Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 231
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.'
The laptop that fits into a steering wheel, great! (Score:5, Funny)
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I'm pretty sure that future is here now.
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Have them twitter this sign...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones [wikipedia.org]
Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Insightful)
Then why is it on
Re:Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here...
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You're welcome.
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Some interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.
Actually, mostly a whole lot of 500 Internal Server Error.
Re:Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Funny)
Meet the web server you won't use in 2008.
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Meet the web server you won't use in 2008.
Just what I wanted, a Diet Code Red Mountain Dew sinus rinse and keyboard wash.
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Meet the web server you won't use in 2008.
Indeed, the whole site appears to be 403 Forbidden now. It looks like freehostia.com has yanked it for being too popular.
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>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??
This probably mattered to someone A MONTH AGO when it was posted. Look at the date on the blog.
Re:Uhhh OK. (Score:4, Informative)
Now scroll down and see the date is: This entry was posted on Saturday, July 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am and is filed under future design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. That would
Re:Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh, come on. "Stuff that matters" used to be 90% case mods. That's why so many sites were "slashdotted" back in the day -- they were all people's personal Web sites where they had posted their leet case mods.
Re:Uhhh OK. (Score:5, Informative)
There's quite a few such articles:
The 256-processor laptop with roll up screen and keyboard [pcmag.com]
Flatter laptops [gizmog.com]
Fold-up screens [coolest-gadgets.com]
Clip-together screens [nonsensical.com]
Gas-turbine batteries [thestar.com]
Dual touchscreen laptop [newlaunches.com]
Mac Tablets [tuvie.com]
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I bet... (Score:3, Insightful)
that Felix Schmidberger looks at his fingers while he types.
Re:I bet... (Score:5, Funny)
that Felix Schmidberger looks at his fingers while he types.
Hah, onlu dumb peopke meed to look ar their fongerd ti write.
The future - same as today ... (Score:5, Funny)
BTW: You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
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Re:The future - same as today ... (Score:5, Informative)
Yup, the site is pretty overloaded. Coral cache [nyud.net] to the rescue!
(Not that the site is really worth the effort...)
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Error: 500 Internal Server Error
Server CoralWebPrx/0.1.19 (See http://coralcdn.org/ [coralcdn.org]) at 129.74.74.16:8080
Well, at least the cached copy is kinda up to date :P
Coral Cache has never worked for me. I really don't know what all the fuss is about.
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For me, I only get consistently good results when I use port 8080. Supposedly, they made it so that you don't need to add port 8080 to the url, but when I do that it often doesn't work for me.
Re:The future - same as today ... (Score:5, Funny)
1) You need to point out your jokes.
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2) You are posting your jokes on Slashdot.
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2) You are posting your jokes on Slashdot.
3) Someone on Slashdot actually mods your post as funny, even when in reality it is not. It just means they were too drink to click on troll.
Tactile response (Score:3, Insightful)
I bet there will be a lot of disgruntled programmers/novelists/actual-users-of-computers in the future.
you're missing the main point! (Score:3, Funny)
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)
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.
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Why include a keyboard at all then?
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To configure bluetooth for the external keyboard.
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A tactile touchscreen? Perhaps something that gives a slight tap back whenever a keypress is registered?
Alternatively,a clear keyboard with a screen underneath it would allow for tactile feedback, as well as the advantages of a touchscreen board. The overlay could also be removed so that only the touchscreen is accessible....
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There's already been a patent on a tactile touchscreen... I probably read here too.
Re:Tactile response (Score:5, Funny)
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)
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)
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...
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I have seen the future and it's Das Touchscreen.
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In any respectable future we have at least foolproof voice-to-text, if not sub-vocal mics and/or brain-interfaces.
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2015 (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, well. It seem that 2015 will not be the year of the Linux desktop.
old news (Score:3, Informative)
Dupe too [slashdot.org]
I already have it (Score:5, Informative)
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For the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would buy a computer that was manufactured by a company that would put rootkits on music CDs.
You would buy a computer from Sony? What were you thinking?
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Re:I already have it (Score:4, Insightful)
Hopefully they'll get their act together and actually adopt a standard everyone else uses for once instead of making their own.
Sony? You must be new here. And by here I mean Earth.
Re:I already have it (Score:4, Funny)
Hopefully they'll get their act together and actually adopt a standard everyone else uses for once instead of making their own.
Sony? You must be new here. And by here I mean Earth.
I am from Regina in the Deneb sector, and even I got that joke.
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Stereoscopic 3D (Score:2)
Is there something one (camera) just can't pull off?
Stereoscopic 3D photographs (or even video, if the capture rates is fast enough).
I don't know what the camera placement is on this particular model though.
Camera placement front/back (Score:2)
Quick surf answered my questions ;
It has a 1.3Mpixel camera at the back, and a 0.3MPixel one at the front. Presumably it's so you can take photos, while you videoconference.....
I liked my idea better.
Or separately... (Score:2)
Presumably it's so you can take photos, while you videoconference.....
1.3 for photos, on the outside of the device, pointing away from you, aimed through the screen.
0.3 for video, on the inside of the device, pointing at you, again aimed through the screen.
You don't need much bigger than 0.3Mp for video-conferencing, while every extra pixel would be useful for photos.
And having only one camera would make one of the options unusable - unless the screen or camera was rotatable so you can aim the camera for photos AND again aim at yourself so you see the person who you are video
New machines need new operating systems... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:New machines need new operating systems... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, one of the screenshots had a clearly visible logo of XP. That's interesting, if it's meant for 2015...
Re:New machines need new operating systems... (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, one of the screenshots had a clearly visible logo of XP. That's interesting, if it's meant for 2015...
That's because by 2015 Microsoft still won't have an operating system better than Windows XP.
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You know, this got modded funny but that's only 7 years away. If Windows 7 sucks like Vista and is delayed like vista (both of which seem not entirely unreasonable hypotheses), it could very well be that in 2015 they still haven't improved over windows.
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Hey. Don't rub it in our faces that you got to see the pictures before the server flamed out.
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Cached version here:
http://future-design.freehostia.com.nyud.net:8090/future-design/meet-the-laptop-youll-use-in-2015/ [nyud.net]
I can really recommend the Slashdotter extension for Firefox. Among other nice functions it adds links to cached versions after all links in the summary.
'Futurism' reflects the current age (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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In speculation... although I enjoy typing, I'd like to see some voice recognition in place for dictating (useful when on the road, if you must use your computer there) rather than the usual m
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I'd like to say that I agree that the marketplace will fulfill and push, but instead I see us waiting for the patent from something that was patented some time ago to change our lives when the patent finally expires.
Obligatory conversion (Score:2, Informative)
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We use metric when describing our NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!
(That's a "Civilization" reference, not a threat...)
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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.
No touch screen keyboards please! (Score:3, Insightful)
Too Much Touch (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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Same old same old (Score:5, Interesting)
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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largely the same? o_O
Released in 1989.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable [wikipedia.org]
Now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air [wikipedia.org]
although I have a mobile phone more powerful then most desktops from 1989.
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Macs are a slight exception to the rule as they tend to focus on changing their style, but the only thing that's really changed (When you think about it) is the size of the device.
They both still essentially are made up of a keyboard, screen and some inputs here and there.
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None of what you mentioned, apart from the touch screen, has changed what the design of laptops or computers in general look like. I already said they got faster, more memory, clearer screens, etc. but when it comes down to it, they're still pretty much the same kinds of machines we used a decade ago.
Optimus keyboards? That's still just a keyboard, it may be a keyboard with fancy lettering on it, but it's purpose and use is identical to the IBM keyboards of the 1980's. 3D Displays? When was the last time yo
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At first, I wanted to reply with something snarky, "oh this one has a crystal ball". But then I realized the first thing I do when my laptop is booted... is opening a terminal emulator... to get to the UNIX commandline. Which was created in 1969, almost fourty years ago.
Rollable displays and virtual keyboards (Score:2, Informative)
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Re:Rollable displays and virtual keyboards (Score:4, Funny)
Rollable makes little sense because you'll just look like you have a donkey dick in your pocket.
It already looks like I have a donkey dick in my pocket, you insensitive clod!
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What can I say? Your ideas about the ideal interface differ from mine.
Free Hosting? (Score:3, Funny)
Did Slashdot really just link to a page with the words 'free' and 'host' in the URL?
Rejected technology (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
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At any rate, the basic reason these "improvements" failed was that they were overly-complicated and thus more prone to failure. I've see
SCARY (Score:2)
that last one with the laptop fitting to the steering wheel is just scary.
does this come with an autopilot?
still, that's the last thing we need.
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"Drivecar.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down."
Or...
"Inflate airbags: Cancel or Allow?"
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just like phones, cars and televisions (Score:3, Informative)
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.
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I'm still a fan of the "hub PC" or home server model. I think that it makes your devices smaller and cheaper.
For instance, I have a rather limited iBook G4 that could NEVER be my main PC. Not enough space, smallish screen, etc. However, since I have my PC online and available via SSH, there's almost no downside to having a cheap, low power, limited storage portable. Similarly, since my PC is hooked up to my TV/stereo in the living room, I don't need to have an expensive system in there - I can just play my
Moving parts? In 2015?? (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
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A voice interface for something meant to be used in public places strikes me as a terrible idea, unless it uses a microphone quite close to your mouth, which is less than convenient.
And if the 3D projector is supposed to replace the screen altogether, it's going to be pretty hard to have any privacy in public too. At least a laptop can be turned away from people.
Also, virtual keyboards suck ass. There's a lot to be said for tactile feedback, and a good reason that laser-projected keyboard [thinkgeek.com] hasn't taken off.
I
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Privacy (esp in public places) is interesting point.
But honestly, my first association with notebooks somehow now is "desktop replacement". I use right now laptops at home and in office. (And frankly, have no wish to carry one around - I get enough of computer everywhere else. YMMV.)
What we do right now with laptops and more importantly how we do it, would change in coming years. Think of text/image/video-blogging - that is mostly public activity anyway and doesn't require privacy. Though yes, lack o
Well, I won't be using it (Score:2)
Since it's been slashdotted to hell.
Sheesh, what kind of a wunderbar laptop could it be, if it couldn't even handle a little slashdotting...
Overdue (Score:2)
Thinner than a Macbook Air! (Score:2)
Monthly BIOS license fees, DRM enabled login (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
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I am not sure. it could be a laptop finally able to run vista by 2015, or it is some linux users boredom who are running kde 5.2 with a Vista icon set and backgrounds.
The task bar that is 1/8 of the screen is the clue.
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Chances are that in 2015 laptops will be more able to run ReactOS as it is finally released in the 1.0 golden release, than Windows Vista. I am sure Microsoft will have Windows 8.0 by then which still won't be able to be run by any laptop.