Standalone Flexbar looks to succeed where Apple’s Touch Bar failed

What felt like a taste of the future for laptop design in 2016 was abandoned by Apple last year as a failed concept. But engineers from Hong Kong think the idea holds much promise, so they've created something similar that works with Mac and Windows.

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$900 side-by-side dual-screen laptop also offers back-to-back

The laptop is still evolving, with dual screens shown to increase productivity by 40-50%. The new AceMagic X1 has an ingenious spiral folding mechanism, that enables two screens side-by-side or back-to-back, enabling face-to-face screen sharing and enormous collaboration potential

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Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs

Elecrow has launched an interesting project on Kickstarter that has the look of a 14-inch laptop but isn't. It essentially brings a notebook experience to connected phones, single-board computers and handheld gaming consoles.

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Spacetop AR laptop puts the screen on your face

Seeking to free laptop users from small displays that limit functionality, Sightful has unveiled a laptop with no screen. Instead, AR glasses project a 100-inch virtual screen anywhere, transforming any space into a screen-filled portable office.

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Framework previews modular gaming laptop with upgradeable GPU

Back in early 2021, a Californian startup revealed plans to launch a 13-inch laptop that users could upgrade, repair and customize. Now the company is about to launch the Framework Laptop 16, which will allow users to upgrade discrete graphics.

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Acer sheds the pounds for world’s lightest 16-inch OLED laptop

As I know from painful experience, hauling a heavy brick of a laptop around on work assignments can be an energy zapping strain. Acer's Swift Edge model could help, launching as the lightest 16-inch OLED laptop in the world.

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Lenovo treats latest business laptop to handy secondary touchscreen

For the 2nd-gen ThinkBook Plus laptop, Lenovo added an E Ink outer display to complement the main screen. The company has also treated the latest model to an extra display, but this time the 8-inch screen is positioned to the right of the keyboard.

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