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This is truly the way to the future for the average household.  Definitely the start into the SCI FI generation.  It is being touted as the “portable family hub tablet.”  It has been designed by ICD (Innovative Converged Devices).
This is most likely the largest touchscreen to date.  This mega creation is primarily aimed at sitting in the hub of your home, the kitchen.  This device will keep the entire family connected to each other no matter where they are, work, home, school, anywhere you may happen to be out in your daily life.  The shared family calender keeps track and automatically sends SMS text reminders to each family member as reminders for upcoming appointments, family dinners, or reminding hubby to pick up dinner.  It is the best way in the hectic lives we now lead to keep up with your family.  With the old way of everyone running around aimlessly trying to get everything done, this organizes everyones time and at the end of the day, everyone just may end up at the same time at the kitchen table for dinner.
The astonishing tasks this device can accomplish is fascinating.  Not only is it the new automated family bulletin board, but as it sits in your kitchen, it contains everything you have stuffed in drawers around your house.  Recipes are a finger tap away, favorite movies, favorite music, video, chats, games, FM radio, on demand TV, a phone, but warning, do not try to put it up to your ear, it might even put an end to “MOM, where’s the….?  We can only hope.
This device allows you to keep up with your social networking and web browsing all from the one place everyone eventually always ends up, the kitchen.
The ICD Vega is an Android 2.0 touchscreen device that supports High Definition entertainment and information devices, includes Wi-Fi, and FM tuner, 3G connectivity.  The Vega is powered by NVIDIA’s Tegra 250 chip, 512 megabytes of RAM and 512 megabytes of NAND flash, includes Bluetooth and 802.11b/g.  This has a sleek, mega screen, a 15.6-inch resistive screen with a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels.  The Vega tablet weighs only 45 ounces.
Other features include a built-in accelerometer, an ambient light sensor and a magnetic dock for charging and syncing the device. It combines ARM core, image processor, audio processor, graphics controller with ultra low power consumption, as well as a processor for video processing.  It includes a 1.3 MPixel camera with two noise-isolating microphones for better voice clarity, with a micro SD card for expandable storage.  It can last up to 4 hours running on battery only.
The concept for this innovational device was created from an extensive customer research base that icluded over 1,000 families and lasted 18 months.

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Richard Warmsley, Head of New Proposition Development, T-Mobile said: “We spoke to over 1,000 families who told us they often found it a hassle to organise a busy family life without nagging or forgotten appointments. They said that something simple and affordable to help with this would be invaluable. We took this as a challenge to do something new with technology that would be relevant to a wide range of customers, not just gadget lovers. We’re developing a fantastic package to meet exactly these needs – by creating a family communication network – using ICD’s exciting new Internet and entertainment tablet, with T-Mobile’s award-winning network at its heart. We look forward to bringing it to market later this year.”
“Bringing a high-end, well designed and engineered device to shelves at a mass market price has always been a Holy Grail for the consumer tech industry,” said David Hayes, CEO of ICD. “The close collaboration between T-Mobile UK, ICD and NVIDIA has allowed us to work quickly to integrate insights from consumer research directly into a compelling product with supporting services, solutions and content.”
“This could replace the cook book in the kitchen and become your home assistant.”

The ICD Vega is due to release sometime in the first half of 2010.  There has been no set price but,  ICD has said that “the Vega will be low cost” thanks, presumably, to carrier subsidies.