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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
OLPC2.0 Ebook
Techy Goodness...
Take your Asus EEE, just as a base. Only, make it a half an inch again as thick by folding a second monitor onto the unit. Now you've got a triptych of two smallish screens and a small-but-usable keyboard. So loosen the hinge on the base/keyboard a little to allow it to fold back, add in the iPhone's ability to understand orientation, and suddenly you've got a dual-monitor mini-pc that can be turned sideways for standard broadsheet/magazine/comic/book format reading while you're sitting on the subway. While you're at it, go ahead and make one or both of those monitors a touch screen (and don't worry overmuch about adding size onto this thing, again, see again the iPhone) so you can turn pages when it's in book format. And, actually, y'know what? Let's make that keyboard a snap off (retractable-wire so we can save energy/space) unit so that when we get where we're going and want to take notes, we can unhook it from it's monitors, prop them up on the table (like a hardback book without pages to flip closed), select "One page of book, one notebook page" and take notes/copypaste as we're reading. Or book/web so we can simulblog, or look up references to material that's been linked in the book, or is hyperlinked in the version of today's paper/magazine that auto-downloaded this morning before we woke up.
And let's plug our phone into one of the jacks in the side of the mini workstation so that if we get an incoming call we can hit the "accept videocall" button and wire it through the included camera on the edge of the screen. Or "connect to remote computer" -- if we've called in sick that day and don't feel like letting the boss see we're at a coffee shop -- and the second monitor will connect to the boss' work machine so she can highlight the important items you need to grab and drag to your own desktop to work on later.
But, again, there's no reason for this to be a five years from now machine, as everything exists to make it work right now."
from the Whitechapel Forums post on "technology in the next 5 years" thread:
my favorite quote, by Ariana:
"Something I'm not precisely certain why does not exist just yet:
Take your Asus EEE, just as a base. Only, make it a half an inch again as thick by folding a second monitor onto the unit. Now you've got a triptych of two smallish screens and a small-but-usable keyboard. So loosen the hinge on the base/keyboard a little to allow it to fold back, add in the iPhone's ability to understand orientation, and suddenly you've got a dual-monitor mini-pc that can be turned sideways for standard broadsheet/magazine/comic/book format reading while you're sitting on the subway. While you're at it, go ahead and make one or both of those monitors a touch screen (and don't worry overmuch about adding size onto this thing, again, see again the iPhone) so you can turn pages when it's in book format. And, actually, y'know what? Let's make that keyboard a snap off (retractable-wire so we can save energy/space) unit so that when we get where we're going and want to take notes, we can unhook it from it's monitors, prop them up on the table (like a hardback book without pages to flip closed), select "One page of book, one notebook page" and take notes/copypaste as we're reading. Or book/web so we can simulblog, or look up references to material that's been linked in the book, or is hyperlinked in the version of today's paper/magazine that auto-downloaded this morning before we woke up.
And let's plug our phone into one of the jacks in the side of the mini workstation so that if we get an incoming call we can hit the "accept videocall" button and wire it through the included camera on the edge of the screen. Or "connect to remote computer" -- if we've called in sick that day and don't feel like letting the boss see we're at a coffee shop -- and the second monitor will connect to the boss' work machine so she can highlight the important items you need to grab and drag to your own desktop to work on later.
But, again, there's no reason for this to be a five years from now machine, as everything exists to make it work right now."
Now where can i get me one of those?
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