Tablets: A History

Tablets are coming of age. It's been a long journey, longer than you might think, but you know a piece of technology has reached a key moment when your non-geeky friends start talking about it and, more importantly, owning and using it. That's what's happened to tablets, which in the past year have gone from a piece of kit generally used only by technophiles to something owned by people of all ages and with all levels of technical ability.