I personally want a tablet screen that can also serve as a scanner/camera of sorts. Y'know, like, you put the piece of paper on top of the laptop screen and it scans it.

@Reilaos~: as opposed to laying a piece of paper on top of it and it makes you a sandwich?

huh?

To turn children on ; rake!
nails on blackboard horror...

Momenta monitors heart rate and records you puking even -oh such an exciting moment, cheer in all of friends.

I thought LSD trace effect was a Rolling buffer.

Oh so disappointing entries.
give us 3d self reproducible printers already and we do our own.

Here take this cube , it's ram and it requires no technical knowledge or chassis intrusion to upgrade.

Best win win design would be design drugs to these poor uninspired students.

Unless ..must be hiding all the real stuff under sleeves.

Have a nice trip.

@Reilaos~: Why would one personally want to scan anything?
aren't there slaves? sorry , robot friends.

is it for your eyes only?

@TonyTriple: You've just invented the wending machine, one that scans your money but doesn't take it.

Automated toast making owww ..

Coin operated pc as a piggybank...

hey maybe this can help us end the pointless slaughter of billions of innocent animals or maybe it can help us fix our climate problem or...... oh that's right, it can't. only humans with their consciousness raised about these issues can do something...... jeez this doesn't seem all that important anymore.....

maybe we should all go watch an informative documentary or read a book. how about go search 'Earthlings' on google or pick up a good dostoyevski?

your choice

The designs look nice, but it really comes down to making intuitive interfaces and peripherals. Just as the personal computer has gone from DOS to GUI the hardware has to follow. As if it needed to be said to this audience, I would like to see some of the tech from Tony Stark's inventory realized.

That necklace PC is hella creepy. Imagine talking to someone with that on: it would be like someone aiming a videocam at you but reassuring you: "It's not on, it's not on!"

@Sublimenaltouches: Geez, it's not like these designers would be out in the field solving climate change if the competition didn't exist.
Maybe you should have been curing cancer or something instead of writing your comment?
Lighten up dude.

Is is me or did you all just miss the point! Glossiness! zomg!

It's going to look grim. Everything these days is faster and smaller. What else can we possibly build? Maybe the pc in our brains and eyes for monitors?

@Earthslide: and...and... hands for input and mouth for text-to-speech output!

I think you're onto something there!

@ps61318: hahaha good point!

Is this just a roundup post of concept pcs?
Because I've seen at least 3 of these on gizmodo before:
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Jornt, we've covered some of these before - but they're all from the same competition, so it's kind of a round up plus other entries I found cool.

PC, turn on! Reeoooowwwrrrr!

So they just make something shiny, but don't have to explain how it would work? A "cutting edge laser technology will display mid-air 2D and 3D images"... come on - why not just say that it's powered by ground up leprechauns and unicorn hair...

@Fall-Apart: Go to the link dude, they have some explanations of how the concepts would be built.