Once in a while some freelance inventive guy comes with a cool concept, leaves us drooling and jaw-dropping, while the big companies jump around with dubious offers for patent supremacy.
Take for example designer Kyle Cherry who has envisaged a new type of portable computer with creative proficiency in mind. Calling it “Canvas”, Cherry thought of a simple and efficient device that would increase the quality and productivity of designers and artists alike. It even acts as a traditional art canvas, allowing inexperienced users to make the switch from traditional to digital workflows. The “Canvas” concept is even cooler than Wacom’s Cintique LCD graphics Tablet.
This ultra-thin device can be used in three different modes. Artists and designers will be pleased to discover the “pen mode”, which basically transforms the device into a high precision graphics tablet. Then, there is the “touch mode” that allows users to interact freely with the multitude of graphical user interfaces. Last, but not least, is the “mouse mode”, in case you want to heat things up in an FPS game.
As you can see in the provided pictures, the “canvas” or the active surface on which you can draw can be slid and positioned upright, just like a laptop screen. When you pop up the screen, you can use the keyboard and touchpad underneath it. The toolbars and additional information in the actual software can be displayed on the left and right hand side of the device, thus allowing the workspace to be completely blank. You can also use a navigator button, placed under the toolbar area on the left.
This design is simply gorgeous but I wonder which brand name will take over the patent. Maybe the commercial product will appear under an obscure brand, but I doubt it will stay that way for long.
