Smartbook Design Concepts
Freescale partnered with the Savannah College of Art and Design to come up with new mobile computing design concepts. These “smartbook” designs aren’t your typical notebooks as you can see in the attached photo gallery.
Microsoft Surface Meets Mobile Computers (demo)
Rob Bushway’s put together a video demo of several multi-touch applications that will be part of Windows 7 Touch Pack. Some of the applications were first seen on the Microsoft Surface, an expensive table-sized computer.
Read MoreMotion Computing J3400 Rugged Tablet PC Announced
Motion Computing’s introduced the J3400, a rugged Tablet PC J3400 that’s light weight and built to stand up to abuse. Rob Bushway got an early copy of the J3400 and put together a photo gallery and 30 minutes of video over at GottaBeMobile.com.
Dr. TabletPC: My High-Tech Doc (video)
I went to my new doctor’s office for the first time on Friday, but instead of worrying too much about my health I ended up interviewing him about how he uses a Tablet PC all day long to better serve his patients. I shot a video of him explaining how he uses his tablet and why more doctors don’t use tablets and Electronic Health Records.
ThinkPad X200s and X200t Announced
Lenovo’s introduced the ThinkPad X200s, a lightweight business notebook for business travelers and the X200t,the first widescreen ThinkPad tablet. Tom Ribble, the director of worldwide ThinkPad marketing, called me this morning to talk about the latest additions to the ThinkPad family.
HP 2730p: HP Tablet Updated (video)
HP’s officially introduced the 2730p business tablet in the U.S. The 2730p improves on the 2710p, with faster processors and more friendly user controls. HP’s Kyle Thorton gives a quick demo of the 2730p in the following video.
xTablet T8700 Waterproof Tablet Goes Swimming
Most notebooks don’t mix well with liquids, but the XTablet 8700 from Mobile Demand is no ordinary computer. The xTablet T8700 exceeds military specifications for ruggedness and its makers claim it has a lower total cost of ownership than non-ruggedized PCs In the below video, Conrad from RuggedPCReview demos how the XTablet T8700 still functions while holding it under water in his swimming pool. He takes it a step further and puts on his scuba gear to show that the tablet can withstand being fully submerged under a few feet of water.
Pavilion tx2500z: HP’s Consumer Tablet (video)
HP introduced the Pavilion tx2500z last week in Berlin at the Making Connections 2008 conference. Kevin Wentzel explains the improvements and explains why the tx2500z could be an ideal notebook for students.
Tablet PCs Help Manage 8,000 Cows
Here’s a video that shows how one dairy uses Tablet PCs to manage the health, breeding and care of over 8,000 cows. Box Canyon Dairy uses eight MobileDemand xTablets to track down individual cows and do whatever needs to be done.
ModBook Quick Clips Demo by Andreas Haas, CEO of Axiotron
Andreas Haas, the CEO of Axiotron and inventor of the ModBook, showed Notebooks.com the latest version of the Modbook, which has a mirror finish and a new application called Axiotron Quick Clicks, which makes it easier to enter commonly used key combos.
