The World's First Four-Screen Laptop

Barence writes "Intel has stunned visitors at IDF by showing off the world's first four-screen laptop. The oddly-named 'Tangent Bay' has three miniature touchscreens set horizontally into the case below the main, full-sized panel. It is a fully functional prototype: delegates were able to scroll photos around the touchscreens by swiping with a finger. The idea smacked a little too much of the ill-fated Vista SideShow." Seems strange that they would put the screens above the keyboard. I think embedding an iPhone type touchscreen in place of the trackpad would be a far more useful thing.

Comments

Re:Useful

[ShooterNeo]

Note that in the article the screens are OLEDs. Those don't have viewing angle problems at all, unlike LCDs.

Re:Good for?

[ciderVisor]

No, wait, I'm sure I'll think of something...

Porno, with every alternative camera angle playing simultaneously !

Re:Useful

[Swizec]

but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.

Quite simple actually, they tell you when you need to start closing stuff. See my computers often get laggy because I'm doing many things at once and it's useful to know who the culprit is. Did I forget to shut down a tab with flash in it, or did something hang in the background and made everything crap. Often with two cores you'll get a hung app and not notice for a few days before you tax the other core enough to start problems.

Re:access to multiple desktops

[Arthur Grumbine]

I don't know 'bout you but CTRL+ALT+arrow-keys (or Win+arrow-keys) seems a little easier to me, especially to quickly cycle between more than 3 desktops.