I just gave myself an assignment:
Since this whole gadget market has been flooded by tablets and smartphones, I was wondering if it might be possible to make both of them work in a single form. Tho this is the main problem, I don’t know how I could make up something that could be a tablet and a smartphone. The main issue, as always, is the screen.
We like it when we can use the smartphone to call someone, since it has a decent size, and it fits our palm. Yet we also want to read the local newspaper on the go, yet we need 2 hands and a bigger screen.
I’ll just write a couple of other ideas in my head: I kept them as some sort of sketch.
Needs:
-Phone stuff
-Media
-Reading
-Agenda/planning
-security (we don't want a thief to take it from our hands.
What do we have at our disposal:
-Phone/tablet
-Headphones: wire or wireless
Issues:
-Screen size
-portability
-safety.
Current influences:
http://walyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/foldout_screen_flip_phone3.jpg
Ideas:
-2 screens,one over another; it can slide/rotate 90*
--if we have the latter, how would we make it so that the screens wouldn't have issues such as breaking, getting dirty, etc.
--if we have the former, then how could we make it slide with no issues?
-Flexible phone?: http://walyou.com/philips-fluid-smartphone-with-flexible-oled-display/
And kinda that’s it. I’d really love a big brainstorming on this.
Alex.