Fondleslab

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What Does Fondleslab Mean?

Fondleslab, often hyphenated as fondle-slab, is a highly idiomatic slang term for a device that holds a powerful attraction for a user or set of users. Here, the word "slab" refers to devices that are often wide and rectangular in form, such as tablet computers.

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Techopedia Explains Fondleslab

Although fondleslab is a term that many in IT think of as extremely informal and not appropriate for business use, it does pop up in modern journalism, often in a discussion of market imperatives. For example, a writer might say that tech vendors must come up with a "fondleslab" in order to revive a lagging device market.

As a descriptive term for devices, the word fondleslab also reveals a little about the evolution of new mobile technologies to date. While the most popular devices of recent years, such as the iPod, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and others, have largely been rectangular, there’s good reason to believe that this will change in the future as newer technologies, such as Google glasses, opt for a less cumbersome approach.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.