Years before the Apple iPad tablet ever hit stores, similar style devices popped up in sci-fi movies, manga, and anime. The latest rediscovery of a similar device was recently spotted in the 1982 manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
In a post titled “Is Nausicaä Using an iPad?”, Japanese blog Kojima Piypiyo points out that a “map app” is being used in a gunship in the original manga. “The cover is cool,” writes the site. “Is that leather? Want.”
