Asus is at it again. Imagination and innovation are once more on display with the newly revealed Transformer Book Trio. A mind-blowing gadget, it’s a slick notebook, a dockable tablet and a veritable desktop PC, all in one. The world’s first three-in-one mobile device is designed to offer extreme flexibility, encompassing work, play, and social interaction. The Asus design shows the desire of technology developers to simplify today’s digital lifestyle and the multi-device headaches that come with it. When traveling for business, we’ve all looked into our bag and probably wondered whether it was really necessary to bring along the laptop, the tablet, the smartphone, and maybe even a standalone camera, on a four-day business trip. In Asus’ case, the streamlining effort started with transforming expectations for an average notebook. The result of the effort is a triple-faced gadget with dual operating systems, running off a pair of processors and double battery power. When the Trio tablet is docked, it becomes a notebook and can switch between Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean through a physical hotkey, a similar feature found on the Transformer AiO.. This gives the user the ability to access any of the over 700,000 apps in Google Play and over 50,000 apps in Windows Store. The transition between the two modes occurs smoothly allowing users to sync data and even to continue surfing the same webpage they were on before moving from notebook to tablet mode. The hotkey will not work if the tablet is unlatched from the keyboard dock, in that case it will only run the Android OS. A 4th generation Core i7-4500U, a bigger 750GB of hard drive space, and a 33Wh cell battery are placed under its hood. The PC station serves as a charger for...