Forget the Ten Commandments? There's an app for that.
From the Rosetta Stone to the iPad, the evolution of everyone's favorite gadget: the tablet.
There's an app for that.
Are you an 18th century BCE Babylonian, and need to find out the consequences for stealing one of your neighbors sheep? Lucky for you, King Hammurabi had his 282 laws and subsequent punishments etched on portable clay tablets. (below, left)
Tired of watching your people bow in the presence of a golden calf? What's more convincing than two stone tablets with the tenets of morality carved by none other than God himself? If you are Moses, your life just got a lot easier. (below, right)
Need to buy your wardrobe for fall 311? First, check out the best place to buy togas and sandals at the best price on Diocletian's price comparison tablet. Information is power. (bottom image)
Words & Pictures
Ancient Eygpt's version of Babelfish, the Rosetta Stone recorded King Ptolemy V's decree in three languages: hieroglyphics, demotic script and Ancient Greek, providing a basis for our modern understanding of Egyptian heiroglyphics.
Why bother writing it, when you can describe it in pictures? This ancient Pre-Columbian hieroglyphic panel works as a sort or slide show of ceremonies and happenings in the Mayan city of El Ceibal.
Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
From the Ancient civilizations up through today, tablets provide a platform to help students learn to read and write.
Tablet 3.0
Nowadays it's not enough to have an iPad or a Kindle, you must also outfit it. To take your e-reader to the next level, why not dress it up in a fine art skin from Skinit? Check out our line of technology skins for over 3,000 electronic devices in our Skinit.com store.
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