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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Chinese computer maker Taiji Electronics is showing off two new tablet-style computers. The first is called the Taiji T10A and it’s a 10 inch touchscreen model running Windows 7, a 32GB SSD, and a front-facing camera. The only thing really setting this model apart from the competition is that it’s powered by a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor and VX700 graphics…

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The Entourage Pocket Edge is a combination eBook reader and Android tablet… but while that might bring to mind a device that looks like the new Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor, with a single LCD display that you can use to surf the web, run apps, or read eBooks, the Pocket Edge is something different: A dual screen device with an…

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Toshiba’s Libretto W100 is one of the most interesting computers to hit the market in the last few years. At first glance, it looks like a rather chunky 7 inch netbook. Then you open it up and realize that instead of a keyboard and display, there are two touchscreen displays, with the lower screen serving as a virtual keyboard when…

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The Toshiba Libretto W100 is one of the first commercially available laptop-style devices with twin touchscreen displays and no physical keyboard, allowing you to use one of the displays as a virtual keyboard. But it looks like the Libretto W100 might not be the last. Acer is reportedly working on a much larger, more powerful dual touchscreen machine. While the…

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The Kno is a crazy ambitious tablet with twin 14 inch touchscreen displays. The device is aimed squarely at the education market, where it could replace textbooks, laptop computers, and paper notepads in one fell swoop. It’s not really meant to be a tablet for general consumers, and at 5.5 pounds, it’s not really in the same class as the…

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Notebooks with dual screen displays not doing it for you? How about a 2-sided tablet or smartphone that has touchscreens on both the front and the back? Samsung has filed a patent application for a device with those characteristics… for some reason. Clearly you can only look at one side of a device at a time, which might make you…

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After playing around with a dual-screen concept device from MSI earlier this year, I wasn’t 100% sold on the idea of a tablet that serves double duty as a laptop by letting you turn one display into a keyboard. On-screen keyboards just aren’t as easy to use as physical keyboards, I figured. But it turns out that the Apple iPad…

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Like the idea of the Kohjinsha dual-screen netbook (pictured below), but don’t feel like spending $1000 on a top-heavy netbook with a slide-out extra display? CINQ offers a simpler (and cheaper) solution. Just pick up a CINQ display and plug it into your laptop via a USB connection to add a secondary 10.1 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel LCD to…

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