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- From: Jerome McDonough <jmcdonou@library.berkeley.edu>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:29:33 -0500
At 11:00 AM 11/23/99 -0500, rev-bob@gotc.com wrote:
>Now, if you want something which would catch my eye, steal a clue from about
twenty
>years ago and rev it into overdrive. See, back in the early 1980s, Nintendo
came out
>with some handheld games that were built around about the same form factor as
the
>modern palmtop. (Yes, these were arguably the grandparents of the Gameboy.)
One
>particularly memorable experiment was a clamshell design - you opened the
game
on a
>hinge, revealing two screens with the controls arranged around the bottom
one. Now,
>imagine a palmtop with this basic layout. Open it up like a micro-laptop,
make the "top"
>screen display-only (less expensive!) and save the touch-sensitive tech for
the bottom
>screen. In data browsing mode, you could use both screens together to make a
book-
>style interface, or maybe even display two different documents - one on each
screen. Is
>anybody following me on this?
Actually, they're way ahead of you on this. Well, not *way* ahead, because
it's a little
larger than you might like, but have a look at http://www.everybook.net/
and see
if
it isn't close to what you have in mind. Certainly they have grasped your
desire for
a two screen, clamshellf reading device.
Jerome McDonough -- jmcdonou@library.Berkeley.EDU | (......)
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