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Project Precog is a concept PC formed of two shimmering sheets of glass. Asus showed it to us Tuesday morning at Computex in Taipei, and it’s an intriguing vision of future PCs.

It’s a vision that appears to be real: Marcel Campos, senior director of PC and phone marketing for Asus, said the company hopes to ship Project Precog in 2019. Until then, we’ll have to wonder what it will cost and what its exact features will be.
Dual displays are hot (again)

Precog taps into what could be a resurgence of the two-screen design trend that briefly took hold with initiatives like Project Taichi, a dual-screen device Asus showed at Computex in 2012. Precog is much larger, though, and looks more like a traditional convertible laptop that can rotate from a clamshell through tent mode and into a tablet.

Don’t expect that latter configuration to be especially popular. Though Asus didn’t reveal exact specs, each sheet of glass appears to be 4K resolution, and roughly—this is our guess—about a 14-inch display on each side. There are no obvious controls, and no keyboard. If you want to type on a Project Precog machine, you’ll need to use either a software keyboard, or connect an external keyboard. (In a series of demonstration models, the external keyboard used Bluetooth.)

Regardless of whether Precog comes to market, the dual-screen motif seems to be taking hold. Lenovo is expected to demonstrate a dual-screen device, and Asus has already shown another, with ScreenPad, which transforms the touchpad on the Asus ZenBook Pro 14 and 15 into a secondary screen. (ScreenPad is a full HD, 1080p display, Asus executives told us.)
Intel started it with Tiger Rapids

Asus is one of the companies that drew inspiration from a pair of concept PCs from Intel: Tiger Rapids, which paired an EPD display with a traditional LCD, and an unnamed second device, which closely mimicked Project Precog.

Will Precog pan out, or remain just a fascinating concept? Guess we’ll have to wait until next year to find out.

Fresh after announcing its new ZenBook Pro lineup -- the laptop that comes complete with 5.5-inch full-HD touchpad, because one screen is so passé -- Asus took to the stage at Computex in Taipei on Wednesday to unveil its vision of the future: the Precog dual-screen laptop.


That's right, where we're going we don't need "keyboards."


"We plan to make it real, not vaporware," said Marcel Campos, Asus global PC and phone marketing senior director, before he announced the concept laptop will be available in 2019.


Asus wants this laptop to be an AI-powered force for good. What does that mean? Two screens that can predict how you'll want to use your laptop. It knows if there's a mouse or keyboard around, and will supply you with virtual ones if they're not. It can even preempt where your fingers are over the laptop and shift its virtual keyboard around accordingly. 


And of course, it'll have face and voice recognition. 


Plus, it's optimised to work in normal laptop mode, book mode, tent mode and flat mode. It'll also be compatible with a stylus, for the creatives out there. And for the business types, the Precog will learn to anticipate when your meetings are and then conserve battery appropriately, to make sure you don't run out of juice.


Basically, this laptop is really smart.


Dual-screen laptop 
Foldable into stand mode, book mode, tent mode and flat mode
Adaptive input -- recognises when keyboard input is removed and turns the second screen into a touchscreen keyboard
Predicts where fingers are to adapt keyboard to correct position
Detects stylus proximity to switch to drawing mode



If AI is on your 2018 buzzword bingo card, Computex was the place to be this week. Nvidia was busy talking about its GPUs powering the AI robots of the future, Qualcomm was talking about AI-enabled chips and Computex itself said "ubiquitous" artificial intelligence was one of the big trends of this year's show. 


If the Precog name gives you that warm fuzzy sci-fi feeling of the future, you're not mistaken. In the 2002 sci-fi film aka Tom Cruise brooding vehicle Minority Report, Precogs were the gifted other-worldly beings capable of seeing the future. 


While it remains to be seen just how expensive this Precog vision will be (and exactly when we'll get it), it's an exciting concept and we're keen to cover that baby in fingerprints.




You know what is decidedly extra, but also frustratingly enticing? A laptop with a display in the trackpad. Razer hinted at it with its concept Project Linda back at CES. But Asus... Asus just went ahead and built a display into the trackpad of a laptop you can buy later this year.


The Asus ZenBook Pro 15 with Screenpad, also known as the UX580, has a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS display where most of us expect a trackpad. As you would expect it can function they way all our boring and dumb trackpads do now, but it can also be programmed (if app developers so choose) with lots of custom shortcuts. Or it could, I guess, be like your Nintendo DS through 3DS. So it could have like... extra stuff down there. Maybe you could watch movies on it, or have a music visualizer. Asus says that out of the box it will have a configurable toolbar and work with Microsoft Office, Spotify, YouTube, and even the calculator.


Besides the totally-unnecessary-but-I-want-it-anyways Screenpad, the UX580 can also be configured with up to a 4K display where the regular display is. The display will also support up to 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color space, which means better reproduction of the color green, and it should have a 178-degree viewing angle, making it solid for when you’re watching Netflix.


It can be configured with up to an 8th-Gen i9 8950HK CPU, an Nvidia 1050 TI GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 4 1TB SSDs. That’s a lot of power, and it comes with a big price tag. The UX580 starts at $2300, but fully kitted out could go for another grand or more. We’ll know if that price tag is worth it when we get our hands on a review unit closer to launch. It’s expected to start shipping in mid-July 2018.

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