LG e-Book Laptop Concept Features Fuel Battery and OLED

LG introduced e-Book, an ecological laptop concept that uses fuel cell batteries and features organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology. This concept notebook received a Red Dot Award nomination for “Best Concept Design” for 2006.

The batteries of the LG e-Book use natural gas, methanol, and other eco-friendly liquid fuels. The fuel is stored in a transparent cylindrical hinge.

The LG’s future laptop uses organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for display instead of the current liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. Unlike LCD, OLED does not need a frame around it, and it consumes less electricity. The keypad will also be made of a singe OLED panel, like the one used in LG’s Chocolate Phone, according to the report.

“Under the current technology, it’s extremely expensive to build such a laptop. But it’s possible,” said Na Joo-young, public relations official of the company.

There is no info on if and when will production of this notebook start.

The Korea Times: LG Brings Future to Laptop Design

whats the cost? nice stuff

Well if and when this does become available please do let us know becuase i am intrigued by it and will have to buy one just to see if i like it or not.

looks promising… fuel cells are far from implementing because of its low power density and high price. Mass production should reduce the price, and low-power components like the OLED should reduce the maximum power output of the fuel cell, making it cheaper and compacter. On the other hand if we use low-power components the runtime when using standard lion batteries will increase also to probably 8 hours…. so why fuel cells? to get a runtime of more then 24 hours. Do we need that?

sure we need that, because it is evolution and its fantastic

Bafi, uhm yeah?

What if you wanted to take this on a plane? Is there an alternate fuel source that can be used instead of flammable fluid? Like a plug-in backup battery?

sexy. I want it

[…] The similar concept notebook, the LG e-Book, received a Red Dot Award nomination for “Best Concept Design” last year. […]

whr do buy it??

Yash, It’s a concept notebook - meaning it has not been produced yet. And it’s not known when it will be or will it be released.

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:-S seriously!! i need this laptop.. how much it cost? when it’l be available?

Man! where’s the trackpad?
or is there some other CONCEPT.