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Meet the Laptop of 2015
cweditor writes "Like concept cars at auto shows, the computer industry designs 'concept notebooks' to imagine the machines of the future. The 'concepts' may not come to market as-is, but it's likely some of their ideas, components and features will. Take a look at systems you might be using in 7 years. In one, a touch-sensitive screen acts as the system's keyboard and mouse, allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential. Their associated image gallery includes a prototype for a dual-screen laptop."
You insensitive clod!
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
The difference is that it's a gaming machine, not anything that matters. The dual screen is a terr-rrr-rrr-rrr-ible idea and it will never be on a successful laptop.
This concept art all looks like my first-year 3d design projects. Are they developing new plastics that will automatically produce lens-flares against any light source available? God, I hope so.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
And it runs Linux! Not to sound like a snob, but I own two because not enough of my friends own their own.
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2015 will be the year of Linux on the dual touch-screen laptop.
From TFA:
The Siafu concept notebook, designed for the blind by Jonathan Lucas, omits a display altogether. Images from applications and Web sites are converted into corresponding 3-D shapes on Siafu's surface. It can be used for reading a Braille newspaper, feeling the shape of someone's face..."
Think of the possibilities!
Oh how the Slashdot crowd would love to get their hands on one of these... literally
FTFS: "allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential"
Will it automatically hide the box of kleenex and bottle of hand lotion, too?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
By then you linux users should have about 16,000 distros to pick from. Have fun.
But of course! In 2015, everything runs Linux and OEMs ship it pre-installed. We know this because, as everyone knows, 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
No sane computer user would ever have two monitors on one desk, and 640k is enough for anyone.
That's all well and good, but I still have to quickly think of a reason I'm not wearing any pants.
As in, when you hit another car, it gives you obvious physical feedback, such as smashing your face in with the dashboard?
No but seriously, I'm curious what you're talking about here.
Belief? Hope? Preference?The Existential Vortex
dual screen is useful until you figure out you can watch video on one while you work on the other
"How the heck are you supposed to touch ... something that gives you no tactile response?"
May I introduce you to my wife?
Ceci n'est pas un sig.
So then when I'm... I mean I can... this allows me too... well it's just so awesome!!!
"It would take precisely *no additional space* to have instead used one screen that was say 3x6 inches."
except for that nasty crack in the screen when you try to fold it over =/
mo eadmlo! if mawid etoi can naiej as easy as djej!
The thing in the box has no place in the language-game at all; not even as a something; for the box might even be empty.