Who likes Star Trek knows what we talk next. When Star Trek: The Next Generation was aired, many people criticized the control panels of the ships, which were simply glass in the pitch black, with colored shapes that were designed in glass. Pressing these forms on the dashboard, the controls were performed. The reviews were because "it was all a bit fake" for the discerning viewers of the time.
Well, decades later, we have the iPhone and iPad, which does much the same thing, and nobody says anything. But that's alright. The time was able to show that the trekkers were right. Both the concept of the laptop based on the control panel of Star Trek is not so strange.
The notebook was developed by Philipp Schaake, member of the German design team Sensid Studio, and is called Crowd Notebook, and has as its principle use different colored circles on a touch pad, was originally the place where the physical keyboard. Moreover, in this case in particular, the keyboard is virtual, just a simple drive into a symbol of the lower left corner to activate it.
Another interesting feature of the Crowd Notebook is that it is able to be divided into two modules, which can manage two different contents of the equipment. It's as if you had two iPads side by side, working as a laptop.
With so many different resources, the project of Philipp managed to stay second in the 2011 edition of the Fujitsu Design Awards. What is excellent, if we take into account their origin, and especially its proposal.
