Computing for literary sneaks: a laptop concealed in a book

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.

The Future of Books [Yanko]

[#1 posted by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey , April 21, 2008 11:18 AM]

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.