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At 11:00 AM 11/23/99 -0500, rev-bob@g... 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@l... | (......) Library Systems Office, 386 Doe, U.C. Berkeley | \ * * / Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-5168 | \ <> / "Well, it looks easy enough...." | \ -- / SGNORMPF!!! -- From the Famous Last Words file | |||| xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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