Two new dual-screen laptops from Compal showed up at the IF Design Guide Awards website this week. And they present two different approaches toward how a dual-screen laptop should work. It’s unclear if either will come to market anytime soon. But Compal is a contract manufacturer that builds laptops and other devices for a number […]
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Compal’s FullVision is a dual-screen laptop (or laptop + standalone tablet)
Dual-screen laptops are all the rage these days, but while most companies have taken the boring approach of putting the second screen where the keyboard is, Compal’s FullVision laptop puts two screens in your line of sight while keeping the keyboard unaffected. The design is much more like the experience of using two desktop monitors at […]
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Kaleido is a screenless portable PC with a foldable keyboard and integrated projector
As you might have noticed, this year’s IF World Design Guide awards have been announced. And while I don’t particularly care about which companies have received awards, I do enjoy scrolling through the list of awardees for new and unusual devices I haven’t seen before. They don’t get much weirder than Kaleido. It’s basically a […]
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Compal PivoBook is a laptop with a display that works in landscape or portrait
Most laptops have 16:9 displays. Some have 16:10 or 3:2 screens. But one thing that pretty much every modern laptop has in common? The display is wider than it is tall. At first look, the PivoBook from Taiwanese manufacturer Compal looks the same. But there’s on key difference — you can flip the screen from […]
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Compal’s DuoFlip is the weirdest laptop concept I’ve seen in a while
Plenty of companies have laptops that transform into tablets. But Compal’s DuoFlip is something a little… different. At first glance it looks like a normal notebook, and you can use it like one by lifting the lid the way you would on any other laptop PC. Push the screen back 360 degrees and you can […]
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Compal’s Dual Cylindrical 360 is a weird, super-thin convertible tablet concept
In some ways convertible tablet-style laptops give you the best of both worlds. You have a full-fledged laptop that you can also use as a tablet by pushing the display back 360 degrees so that it’s back-to-back with the keyboard. But laptops with this type of 360-degree display are typically thicker and heavier than standalone […]
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ZTE Axon V and Axon S Slider have unusual solutions to the smartphone not problem
As smartphone makers have been moving toward nearly bezel-free smartphones, they have to figure out what to do with the components that you’d normally squeeze into a bezel, like cameras. So far the most popular solution has been to put a notch in the display. More recently, some phone makers have removed the bezels and […]
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ZTE Iceberg has 2 notches (top and bottom for front-facing stereo speakers)
Notches may be the controversial smartphone design trend of the year. But it looks like ZTE is thinking about going all-in on an upcoming phone by including not just a notch at the top of the screen, but a second one at the bottom. The Chinese device maker has submitted pictures of an unreleased phone […]