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Friday, February 20, 2015

Dual-Screen Laptop/Tablet Hybrid (The SlantBook)

If large screen mobile devices were made correctly they would be made like this. 

A tablet is useless as a functional machine. If you use a keyboard then you eliminate half of the screen to use it, and it is just uncomfortable. A tablet with a keyboard attached is just a wimpy laptop. But laptops are limited by their physical keyboard, and it is stupid to put a touchscreen on a laptop, or a desktop for that matter, if it doesn't become a tablet.
My solution is to create a hybrid that utilizes 2 screens. At any given time one can be used as a display and the other as a dynamic keyboard. Or you can flip it 90 degrees and have a book shaped e-reader, or add a keyboard and you have a dual monitor system. But if you just want a tablet then you can flip the first screen all the way around and hold the thing by the spine which functions as a handle so your hands don't cramp and you don't smudge the screen. This also lets you 'flip' between screens without having to use processing to move from one page to another, you physically turn back to something else.

When your all done you fold it closed and you don't need to buy an accessory to protect the screen.

This is how large-screen mobile devices should be made. Apple and Windows are both wrong.

The SlantBook
A CAD model of the sketch
Note: I recently discovered the Lenovo Yoga Tablet, which is very similar to my concept but without the possibility of the twin screens. They do have a projector built in, a nice touch.

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