myBook

Mybook is the lightest portable mac ever.
Small, light and semi-rugged, you can bring it everywhrere.
As the perfect companion, it carries all your documents, contacts, appointments, mails and bookmarks.
Always connected to the internet throught wifi, it's all the knowledge of the world at the reach of the arm.
It as its roots deeply in Alan Kay Dynabook's dream.

Mybook is the ideal book and news reader when in portrait mode.
The thouch-sensitive screen is readable in bright daylight thanks to the use of new transflective generation of LCD screen.
You can read ebooks and web pages or work with you Word and Excel documents anywhrer.
Offline, you can ever read web pages you've marked to read later. They are especially fetched and stored by Safari for you.

The crisp and clear 11 inches wide LCD screen is perfect to watch movies and TV shows bought on ITMS.

No complicated hinge. The screen rotates 180’.
It that position, keyboard and trackpad and are inoperative and the screen goes in portrait mode.

There are two keys on the screen, readable from both side( for left or right-handed).
One is used to emulate the left-click and displays a contextual menu.
The other one, the toolkey button, is especially intended for mybook and displays a toolbar wich change according to the context.
For example it brings type-in area when the cursor is in text mode.

As industrial keyboareds, mybook's keys are not sensible to ddust and water and can't be easily ripped-off.

My book's stylus is set in a trap that uncovers when the screen is flipped. Very simple, 100% plastic, you can lose it many times as it will cost you almost nothing to replace it.

Very light: Less than 3 pounds. Because a book can't be too heavy, the lighter it is, the longer you can keep it in your arms.
Small: Less than half an inch thick.
Robust: Almost rugged, it can be carried everywhere without fear of being damaged.
Readable: As easily as a book, it can be read in obscurity or bright daylight.

Inexpensive: It is specially inexpensive to have the broadest audience.

Weight and size: By using a very Low Voltage processor we can have much smaller batteries.
By using a very light material for the case (air sandwiches). By getting rid of the dvd player we gain a lot of space and reduce power consumption.
Robustness: By using a resistant material for the case. The feeling of robustness is also reinforced by the gum corners.
Readability: By using a transflective LCD screen that can use the ambient light to be read.
Price: By choosing a low cost processor. By designing the motherboard to be used in another form factor.
No DVD player and small batteries thanks to the low power comsumption.

In gum, interchangeable, they exist in all sorts of colors.

The Power adapter is very thin to accommodate the design of mybook and be put aside it in a bag. 
The cord is retractable. Mybook can also be charged through firewire when connected to another computer.

 

 

 

 

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