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Dual Screen/Display Laptop

Posted by michael on from the double-the-vaporware dept.

DrFishstik writes "A friend of mine sent me a link to his uncle's startup, featuring dual screen laptops. Literally, two LCDs! It is a really interesting design, and in (as far as I know) the late beta stages. Could be a real boon for video developers or web designers on the go down the road..."

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  1. Cool by Kajakske · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now they can actually bring out electronic books which you can read in your bed. You even have the same lay-out (2 pages at once) ...

    However, you'd have to hold it. For some uses this is better, but for others, the conventional positioning is much easier.

    We'll see what it gives, I guess.

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  2. Re:Here's one already available by SirSlud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Dude, putting that thing away is origami!

    There's an important distinction here. This dual LCD puppy (its very cool, maybe somebody else has made one before) is the closest thing, interface wise, to an electronic book as I've seen.

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  3. Re:Keyboards no longer come as standard? by nounderscores · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess that if you rotate the device 90 degrees, so one screen is lying flat on the table, you could have the "onscreen" keyboard be where you would expect a normal laptop keyboard to be.

    Or if you were an artist, you could have a colour picker where you would expect an oil pallet to be.

    Imagine being able to switch from querty to devorak at a software toggle, *and have all the little letters on the keyboard change automatically!* yay

    or not. maybe the best use of rotating the thing 90 degrees would be to pop up custom arcade controllers on demand, or startrek style "follow my finger" sliding bar controls.