Power Developer - Portable Efika Project

or both? Remember with some small modifications, which are not to expensive if you buy much Efikas, you could reduce the thickness of the case by more than the half.

This is a remarkably cool new device;

Essentially it converts any laptop or standard screen into a tablet. Obviously there's a need to have a glass-fronted screen and not just the flexible surface of an ordinary TFT to make it suitable.

Hi all! I did a animation of a simple to produce "portable efika-prototype" based on the already available thinclient+ a 7" screen. The stand-system is just a dummy but i used real dimensions during the Design of the caseparts, this means that this could be a easy to use base for further designs.

http://home.arcor.de/phoenixkonsole/efikav0-1.avi

Best regards

This small board will be used to interface "bare" TFT screens equipped with TTL RGB on the EFIKA. The release has been delayed due to tools migration. The complete schematics will be available soon.

PCB design should also start quickly.

The drawing is crude but the concept is both retro and advanced. The large touch-pad and buttons represent a distinct advantage over the tiny touch-pad and buttons on conventional laptops. They will rival the user-friendliness and capability of a mouse in an intuitive way.

Just a short demonstration of Microsoft's "Origami" interface. One of the drawbacks of a smaller display is that you lose screen estate very fast to toolbars and application icons, which I think would be solved with a MacOS style dock, or using the widescreen potential of the screen and using the greater horizontal resolution to display bars on the sides at least, rather than the bottom (this is also more 'finger accessible' if we go that route).

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/umpc/action/index_13.swf

The other solution (as above) is to present applications as full screen and use innovative menu systems to select applications and bring them to the front, replacing traditional toolbars and start bars. Click "Home" at the top, and proceed from there..

Hi i´m working on new papermodels based around 7" screens. I think you will notice the main difference compared to the "suitcase-design" ; )