As the company behind the EeePC line of ultra-portable and incredibly popular netbooks, Asus has become a leading innovator among PC manufacturers. Now Asus has turned to its fans to design their dream PC and is ready to showcase the surprisingly advanced new model.

The Asus dream PC has two touch screens that allow for it to be used in a wide variety of ways. That is if users can get past the awkward feeling of typing on a touch keyboard.

The first setup is as a standard laptop form factor with a touch screen keyboard. The top sits up and the user can hammer out documents and email in a mode that most users are accustomed to.

Without the keyboard, the dual screens can merge to create new modes on the Asus dream PC. The first is as a touch screen e-book reader that allows you to use gestures to turn pages while reading on a larger display.

The combined screens can also serve as a multimedia viewing device when turned on their side. That way you take full advantage of both screens to form a viewing panel that can play movies in a wide-screen format.

“The dual panel offers a flexible working space in which users can adapt to suit their prevailing usage scenarios, for example adjusting the size of the virtual touchpad and keyboard. Through hand gestures, handwriting recognition and multi-touch, users are presented with a control surface that is both flexible and intuitive,” an Asus representative said.

The concept netbook design was created by ideas from fans of Asus on their special website called WePC.com. On the site, users can submit their designs for a dream device in hopes of it becoming a reality.

Allowing users to provide feedback and ideas for new Asus devices is a truly innovative approach to building PCs. This device is obviously unlike anything else currently on the market.

Could the design be too innovative with users being accustomed to typing on a keyboard instead of a touch screen? Would you buy this new device for use as a netbook, e-book reader and multimedia device?

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Entry was posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 am under Notebook, Online video, Technology.

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