Hasta La Gadget!

Coming up with a concept design is pretty easy — after all, you can say it does anything and you never have to actually fit real components into a real box and program a real machine. By this measure, Timur Pinar’s concept tablet is rather conservative and, counter-intuitively, somewhat more attractive than more outlandish designs.

The “HTC evolve” (yes, it even has an imagined manufacturer) sports an Intel Atom processor, two USB 3.0 ports, 128GB of solid-state storage, 1.5GB RAM, an HDMI port and a camera and microphone on the screen-side. And of course there is a touch screen.

As a design, it is pretty sweet (apart from a second, vestigial screen that pops out of the side, ready to be snapped off), and would run Android or Chrome or whatever would give it a one or two second boot time. The lines are clean and the purpose is clear — this is a machine for consuming media, non creating it. And that is the big difference between the upcoming wave of tablet devices and the failed tablet PCs of yesteryear: these machines do one thing, and they do it well. I’d buy this, but then I am on a mission to rid my home of any analog media whatsoever.

One more oddity: it has a stylus for input (you can still use fingers). What is this? 2005?

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