Remember the old toilet-seat iBook from Apple? What’s that, you’d done your best to forget it? Yeah, us too. Sorry to dig up those bad old memories. The point, though, is that the candy-colored computer had a handle, and despite its aesthetic flaws, a notebook with a handle is, well, handy. Zhang Shouze’s Playing By Heart* concept adds a handle and manages to keep it looking good.
The fold-out handle has a cleverly angled cross-member that lets it lay flat on the lid when you don’t need it, but also sits flat on the desk should you decide to invoke its other personality, that of a bracket. In this mode, it’ll raise the screen from the desk and set the keyboard at an angle, all while letting the cooling breeze waft underneath – just like a bulky third-party notebooks stand, only built-in.
Thankfully there is a central plastic section to the aluminum strip so the angled handle won’t cut into your fingers as you carry it, and the top edge of the screen-bezel has a lip which droops over the base when closed and should help protect against bumps. For a concept design, this is surprisingly practical.
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*Nope. No idea either.
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