This Modular Tablet Could Be the Future of Gaming -- and Computing | MIT Technology Review: "Users loved the idea of a tablet with side-mounted controllers. But they didn’t want them to be on there permanently. It felt weird. They wanted the tablet to be free to roam independently of those controllers, to have a life of its own. “So we started thinking about this idea about how we make it modular and being able to snap different accessories on the tablet,” the company’s senior industrial designer, Francois Laine, said to IGN. This was a very smart decision. What distinguishes the Edge, the successor to Project Fiona, is the fact that it can wear many hats. The tablet can snap in and out of a GamePad, a casing featuring those two side-mounted controllers, bringing real gaming controls to bear. And the device can dock with a TV, making it double as a console of sorts. A laptop dock is forthcoming, “which will effectively enable you to turn the Edge into a little gaming laptop,” says CNET’s Scott Stein." (read more at link above)
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