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Invention – Smartphone-to-laptop

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If you have a smartphone, it contains a computer with the processing power of a laptop circa 2002. So the question is, could you use your phone to power a laptop? Two devices demonstrate that the idea is possible. The first is called Redfly:

Redfly

Here’s a demo of the device:

The second is a proposed laptop for the iPhone, where the iPhone display becomes the trackpad. This is more speculative than real:

A Netbook-style clamshell for the iPhone is coming!

From the article:

OLO – it’s the name of what looks like a notebook or netbook computer, but in place of the trackpad, you slot in your iPhone – and use its screen as a trackpad instead! Genius of an idea – or as dumb as the Palm Foleo that never was?

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