Laptop Designs
Technology takes a leap almost each day in this era. Gadgets and gizmos are progressing so rapidly that an illusion today becomes a reality tomorrow.
All this pace of technology has inspired me to make a collection of Computers of the Future. You will see the concepts for making laptops and computers of the future. Making such a design requires an immense amount of imagination and guts. Without a doubt, the artists who created these conceptual designs deserve a standing applauseWhat was the first laptop computer? Some might say it was the Osborne 1, while others would single out the Xerox NoteTaker. The answer would depend on whether you apply the words “commercially available” to that question (the nod then goes to the Osborne 1). While there are different schools of thought about which system came first, everyone seems to agree that it all started with Alan Kay’s Dynabook. The Dynabook was conceptualized by computer scientist Alan Kay back in 1968 and famously immortalized in his 1972 paper entitled “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages.” This was his vision for portable computing. In a time when computers were massive boxes that were housed in their own rooms, Kay’s sub-2-pound Dynabook was a revelation, measuring about 9 by 12 by 0.75 inches with a fixed keyboard. Unfortunately, this concept computer never actually made it to market (imagine where we’d be now if it had). Looking at its design, though, one might say it’s a hybrid of today’s notebooks and tabletsAspiring DJs to scratch and spin digital media files on the Turn Table PC, a prototype of a combo system from Fujitsu that can serve as a notebook or as a digital turntable.
The design calls for a 20-inch LCD screen that can be folded closed to use the turntable function. Users control the turntable by a touch screen on the outside of the notebook’s lid. Also in the future tech department, Fujistu showed the Ultra Mobile, a handheld computer with a touch screen that includes a built-in digital camera, a digital music player, and support for wireless Internet access. The same size as a CD jewel case, the Ultra Mobile uses a novel method to turn the system on and off: users rotate the front half of the machine–including the screen–45 degrees, changing the computer’s shape from a square to a star.
Technology takes a leap almost each day in this era. Gadgets and gizmos are progressing so rapidly that an illusion today becomes a reality tomorrow.
All this pace of technology has inspired me to make a collection of Computers of the Future. You will see the concepts for making laptops and computers of the future. Making such a design requires an immense amount of imagination and guts. Without a doubt, the artists who created these conceptual designs deserve a standing applauseWhat was the first laptop computer? Some might say it was the Osborne 1, while others would single out the Xerox NoteTaker. The answer would depend on whether you apply the words “commercially available” to that question (the nod then goes to the Osborne 1). While there are different schools of thought about which system came first, everyone seems to agree that it all started with Alan Kay’s Dynabook. The Dynabook was conceptualized by computer scientist Alan Kay back in 1968 and famously immortalized in his 1972 paper entitled “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages.” This was his vision for portable computing. In a time when computers were massive boxes that were housed in their own rooms, Kay’s sub-2-pound Dynabook was a revelation, measuring about 9 by 12 by 0.75 inches with a fixed keyboard. Unfortunately, this concept computer never actually made it to market (imagine where we’d be now if it had). Looking at its design, though, one might say it’s a hybrid of today’s notebooks and tabletsAspiring DJs to scratch and spin digital media files on the Turn Table PC, a prototype of a combo system from Fujitsu that can serve as a notebook or as a digital turntable.
The design calls for a 20-inch LCD screen that can be folded closed to use the turntable function. Users control the turntable by a touch screen on the outside of the notebook’s lid. Also in the future tech department, Fujistu showed the Ultra Mobile, a handheld computer with a touch screen that includes a built-in digital camera, a digital music player, and support for wireless Internet access. The same size as a CD jewel case, the Ultra Mobile uses a novel method to turn the system on and off: users rotate the front half of the machine–including the screen–45 degrees, changing the computer’s shape from a square to a star.
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