Comments on: Dual-screen laptop sees double

Price tag more than $4,000

[TNBK]

Dual Screen Laptop?

Ok so how wants to pay all that money for a laptop with two screens and no keyboard?
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?
Have Fun
lol

[rustvibe]

Special alright

"But what makes it special, of course, are its two 15-inch touch-screen displays."

As previous post says, this is "special" as in taking the short bus to school "special".

What, again, is the upside here?

[delaisaac]

Special, I'm not so sure.

Maybe I should go back and read the original article, but I'm just not quite understanding this thing. I think that I'd have to go with an Origami instead...yeah right.

John
http://www.monomachines.com

[Scott Gardener]

Oh, crap; a great concept is now doomed

I figured that something similar to this might replace laptops as we know it in about ten years. But, I can now kiss that hope goodbye. This obscure company patented the idea, and they're probably not going to be able to market it well. So, it'll get shelved, and the idea can join Nikoli Tesla's Death Ray in the long ranks of would be future technologies that will not happen.

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.

[techmonkey]

Not for gen. public but HUGE Medical Implications

Despite what CNET (Crave) has to say, this device really isnt going to be marketed toward the general public, considering the $4000+ price tag.

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.

[boxofhomes]

Dual-Touch Screen Laptop

F.Y.I. to readers:
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.

[ChimC]

Make The Touch Screen Multi Usable

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.