Felix Schmidberger design for a laptop for 2015 with OLED touch screen. It consists of two sliding OLED screens, one of which can be used as a keyboard, where necessary. Our opinion is that while this is the nicest looking concept we have seen, we suspect that innovation will outstrip this vision significantly by then.

Lenovo have a dedicated website for the Thinkpad reserve edition. When IBM handed all of their laptop division to Lenovo, many feared that the classic Thinkpad design would lose its way. While the reserve edition smacks of the type of design common to limited editions it is nonetheless a very interesting machine.

The Canova dual screen laptop may look like two chunky light boxes hinged together, but its an idea that is repeated in many concept designs these days, and who knows, perhaps Apple are working on something like this. That would surely blow away the Optimus Maximus keyboard.

In October 2006 HP’s CTO of the HP Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney showed several of HP’s recent concept designs. If this laptop prototype is anything to go by then HP have some much nicer designs on the way.

The Fujitsu DJ laptop takes the idea of the iPod click wheel to the extreme, creating turntable like interface controller on the entire lid.

This is not a laptop per se, but we include it because it shows a foldable screen, something that we are surprised that hasn’t been played around with more in concept designs. Concept design by Nikita Golovlev

&quot;At the heart of the machine are two thin layers of metal. These layers incorporate all of the electromechanical elements needed to drive the computational and software functionality.&quot;<p /><p />What in the hell does that mean.

This is what the famous design house, Frog, have to say about their laptop concept designed for a New York Times competition:

“The gelfrog converges style and function. The final product is rugged, yet flexible enough to be used in the classroom, in the urban jungle, or on the nature trail. Encased in a smart skin, the gelfrog displays image content from a mobile mirror, photo slide show, video projector and everything in between. Wireless technology enables immersive and interactive learning. Through video capture capabilities and just-in-time data library access, the gelfrog is both a journal of student experiences and a window to new worlds.”

When Intel got frustrated by the lack lack of innovation by laptop manufacturers, they commissioned reference designs. From the looks of it, the ‘metro’ moniker stands for metrosexual.

We couldnt resist sneaking this old Amiga concept laptop into the list.

LG look to be the first to get a genuine fuel cell system out for laptops, as this article and picture suggest.

This concept design by by Anna Lopez is the only laptop that will actively reduce your lifespan. In all fairness the look of this mockup is solid and builds upon our favorite themes such as full screen keyboards, transparency and edgeless displays. However the decision to show it at the wheel of a car is rather amusing.