Articles about dual screen

Dual screen tablet prototypes have been shown during CES 2010 by a lot of small manufacturers eager to differentiate themselves from big names by doing something utterly different. Astri was one of them with their MyID eInk + touchscreen combo. I'm glad they managed to catch attention of investors as they've just announced the MyID will soon hit production. What's so important is the price: 65 $ for materials and manufacturing, which translates in 150$ max as retail price, a bargain considerin...

I like daring manufacturers that look always beyond current trends and bring to trade shows amazing prototypes of gadgets that might one day become reality. The same goes for Astri, who presented at CES a prototype of a dual screen eInk reader and touch tablet, but unlike the Entourage eDGe it's a more pocketable hybrid, and is in totally another class compared to the MSI dual screen netbook tablet.[caption id="attachment_1096" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Astri eReader + touch t...

Remember the enTourage eDGe dual tablet/eReader hybrid from last week? An interesting piece of engineering which need support from book sellers to reach its high potential. It seems enTourage is on the right track as its eBook store already has deals with McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons and from today from Blackboard leading e-learning platform used in many US universities.[caption id="attachment_896" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="enTourage eDGe dual...

If you thought the dual screen netbook/tablet MSI prototype was cool wait till I tell you about the enTourage eDGe dualbook: a strange mix between a touch screen tablet and an eReader glued together like siamese twins. There's two devices inside the enTourage eDGe, each one of them with its own advantages and disadvantages as the eReader can't display full color pictures and videos while the netbook isn't suited for long periods of reading.That's why this marvelous concept brought two differ...

If you're sad that Microsoft didn't announce the Curier concept today we have good news for you: MSI has shown at CES a prototype of a dual screen eReader tablet concept that uses the fully fledged Windows 7, no small unknown Linux distribution here.  Even if MSI presented this concept as a dual screen eReader the truth is that it's more like a dual screen netbook where the keyboard was replaced with the second screen.Hardware is provided by Intel in from of an Atom Z processor, so expect g...

We've showed you the Microsoft Courier concept, a dual screen netbook/reader they've released a promotional video a few months ago, but some users couldn't wait that much so decided to build their own dual screen netbook. The base was once again the Dell Mini 9, a robust netbook when it comes to modifications, but a pretty awful one when it comes to performance and ergonomics.[caption id="attachment_589" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Harlequin working"][/caption]This dual scre...

Microsoft is the latest manufacturer who expressed an interest in touch screen tablets and even presented a touch tablet concept called Courier, which features 2 screens and can be used exactly as notebook for writing plus all the goodies associated with the digital world. The video below shows exactly what the Microsoft Courier can do and how:The two displays are 7 inch in diagonal at least (the correct dimension remains to be confirmed) and are multitouch enabled and are designed for w...