Gadgets: AI Touch Book
By Jay Garrett
Hello there gadget lovers!
Another great week for tech.
Microsoft have released their Surface touchscreen table in the UK albeit for £10,000, Apple have unleashed updates of their Mac Mini, Pro's, iMac and there's a little number-padless keyboard.
Asus have brought their HD powered EeeBox 206 to these shores as well as unveiling their Lamborghini badged VX5 laptops that have 1TB of SSD storage.
Today I bring you the Touch Book by a company called ‘Always Innovating’. Although it looks like an everyday netbook: 8.9-inch screen with a 1024×600 res, thin, light, blah, blah, blah.
But it lacks the expected Intel Atom CPU - instead it has the ARM processor found in the likes of the Palm Pre.
Also, there's the small matter that the screen can detach from the keyboard section altogether.
Because it has that ARM chip, AI promises up to 15 hours of battery life also no fan noise as memory is taken care of by an 8GB MicroSD card.
To be honest, it actually has two batteries; one inside the screen bit and one inside the keyboard section.
The operating system is a custom “Touch Book OS” but the company says that as everything is open source you can whack pretty much what you want on it: Google Android, Ubuntu, Angstrom and even Windows CE if you are strange. It will come with Mozilla’s Fennec browser.
“The Touch Book OS has two modes: one for use with keyboard and touchpad, and one for use as a standalone touchscreen tablet. The innovative 3D interface is easy to use and does not require a stylus or a skinny pinky.”
The screen is also magnetic meaning that you can “put the tablet on the fridge to serve as a kitchen computer or digital frame.”
The tablet version will cost $299 and the netbook version will cost $399 and available in late spring. Advance orders can be placed at AI
Also, there's the small matter that the screen can detach from the keyboard section altogether.
Because it has that ARM chip, AI promises up to 15 hours of battery life also no fan noise as memory is taken care of by an 8GB MicroSD card.
To be honest, it actually has two batteries; one inside the screen bit and one inside the keyboard section.
The operating system is a custom “Touch Book OS” but the company says that as everything is open source you can whack pretty much what you want on it: Google Android, Ubuntu, Angstrom and even Windows CE if you are strange. It will come with Mozilla’s Fennec browser.
“The Touch Book OS has two modes: one for use with keyboard and touchpad, and one for use as a standalone touchscreen tablet. The innovative 3D interface is easy to use and does not require a stylus or a skinny pinky.”
The screen is also magnetic meaning that you can “put the tablet on the fridge to serve as a kitchen computer or digital frame.”
The tablet version will cost $299 and the netbook version will cost $399 and available in late spring. Advance orders can be placed at AI
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