I was just interviewed for a BBC television feature that will run around the same time the iPad is launched. I’ll be a talking head, basically. For what it’s worth, here’s what I provided as background for where I’d be coming from in the interview:
I covered some of that, and added a few things, which I’ll enlarge with a quick brain dump:
I also deal with all this in a longer post that will go up elsewhere. I’ll point to it here when it comes up.
Beyond the iPad
- Louis GrayBeyond the iPad
- Niklas SjostromDoc Searls on iPad. http://r2.ly/ygc9
- Dave WinerRT @umairh by far the best ipad article i've read so far, from @dsearls. http://bit.ly/9THZRs
- Maddie GrantDoc Searls Weblog · Beyond the iPad
- Eric JohnsonBeyond the iPad
- Richard Binhammer
You may not need a briefcase to carry your laptop in the near feature. Just roll the computer and wear it like a shoulder handbag.
Orkin Design, a design firm in Germany, has created a amazing concept computer that can be used both as a laptop and a tablet (slate). It features a large multitouch screen, USB ports, webcam, stylus and everything that you probably look for in a computer.
The sad part, you can only experience this flexible laptop in a video and we don’t know if any of the hardware companies are actually working on such a design. As one commenter points out:
Its an interesting concept, but It is probably a long ways from any sort of actual prototype. Forget DVD drives, what about Circuit boards! They would need to find a new material instead of the current silicon, as circuit boards today cant withstand much flexibility.
I know simple circuit boards are flexible (hence rollup keyboards), but I have yet to see a flexible motherboard that supports the required watts/current of a modern chipset and processor.
Thanks Joe Hicks from Tokyo for sharing this video.
How Laptops May Look Like in the Future?
Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.