Another (loud, fuzzy) peek at Wired's tablet edition

What will Conde Nast magazines look like once they show up on tablet computers made by Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and others?

Conde has a demo video it has been showing to advertisers, employees, and plenty of other people, including me. It gives you a pretty good overview of what the publisher and Adobe, who is building the software to produce and view the magazines, have in mind. But it's turned down my request to show the clip to my readers.

That doesn't mean you can't see it, though. If you're in New York City, you can troop down to the promotional "store" that Wired magazine sponsors each year, located this time in the Meatpacking District (keep an eye peeled for the Betaworks guys). The publisher is showing off at least part of the clip there, and you can see some of it in this YouTube clip below (thanks to Brian Chen for spotting):

Obviously, it's a much better experience if you can watch the video directly, instead of through someone else's video camera. Also, I think you'd prefer to see it outside of the store, where you're not subjected to slit-your-wrists techno music. So perhaps this will prompt the Conde folks to put the entire clip out in public.

In the meantime, here's a gallery of Saturday Night Live cast members and other sort-of-famous people checking out the store.

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[drmanerd]

Conde who? They way they have mismanaged that company they will be lucky to last until Apple starts selling a tablet. It's pathetic company with problems way bigger than puitting their loser mags into a tablet format.

[uhpl508]

Last I checked there was no Kindle support. What gives? I'm not reading magazine content on a backlit screen, its awful, I could just as well read it on a laptop.

[vectorbabe]

The designers are still thinking portrait orientation for most of the articles shown in the video. How silly.<br /><br />The entire thing needs to be laid out in landscape.<br /><br />I've been teaching people how to create interactive, multi-media presentations, books, ads, etc. and turning the whole magazine sideways is the FIRST thing you need to do.

[bedney42]

You can bet that if Adobe is involved, Flash isn't too far behind.<br /><br />Yep, buying my content in a proprietary, binary format is exactly what I had in mind for the move to electronic magazines - not!<br /><br />I guess if I'm going to view my new Conde Nast magazine on my iPhone, I'd better be a fast reader. When Adobe's engineers tried to bring Flash onto the iPhone, it took battery life down to 1/2 an hour from full charge to zero charge.<br /><br />Maybe Adobe will be sponsoring speed reading classes?

[iSlate101]

Wired smart. There being proactive unlike all other news sites.