After the introduction of the iPhone it seems like people have fallen in love with touch screen technology. Including yours truly. So why not apply this technology to laptops. Introducing the TouchBook, just get rid of the conventional keyboard and track pad and just make two flat LED screens. On the bottom screen you will notice something familiar but foreign at the same time. A full size touch pad keyboard!! I can see it now black background white letters with an orange square outline around each letter. How amazing would that be? I guess the problem that has to be over come is getting the touchpad technology to have a fast enough response time to handle people who type at 100 wpm. There will be no mouse because the top screen will also have touch pad technology (but for those who need a mouse there will obviously be a USB port). But that’s not all! Just as the iPhone has an accelerometer, so will the TouchBook. Open up the computer 180 degrees and turn it on its side and you will notice that your screen size has doubled in size. Now all you need to do is plug in a mouse and a keyboard and you have your own iMac! The bottom screen (11in wide by 7 in tall) combines with the top screen (11in wide by 7 in tall) to create a screen that is 14 inches wide and 11 inches tall. The only problem to overcome is making the gap between the two screens integrated so that there is no gap between the two displays. Patent Pending! Jk or am I?
Monday, February 16, 2009
My Ideal MacBook – The TouchBook
After the introduction of the iPhone it seems like people have fallen in love with touch screen technology. Including yours truly. So why not apply this technology to laptops. Introducing the TouchBook, just get rid of the conventional keyboard and track pad and just make two flat LED screens. On the bottom screen you will notice something familiar but foreign at the same time. A full size touch pad keyboard!! I can see it now black background white letters with an orange square outline around each letter. How amazing would that be? I guess the problem that has to be over come is getting the touchpad technology to have a fast enough response time to handle people who type at 100 wpm. There will be no mouse because the top screen will also have touch pad technology (but for those who need a mouse there will obviously be a USB port). But that’s not all! Just as the iPhone has an accelerometer, so will the TouchBook. Open up the computer 180 degrees and turn it on its side and you will notice that your screen size has doubled in size. Now all you need to do is plug in a mouse and a keyboard and you have your own iMac! The bottom screen (11in wide by 7 in tall) combines with the top screen (11in wide by 7 in tall) to create a screen that is 14 inches wide and 11 inches tall. The only problem to overcome is making the gap between the two screens integrated so that there is no gap between the two displays. Patent Pending! Jk or am I?
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I know I remarked before that I thought this was an awesome idea -- however, now that I've given it some thought, I realize I would never be able to use it. When I type, my fingers like to rest on the keyboard. With this device, that would be impossible to do without typing "asdf jkl;" constantly. And I certainly would go insane attempting to hover my hands over the lower touchscreen, especially sitting at the computer hours on end.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they could make it so that, in order to actually type a letter, you would have to lift your finger up and then bring it back down on the key. This would greatly alter the normal flow of typing, though. And, how would you be able to hold down a key, such a shift, when you needed to?
I don't doubt the flexibility of having touch-keyboard would be immense, but I don't think the technology has advanced sufficiently enough to allow it to react the way we would expect or desire. Maybe if it attempted to include a multimodal approach by combining effective voice recognition and a gestural interface... this could be the next greatest innovation in laptop computing.