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Paysage’s Notebook w/Foldable Monitor
August 02, 2020
 
Yanko Design is an online magazine specializing in the best of future innovative, unique and undiscovered future product designs sometimes unconstrained by technology advances. They believe in the disruptive power of products that challenge the presence of multiple markets. The Paysage is a conceptual computing device targeting both laptop and desktop users with a unique hybrid design featuring a two-part construction – the main CPU, which sits within the keyboard-unit (like most laptops), and the screen, which rather than resting on the top of the keyboard, comes with a flexible construction that wraps around the top and the bottom, sandwiching the keyboard in between. The image below should illustrate s the concept
 
Figure 1: Notebook Hybrid Concepts

Flip open half the screen to get a standard laptop/netbook, equipped with a keyboard, trackpad, four USB-C ports, an Aux input, and its dedicated speakers. The entire keyboard unit detaches from the screen completely, leaving a much larger flexible display that you can open out and mount on a tabletop stand, providing a desktop experience complete with a massive elevated screen and an external keyboard. The Paysage was originally envisioned nearly a decade ago  and it’s only with recent advancements include flexible OLED displays that makes Paysage more real. In its latest iteration, designer Kevin Depape details out the device further, with magnetic fixtures, connecting cables, 
 
Figure 2: Notebook Hybrid Concepts