Computing for literary sneaks: a laptop concealed in a book

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Is Kyle Bean‘s laptop design our age’s equivalent of a pistol hidden in a bible? The answer is “No,” but I still prefer the idea of it being a violence facilitator for literary ninjas, rather than yet another comment on the changing nature of media in an increasingly virtual world.

Next: in the thick of battle, the villain springs onto a table to grab what briefly appears to be an ornamental wall-mounted axe, but finds himself wielding a slimline iPod dock.

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One Response to Computing for literary sneaks: a laptop concealed in a book

  1. Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey says:

    So it’s not a functional computer, just a mocked-up idea?

    Now that the Asus EEE is on the street, Kyle Bean should get to work on making this real.

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