There comes a time when tech companies realize that there is only so much they can do with the aesthetics of a product in a specific form factor. Take the Bar form factor Touchscreen Smartphones for example. Sure you can play around with the material, screen size, button placement and colors but in the end the one phone doesn’t look too much more different from others.
Something similar could have been said about laptop computers and notebooks until recently. The beauty of technology however, is that it can evolve on its own or in harmony with art. While many manufacturers pushed the boundaries of laptop design in various different ways over the past, with slide-out or rotating screens, aluminum or wood construction, multiple screens and the like, one thing particularly caught my eye.
It’s called the Feno Folding Notebook, and it displays utter disregard for conventional laptop design. Rather than two folding sections, the Feno is designed to fold in to three different modules. The screen is an OLED display, which is capable of being flexible enough to wrap around the keyboard bit. Although the Feno is still a concept, the designer Neils Van Hoof says that the design is plausible and can be manufactured, it is only a matter of time before OLED displays become mainstream.
We have all seen videos floating around on the internet where people roll up or fold their futuristic laptops into the size of a credit card and put them in their wallets. What differentiates this concept from those in the videos is that this seems like a “In The Near Future” kind of possibility unlike the others that may only be available in the age of the Jetsons!!!
I was moved by the attractiveness of the device and convinced that designs like this might be available to us in the very near future. Surely Mr. Hoof saw beyond the mainstream and though of creating something different, practical and beautiful at the same time. Mr. Hoof merged technology with art.
Something similar could have been said about laptop computers and notebooks until recently. The beauty of technology however, is that it can evolve on its own or in harmony with art. While many manufacturers pushed the boundaries of laptop design in various different ways over the past, with slide-out or rotating screens, aluminum or wood construction, multiple screens and the like, one thing particularly caught my eye.
It’s called the Feno Folding Notebook, and it displays utter disregard for conventional laptop design. Rather than two folding sections, the Feno is designed to fold in to three different modules. The screen is an OLED display, which is capable of being flexible enough to wrap around the keyboard bit. Although the Feno is still a concept, the designer Neils Van Hoof says that the design is plausible and can be manufactured, it is only a matter of time before OLED displays become mainstream.
We have all seen videos floating around on the internet where people roll up or fold their futuristic laptops into the size of a credit card and put them in their wallets. What differentiates this concept from those in the videos is that this seems like a “In The Near Future” kind of possibility unlike the others that may only be available in the age of the Jetsons!!!
I was moved by the attractiveness of the device and convinced that designs like this might be available to us in the very near future. Surely Mr. Hoof saw beyond the mainstream and though of creating something different, practical and beautiful at the same time. Mr. Hoof merged technology with art.
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