New Concept From Asus Features Two Multi-Touch Screens, No Keyboard
New Concept From Asus Features Two Multi-Touch Screens, No Keyboard
Posted 03/02/2009 at 12:03pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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At CeBIT Asus showed off a new concept for a laptop that gets rid of the keyboard in favor of a second screen. The two screens are both touch, and when coupled with software allows for virtual interface devices (such as resizable keyboards and trackpads) to be implemented.
Sadly, this dual panel laptop is currently the product of a corporate-sponsored entry to a design competition, so it is entirely possible that it will never hit the market. Though, we’ll keep our fingers crossed that it will.
Image Credit: Asus
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DMI PC Repair
March 23, 2009 at 7:44am
Look ma it's a Flybook on steroids!!!!
Xcore don't mean X processors dang it!!!
KaylaKaze
March 04, 2009 at 9:56am
All it really needs is static feedback to give it a tactile nature to the buttons. I'm not sure how it's done but I saw something on a gadget show a few years ago where they had a touch screen and it did something I think involving static that actually made the on screen buttons feel like buttons (or at least feelable).
dylanwinn
March 03, 2009 at 9:14pm
Normally I would say that this idea would only serve to make typing a royal pain in the ass, but seeing as it is already so hard to type on the eeePC's tiny keyboard, I've got nothing to loose. Cool factor wins!
ghot
March 02, 2009 at 9:35pm
Way to go ASUS.....no more dust or cheetos in the keyboard........a hell of a lot less fingerprints on the screen.......Hope this takes off..really do :)
Take efficiency, and edit out all the intelligence and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)
Keith E. Whisman
March 02, 2009 at 2:23pm
That looks like what a flip phone should look like. Again me wants..
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