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Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015

Posted by CmdrTaco on Mon Jul 07, 2008 07:35 AM
from the believe-it-when-i-touch-type-on-it dept.
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robert2cane writes "The Compenion concept notebook, designed by Felix Schmidberger, eschews the familiar clamshell design in favor of two superbright organic LED panels that slide into place next to each other, making the notebook just three-quarters of an inch thick." Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of 'Yeah, right.'
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  • Lets just hope car AI has been perfected by 2015 or we are all going to get mown down by someone who just has to check their facebook profile.

  • Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Insightful)

    by rodrigoandrade (713371) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:40AM (#24082323)
    >Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some >interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.

    Then why is it on /.?? Slow Monday morning?? Whatever happened to the "stuff that MATTERS" part of the slogan??

  • I bet... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by God of Lemmings (455435) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:42AM (#24082349)

    that Felix Schmidberger looks at his fingers while he types.

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  • Tactile response (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Swizec (978239) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:46AM (#24082375) Homepage
    So what's the tactile typing response on those advance touchscreen keyboards of the future?

    I bet there will be a lot of disgruntled programmers/novelists/actual-users-of-computers in the future.

    • Its organic!. Therefore it's obviously better for you in every possible way!

      Or does that mean its steeped in unprocessed manure?

      I always get those two mixed up....

    • Re:Tactile response (Score:4, Interesting)

      by paradxum (67051) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:09AM (#24082593)

      I love that argument! Simply because the answer is so obvious. Most (newer) laptops have bluetooth integrated in them. If you just NEED a keyboard (really, nothing wrong with that... I NEED one for what I do) just get a bluetooth keyboard for when you are "working" ... there are even roll up ones to take when you are traveling.

    • Re:Tactile response (Score:5, Funny)

      by Jurily (900488) <jurilyNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday July 07 2008, @08:18AM (#24082697)

      Oblig. [thebestpag...iverse.net]

      First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit. Nokia uses a technology that's even more advanced than the iPhone's tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you're pressing them! The technology is called "tactile response," and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called "buttons."

    • Re:Tactile response (Score:5, Interesting)

      by MightyYar (622222) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:30AM (#24082859)

      With a little luck, and some help from engineers [redferret.net], they will still have tactile feedback. I'm actually rather anxious to try one of these Nokia "haptic" screens.

    • Re:Tactile response (Score:4, Funny)

      by clickety6 (141178) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:56AM (#24083149)

      microscopic ray guns built into every pixel that fire tiny repulsor beams into your fingertips as you type, creating the illusion of feedback. Plus tiny speakers also built into each pixel that creates the sound of clacking springs. the deluze model has miniature tractor beam guns bulti in for those who want that "spilled the coffee / ate a doughnut over the keys" slightly tacky feel...

  • 2015 (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07 2008, @07:47AM (#24082383)

    Oh, well. It seem that 2015 will not be the year of the Linux desktop.

  • old news (Score:3, Informative)

    by hansraj (458504) * on Monday July 07 2008, @07:48AM (#24082393)

    Dupe too [slashdot.org]

  • I already have it (Score:5, Informative)

    by oodaloop (1229816) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:49AM (#24082409) Homepage
    I have a Sony Vaio 280p Micro PC. I bought it in 2007, though it came out in 2005. It's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket and I can walk and browse at the same time. It's got wi-fi, bluetooth, 2 cameras, a USB port, a fingerprint reader, et al. Granted, it still has XP on it, but I'm going to put Ubuntu on it one of these days. I'm not about to go back to a full-size laptop, no matter how much cooler it looks.

  • New machines need new operating systems... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by ClaraBow (212734) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:52AM (#24082421)
    Hardware designers may come up with some beautiful and innovated designs, but there needs to be a new OS to go with the hardware which will take advantage of the machine's unique design. The iphone works because the software and hardware work together and provide a good user experience. I say this because I noticed on the screenshots that these new amazing machines were running Vista. I know they are just rendered images, but nevertheless, it takes away from the hardwares' appeal. Tablets could have been a great success if the hardware manufactures had used a better OS than XP with some extensions.

  • 'Futurism' reflects the current age (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Langfat (953252) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:56AM (#24082455) Homepage
    Ok, not all of it, but most of it.

    Case in point? Look at the holographic shark that jumps out of the cinema and bites Marty McFly in Back to the Future II. It looks so 80s because, well, it was made in the 80s. It is likely that even 7 years from now there will be technology which hasn't been invented yet that will be incorporated in every computer -- that is, assuming notebooks are even considered reasonable any more... i personally expect things to go more the way of the iPhone/Archos for portable computation.

  • No touch screen keyboards please! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by jabjoe (1042100) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:59AM (#24082491)
    Why on earth would I want a touch screen keyboard? You can't feel the keys! I touch type solely on the feel of the keys. Why would I want to have to go back to looking down? If I using my hands to input, having to look at them as they do so is wasting my time. Yer they look good on a set of star trek, but in reality that ship would have been destroyed long ago but villains with keyboards they don't have to look down at to press fire. Until the touch screen raises where buttons are, you are using one sense less while working, and if you aren't using that touch screen to look at, what is the point?

  • Too Much Touch (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Tom (822) on Monday July 07 2008, @07:59AM (#24082503) Homepage Journal

    I'm a big fan of multitouch, and in fact am an early adopter, and one of the probably 2000 or so people who bought a TouchStream (the first multitouch keyboard on the market, many years ago, long before TouchStream went bancrupt and was then acquired by Apple...)

    But exactly that experience has taught me one thing: You can't beat tactile feedback for keyboard input. As long as your display doesn't have tactile feedback, multitouch sucks and won't replace a regular keyboard.

    What multitouch is great at is analog input, i.e. the stuff we use the mouse for right now. Dragging stuff, resizing stuff, drawing shapes (for gestures or graphics, or to select, whatever) all that kind of things. But when it comes to typing text, you don't want to do that on surface that doesn't give you tactile feedback. FWIW, I can type more error-free with my eyes closed on a regular keyboard, than with my eyes open on a touch-keyboard.

    So if those designers could shed their fanboyship of multitouch surfaces for a while, and do what designers ought to do for a change, namely look for the meeting point between form and function, they'd find a lot more and better applications for multitouch displays than keyboard replacements.

  • Same old same old (Score:5, Interesting)

    by neokushan (932374) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:00AM (#24082507)

    Every year we see all sorts of concepts for computers that we'll be using in 5, 10 or 20 years time. Yet 5, 10 or 20 years ago, the devices we used then are still largely the same.
    Sure, they're faster and have more memory, as well as maybe more colours on their screens, but ultimately they don't look all that different.
    I very much doubt any of these concepts will see the light of day unless they offer something truly useful and innovative.

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  • Rejected technology (Score:5, Interesting)

    by just_forget_it (947275) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:06AM (#24082573)
    Tactile response is a huge reason we have keyboards. The technology that can replace them is here now, and has been for quite a while. But nothing can beat the practicality of a keyboard. Replacing it with a touchscreen is just impractical. There's no tactile response, and banging your fingers on a hard, unyielding surface is going to cause typing fatigue much quicker. Then, there's the fingerprints and smudging you have to deal with, along with scratches.

    There are plenty of technologies that came along that were poised to replace something but never quite made it. Remember the "push button transmission" in the mid-50's Dodge models? Of course you don't. It was supposed to do away with that antiquated lever system used to switch gears. But people LIKED the lever, and with the push button controller you could do something that the lever didn't allow you to: place your car into reverse directly from drive, which is obviously extremely dangerous.

    Then in the 1980's we saw another phenomenon: the digital dashboard. Instead of using those antiquated analog dials, automakers started using digital readouts instead. It was all computerized and cool and futuristic...and was gone by the early 1990's. People wanted the old-fashioned dials.

    To predict that the keyboard will be gone in less than 10 years is like predicting the steering wheel will be gone by then, too.

  • just like phones, cars and televisions (Score:3, Informative)

    by petes_PoV (912422) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:13AM (#24082637)
    When a human-interfacing technology gets past the experimental stage, the major aspects (size, weight, function, layout) tend to remain static. Partly because that's what people expect - and there's a cost to having people change their habits, and partly because they work well.

    So it will be in the laptop of the future. Keyboards won't get any bigger or smaller, same with screen sizes. So the LotF will be the same size as todays (and 10 years' ago's, too). Functions will probably be similar, also: documents, games, media, communication.

    Yes, they'll be faster, but all the extra DRM and security features (such as having everything encrypted) will take away most of the gain. Disks will be gone - hello SSDs - but that's an easy prediction, as is wireless connectivity. the O/S and applications will be so transparent to the user that who owns/makes them will be irrelevant.

    The only major change I can foresee is the need for personal identification and possibly a built-in payment mechanism, for all the media - whicj will have to be paid for, before you can view it.

  • Moving parts? In 2015?? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ThePhilips (752041) on Monday July 07 2008, @08:16AM (#24082679) Homepage Journal

    I hope by 2015 notebooks would have no moving parts - no sliding things either.

    I just want a normal notebook. Just normal notebook from Sci-Fi: no physical parts, voice interface, 3D projector and virtual keyboard. All that packed into watch.

    Google can't find images - but something like it was in Heroic Age [wikipedia.org] anime.

  • Monthly BIOS license fees, DRM enabled login (Score:3, Insightful)

    by heroine (1220) on Monday July 07 2008, @12:17PM (#24086027) Homepage

    The laptop you use in 2015 will require monthly BIOS license fees, monthly service plans to log in, & fall apart in 3 weeks. It'll be made by 5 year old slave kids in Kazakhstan. All data storage will be through wireless networking to the giga corporation & monitored by the FBI for signs of the word "republican" or negative comments about the giga corporation.

    However the display will be made out of organic LEDs.

      • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Slashidiot (1179447)
        According to wikipedia, African male elephants are about 3.64m tall, so that would be 0.005234 African male elephants.

        Just FYI, it would also be 0.00635 African female elephants, or 0.0127 zebras.

        Actually, when expressed in these units, it definately looks a bit too thick for a laptop.
    • Rollable makes little sense because you'll just look like you have a donkey dick in your pocket. It needs to be something that folds up. The ideal interface would just locate your eye and shoot a laser beam through it, some nice people at MIT built some glasses that used lasers mounted to them, that is just the next evolution. When your cellphone is capable of just painting a reality overlay on your retina, you're going to feel stupid carrying a roll of toilet paper around in your pants (especially when everyone is using the three seashells anyway.)

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