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NETBOOK PC : IDEA

Lucid Touch - Gestures on back of device.
Posted in netbook | November 3, 2008 3pm

If you put a multi-touch gesture pad on the back of a small tablet, you can hold it like a PSP and use your fingers on the back of the device to type or click without blocking your view or getting the screen dirty.

If the screen is also a touchscreen, you can use fingers in back and front together to create unique effects and gestures (like pinching and sliding fingers to rotate something as if you were turning a volume knob).

The keyboard would be a new layout instead of a standard Qwerty, but you'd still be using all your fingers so your typing speed would be as fast as a full size keyboard.

...just imagine the possibilities for gaming controls if you design a game specifically for this type of interface.

This is not my idea. This is an idea by Patrick Baudisch from Microsoft's research group. It was so great that I put it up on this site to get more people interested. His web site for Lucid Touch has a demonstration video!

http://research.microsoft .com/users/baudisch/projects/ lucidtouch/
(Take the spaces out of the link, Asus puts them in there when I post and I can't get them out.)

I am putting up a laptop design on this site featuring Lucid-Touch shortly. If you like the Lucid-Touch idea, keep an eye out for it and give it a thumbs up! (...and give this idea post a thumbs up too)

GAMER PC : IDEA

Graphics Hardware Simplification
Posted in gamer | November 3, 2008 3pm

There's no need for a separate video chipset in a laptop. Most gamer laptops have a multi-core cpu and at least 2 ram slots. You should be able to dedicate an entire ram slot or cpu core to processing video in lieu of a video gpu.

PS3's cel processors worked this way, and Intel's upcoming Larabee video cards might eventually lead to a similar platform.

An advanced version would be a multi-core (12+) cpu that could re-assign and dedicate different cores and ram slots to just video as needed. At very least. At the very worst, you may need to restart the machine to go into a 'gaming mode' that would dedicate more cpu cores to graphics rendering.

(I think desktops might go in this direction eventually as well. Just having a huge cpu block that handles the video as well. Of course this architecture would put video card manufacturers out of business, but I could care less.)