The Plantbook is a notebook concept that takes a leaf out of the life of a bamboo plant. What I mean is that the battery charging system is inspired by the water-soaking abilities of the bamboo!
The designers explain, “The system uses an external water tank, hence the Plantbook continuously absorbs water when soaking it in water and generates electrolysis using power stored in a solar heat plate installed on the top. In this process, it is operated using hydrogen as energy source and discharges oxygen. If you put it into a water bottle while you don’t use the laptop, it automatically charges a battery and discharges oxygen. A leaf-shaped strap hanging on the top is made with silicon. It plays a role of a hand ring and a green LED indicates when the battery is charged. Using this LED, users can check how much spare capacity the batter has.”
Designers: Seunggi Baek & Hyerim Kim
wow… a laptop and a dildo in one product!!!
It’s never going to exist. Why? Here are the reasons: 1:No PC components. 2:Impossible screen/keyboard. 3:Slow as fuck (doesn’t look to have a motherboard, and if it has one it would be really, really slow. 4:Gets energy from… Nowhere, actually.
I want to buy this plantbook,It really like me
I obviously agree that this “design” is stupid, but let’s do this fun:
If you flatten the keyboard to the surface instead of keeping it hovering, you don’t need anymore a dual-state material, just a flexible one and a rigid surface, then for the screen you could just use a holder or use the screen as touchscreen (and you have a tablet instead of a laptop).
Being a tablet sure you can find a spot to fit the components.
So now we have the power issue… OK, wasting solar energy on doing electrolysis is stupid, so let’s forget about this part. But as the funny part of the idea is the water, let’s use instead osmotic power, by using water with different salinity levels, and a small boost with the solar cell.
OK, the idea is still shit and always will, but now it’s at least feasible lol