SlashGear Japan
I do enjoy a nice concept design. Yes, they’re usually so fanciful that they’ll never, ever see the light of day as a real product, but it’s important to let designers flex their unfettered creativity occasionally else they might go mad and start drawing floppy dog ears on mp3 players. Felix Schmidberger is the latest to hawk his futuristic wares, with the Compenion laptop. Challenged to design a portable computer for 2015 he’s obviously a fan of tablet PCs and OLED.
A slide-up touchscreen panel reveals an OLED touchscreen keyboard which can obviously change layout depending on preference or language. It’s a multi-touch screen, responsive to both finger-presses and a dedicated pen called “senstylus”; if you need more traditional methods of interaction then you can slot it into any one of a number of docks, each designed for different tasks.
So, for the office you might have a pretty mundane dock with a normal keyboard and printer, while in the lounge at home there’s a dock with a built-in projector for enjoying big-screen films.
It’s an interesting idea, and undoubtedly a beautiful design, but I’m not sure about the landscape orientation. Anyone who has actually used a slate tablet PC for any length of time knows that most of the time it’s held as a clipboard, and Felix hasn’t done any renders to show how that broad wrist-rest might impact on portrait use.
Felix Schmidberger [via SCI FI]
4 Responses to “Compenion concept shows possible 2015 laptop evolution”
niclet June 14, 2007
Mmmm… 2015 and still the same ‘ol Vista version ;-)
+1Joel November 30, 2007
WOW! GRABE GANDA. do you have a big picture and manuals tnx
NeutralChris November 30, 2007
If we’re still using Vista in 2015, then we’re all screwed. And I’m with you on the “clip-board” style hold, it would be silly to hold this in a landscape format… the quickest fix I could see is that the monitor folds back over the keyboard somehow, but it doesn’t look like they considered that in the renders…
NeutralDan December 8, 2007
This is a joke right??? I mean in 2015 and they are going to minimize a laptop/labtop when it was small from even pre-1995 and could even pull of everything thati shown here is a complete joke.
There is also something called a videogame system which from at least the days of the SNES which is practically an affordable Amiga with high 3d capabilities and could run most high end programs that people use daily and cost barely nothing right now.
Asking hey if people was still using Vista in 2015 is like asking if people was still uisng the SNES in 2020. Anyhows the dumbfounding of society will probably produce more dilberts who will fit right in with theconsumer base of this product. If somebody could shop for Macy clothing in 2002 and Macy’s is right outside then there will be a market for this NDS reject.
Agian the NDS can do all of this and any add-on’s will just be features we will be laughing at later watching the drones throw there money out the window for this piece of trash.
Whoever made this and thinks hey in 2015 this will sell like hotcakes needs to go back to the drawing board and say hmm…… Projector, sper small micro pc, touch screen, hmm, hmm, and hope people don’t pass there abandonware to there children.
Yes now. Dilbert will have a labtop he can fit in his crawl space.
Neutral