Displayed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Novero Solana seeks to combine the comforts of a laptop with the mobility and ease of use of a tablet. Well of course, it is easier said than done, but apparently, the hybrid Solana can handle both jobs efficiently.
Commissioned by Sony, designer John “Wilhelm” Dunn converted a Vaio F into a cool Steampunk machine. Named eCog Mercury, the machine mod is finished in birch plywood trim, with typewriter like retro key caps, and a sprinkling of copper and gauges. It also includes non-functional gauges and steel pipes that serve the purpose of being wires and drawer pulls.
HP may have plans for saying goodbye to its PC and laptop business, but while it is there it apparently has every intention to continue its work in the field. HP and Marchesa have teamed to create a line of limited edition laptops encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Obviously that makes these laptops all about bling and exclusivity, but HP has added a saving grace by announcing that these special laptops will be auctioned off, and all proceeds will go for charity. And as we all know, charity makes vanity a good thing.
gScreen finally seems to have sorted out its business with the dual screen laptop that was supposed to be out some two years ago. Initially to be made available in USA and Canada, the laptop works its way with two 17-inch screens. Working on dual screens could be good for productivity, and well basically you get to do a whole lot more, and it does sound kind of cool. It is available in two flavors, the SpaceBook 17 i5 priced at $2295, and the SpaceBook 17 i7 priced at $2595. gScreen is now accepting pre-orders for the SpaceBook.
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A long time ago, every computer used to have floppy disk drives, but they disappeared as the medium became obsolete. It would appear that optical drives are about to go down the same road. Fujitsu has announced that it will replace optical drives in its Lifebook laptops with pico projectors. Fujitsu hasn’t really spilled details on the projectors, but I don’t see any tears dropping for the loss of optical drives in a few models.
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Swedish company Tobii claims to have developed a system where the user can control a computer merely be the movement of eyes. Mouse movement, pointing, selecting and scrolling can all be simply done with ocular movement. Tobii teamed up with Lenovo to port the system to laptops, and hopes to have its eye tracking technology read and price effective for the market in a couple of years.
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We’ve known long enough that robots will rise to power one day. Perhaps writing about them would give us a few brownie points when our robotic overlords rise to power. The image apparently is an advertisement from a laptop shop in Chennai, India.
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Automobile inspired gadgets aren’t a new thing, but they never ever fail to grab attention. With its latest offerings, Asus is only upping the game; the new Lamborghini inspired notebooks don’t just carry the automaker’s insignia, they carry some design elements from the supercars as well. Asus Eee VX6 and VX7 have design cues and a rear-end resembling that of the Lamborghini Murcielago to go along the raging bull marque. As for the specs, the laptops have USB 3.0 and Bluetooth 3.0 connectivity, LED backlit HD screen, processor power ranging from a 1.8GHz dual core Atom in the VX6, to an Intel i7 with up to 16GB of RAM in the VX7, and a Blu-ray player for some versions.
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Bloom Laptop, created by a Stanford group addresses the problems of recycling the e-waste that is generated in mounds by conventional laptops. Generally, laptops do not lend themselves well to recycling, or even disassembly. Bloom Laptop design handles this problem very efficiently, being very easy to disassemble. The same property of the laptop also lends it well towards upgrading by the consumers. Individual components can easily be removed, upgraded and repaired without having to buy a new device when major upgrades are required.
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Valentine notebook concept disguises all its modern tech under the garb of a typewriter. But that’s no ordinary typewriter either, it is the famous Vilentine compact typewriter invented and designed by Ettore Sottsass and Perry King in 1969. The notebook concept on its part, has a flexible display where the paper would have gone in a typewriter.
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