ON INNOVATIVE LAPTOP SCREENS

FLIPPING FOR IT

Now here's an innovation in a laptop that I'd whimsically imagined a couple of years of ago, but never actually thought I'd see in an available product.

As Dynamism, the site that makes cool laptops that are available in Asia before they are in the U.S., points out in it's introduction,

"The Flybook VM is an innovate laptop featuring an Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz processor, 1GB RAM (max 2GB), 30GB HDD (80GB max), and integrated dual-layer DVD burner.  The 12.1" display is a wide-aspect 1280x768 with an obviously unique feature: its position is totally adjustable.

Thanks to a telescoping arm, the screen can be positioned higher and over the keyboard, and at any angle.  Air travel, and the space restrictions therein, was the inspiration. 

But it turns out to be very convenient to adjust the screen position.  It is easier to find a spot that easy on your neck, and your eyes.  We really like this feature."

This is something that could be useful to mainstream users, providing the flexibility of a desktop setup in a very portable laptop.

Now here's the additional tweak on this feature that I'd imagined, that would be really cool to see implemented here.

And that'd be the ability to PIVOT the screen from landscape to portrait mode, much as one can do with many desktop LCD monitors.

The advantage of that of course would be the ability to read a lot more content on the web in a portrait mode.

A general pet peeve of mine has been that too many laptops designs are moving toward wide-screen implementations on the assumption that most users would primarily like to view HD, DVD and other video content on their laptops, which in many cases are better on a wider screen. 

But we increasingly use our computers  to read more and more stuff that we used to read on 8 1/2" by 11" pieces of paper.

But computer screens are growing wider faster than they are taller. 

It's one of the reasons I'm still attracted to Tablet PC laptops, since many of those models offer the ability to pivot the display in software rather than hardware.

So a portable machine that could offer the flexibility to accommodate both uses would be really cool.

And it's just another iteration away from the Flybook VM innovation already implemented above.

Comments

[Dirk Karl Maßat]

A very interesting site, I think. The Idea of Technometry was new for me but worth to be read and thought abot it (although I'm not a native english-speaker and have some difficulties whith this language)

[Paul]

If you're interested in improved display technology, you should look at organic light emitting diodes or OLED technology.

More power efficient that LCD and plasma, OLEDs are also THINNER than both. There's also work being done on flexible displays using the technology.

We work with a company at the forefront of the technology, Universal Display Corporation. It has exciting possibilities.

[Bernhard Heß]

There are many informations in this blog. Thanks!