Touch Book Tablet Netbook Launched at DEMO 09

Always Innovating unveiled the Touch Book today during the DEMO 09 conference, a new device that works as both a netbook and a tablet thanks to a detachable keyboard and a 3D touchscreen user interface.

Here are the complete specs of the Touch Book:

8.9″ display screen @ 1024×600 pixels
ARM Texas Instruments OMAP3 chip
8GB micro SD card
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
6 x USB 2.0

Thanks to its design, apart from serving as both a netbook and a Tablet PC, Always Innovating also claim that their Tough Book can also be utilised as a ‘a hand-held game device, or a video player. You can even reverse the keyboard to prop it up on a table in an inverted ‘V’. Finally, because it is magnetic, you can remove the keyboard and put the tablet on the fridge to serve as a kitchen computer or digital frame.’

Interestingly, as a direct consequence of opting to use an ARM processor from Texas Instruments - incidentally the Touch Book is the first netbook to employ this particular processor - Always Innovating claim a battery life of between 10 and 15 hours during normal operation which, all said and done, is extremely impressive in offering around three times the endurance offered by comparable Atom powered netbooks. What’s most surprising is that they’re offering this at a starting price of only $299. You can show your Early Adopter skills by pre-ordering the Touch Book now on the Always Innovating site.