With the joined clamshell approach, a blade exceeding 50 yards is exceeding ponderous to move.
The gadget opens like a clamshell, and it is black and teal in color.
Until now, chassis and engine cradles were stamped into clamshell shapes and welded together.
It's the company's first clamshell laptop with a touchscreen, produced at its facility in Augsburg.
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The x2 looks like a clamshell netbook -- and an attractive one, at that.
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Could see as many as 30-40 new non-clamshell laptop designs as CES 2013 .
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With a detachable keyboard-docking system users easily switch between a clamshell notebook PC and a tablet PC.
The 6170 also trades out the twist and fold screen for a simple clamshell with an external display.
The Voyager from LG in South Korea is a clamshell that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.
The NVIDIA Icera 410 LTE modem delivers lightning-fast web browsing, video streaming and multiplayer gaming to tablets and clamshell devices.
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In an effort to make the screen foldable, clamshell-style, with the full gamepad underneath, the analog sticks are sunk into the body.
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And the Grillo telephone (below), a 1965 Italian icon, pioneered the snap-shut "clamshell" form that future cellphone and laptop designers would happily steal.
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The latest member of the family looks just like its siblings: a pocket-size, clamshell-hinged brick of plastic, with screens on both inside faces.
Many PC makers are planning convertible Windows 8 models for the holiday shopping season that can act as either tablets or regular clamshell laptops.
Spinach, lettuce and other greens sold in plastic bags or clamshell packages have become one of the hottest growth areas in the food business.
What makes the XPS 12 notable is the method Dell has chosen to enable it to morph from a clamshell laptop to a tablet.
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The pioneering designer invented the modern clamshell design seen in all modern laptops, and is also viewed as the father of human interaction software design.
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Finally, a new clamshell Smartphone will pick up where the Star Trek left off, rocking a GPS receiver and more wireless radios than its predecessor.
It was so caught up with selling millions of candy-bar-shaped phones that it got passed by Samsung, LG and especially Motorola's RAZR, which became everyone's middle-of-the-road clamshell phone.
The clamshell laptop was patented more than 30 years ago by the British industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who died this week - and we're still using clamshell laptops.
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For the past few years, tech companies have been focused on tablets and smartphones, and in the meantime, a simple clamshell laptop has been relegated to workhorse status.
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Sharp Electronics unveiled its Mobilon TriPad PV-6000, a Windows CE-based computing device that can be used in three different operating positions: standard notebook (clamshell), pen tablet (slate), or easel mode.
The earphones arrive a couple of weeks later in a metal clamshell case that, along with colored earpieces, conceals what would otherwise look something like a pair of hearing aides.
Even a decade or so ago, most phones had dull gray screens, clamshell designs or tiny keypads that made you hit a button over and over to text one letter of the alphabet.
It is now the world's biggest maker of memory chips, the third largest mobile phone maker after Nokia and Motorola, and it stole a march on Nokia with its "clamshell" phone designs two years ago.
Moving on to the S2, it doesn't look quite like any other clamshell handheld we've seen -- not even Sony's own VAIO P series, one of the oddest takes on a netbook we've ever beheld.
But if you just go to golf resorts door to door, and have a garage at home, they are probably the easiest to use, the easiest to load with their clamshell design, and the most protective.
Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.
The top-selling stylish T Series Ultrabook made with an ultra-smooth brushed aluminum shell now comes with a touch display on the new T13 Ultrabook to allow consumers to experience Windows 8-based touch in a clamshell form factor.
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