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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.'
>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
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.
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.
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
I'm pretty sure that future is here now.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Hopefully they'll get their act together and actually adopt a standard everyone else uses for once instead of making their own.
Sony? You must be new here. And by here I mean Earth.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Rollable makes little sense because you'll just look like you have a donkey dick in your pocket. It needs to be something that folds up. The ideal interface would just locate your eye and shoot a laser beam through it, some nice people at MIT built some glasses that used lasers mounted to them, that is just the next evolution. When your cellphone is capable of just painting a reality overlay on your retina, you're going to feel stupid carrying a roll of toilet paper around in your pants (especially when everyone is using the three seashells anyway.)
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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?
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.