Among the numerous conference calls and webinars these days, those who have not happened to find themselves having to suddenly mute the microphone why did a child start screaming, the dog barking or a burglar alarm ringing on the neighbor’s balcony? And how many have had to apologize for incomprehensible writings sent in chats, the work of some child who at the first distraction of the parent took possession of the laptop keyboard and started playing? These are just some of the problems linked to the difficulty of combining the spaces of your home with working from home. However, the solution can come fromartificial intelligence, often used in other consumer areas such as photography on smartphones, but which now finds new outlets and gives new life to the Research and Development departments of ICT companies.
“We have introduced artificial intelligence into our products,” he tells time.news Massimo Merici, Business Development Manager of Asus, which is among the largest notebook manufacturing companies in the world. “Today there are a lot of conference calls and there are a lot of background noises. We have included in a laptop model, recently introduced on the market, ‘Ai Noise Cancellation’ technology, able to automatically exclude all external noises for both the speaker and the listener“. And not only: with another technology” we help those who forget to close the laptop with children around. The system sees that you move away from the screen and automatically locks the keyboard“says Merici again.
‘attention to the Chromebook market, kids more used to smartphone-like systems’
The news, especially today that with activities from home to work and school have increased, do not stop at this. Merici says, in fact, to pay attention to a sector of laptops not much used up to now, the Chromebooks. Because, he explains, “there is a new generation that has now discovered computers. Usually it is used in middle school, high school, but it is from the university that its use becomes massive. With Dad, the use of laptops has become primary and there are kids who have been using smartphones for a lifetime. Chromebooks are what they are more resembles as a concept operating system to a phone. For which – he predicts – there will certainly be an upsurge on this side as well “.
Looking again at Asus, Merici highlights another feature that is increasingly requested in notebooks: a larger screen, but always with a view to portability. The company has recently launched a new member of the Zenbook Duo, the UX482 model which, despite its overall small size, has a 14 ” main touch display with minimized bezels and a second screen, always touch, placed above the keyboard, with a size of 12.6 ” with a resolution of 1920×550.
“We are very attentive to the needs of the end user. We do a lot of investigations, which we believe are essential to understand what they are looking for. We have had a policy at Asus for some time. which is to enlarge the screen that users have at their disposal. We started with the thinnest bezels and with the Zenbook Duo 14 we enhance this, giving more screen available for more multitasking possibilities “, Merici continues.” After all, if you want to move, you can’t bring a second monitor . We have taken a concept to the extreme to have a notebook that is almost full screen“, conclude.