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Vallus
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ScottyDM
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The article is about a flexible smart phone, but the video is about bend gestures as a replacement for the touch screen in the same phone.
Their Smart Phone
Looks quite a bit bigger than today's crop of smart phones. The display might be thin and flexible, but the electronics pod hangs off the left side and appears to be about a quarter-inch thick.
It's ugly as sin. Whip this out in a business meeting and once the curiosity wears off, you'll be left with a very ugly piece of tech. Smart phones can be a fashion statement, but not this phone.
| Quote: | | Most impressively, the PaperPhone uses no power when nobody is interacting with it. |
So it cannot receive calls? All cell phones must burn power to periodically connect to the nearest cell tower so the phone company knows where to route your incoming calls to. Me thinks the reporter didn't understand what he/she was told. E-ink displays only burn power when changing the display.
| Quote: | | The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer - it will shape with your pocket. |
Doesn't look like it'll even fit into anyone's pocket at this point. Plus, the current crop of smart phones are small enough to not need physical flexibility to fit in anyone's pocket. The flexible phone is the classic "solution in search of a problem".
| Quote: | | 'The paperless office is here,' said Dr Vertegaal. 'Everything can be stored digitally and you can place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw them around the desk.' |
Wow, that old line's been around for decades. The biggest impediment to the paperless office has nothing to do with displays. It's all about the legal requirement to safely store information for a certain mandated length of time. Having been in the storage industry for a number of years, I'm aware of how difficult it is to ensure your data is still around when you need it. Given only a few years disk drives fail, magnetic tape forgets, and optical media fades, but paper and ink has a proven lifespan of centuries.
The flexible computer/phone will only be flexible when the electronics and battery are also flexible. Both possible, but not practical.
Bend Gestures
Nooo. Does not look convenient to me. Could it be that flexible displays are incompatible with touch screens?
Conclusions
The prototype looks awkward. The electronics pod with the flexible screen "flag" hanging off the side looks unworkable. I say, "Fail."
But given constant advances in technology, maybe something like this will someday be in everyone's pocket. But not this year.
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Ryan Fox
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Well flexible lcd screens .. its a start. They can design a unit that resembles a pen... with a pull out color , proximity LED screen that works on gestures.
^^ Its a start |
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hikaru
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Ryan Fox wrote: | Well flexible lcd screens .. its a start. They can design a unit that resembles a pen... with a pull out color , proximity LED screen that works on gestures.
^^ Its a start |
They already have flexible OLED screens... or is that what you were referring to?
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Ryan Fox
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| hikaru wrote: | | Ryan Fox wrote: | Well flexible lcd screens .. its a start. They can design a unit that resembles a pen... with a pull out color , proximity LED screen that works on gestures.
^^ Its a start |
They already have flexible OLED screens... or is that what you were referring to? |
Exactly ^^ However since not all electronics can be flexible just yet.. this
configuration might be the way forward for ultra mobiles ^^ |
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India has been using cardboard/paper cellphones as disposable units since the late 1990s. There were hard areas like the keypad, the small but usable LCD screen and the battery. They were only meant to be rented for a couple of days and put into a special recycling bins for the company to refurbish them.
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Not really news. I think I heard about the development of this last year. Or maybe it was just the screen.
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