Dual-screen laptop sees double
Earlier this month we mentioned a prototype dual touch-screen laptop but didn't think we'd be seeing anything like it off the drawing boards anytime soon. Shows you how much we know.
(Credit:
Estari)
Pennsylvania-based Estari started out as a software company but somehow ended up developing a patented dual-screen computer originally for the U.S. military and is now selling its wares to the public. The specs of its "2-VU" model aren't all that noteworthy--a 1.83GHx Intel Dual Core processor, 1GB of memory, a 60GB hard drive and no conventional keyboard or mouse, according to I4U News. But what makes it special, of course, are its two 15-inch touch-screen displays.
We still don't think it's a great idea to read the newspaper this way, but that's up to you. Just don't expect to get your $4,350 back if you drop it on the subway.
Is it only to look at and do a few simply screen manipultaions? Seriously, try using word or something like that on a touch screen with no Keyboard?
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As previous post says, this is "special" as in taking the short bus to school "special".
What, again, is the upside here?
John
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Our only reasonable hope is that after this idea tanks, the company sells it to one of the big guys--Toshiba, Gateway, Fujitsu--someone friendly to tablet PCs--the idea then gets properly marketed, and these guys make their fortune on a patent for a good idea, making this doomed device a future novelty collectable as the ill-fated first.
As was already mentioned it has some very good military applications. But even better, as could be implied from the picture, is its benefit to the medical field. Imagine having a patient's chart displayed on one side while vitals are constantly being monitored and updated on the other side. Imagine even further the notion that doctors could carry their dual-screen laptop around with them and wirelessly obtain, monitor, and treat patients from anywhere in the hospital!
This is a great product which I have no doubt will eventually flourish in the medical field (as well as military and other fields, such as general science, etc).
As for the general public, it will be nothing more than a novelty toy.
This laptop doesn't need a keyboard or mouse because it has dual touch screen monitors. The touch screen is the input device so obviously it doesn't need a mouse nor a keyboard. It's a great laptop option but the price does seem to be a bit expensive given touch screens are not costly. In fact, any flat panel can easily and inexpensively be converted to a touch screen with a simple add on kit.
- Make The Touch Screen Multi Usable
- by ChimC January 31, 2008 5:04 AM PST
- what they would need to do is get software or create software that allows the bottom screen to have diffrent functions, i am doing a product in Business studies AS and i came up with the idea of having a double touch screen laptop and they only thing i could find on the net was this. it they have the bottom touch screen as multi usable they could get it so you can change it to a keyboard, or something such as a drawing pad that would help people who do are or summin along those lines. if they could get summin up and running along them lines then it will go huge wiht the genral public, and i would like to have this noted that i had the idea lol.
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