The Flybook V-Max, touted as the world's first notebook with a fully adjustable LCD, is finally to go on sale.

Displayed a year ago by Intel and Flymax, PCW orginally saw the concept shown off by IBM back in 2001. Philips was actually the first to sell a double-hinged notebook called the X200, which we recently reviewed.

The idea of an extendable display is a great concept, not because it will help people who fly (as Flybook thinks), but because it should help improve the poise of its user.

The long, and perhaps arduous, development cycle means the retail Flybook looks quite different to the development models and computer rendered designs.

The retail model has lost the classy finish we'd previously seen. It's also lost the display catch at the front of the chassis to set it as a rigid triangle. Finally the retail model has some worryingly visible screws on the screen extender.

You can get the retail unit from Widget in the third week of June for £1599 inc. VAT.