Every once in a while, some new electronic product comes out with an innovative feature, and every product after it imitates it in some way. Take flat screen computer monitors, or cell-phone cameras, for example. Dialogue's Flybook VM Laptop may be the next big feature.

As you can see, their fold-out screen is an innovation above regular laptops. Instead of just folding it up, you can fold this one up, and out! That little telescoping arm allows you to raise and adjust the height. Now your laptop computer screen will be eye-level! (At least, a little closer to eye-level.) One obvious advantage is when you take the laptop on a plane, it will be easier to put on the tray table. No more of that annoying angle of the seat in its not fully upright position getting in your way.

Of course, it's not on the outside, but inside that's what counts. The Flybook VM comes with 30 GB included HDD, and 1GB Ram (2GB for more money). The CPU is an Intel Core Duo Yonah LV 1.66Ghz, and it comes with IEEE 802.11 a/b/g Wireless LAN as well as Bluetooth v2.0. The installed software includes Windows XP, Open Office 1.1.2, and Mozilla.

Besides the cool telescoping arm, there are still other great externals that I have not mentioned. The 12.1 inch LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 768, and 16:10 Wide. It also has a microphone, headphones, fingerprint reader, as well as a built-in stereo speaker. I haven't even mentioned the DVD-R DL and two USB ports. Not only that, it also comes in four colors! Choose from Silver, Black, Red, or Gold.

The Dialogue Flybook VM is available in late December for approximately $2,878.63. I must admit that the price is a lot higher than that of most laptops, but I'm guessing that soon every laptop will soon have the cool telescoping feature of the Flybook VM.