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Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the believe-it-when-i-touch-type-on-it dept.

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.'

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  1. old news by hansraj · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dupe too

  2. I already have it by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  3. Obligatory conversion by Knx · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  4. Rollable displays and virtual keyboards by backpackcomputing · · Score: 2, Informative

    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/

  5. just like phones, cars and televisions by petes_PoV · · Score: 2, Informative
    When a human-interfacing technology gets past the experimental stage, the major aspects (size, weight, function, layout) tend to remain static. Partly because that's what people expect - and there's a cost to having people change their habits, and partly because they work well.

    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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  6. Re:The future - same as today ... by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, the site is pretty overloaded. Coral cache to the rescue!

    (Not that the site is really worth the effort...)

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  7. Re:The laptop that fits into a steering wheel, gre by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    by 2015 no one will be checking facebook.

    Hell by 2009 no one will be checking facebook!

  8. Re:Uhhh OK. by mikael · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's quite a few such articles:

    The 256-processor laptop with roll up screen and keyboard

    Flatter laptops

    Fold-up screens

    Clip-together screens

    Gas-turbine batteries

    Dual touchscreen laptop

    Mac Tablets

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  9. Re:Uhhh OK. by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Meet the web server you won't use in 2008.

    Indeed, the whole site appears to be 403 Forbidden now. It looks like freehostia.com has yanked it for being too popular.

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  10. Re:113 Comments... by PReDiToR · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.networkmirror.com/56Q9GcghVE6z63_5/future-design.freehostia.com/future-design/meet-the-laptop-youll-use-in-2015/index.html

    You're welcome.

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  11. Re:Uhhh OK. by mikesd81 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Google Cache.

    Now scroll down and see the date is: This entry was posted on Saturday, July 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am and is filed under future design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. That would ....2 days ago not a month.

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