This is how Surface Book's crazy hinge works

Microsoft pretty thoroughly wowed us this morning with its introduction of the Surface Book, a new laptop that can transform into a typical Surface tablet. There's a lot to be impressed with on the new device, but perhaps the most interesting hardware feature — both visually and functionally — is the Surface Book's hinge. It looks weird. And it also looks kind of awesome.


Microsoft is referring to this as a "dynamic fulcrum hinge," which is probably the coolest of all branded hinge names. In practice, it just means that the Surface Book's hinge can rotate nearly 360 degrees so that the display can be flipped against the backside of the keyboard.




The hinge also has to support the display and internals of the...

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