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Triangular Notebook Design
While this is for a paper notebook, it would be neat if this were also applied to a computer notebook or tablet.
- efader 15y agoI wonder if they could do this to a computer notebook or tablet?
- walexander 15y agoI'm sure someone could, but why would they want to? A rectangular form factor for display has been the standard for decades. All applications, save for some desktop widgets, are shaped accordingly. Putting rectangular designs on this would waste lots of space at the corners, and I don't see a ton of developers jumping to go support a triangular display for their UIs.
- jodrellblank 15y agoYou didnt look at the article, did you?
- Kwpolska 15y agoYou didn't look at the parent, did you?
- jodrellblank 15y agoInstead of saying 'yes I did"... someone wonders if a triangular tablet could be built which unfolds into a square display, like the triangular notepad in the article which unfolds into a square notepad. They parent replies that nobody would want triangular tablets because of the waste at the corners when drawing square shapes, and the well-known rectangular nature of existing displays means nobody would jump at developing triangular UIs. They completely missed that the point of the triangular notepad is that it unfolds. That implies they didn't look at the article, because it has a picture of the triangular notepad doing that.
- walexander 15y agoIn fact, I did look at the article. When I thought of a computer notebook doing this, I was envisioning a keyboard on the bottom like any other netbook. I suppose in the tablet sense it might be possible.
- hammock 15y agoIf only my jeans had triangular pockets...
- lgeek 15y agoI'm probably stating the obvious, but to me it looks very awkward to write over the diagonal crease caused by the binding.