Video: ASUS teases with folding Origami laptop concept
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 7th 2009 2:19AM
posted Jan 7th 2009 2:19AM
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Word is that this machine kicks ass over the MacBook Pro by having a removable battery.
Doesn't "origami" already imply folding?
Yeah, the battery's removable, but after a couple swaps, the tape that holds it in place keeps getting covered in lint and hair.
@OneLove..."Doesn't "origami" already imply folding?" Doesn't have anything to do with the original comment posted.
so in this case they would use paper derivatives...
how can they build that?
They can't! This is just a concept video and nothing more. Knowing Asus all too well I'm not holding my breath for this one. Even if the technology was ready for mass production Asus does not have the facilities to manufacture a product like this in the foreseeable future.
"D-7!"
"You sunk my battleship!"
Why would you attack D-7 if you already attacked C-6 and D-8? Psh, no wonder you lost.
Next-gen Battleships
I thought next-gen would involve 2 separate PCs and a wireless/internet connection... stupid me...
Oh, it doesn't stop at Battleship...
There's also a "revolute" version of Scrabble,
a "One Interface" game of Connect Four
the groundbreaking "Flat Sharing Mode" game of Checkers...
the list of new game experiences will be endless!
Asus is the new Apple... minus all the snobbery.
With REAL innovations.
Asus actually designed few apple computers.
? how are they Apple-like? Apple does not show off concepts. Things like this are silly. I could show off a "concept" that folds time AND space, it doesn't count for much until I can make it.
I can see it all now:
"Here lemme just grab this piece of paper and tear in it half so we can... oh crap, I think that was your laptop."
Anyone think the screen at about 2:30 looks *wiily* familiar?
Also, lol at the battleship comment :)
this may seem random... but I always read it "Ace-us" but at the end of the video they read it "A-Seuss"... it always saddens me when I'm informed of my improper pronunciation of something >_>
i'm sorry to say that a-suess is the proper pronunciation, but nearly everyone agrees the better sounding and easier to say pronunciation is ace-us
I hate to say it, but it gets worse than that. You see, ASUS is meant to be a reference to Pegasus, the flying horse. They thought it would be clever to just say ASUS. I don't mean to be overly superficial, but I don't think I could ever by a product, even a can of beans, from someone that thought this was a good idea for a name.
What's even worse is "Seuss" is pronounced "Soice".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#Life_and_career
@ WauloK
You just blew my mind
@WuauloK
I feel like I just found out Santas not real...
The readers lied to me!!!!
ASUS IN RAW
What a total bullsh*t video.
This is barely even a concept *video*, let alone a concept product, but at least it "revolutes" the interface??? WTF?
It's so "near future" that it has a name already, but it's made out of paper, needs no battery, circuits, buttons or keys. It somehow still uses optical discs even though it has apparently has solved the problem of atomic level circuit design. WTF is even the point, or the utility of a computer that looks like a regular laptop but can be folded out flat on a table and used by two people at the same time? WTF is the point of being able to pull out the screen and take it with you?
This is like the worst, drug induced fantasy of a failed tablet designer or something. A total fantasy, and worse .. not even an interesting one. Engadget hires easily impressed twelve year olds now I guess.
Tell them how you really feel, Jeremy.
Chill out dude. Asus has introduced some great hardware and software for this year. This video was just a way of ending the presentation with a look of how the future could be, and a way to make people think about some other possibilities and projects they might work on.
I was impressed, not because I actually believe this concept is going to happen anytime soon, but because Asus had the cojones to actually think outside the box and be a little innovative. I have enjoyed watching this company grow exponentially in such a short period of time, especially looking back at how they boomed from 2007 on after a slow decade or so.
Jeremy, you need to get out of your own "drug-induced fantasy" for taking this video completely seriously.
I really don't understand the video.. Whats the use of having two PCs with one interface ??
If that thing on the video is an interface it's very messy.. if it's not then its wrong video choice from engadget.
but even so the whole concept of piling laptops is a bit...
I don't know.. is it no sense or nonsense ? It's hard to choose.
I already see it as a future failure.
relax guys... just like japanese companies, they ejaculate some weird videos from time to time. Most of the vid have been created by the animator guys... its not a real interface.
easy there Jeremy, how do you know its not made from nano technology lol.
Well, I was kinda rabid I guess, but the video is really dumb.
Probably by the time this thing gets to market Apple will already have a laptop based on a self-configuring swarm of nano-bots anyway.
hahaha !! apple fanboys are so predictable :)
most likely, ASUS is a lost puppy that's all, they are still following everyone Else's crumb trails.
and you can't simply TALK to the person across you why, but rather instead have to send message through a crappy interface?
That actually is funny, i say they person had no will to talk, so he just used his thoughts to relay the message. what a bunch of crap lol
It could be useful for those ultra-geeks who have sacrificed the areas in their brain that handle speech, being capable of remembering another 3141 digits of Pi in return.
maybe theyre on the phone perhaps?
Screw Crysis, but will this play Battleship?
That would have been funnier if you'd just wrote "But will it run Battleship." We would have caught the Crisis reference.
If two people are lined up across from each other with shared screens (with the screens up and back-to-back), will one person see the content 'forwards' and the other person 'backwards'? If it were truly a single physical interface between two people seated facing each other, one person would be looking at the back of the shared interface. Or did the designer cheat and allow them both to be 'forward'?
Sources close to Asus say it makes for one hell of a computer for battleship
I didn't think there were enough battleship references yet so here it goes"
"Battleship anyone?"
I love how they show two people chatting with each other when these two people are supposedly sitting in front of each other.
Damn, I should read the rest of the comments before replying :P
Why would people be chatting via IM if they're sitting right in front of each other?
Sharing notes in class via wireless interface maybe? am i grabbing at straws...
Never mind battleship, what about guess who ?
Does your man have a beard ?
does yours wear glasses?
What if you decided not to read the manual (nobody does anyways) and just decide to start folding?
hmm.....I wonder if you could make a crane out of it.
Why are they sending messages to each other. He is right in front of you!
you sunk my battleship!
Until I can see the real "folding" option of this I will be just waiting for the slimmest laptop ever........