Forget hiding your liquor or handguns, books are for computers now! With the laptop book, designer Kyle Bean attempts to make a statement about how society is becoming more virtual—something about not reading books I think. I was too busy looking at the pictures to get the whole story. At any rate, it appears that the actual device is nothing more than a simple lit screen and a CD slipped between the pages, but it certainly makes for an interesting concept. [Yanko Design]

2:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
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bosskev at 02:49 PM on 04/21/08
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Oh, those crazy guys at Yanko Design are up to their old tomfoolery again. Note that this book computer is really nothing...hey, wait a minute...note...book...computer. Omigod, Yanko is on to something here!
DeadWriter at 02:49 PM on 04/21/08
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"Brain, this is Penny. Just keep following my uncle."
DeCerbo at 02:50 PM on 04/21/08
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new macBook?
Rabid Penguin at 02:51 PM on 04/21/08
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Interesting... the high tech way to pretend to read a book while you're actually looking at porn.
ripfire4 at 02:51 PM on 04/21/08
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So they took War and Peace book, gutted the insides, replace it with a PC, and put in the CD version of War and Peace?

*sigh*
jabiez at 02:52 PM on 04/21/08
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This would actually be cool, say to skin your Eee to make it look like a book... but people at the airport will probably think you're stupid for reading a book sideways! Cool idea though...
MIKEAWESOME at 02:53 PM on 04/21/08
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The thing is it would be really easy to just slip the guts of a umpc inside of there, like an EE or something.

*starts to seriously consider making this*
secretmanofagent at 02:53 PM on 04/21/08
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@DeadWriter:
Mad props to you sir, mad props.

Anywho, someone put a computer in a book. Big deal. Next up, I'll put a PDA in a bible.
liveinvt at 02:54 PM on 04/21/08
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My dad thought I was reading Juggs all through high school, but I was actually making my kernel more efficient
Tayng at 02:55 PM on 04/21/08
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That would be cool if it were useful, its not like this will fool anyone into thinking that you're acctualy reading.
Rabid Penguin at 02:59 PM on 04/21/08
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@MIKEAWESOME:
Make sure to uses a book that the world could use less of... since, you know, you have to destroy it to make the computer.

Choose something like Mein Kampf, or a stack of Rosie Odonnell's magazine, Rosie.
bosskev at 03:13 PM on 04/21/08
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@Tayng: Nor will this fool anyone into thinking that you're acctualy sppeling.
med at 03:15 PM on 04/21/08
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@Rabid Penguin: But then people might think you were...reading Rosie's magazine...
Brock at 03:22 PM on 04/21/08
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@med: That's a valid concern. Better go with Mein Kampf.
DaOtter at 03:25 PM on 04/21/08
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@DeadWriter: LMFAO. Greatest show ever. ;)
The concept's juxtaposition is hilarious, but impractical. Cooling that bish would be a nightmare, unless you built it out of ply, just painted it like a book, and built in the requisite cooling.
whootowl at 03:27 PM on 04/21/08
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Back in the late 70's (when Walkman's cost as much as today's laptops) I buried a Walkman in a book this way. It was great security, though the extra weight kinda deminished the mobility.
Rabid Penguin at 03:28 PM on 04/21/08
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Linux was probably the first OS to run on a book.
OMG! Ponies! at 04:03 PM on 04/21/08
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@Rabid Penguin: Great. NutBastard has a fan club.

(nut, i kid because i love)
riqgeez at 04:27 PM on 04/21/08
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I like the second part of the heading, "But no one cares. . ."!
Kaiser-Machead at 04:29 PM on 04/21/08
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Douglas Adams had a better vision.
liveinvt at 04:33 PM on 04/21/08
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Windows = Bible
Mac = Vanity Fair
Linux = O'Reilly
Pope John Peeps II at 04:43 PM on 04/21/08
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@Rabid Penguin: Yah, that's pretty much right. Only people who've never touched a book would be fooled if I started reading mine sideways.
nygenxer at 05:07 PM on 04/21/08
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@DeadWriter:

Beat me to it! Go gadget, go!
Rabid Penguin at 05:15 PM on 04/21/08
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@Pope John Peeps II:
That's where you have to use your smarts. If you've got some preloaded porn on there with all your pics rotated 90 degrees to the right you can view them as if look into a book normally. The next problem to overcome is the fact that you'll always be on the same page... But I'm working on that.
chuchi78 at 05:32 PM on 04/21/08
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"Honey, look at that man over there. He's been reading the index on that book for the past hour sideways and he keeps touching it with his fingers. You think he's reading one of those books for blind people?" I can see it now....
Kaiser-Machead at 06:06 PM on 04/21/08
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@liveinvt:

1. Convoluted
2. Pointless
3. Fucking annoying?

That can't be right.
insomniac at 07:18 PM on 04/21/08
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that is a cool design but i would get worried if my pc gets too hot
mikeyy at 08:47 PM on 04/21/08
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@Rabid Penguin:
You could easily leave a few pages un-glued with rectangles cut in the center to give the effect of turning pages, when they are really just open...why am i saying this?
Jamaces at 10:33 PM on 04/21/08
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@MIKEAWESOME:

you read my mind when I saw this.
egyptiansushi at 03:21 AM on 04/22/08
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I don't think that's a "CD slipped in between the pages" as much as it is "a piece of paper cut into the shape of a CD". Maybe I'm nuts.
flyboy at 11:25 AM on 04/22/08
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its a mockup with no laptop involved - sheesh - can't even say nice computer graphics.
Petezah at 12:26 PM on 04/22/08
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@Rabid Penguin: That and your book is hard to hold up because it weighs 42 pounds.
Tayng at 04:53 PM on 04/22/08
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@bosskev: Could you not decipher what I meant? I'm sorry I'll try harder to please those of you who have to much free time, no life, and/or an English Degree that gets them nowhere, other them flaming people on blogs.

Look I even spell checked it for you!
bosskev at 03:33 AM on 04/23/08
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@Tayng: It wasn't intended as a flame but a mild poke in the ribs over a single misspelled word. Sorry if it came across as mean spirited, not my intention.