Sharp's Mebius PC-NJ70A Netbook Comes With Optical Sensor LCD Pad

Sharp has just announced a new netbook model, Mebius PC-NJ70A, in Japan. While the netbook comes with a standard 10.1-inch screen, an Atom N270 CPU, an Intel 945GSE Express Chipset, 1GB of RAM, and 160GB of HDD, what's really special about this netbook is the LCD display and trackpad combo -- an 854 x 480 resolution LCD right onto the palm rest, which automatically adjusts brightness based on surrounding light and can likely act as a secondary display for things like adjusting an equalizer with your digits.


According to Akibahara News, the optical sensor LCD is really cool that it has a handwriting recognition feature which allows you to write email / memo using a stylus or finger. You can also do some cool tricks like playing piano, zoom out and in on document like you will do with an iphone and so on!

Here's a video taken by Akibahara News:


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Dell's Netbook Roadmap Leaked

Dell is getting ready to release a new 11-inch netbook sometime between now and at the end of Q3, according to a netbook roadmap slides leaked out from the company. The leaked information also reveals that there will be a few changes to the Mini 10 netbook which includes adding Vista, 3G modem, and potentially a 1.86GHz Atom on April 17th. Also, a new 1.6GHz Atom N270 SKU will arrive in May and everything will be updated again in the second half of the year with Intel's Pine Trail processors.

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