Want one!

[rolanni]

Another prototype by Asus is this touch-sensitive screen that can be rolled or folded and used as a computer or tablet. Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Sources: news.com.au
Baltimore Sun

Comments

[schulman.livejournal.com]

How horrifying, though, if you left it in your pocket and sent it through the washing machine.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

The latest crop of cell phones here in Japan includes a whole line of them that are waterproofed -- they show someone dumping them in a puddle, aquarium, and other accidental dunkings, then shake them dry and use it. So perhaps the foldable computer will also be dunkable.

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Yep...this is what I'm waiting for!

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

...and while I'm at it, I want teleporters too!!

[jl-johnson.livejournal.com]

OMG, I want one of those so bad I'm drooling....

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

I would want to type on one before I put it into the "I want one" category. Typing without tactile feedback on my iPhone is not pleasant and just because my hands would fit on this keyboard doesn't mean that they would stay on the correct home keys. But, maybe they've come up with some sort of solution to the problem.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

The old solution was little dots of glue (carefully selected to avoid melting the board). E.g., put one dot on F and J. Many keyboards include such subtle hints, no reason that you couldn't use one on a foldable keyboard. Thinking about it, the first slate keyboard I saw in about 1978 or 9 someone did that, too. That was a keyboard without keys, used in a hardware lab because you could spill stuff on it, wipe it, and it just kept working.

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

Neato keen!

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

I want a neural interface for my computer. As Larry Niven pointed out years ago in Oath of Fealty, communicating over the 'Net via a neural interface would be the next best thing to being telepathic.

[pedanther]

On the other hand, as Neal Stephenson pointed out in The Diamond Age, you wouldn't want to be around after the spammers figured out how to send advertisements directly into your brain.

[readinggeek451]

Or viruses. Can you imagine getting a computer virus in your brain?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Nah; I already have too many voices in my head.

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

To Quote RuPaul...Oh, my Gerkins!!!

That is just a major cool toy.

*must resist, must resist, must resist*

Already have too many toys...

Laura J. Underwood