Fujitsu has introduced this concept 4 in 1 laptop, tablet, phone and camera for next year as part of their Lifebook series. Just to get a little into what this "4 in 1 package" brings, the camera seems like it can be seperated from the Lifebook and used as a digital camera. The tablet is also detachable and usable on its own, or it can function as a keyboard laptop or a tablet for taking notes. The phone, which integrates the functions of the central processing unit, music player, as well as the storage space, also has a special container.
Taking a look at the picture above, it seems like once you place the tablet into the slot that the sensor picks up on it and converts the tablet into a full QWERTY keyboard touchpad. In addition, once you connect the tablet, it immediately begins to share the hardware and data and thus contributes to the performance of the laptop, or in some cases completely independently perform some functions of the computer. The Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 comes from designer Prashant Chandra, who submitted the design to a competition held by Fujitsu.
"The proposed Lifebook is a laptop computer concept based on the principle of 'shared hardware,'" explains Chandra. "Currently a lot of hardware is wasted when we use separate devices, as there is often a lot of 'repeat' of data stored and features. For example if I have my songs on my music player, why do I have to block the same amount of storage on my laptop? Similarly, if I have a processor sitting in my tablet, why can it not also run/assist my laptop? If I have a fully functional camera with its own memory and image processing power, why do I need to have it repeated in my laptop?"
Look forward to the new Fujitsu Lifebook set to come out in 2013.
That's pretty slick, I like it.
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