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Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015
robert2cane writes "The Compenion concept notebook, designed by Felix Schmidberger, eschews the familiar clamshell design in favor of two superbright organic LED panels that slide into place next to each other, making the notebook just three-quarters of an inch thick." Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of 'Yeah, right.'
Lets just hope car AI has been perfected by 2015 or we are all going to get mown down by someone who just has to check their facebook profile.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
>Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some >interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.
/.?? Slow Monday morning?? Whatever happened to the "stuff that MATTERS" part of the slogan??
Then why is it on
so by 2015 we'll have finally migrated to windows vista??
that Felix Schmidberger looks at his fingers while he types.
Non sequitur: Your facts are uncoordinated.
BTW: You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
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So what's the tactile typing response on those advance touchscreen keyboards of the future?
I bet there will be a lot of disgruntled programmers/novelists/actual-users-of-computers in the future.
Oh, well. It seem that 2015 will not be the year of the Linux desktop.
Dupe too
I have a Sony Vaio 280p Micro PC. I bought it in 2007, though it came out in 2005. It's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket and I can walk and browse at the same time. It's got wi-fi, bluetooth, 2 cameras, a USB port, a fingerprint reader, et al. Granted, it still has XP on it, but I'm going to put Ubuntu on it one of these days. I'm not about to go back to a full-size laptop, no matter how much cooler it looks.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Hardware designers may come up with some beautiful and innovated designs, but there needs to be a new OS to go with the hardware which will take advantage of the machine's unique design. The iphone works because the software and hardware work together and provide a good user experience. I say this because I noticed on the screenshots that these new amazing machines were running Vista. I know they are just rendered images, but nevertheless, it takes away from the hardwares' appeal. Tablets could have been a great success if the hardware manufactures had used a better OS than XP with some extensions.
Ok, not all of it, but most of it.
Case in point? Look at the holographic shark that jumps out of the cinema and bites Marty McFly in Back to the Future II. It looks so 80s because, well, it was made in the 80s. It is likely that even 7 years from now there will be technology which hasn't been invented yet that will be incorporated in every computer -- that is, assuming notebooks are even considered reasonable any more... i personally expect things to go more the way of the iPhone/Archos for portable computation.
I guess the site was running on the laptop and it went back to 2015.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Because there are still a few countries which haven't yet adopted the U.S. customary units (just joking, hey ... but go ahead and start bashing me now):
three-quarters of an inch is approximately 1.9 centimeters. Which is not *that* thin, IMO. At least for a 2015 laptop, I mean.
The problem with Slashdot memes is that YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
The last picture in the series has a guy in the driver's seat of a car. Presumably he's parked... but there are some incredibly stupid people out there. On my way to work this morning I saw a guy trying to glue his rearview mirror on (no kidding).
There are enough distractions as it is - a mayfly buzzed past my face while traveling Friday, and I thought it was a wasp and almost wrecked the car.
Whoever laid out that series of photos, why can't you be a little more responsible? People are stupid. Please don't encourage dangerous stupidity! It's bad enough that kids think it's safe to text on their cells while driving, you'll have them thinking it's ok to use your computer while driving.
That was an incredibly irresponsible photo, whoever posted it should be ashamed of him/herself.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Perhaps in 2015, This laptop will have enough power to circumvent 500 Internal Server Errors.
Why on earth would I want a touch screen keyboard? You can't feel the keys! I touch type solely on the feel of the keys. Why would I want to have to go back to looking down? If I using my hands to input, having to look at them as they do so is wasting my time. Yer they look good on a set of star trek, but in reality that ship would have been destroyed long ago but villains with keyboards they don't have to look down at to press fire. Until the touch screen raises where buttons are, you are using one sense less while working, and if you aren't using that touch screen to look at, what is the point?
I'm a big fan of multitouch, and in fact am an early adopter, and one of the probably 2000 or so people who bought a TouchStream (the first multitouch keyboard on the market, many years ago, long before TouchStream went bancrupt and was then acquired by Apple...)
But exactly that experience has taught me one thing: You can't beat tactile feedback for keyboard input. As long as your display doesn't have tactile feedback, multitouch sucks and won't replace a regular keyboard.
What multitouch is great at is analog input, i.e. the stuff we use the mouse for right now. Dragging stuff, resizing stuff, drawing shapes (for gestures or graphics, or to select, whatever) all that kind of things. But when it comes to typing text, you don't want to do that on surface that doesn't give you tactile feedback. FWIW, I can type more error-free with my eyes closed on a regular keyboard, than with my eyes open on a touch-keyboard.
So if those designers could shed their fanboyship of multitouch surfaces for a while, and do what designers ought to do for a change, namely look for the meeting point between form and function, they'd find a lot more and better applications for multitouch displays than keyboard replacements.
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Every year we see all sorts of concepts for computers that we'll be using in 5, 10 or 20 years time. Yet 5, 10 or 20 years ago, the devices we used then are still largely the same.
Sure, they're faster and have more memory, as well as maybe more colours on their screens, but ultimately they don't look all that different.
I very much doubt any of these concepts will see the light of day unless they offer something truly useful and innovative.
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It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future but in terms of display technology, I think rollable displays will be common by 2015. The rollable screens have an obvious form factor appeal. The devices will probably be cylinder shaped (think paper towel tube, but a bit smaller) with a virtual keyboard. There are already early versions of both rollable displays and virtual keyboards in existence, see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/technology/06novelties.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin and http://www.virtualdevices.net/Products.htm, respectively. By 2015 rollable displays will have full color, etc. and virtual keyboards will hopefully have haptic attributes. This is just my best guess before my morning coffee! http://backpackcomputing.com/
Its organic!. Therefore it's obviously better for you in every possible way!
Or does that mean its steeped in unprocessed manure?
I always get those two mixed up....
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Did Slashdot really just link to a page with the words 'free' and 'host' in the URL?
Tactile response is a huge reason we have keyboards. The technology that can replace them is here now, and has been for quite a while. But nothing can beat the practicality of a keyboard. Replacing it with a touchscreen is just impractical. There's no tactile response, and banging your fingers on a hard, unyielding surface is going to cause typing fatigue much quicker. Then, there's the fingerprints and smudging you have to deal with, along with scratches.
There are plenty of technologies that came along that were poised to replace something but never quite made it. Remember the "push button transmission" in the mid-50's Dodge models? Of course you don't. It was supposed to do away with that antiquated lever system used to switch gears. But people LIKED the lever, and with the push button controller you could do something that the lever didn't allow you to: place your car into reverse directly from drive, which is obviously extremely dangerous.
Then in the 1980's we saw another phenomenon: the digital dashboard. Instead of using those antiquated analog dials, automakers started using digital readouts instead. It was all computerized and cool and futuristic...and was gone by the early 1990's. People wanted the old-fashioned dials.
To predict that the keyboard will be gone in less than 10 years is like predicting the steering wheel will be gone by then, too.
that last one with the laptop fitting to the steering wheel is just scary.
does this come with an autopilot?
still, that's the last thing we need.
Is there something one (camera) just can't pull off?
Stereoscopic 3D photographs (or even video, if the capture rates is fast enough).
I don't know what the camera placement is on this particular model though.
So it will be in the laptop of the future. Keyboards won't get any bigger or smaller, same with screen sizes. So the LotF will be the same size as todays (and 10 years' ago's, too). Functions will probably be similar, also: documents, games, media, communication.
Yes, they'll be faster, but all the extra DRM and security features (such as having everything encrypted) will take away most of the gain. Disks will be gone - hello SSDs - but that's an easy prediction, as is wireless connectivity. the O/S and applications will be so transparent to the user that who owns/makes them will be irrelevant.
The only major change I can foresee is the need for personal identification and possibly a built-in payment mechanism, for all the media - whicj will have to be paid for, before you can view it.
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Quick surf answered my questions ;
It has a 1.3Mpixel camera at the back, and a 0.3MPixel one at the front. Presumably it's so you can take photos, while you videoconference.....
I liked my idea better.
I see no real new ideas that I think are worth mentioning. They still look the same as we have them now.
No real new ideas. I am looking for something that is small enough to fit in my pocket, like a cellphone AND large enough to be able to have 1600x1200 in a readable manner AND use an easy way to enter data AND being able to add modules that I need AND ...
All I see is OR/OR ideas.
Why do people buy expensive phones? Two reasons. because they want to show off and because they want to have these different functions in one system.
Why do people walk around with portables? Because they have no serious other option.
What I see as the future is having one more things that are small enough to have with you, yet power full enough to connect to a screen and a keyboard at where I work and at home.
Something like a Nokia Communicator. Add an interface that connects to whatever is needed and you are done. Come to think of it, this is already possible. Just mount your portable device and you have the data.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
That one of the laptop still runs XP in 2015.
I hope by 2015 notebooks would have no moving parts - no sliding things either.
I just want a normal notebook. Just normal notebook from Sci-Fi: no physical parts, voice interface, 3D projector and virtual keyboard. All that packed into watch.
Google can't find images - but something like it was in Heroic Age anime.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Site still works with the coral cache
This is how the loudness war is killing music.
on a laptop (not being used?)
I'm pretty sure that future is here now.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070218&source=rss_news10
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Since it's been slashdotted to hell.
Sheesh, what kind of a wunderbar laptop could it be, if it couldn't even handle a little slashdotting...
by 2015 no one will be checking facebook.
Hell by 2009 no one will be checking facebook!
I bet they'll be Twittering the road signs.
Presumably it's so you can take photos, while you videoconference.....
1.3 for photos, on the outside of the device, pointing away from you, aimed through the screen.
0.3 for video, on the inside of the device, pointing at you, again aimed through the screen.
You don't need much bigger than 0.3Mp for video-conferencing, while every extra pixel would be useful for photos.
And having only one camera would make one of the options unusable - unless the screen or camera was rotatable so you can aim the camera for photos AND again aim at yourself so you see the person who you are video-conferencing with while they see you too.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Great. I am happy for you.
But there ARE people out there that DO need larger screens, optical drives, full-size keyboards etc.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Why are we carrying around physical media, computer screens, and keyboards? How geeky can one get? Why hasn't the day arrived when everything on our hard drive exists on the cloud instead?
They will, because facebook will be one of the four web sites you can actually access through your entry level 'internet' package.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I've been trying to access TFA since about 8:50 and it's been down the whole time... yet there are already 113 comments on this story, 13 of which are rated 4 or better. I love Slashdot, I really do :-)
*reflects on the hypocrisy of this post*
That an interesting idea was when someone showed you 20 pages of detailed sketches with all the internal mechanics electronics mapped out. Now'a'days, an interesting idea is when some 14year old spend 10 minutes in a pirated version of 3dsmax and created a tablet mac that folds out to cover 3 square meters on a floor, or can be used in a minimode, as a iPhone, and has a caption that states it has GPS, 7G and a builtin coffee machine, with frikin lasers on its head.
Why is this news?
Tactile response is a huge reason we have keyboards. The technology that can replace them is here now, and has been for quite a while. But nothing can beat the practicality of a keyboard. Replacing it with a touchscreen is just impractical. There's no tactile response, and banging your fingers on a hard, unyielding surface is going to cause typing fatigue much quicker. /.../
This seems promising...
Have them twitter this sign...
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google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
Yawn! Apple had "futuristic drawings" like this 15+ years ago, I remember seeing a video of the "laptop of the future" at a MacWorld ages ago that looked, shockingly, just like this.... I'll bet they bring one to market long before 2015 (and long before this guy).
If we are going to get rid of the keyboard - get rid of the keyboard!
New type of keyed interface: Maybe the cell phone generation might adopt something new, but anyone who's parents learnt to type on a typewriter isn't likely to make the switch.
Voice recognition: Is this just too hard to do right? As a replacement for the keyboard voice recognition doesn't have a chance unless combined with another tech.
Gesture recognition: Video cameras are everywhere, but this has the same problems are voice entry.
I'm hoping the synergy of all three can finally kill the keyboard - then I can get my hands on something else. (c:
Help, I can't login...what's my password?
Chances are Facebook and MySpace will be bought out by Google and merged with their social network web site renamed Google FaceSpace. But due to Net Neutrality your IP filters packets to it because it also uses BitTorrent or some other P2P utility to share files, and Google bought out so many web companies that it cannot afford to pay your ISP to allow you to surf their site at normal speeds. That is if the government content filter built into your OS by law, doesn't filter out that web site because people wrote things on it that criticize your government.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
All of that will be irrelevant however, because the 'fair use' chip in your head will prevent you being able to perceive and/or remember most content.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
It's already bad enough getting rear-ended by some asshole at an intersection who can't wait until he gets home to ask his daughter how her fucking math test went, or ending up in a pileup because some exec suddenly realizes he's not checked his email in *over 2 minutes* as he's driving along the interstate at 70 mph.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Here's hoping you guys get on anti-psychotic meds by 2015.
We won't have a choice, that'll be part of the whole Trusted Cognition(tm) package
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
All of that is irrelevant today already, because most content is really manipulations of fear and hate and really propaganda instead of content and fact, so most people cannot perceive and/or remember most content from the past, because they have been conditioned to be reprogrammed by news and media companies and Internet web sites like blogs to either blame others or spend all of their money on useless products they don't really need to make faceless corporations that control the news and media and Internet web sites and blogs their money.
I seem to be the only one who remembers the truth, and knows what is really going on, and everyone else seems to have forgotten.
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Seriously unlikely you are alone; its just socially unacceptable to dissent. It doesn't fit in with the whole, happy-go-lucky Friends coffee house aesthetic that everyone seems to have accepted.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Thinner by 0.01 inches - that's 7 years in the future for you!
You don't have permission to access /future-design/meet-the-laptop-youll-use-in-2015/ on this server.
The only thing I hate more than the three sea shells is that damned head-mounted orgasmatron thing. That, and Taco Bell.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
The laptop of the future, will it still roast my nuts?
Well, it looks like that technology is "403 Forbidden"
I want my hoverboard, damnit! And a hover-conversion for my car, if I can afford it... So I'll be almost 40 by then - I'll just have to stay in shape...
Bow-ties are cool.
you think 70 mph is fast on the interstate??
The laptop you use in 2015 will require monthly BIOS license fees, monthly service plans to log in, & fall apart in 3 weeks. It'll be made by 5 year old slave kids in Kazakhstan. All data storage will be through wireless networking to the giga corporation & monitored by the FBI for signs of the word "republican" or negative comments about the giga corporation.
However the display will be made out of organic LEDs.
In 2015, I won't be too concerned about being mown down by an 'old road car'...
I'll be much more worried about being landed on by a flying DeLorean.
Worst. Signature. Ever.
can't wait until he gets home to ask his daughter how her fucking math test went
I never thought of Health class and Mathematics as a combination for Interdisciplinary Studies courses. The only math remotely involved is basic counting.
Looks like a giant Nintendo DS.
I tried using a PDA as a laptop replacement. The keyboard is the big problem: anything less than a latop keyboard with a full set of physical keys is a pain in the neck (as well as fingers, wrists, forearm, elbow, and shoulder).
The best one was the stowaway portable keyboard, unfortunately when they came out with a bluetooth model they abandoned this almost-full-sized keyboard and replaced it with one that didn't have a full set of keys, and even though it was slightly smaller it more or less failed to serve the intended purpose.
Of course most of these "laptops of 2005" have appallingly bad keyboards as well.
What I'd really like is what I asked for in 2000... the computer itself has a minimal display, PDA sized or smaller, and larger displays and better input devices are connected as needed. Give it a USB device+host port and a video-out port, in a form factor so you can plug it into a standardized layout of a video-USB-power socket in a "docking station" or mix and match.
The whole thing shouldn't be any bigger than a thin CDROM drive or a paperback book. and potentially as small as a pen or keychain fob.
I don't need LED backlighting that is superbright. I don't need my display barely readable outdoors, yet burns my retinas indoors. I need a display that works equally well in all lighting conditions and doesn't drain battery life unnecessarily.
And probably comes in a green colored case, too!
Healthy for me and the environment!
I can hardly wait to buy one.
I don't think that is true, that things are largely the same.
The nature of information is the same, since words haven't been eliminated, and keyboard are FANTASTIC form for getting alot of text information in, and text is most of what we put into a computer. But we are also on the cusp of touch being an important means of interaction with our computers. Already I find myself reaching for my LCD screen to interact with my computer thou my PC does not have a touch screen.
Then I remembered my main computer is not the $1200 PC on my desktop but the cell phone in my pocket.
And strangely enough I think it is apparent that touch is at the same cusp that mice were in the mid/late 80s. Touch is available on a few, limited platforms and has quickly became the only thing that made sense in that space, that people love interacting in that fashion and that in some drastic difference will occur once it becomes common.
A GUI is not just a command line with a few extra options. Touch won't be either.
I mod everyone down who says "I'll get modded down for this." I hate to disappoint.
You call THAT a troll?
Someone obviously never saw me troll.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
You will find if you visit now, the model has already been upgraded to the new 404 Not Found model. I guess they did say 2015.
Make SELinux enforcing again!
Well I didn't use to be alone, but people I knew that knew what I knew, ended up killing themselves or dying young of some mystery illness.
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7) You can't bear to be left out of the fun, so you have to post your contribution to the meme-joke.
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I have rebelled against getting one. A desktop workstation will have the space for better quality parts.
To be mobile, I am looking towards SmartPhones with plug-in Monitor & Keyboards. These can be commodity resources at public places, and only your small data-unit is what you take with you. I'd say the industry needs another 7 years to perfect it.
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8.) The post here is just to troll along.
so true
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A GUI is not just a command line with a few extra options.
agree, its a comandline with LOTS of extra USELESS options. all the touch we need is touchpads, IMHO, to help out with vi-sesions. (/retro-comand-line-nazi)
I know full well that tobacco is bad for you, so I smoke weed with crack
Why do "forward-thinking" designers keep trying to force tried, rejected, unwanted features on consumers? Are they hoping that the new, improved consumers of 2015 will accept keyboards with zero key travel and no tactile differentiation of the keys?
Oh, wait, I forgot about force feedback -- now there's a good reason to give up half my typing speed! It's not like entering text into a computer is an important, time-limiting part of my lifestyle or anything.
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