Apple apparently didn't coin the name for one of their most celebrated products: the iPad. Of course, they didn't predict it either. Decades ago, we've seen predictions of the tablet like gadgetry in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

And before Apple even unveiled the name in 2010, nobody predicted the term except for former Intel vice president Avram Miller.

This Associated Press article from June 30, 1994 describes Intel's vision for a home of the future, complete with an "information furnace" at its heart, mentioning a device for an i-pad - aka "information pad".

From the Associated Press:
"One of the devices that's interesting, we call it an I-pad, an information pad," [Avram] Miller said. "It would be a device that has a flat-panel screen. You can write on it, touch it. You might be able to speak into it and it might speak back. It would be wireless, cheap and have different forms in the house."

Some early forms of an "I-pad" are Apple Computer Inc.'s Newton, Motorola Inc.'s Envoy and IBM's Simon devices, which have both computing and communication features.
Intel's 1994 I-pad was a catch term for the gadgets that would interact with tomorrow's home.  Intel even unveiled an IPAD device at CES in 2001 that eventually fizzled out. A shame they were 10 years too early.