no other device
out there in existence, bar none.

j.