It seems like every few years there’s a new gadget to add to your collection. The problem is that a smartphone doesn’t replace a laptop, and a tablet doesn’t replace either — and now you’ve got three gadgets which need to be able to talk to one another (or the web) if you want to keep your music, email, and…

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Sony is showing off a concept design for an ultrabook which can be used as a notebook or a tablet. The touchscreen display covers the keyboard when you want to use the device as a tablet. But you can slide out the keyboard and prop up the display for use in tablet mode. The design looks a lot like the…

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Toshiba already offers a line of 7 and 10 inch Thrive tablets, and the company just introduced the 10.1 inch Excite tablet which is one of the thinnest around. Now the company is also showing off concepts for a handful of additional tablets, including models with 5.1, 7.7, and even 13.3 inch displays. The devices on display are just early…

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Samsung has been showing off concepts for futuristic displays for the past few years. Some of the company’s designs include flexible displays that you could roll up and put in a pocket or slap around your wrist and wear as a watch. Others involve semi-transparent displays, allowing you to look right through the screen at times, while viewing text and…

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Korea’s KT isn’t the first company to envision a smartphone that can transform into a notebook or tablet with the addition of a docking station. The Motorola Atrix 4G already has a laptop dock, and the upcoming Asus Padfone will be able to turn into a tablet. But this week KT is showing off a concept device that can do…

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There are plenty of devices on the market which let you charge your laptop, phone, or tablet using a solar panel. But have you ever wondered what a laptop with solar panels built into the case would look like? As part of a contest sponsored by Fujitsu, a designer named Andrea Ponti came up with the Luce laptop concept showing…

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Every time you touch a tablet you’re expending a little bit of energy… and so is your tablet as its battery slowly drains. But designers Yonggu Do and Eunha Seo have a vision for a tablet with a built-in piezoelectric film that could actually generate power every time you touch the screen so that you could go longer without having…

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It seems like every day there’s a new report suggesting that tablets are or aren’t killing off traditional laptop computers. But designer Hao-Chun Huang has come up with a concept device that lets you have the best of both worlds. The concept is called the Flexbook, and it was submitted as part of a Fujitsu/DesignBook competition. The device would feature…

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Having spent a little time with hybrid tablet-style notebooks which swap out a physical keyboard for a touchscreen display that you’re supposed to type on, I have to say the experience is still pretty lousy. While the Toshiba Libretto W100 and Acer Iconia Touchbook look cool as all get-out, they’re still expensive niche concept devices at the moment that aren’t…

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A company called Polymer Vision was showing off a concept for an eBook reader called the Readius with a flexible display a few years ago before the company lost all funding. But now Readius is back on track… sort of. The Digital Reader reports that Polymer Vision was acquired by Wistron and the company is continuing to develop the Readius…

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Like the idea of a compact netbook which won’t take up too much space when you throw it in the bag, but can’t live without a nice big display? Designer Niels van Hoof has put together a concept design for a tri-fold notebook called the Feno that might meet your needs… or at least it would if anybody was ever…

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A few leaks and rumors about Nokia’s future plans are making the rounds this morning. First up is a Nokia Communicator device that looks a bit like a Nintendo 3DS thanks to its two screens and 3D display technology. This device looks like something Nokia is actually considering, having shown up in a patent application from the company. That doesn’t…

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