Check out the Dual Screen Acer Iconia in Action

nice. but ..........ehh using touchscreen = alot of fingerprint

Now that's an interesting concept, my question is how long will the battery last?

now .. THAT's a tablet...If they would only release this to the general public... when ? When ? WHEN ???

Kind of cool but I wouldn't want one. The lack of physical keyboard and the 2.5-3 hours of battery are killers. More of a cool device than all that practical for my needs anyway.

I guess it's a laptop where single document typing is not its main use. As it is I have a hard time justifying it. Sure you don't have to alt-tab much to open a new folder/file but that saves you a fraction of a second...maybe even takes more time? Movies you don't need the second screen. Music one screen is also more than enough. Working is slightly helpful at best. Web browsing can be both better and worse. Having 2 documents open can be cool for a developer I guess as long as the keyboard automatically or quickly fades in/out or at least has some transparency. Maybe they'll come up with a dual-screen + keyboard laptop and in 5 years time we'll have one like that made with 3 touchscreens and so on.

so a person missing an arm and a finger won't be able to bring up the menu...

to make the laptop last longer they should just have the keyboard in e-ink....but will all the functionality and then just have the normal screen above..the battery life would be much longer.

Look! It is a giant DS!!!

Didn't Microsoft recently file a Patent on just such a concept earlier this year?

Hasn't MSI come out with it's laptop like this long back?

Thats a really cool idea, but if it was that big i dont think i could do away with the practicality and feel of having a keyboard. :-(

DS emulator with touch time

so what happens to your fingers after typing too much.

laplet - very nice - microsoft has surface, they got it too.

Meh, if you have one touch screen, why would you need another, just for viewing?

Kinda makes no sense...

brilliant, I'd want one for christmas!

Usually when you type on a keyboard you gently rest your fingers on the asdfjkl;. What happens with a touchscreen kb Hovertyping hell yeah!

Its kind of scary typing on this one IMO
I wonder how much will this cost is my biggest question

Although its missing a stylus pen to make it a humongous DS

the ONLY thing I want to know, is the damn release date for the Win7 tablet. Is that too much to ask of Acer?

There is potential there for some really cool screen savers ...

In my opinion this is a brilliant concept. Who ever actually came up with this idea can really think outside the box sure it might not run games or be a bit tricky but man THE IDEA is amazing. For gaming tho it's completely impractical for both the keyboard and the 2.5-3 hours battery life. I think that in the near future or the next generation of this device that Idea should maybe use some kind of mirror or reflective concept to make the whole thing into one screen.

Thanks for the article. Interesting concept and maybe a pointer into the future of personal computers.

Isn't Iconia one of the planets in the neutral zone of the Federation and Romulans in Star Trek?

That's where the Enterprise found the Iconian civilization who were destroyed by orbital bombardment because they had a device that could act like a doorway to travel to other worlds without starships.

Two iPads put together?

I like it.

Wow! So coool and soo useless!