Asus is loving the multi-screen laptops in 2018. Asus took to the stage at Computex in Taipei on Wednesday to unveil its vision of the future: the Precog dual-screen laptop.
That’s right, where we’re going we don’t need “keyboards.” “We plan to make it real, not vaporware,” said Marcel Campos, Asus global PC and phone marketing senior director, before he announced the concept laptop will be available in 2019.
Asus wants this laptop to be an AI-powered force for good. Two screens that can predict how you’ll want to use your laptop. It knows if there’s a mouse or keyboard around, and will supply you with virtual ones if they’re not. It can even preempt where your fingers are over the laptop, and shift its virtual keyboard around accordingly. Plus, it’s optimised to work in normal laptop mode, book mode, tent mode and flat mode. It’ll also be compatible with a stylus, for the creatives out there. And for the business types, the Precog will learn to anticipate when your meetings are and then conserve Asus A32-K72 notebook battery appropriately, to make sure you don’t run out of juice.
Key specs
- Dual-screen laptop
- Foldable into stand mode, book mode, tent mode and flat mode
- Adaptive input — recognises when keyboard input is removed and turns second screen into touchscreen keyboard
- Predicts where fingers are to adapt keyboard to correct position
- Detects stylus proximity to switch to drawing mode
Basically, this laptop is really smart.
