Computerworld has an interesting feature on notebooks of the near-future. 2015 specifically, which is just 21 scant years before Zefram Cochrane will be born so no: you won’t see any notebooks capable of warp drive yet. The article shows some concept designs, some of which we’ve seen before, but others we haven’t. Features like 2 TB of internal storage and the first OLED displays abound in the article. While it’s unlikely that we’ll see these exact products on store shelves, many of the concepts of today do become components or features tomorrow. I particularly like the concept solar notebook shown. We can’t yet easily power a standard laptop with solar power, but the idea of including a solar panel that folds out when needed is appealing. Sadly, nobody thought to make a concept UMPC. I guess they go the way of Star Trek: The Original Series by 2015. ;)(via MobileRead)
Meet the notebooks of 2015
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Computerworld has an interesting feature on notebooks of the near-future. 2015 specifically, which is just 21 scant years before Zefram Cochrane will be born so no: you won’t see any notebooks capable of warp drive yet. The article shows some concept designs, some of which we’ve […]
about the only realistic one is the canova, as it seems to have some room for batteries.
the rest, must be running on some internal RDF or similar…
Kevin; they will be powered by Borg nanoprobes ;)
Still some of them do look interesting but we have yet to see a “padd” concept which, to my non-engineering/non OEM/non-computer programmer mind, should really not be that hard to see come to fruition BEFORE 2015.
Turn on any episode of Star Trek: TNG, Voyager, or DS9 and figure out how we can achieve the tech with the tools we have now, that’s one of the things I do for fun in my spare time. Some of it is very doable, at least in my own mind ;)
As if driving while text messaging wasn’t bad enough… Now we will have people that instant message while driving…