New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
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Virtual Devices has developed a flashlight-size gadget that projects an image of a keyboard on any surface and lets people input data by typing on the image.
IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again.
New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
IBM Research is experimenting with a chameleon-like computing device called the Meta Pad, designed to easily convert from a desktop machine to a handheld to a notebook and back again.
New designs for dual-screen PDAs could stimulate the increasingly moribund market for handhelds.
Commentary:Hewlett-Packard has a vision of what the next generation of the desktop PC will look like and what it will be able to do. But Rich Castagna thinks the vision might be a little shortsighted.
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
Virtual Devices has developed a flashlight-size gadget that projects an image of a keyboard on any surface and lets people input data by typing on the image.
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