Why We Need This Giant Tablet Computer

Posted on August 12, 2010
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The first thing everyone notices about the forthcoming tablet computer / ebook reader called Kno is that it’s ginormous. Each of its two 14.1″ screens is slightly larger than a regular A4 sheet of paper. The thing weighs five and a half pounds. Handling it is like cracking open a 15″ Macbook Pro (that happens to have a hinge that allows it to open completely flat on a table) sideways. It’s not the kind of thing you’re going to peruse on the subway – much less the couch.

But that’s not the point, says Osman Rashid, co-founder of the company Kno.

Backed by the likes of Marc Andreesen and Kno’s founders, who are veterans of other successful startups, the company certainly seems to be making all the right moves.