Kohjinsha, the japanese laptop manufacturer is selling dual screen laptops for Christmas retailing at a reasonable price of $900 to $1100 depending on various press releases on the product. While dual screen machines aren't a latest innovation, Kohjinsha appears to have gotten the industrial design right on this one beating out pricier and more prestigious brands like Lenovo. The youtube video can be seen here:
One wonders if dual screen mobile devices will soon appear on the market. One of the biggest uses of a dual screen at work has been to run multiple sessions and operating systems and drag and drop across seamlessly. The use of a multi screen phone has been explored way back in 2006 as some of these links show:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/dual-screen-cellphone-prototype-two-great-tastes-that-taste-gre/
These appear much better than the clam shell dual screen ones that companies like Samsung tried to prototype.
Perhaps the world is ready for an i-phone like dual screen device that allows interesting gaming/social networking/social context app to be released.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Mobility for everyone
I was reading a well written piece about the future of mobility penned in early 2009 that detailed 5 key technology trends which will make life on the road easier. The article which can be accessed here:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9127152/Mobile_tech_2010_Five_trends_that_will_change_our_lives?taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1 detailed out how from high class notebooks & netbooks to better batteries & the reality of fuel cells coming to you, solid state & hybrid storage for as little as a $10 upgrade, ubiquitous networks, smarter phones will completely transform the mobile experience over the next 2 to 3 years.
Unless a physical limit is reached to miniaturization and the wonders of material science innovation stop at some point, we are accelerating towards a society where one be at any part of the world and share our experience instantly with our network.
As 2009 nears to a close, looking out into the future, one wonders what'll happen if we're all accessible to each other all the time at the lowest possible cost of access? Apart from the usual privacy concerns that come up, it'll give a new meaning to the term power of information. Whosoever holds the most amount of context about certain events, people or trends will be able to trade this information as a precious commodity. I believe such a future can only be made possible if the networks get truly democratized, similar to how the internet has become a massive cyberhighway that connects any part of the world to any other part.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9127152/Mobile_tech_2010_Five_trends_that_will_change_our_lives?taxonomyId=15&pageNumber=1 detailed out how from high class notebooks & netbooks to better batteries & the reality of fuel cells coming to you, solid state & hybrid storage for as little as a $10 upgrade, ubiquitous networks, smarter phones will completely transform the mobile experience over the next 2 to 3 years.
Unless a physical limit is reached to miniaturization and the wonders of material science innovation stop at some point, we are accelerating towards a society where one be at any part of the world and share our experience instantly with our network.
As 2009 nears to a close, looking out into the future, one wonders what'll happen if we're all accessible to each other all the time at the lowest possible cost of access? Apart from the usual privacy concerns that come up, it'll give a new meaning to the term power of information. Whosoever holds the most amount of context about certain events, people or trends will be able to trade this information as a precious commodity. I believe such a future can only be made possible if the networks get truly democratized, similar to how the internet has become a massive cyberhighway that connects any part of the world to any other part.
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