It's another day and another flexible display prototype gets to tease us with its sexiness. Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute is working with design firm Pilotfish to develop a mobile phone with a foldable display embedded within. Unlike the other foldable displays we've recently seen, the device's screen is a TFT-EPD screen and the mechanism appears to be built around the technology – one side slides up (or out) from the phone chassis to create a 5-inch screen. If you're worried about the phone's thick appearance, it's not because of the need to accommodate the screen in the middle....
While I do eat fruit and vegetables, from everything I've read, I feel the health benefits of juicing are too great to pass up. Unless you are an impatient person, the Omega 8003 is great for a beginning juicer who wants a machine that not only handles apples, oranges and carrots, but won't get bogged down with wheatgrass, spinach and other leafy greens (wheatgrass is one of the harder plants to juice). Unlike a centrifugal juicer, which violently shreds what you put in it, the Omega 8003 uses what is known as a dual-screen, single auger to process produce...
We already highlighted Yuuguu, a free screensharing tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as one of our favorite tools numerous times in the past. One feature that was missing from Yuuguu, however, was the ability to quickly send invitations via IM and create a group conference on IM with users on different IM services. Now, however, Yuuguu has integrated MSN, Yahoo, AOL and ICQ chat, in addition to its recent integration with Google Talk. This turns Yuuguu into an IM aggregator with sophisticated screensharing features. Sponsor This new version of Yuuguu, which was released today, still features all the regular...
Reader crshman says he combined two of our recent posts into one multi-screen, wall-mounted computer setup. Using the DIY coat hanger laptop stand, crshman hung his laptop on the wall. Then, he uses a single keyboard and mouse to control the lappie as well as a dual-screen desktop computer. Here's how to use Synergy to control multiple computers. Nice job! Wall Mounted Laptop? Awesome... [The Robert Report]...
Color this one as interesting speculation at this point, at least in regards to the timing. Mike Elgan at Computeworld is linking to a DigiTimes report that says Asus is prepping a dual touch screen device, prepped for Windows 7 multi-touch in the first or second quarter of 2009. This would obviously be before Windows 7 is scheduled to ship. We must have missed this earlier but Asus apparently unveiled a look at a what I’m guessin is a prototype of this at Computex 2008. Like Mike says, this would be similar to what we’ve seen about the next version...
Dual monitors, also known as two-monitors setup has been widely adopted in many offices as well as individual workspace. It is a common practice among the developers and designers. Some has even brought the setup further to 3 or more monitors. As prices of LCD monitors are dropping each day, more spacious desktop can be economically achieved by adding an additional monitor. If you have two monitors side by side, how about making the most out of them. For starters get yourself a cool dual monitors wallpaper, something cool that stretches across two monitor screens. Here’s a showcase of more...
After showing off a slew of sexy, aluminum Mac notebooks on Tuesday, Steve Jobs said Apple computers still aren't sporting Blu-ray players to dodge extra licensing costs: "Blu-ray is a bag of hurt," he said during a question-and-answer session. "I don’t mean from the consumer point of view. It’s great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex. We’re waiting until things settle down, and waiting until Blu-ray takes off before we burden our customers with the cost of licensing." A bag of hurt? Haven't heard that one. Mixed metaphor between "world of hurt" and "bag of kittens,"...
I'm sure we've all had enough of the lofty rumors, thumb-sucking speculation and blurry spy shots of the upcoming Mac notebooks that Apple will announce Tuesday. Cult of Mac blogger and Wired.com editor Leander Kahney (who, uh, sits right behind me) stumbled upon a visual treat: Fanboy mock-ups of the new notebooks. The images are courtesy of Miguel Suarez, who in the past did a pretty spot-on mock-up of the fourth-gen iPod nano before its official release. That's some exceptional talent. Apple should hire this guy. See also: Apple Teases New Notebook, Rumored Under $1,000 Photos: Is This the...
The thickest rumor churned from the blogosphere mill is that Apple's new notebooks will be manufactured by carving notebooks out of a brick of metal using lasers and water jets. Attached to that theory is that this new process will be more environmentally friendly. However, TreeHugger suggests the rumored process would still be very wasteful of raw materials. "It generates a whole lot of noise, is a very dangerous process, and all that material carved away becomes waste, which would have to be collected and reprocessed to be used again, or, more likely, tossed," TreeHugger's Jaymi Heimbuch wrote. "In...
We don’t like to fuel the rumor fires, but this one caught our eye. The already established Nintendo DS has increasingly (and maybe quietly) garnered a market share in portable gaming and the idea of further features only makes it more of a threat to the Sony PSP. Innovative software and a dual screen interface are notable aspects that set the DS apart but Nikkei, a Japanese financial newspaper, reports that music playback and a camera will be added to the lineup before the end of 2008. This also begs the question of storage as the PSP’s expansion slot has...
Leander Kahney, Wired Editor and original member of the Cult of Mac, has gone public with the hardware dream that has been keeping him awake at night. Leander speculates that Apple's "Brick" might be a double-screened notebook -- two big iPod Touches joined by a hinge and similar in form to the OLPC v2 (pictured). The Brick rumors started right after the iPod event earlier this month, with rumor site 9to5Mac citing a source who claimed that there would be another special Apple event, this time to show off a new MacBook. Leander hopes for a netbook-sized Mac which...
There's plenty more happening at this year's IFA than we expected. There was the news that the Xperia X1 was delayed. A hands-on with the HTC S740 (more on that in a bit), and now this sweet image, above, from Anton. Toshiba's main foci at the IFA are their HD stuff, their environmentally friendly stuff, and heck, even gesture control stuff, but we're mostly attracted to the dual-screen hotness above. It's just a concept for now, but the idea seems to be to work that idea into a future Windows Mobile-based device. Let's just hope that whatever they end...
Well this is certainly interesting if not necessarily that attractive. The designers at Ergonomic Keyboards, Inc, who dreamed up this split keyboard, dual screen keyboard are looking to sell their design and their patent on the device in the first picture below to an OEM willing to bring it to market. If you go to their website you’ll also see the Executive PPC with ‘Sketch and Send’, on which the lower screen is a digitizer. The site has some other fascinating but not wholly attractive designs listed as well. Via CrunchGear Tags: Mobile Originally Posted On GottaBeMobile.com - THE Source...
Okay, here we go. This is a notebook comprised of a split keyboard. An ergonomic keyboard, if you will. When you separate the two halves of the keyboard, there’s a screen inside. There’s also a larger screen attached to hinges on the top of said keyboard. So you get two screens folded up into one keyboard. The company behind this design, EKI, is apparently looking to ship this to OEM’s this year. It’s also looking to sell the patents if you’re into that kind of thing. This is a complete notebook system, although I wonder how it’d work as...
With more people struggling with the effects of carpel tunnel, it’s become more pressing for computer designers to provide more ergonomic options for users. This is also been a problem with laptop designs which struggle with ergonomic design and lightweight function, and the user usually loses the battle as laptop makers keep designing laptops with smaller, standard QWERTY keyboards. But this company not only decided to give users more room with which to type, it also figured out a way to give the user more screen real estate, very much like the Nintendo DS does. And it’s an idea...
It looks like a 1997 era Compaq broken in frustration across the knee, but what you are looking at is is Ergonomic Dual Screen Split Keyboard Notebook Computer... the world's only platform "to exploit Windows (TM) with dual screens!" Like its prototype, the "Sketch 'N' Send", the patents for the technology apparently stretch back to 1994, but the guys at Ergonomic Keyboard now claim that the laptop will ship in 2008. And hell, they must be optimistic about the laptop's success: they're selling all the patents! These Patents are for sale. There are about 4 million notebooks sold each...
-- To Digg or not to Digg? Theories abound on why links to articles bashing John McCain were unDugg after hitting Digg's front page. Web Scout -- Storm hits data storage service company, casts gloom over prospect of cloud computing. Network World -- Cactus thieves get a prickly high-tech reception. LAT -- Here's to circuits in your eye. UC Davis researchers embed circuits into contact lenses to eventually help monitor intraocular pressure for glaucoma patients. The Future of Things -- ATI to NVIDIA: Two is better than one. Ars Technica -- Nintendo, fearing piracy, tries to slow down sales...
We had an early look at Windows XP running on the OLPC thanks to Om Malik and shortly after Microsoft announced they had customized a special version of XP to be included on the OLPCs going forward. Laptop Magazine visited the folks at OLPC and got some detailed hands-on time with XP running on the special notebook and have published their impressions. They also got an advance look at the OLPC2, the dual screen version that has been leaking out. So how does XP run on the low-end hardware of the OLPC?:The XO running Windows XP gives end users access...
