I’m always amazed at the people who ask “What else can Apple do the iPhone in the future to change the design?” I’m amazed at the lack of imagination. It’s almost like someone in the early 1900s saying that everything that can be invented has already been invented.
As I’ve written in the past, product design goes hand-in-hand with technological advancements in materials, electronics, and software. I first became acquainted with this principle while working for NASA and speaking with actual rocket engineers.
I don’t simply want a big black slab that goes into my pocket. I want a small foldable device that I can take out and unfold to an almost iPad Mini size. And I want it to be thin and light. One day, the candy bar design of today is going to be regarded as an antique design that was from a time when we couldn’t do any better.
I saw this CNET video of what Intel is doing with foldable PCs. This is amazing. I’m so excited about where things are starting to go. In ten years, neither tablets, phones, or laptops are going to be anywhere near what they’re like today. Here is how C/NET describes it.
If you're buying a PC, you may be trying to decide whether you want a big laptop with a big screen or a little laptop with a little screen. But thanks to new folding display technology, Intel has built a prototype PC called Horseshoe Bend that could offer the best of both worlds: a little laptop with a big screen.
And I mean a really big screen. It measures 17.3 inches diagonally, a notch bigger than the 16-inch display in Apple's latest high-end MacBook Pro. You can best appreciate it -- as CNET has in an exclusive look -- when you fully unfold Horseshoe Bend, flip out its built-in kickstand, perch it on a tabletop and use its wireless keyboard. —Stephen Shankland, C/NET
Wow! A 12.5” laptop with a screen that unfolds to over 17”. How cool is that? For most people who mainly want to surf the web this would be great.
I bring up Intel’s laptop prototype in regards to the iPhone to show that breakthroughs in materials are happening. And once stable form factors are going to change for the better.
Apple can do better than the simple rectangular screen that doesn’t bend. I don’t know if that means foldable screens, goggles, or holograms. But we simply need more breakthroughs to happen first.
I don’t simply want a big black slab that goes into my pocket. I want a small foldable device that I can take out and unfold to an almost iPad Mini size. And I want it to be thin and light. One day, the candy bar design of today is going to be regarded as an antique design that was from a time when we couldn’t do any better.
I saw this CNET video of what Intel is doing with foldable PCs. This is amazing. I’m so excited about where things are starting to go. In ten years, neither tablets, phones, or laptops are going to be anywhere near what they’re like today. Here is how C/NET describes it.
If you're buying a PC, you may be trying to decide whether you want a big laptop with a big screen or a little laptop with a little screen. But thanks to new folding display technology, Intel has built a prototype PC called Horseshoe Bend that could offer the best of both worlds: a little laptop with a big screen.
And I mean a really big screen. It measures 17.3 inches diagonally, a notch bigger than the 16-inch display in Apple's latest high-end MacBook Pro. You can best appreciate it -- as CNET has in an exclusive look -- when you fully unfold Horseshoe Bend, flip out its built-in kickstand, perch it on a tabletop and use its wireless keyboard. —Stephen Shankland, C/NET
Wow! A 12.5” laptop with a screen that unfolds to over 17”. How cool is that? For most people who mainly want to surf the web this would be great.
I bring up Intel’s laptop prototype in regards to the iPhone to show that breakthroughs in materials are happening. And once stable form factors are going to change for the better.
Apple can do better than the simple rectangular screen that doesn’t bend. I don’t know if that means foldable screens, goggles, or holograms. But we simply need more breakthroughs to happen first.
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