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What will laptops look like in five years? Ten? Predicting future tech trends is always tricky, but these notebook concepts from both PC makers and straight-up tech fans provide a few clues as to what could lie ahead.
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Designer Hao Hua's radical redesign of the laptop replaces the conventional clamshell with a lightweight, foldable roll modeled after artists' storage tubes. The flexible OLED screen and arc-shaped keyboard fold into the tube when not in use, and the carrying strap features a few easy-to-access USB ports. How about naming it the Link Removed due to 404 Error instead?
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Rolltop
This effort from Orkin Design has much in common with the D-roll in that both designs fold into an easy-to-carry tube when not in use. But unlike the D-roll, the Rolltop also lies flat for tablet use. The tube packs the power supply, a Webcam, USB ports, speakers, and an extendable power cord. A flexible OLED display, a screen keyboard, and a stylus (for tablet writing) round out the feature set. See theRolltop in action.
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Projection PCs
Why bother with a space-hogging keyboard and monitor when a humble pen would suffice? Researchers are developing projector PCs (for lack of a better term) capable of projecting a computer display and a touchscreen-like virtual keyboard on a smooth surface, such as your desk.
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Flexible displays
Your laptop, tablet, or e-reader may soon have a flexible display rather than a rigid glass screen that can break too easily. The Skiff Reader, a Kindle-like device designed for newspaper and magazine content, may be the first such model to debut. Its bendable "metal foil" e-paper display is built to last, as are similar monochrome prototypes from LG Display and other tech companies. HP and Arizona State University are developing a flexible color display, as well.
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Napkin PCs
This oddball concept is fascinating, though wildly impractical. It consists of a series of pens with shortwave radio frequency, a computer base station (probably in the napkin holder), and several "napkins" that are in fact multitouch, color e-paper surfaces. Users in a workgroup setting could use a fresh napkin to scribble down every new idea. Great, but how do you wipe your mouth
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Asus Waveforce Light
This lightweight portable would work as a standard laptop or a tablet. Lying flat, it becomes a touchscreen slate that also works with a stylus. Other Asus Waveface projects include the Ultra, a smartphone that you wear on your wrist, and the Casa, a home entertainment and information center.
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Vaio Zoom
We wonder if designer Eno Setiawan actually got Sony's attention with this concept incorporating "holographic technology" for a design that's truly magical and revolutionary (with apologies to Apple's iPad). Turned off, the glass display would be transparent; the keyboard, opaque. Power it up, and -- voilà! The Zoom's screen and keyboard appear. This concept features a wireless charging system, too.
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Asus dual-screen portable
Here's another two-screen wonder: Asus's innovative prototype does double duty as a laptop with a virtual keyboard or as an iPad-style tablet for media consumption. The inclusion of handwriting recognition makes this dual-screener a good choice for business apps, as well.
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What will laptops look like in five years? Ten? Predicting future tech trends is always tricky, but these notebook concepts from both PC makers and straight-up tech fans provide a few clues as to what could lie ahead.
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Designer Hao Hua's radical redesign of the laptop replaces the conventional clamshell with a lightweight, foldable roll modeled after artists' storage tubes. The flexible OLED screen and arc-shaped keyboard fold into the tube when not in use, and the carrying strap features a few easy-to-access USB ports. How about naming it the Link Removed due to 404 Error instead?
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Rolltop
This effort from Orkin Design has much in common with the D-roll in that both designs fold into an easy-to-carry tube when not in use. But unlike the D-roll, the Rolltop also lies flat for tablet use. The tube packs the power supply, a Webcam, USB ports, speakers, and an extendable power cord. A flexible OLED display, a screen keyboard, and a stylus (for tablet writing) round out the feature set. See theRolltop in action.
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Projection PCs
Why bother with a space-hogging keyboard and monitor when a humble pen would suffice? Researchers are developing projector PCs (for lack of a better term) capable of projecting a computer display and a touchscreen-like virtual keyboard on a smooth surface, such as your desk.
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Flexible displays
Your laptop, tablet, or e-reader may soon have a flexible display rather than a rigid glass screen that can break too easily. The Skiff Reader, a Kindle-like device designed for newspaper and magazine content, may be the first such model to debut. Its bendable "metal foil" e-paper display is built to last, as are similar monochrome prototypes from LG Display and other tech companies. HP and Arizona State University are developing a flexible color display, as well.
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Napkin PCs
This oddball concept is fascinating, though wildly impractical. It consists of a series of pens with shortwave radio frequency, a computer base station (probably in the napkin holder), and several "napkins" that are in fact multitouch, color e-paper surfaces. Users in a workgroup setting could use a fresh napkin to scribble down every new idea. Great, but how do you wipe your mouth
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Asus Waveforce Light
This lightweight portable would work as a standard laptop or a tablet. Lying flat, it becomes a touchscreen slate that also works with a stylus. Other Asus Waveface projects include the Ultra, a smartphone that you wear on your wrist, and the Casa, a home entertainment and information center.
Link Removed due to 404 Error Asus Waveforce Light
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Vaio Zoom
We wonder if designer Eno Setiawan actually got Sony's attention with this concept incorporating "holographic technology" for a design that's truly magical and revolutionary (with apologies to Apple's iPad). Turned off, the glass display would be transparent; the keyboard, opaque. Power it up, and -- voilà! The Zoom's screen and keyboard appear. This concept features a wireless charging system, too.
Link Removed due to 404 Error
Asus dual-screen portable
Here's another two-screen wonder: Asus's innovative prototype does double duty as a laptop with a virtual keyboard or as an iPad-style tablet for media consumption. The inclusion of handwriting recognition makes this dual-screener a good choice for business apps, as well.
View 6 more.................http://www.infoworld.com/d/hardware/behold-the-laptop-the-future-184¤t=1&last=2#slideshowTop