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Folding Screen For Mobile Phones Unveiled
sumj sends in word out of a Taiwanese research institute of a folding display on a smartphone that allows its screen to double in size to 5 inches (slideshow here). It's a prototype at this point. Don't bother clicking for the article's second page — it's one sentence with an interstitial before.
Look mommy! I did some brake-through R&D!
"But Timmy boy, it's just a 3d model!"
A little larger fold out display on the iphone will be the death knell of Kindle
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Seems to me that patents on rapidly evolving hardware only slows those who are forced to follow those laws... those that aren't forced to follow them are free to develop and innovate freely and as quickly as they like.
I'm sort of on the fence as to which side I would like to root for in cases like these, but it seems to me that the source for creative and innovative things will no longer be the U.S. The world is too big and too busy changing to slow down and patiently await the next evolution in the gradual release of "better ideas" that were conceived of 10 years prior by companies trying to milk the most out of 12 year old ideas.
It is truly time to give up the legal battling and manipulation and get back to spending money on R back to the kind of marketing that REALLY impresses and pleases people. Intellectual property should never have become more valuable than physical property. The collapse of intellectual property, which I now think is inevitable, will not be nearly as dramatic as the collapse of the financial system that made itself to rely on human emotion and perception to determine value and wealth... but it will have some interesting results and I hope sanity is one of them.
now they spam the tags too ?
Don't bother clicking for the article's first page.
It's just renders, not even a prototype.
I don't know about you, but reading a web page or watching a movie when there is a huge crease in the middle of the screen would just bug the hell out of me.
I thought Apple had that patented?
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.. the one samsung displayed not too long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SCZvU8sGU
Now, was I the only one excited and then let down because speedread left though title left me with "Cool, Folding@home@mobile phones".
Shame.
-- Technology for the sake of technology is as pathetic as eschewing technology because it's technology.
In other news, trailers of a new, to-be released Sci-fi movie has hit the theatres in Taiwan.
"Honey, I Flexed my iPhone!"
If you don't succeed at first, try again. If you still don't succeed, try harder. If nothing works, try reality shows.
I can see why you don't have a clue
I made it out of some christmas lights and and old Delorean.
Does it do anything..well not really.
I am thoroughly shocked that you would encourage your readers to skip the interstitial. Interstitials are an important part of our erectile-dysfunctional segment of readers, and to say that they should skip it is like telling them to skip a half-erect jackoff session.
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
Don't bother clicking for the article's second page -- it's one sentence with an interstitial before.
kdawson's trying to prove he reads the articles before posting them!
it's the first time it happens to me:
a tech news was first in my local daily newspaper and only 2 days later on /.
http://harns.blogspot.com/2008/07/additional-smartphone-screen.html
I've been talking about fold out screens for years. Why laptops don't have two thin screens is beyond me. All the technology is there.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
High complexity + moving parts = low durability, yielding an increase in fraudulent warranty claims.
Check out slide 6. Let me tell you, I'm excited.
I was hopping for something like a roll-up OLED screen with in a bendable plastic base.
Instead what we get is basically 2 traditional color LCD screens mounted on a swivel.
Nothing to see here ....
I was hopping for something like a roll-up OLED screen with a bendable plastic base.
Instead what we get is basically 2 traditional color LCD screens mounted on a swivel.
Nothing to see here ....
It's a fucking mockup, and it's not folding. Looks like this inexistent phone would have two screens, one sliding over the other. There's probably a very visible line between those two half-screens.
but then so did my Iriver T7 Volcano in the publicity shots and I could still make something more attractive out of blu-tac.
Brain surgery - it's not rocket science!
Sliding screens? Yawn. I'll be impressed when they integrate a 3D hologram to project content on a PDA like that. If CNN can do it, as they demonstrated in interviews during election coverage, and Princess Leia can do it while on the run and struggling against the Empire... I mean what's the holdup?
I don't know anyone who watched the series (before it went downhill and we all stopped...) Earth: Final Conflict and didn't want one of those phone/PDAs. If you're unfamiliar, there was an interesting announcement to something similar much earlier this year: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1410 - it includes a photo of the EFC phone (opened) and acknowledges Gibson.
The fictional EFC phone still outclasses anything I've seen dreamt-up to date.
I couldn't find a youtube of the EFC phone in use - but for EFC early-series (or music or sci-fi) fans, I found this and want to share it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3WqQfTVlTc
Pathological kinda promises Path + Logical - but instead, you get stuck with pathetic.
"What looks like a break is actually a software taskbar similar to the one at the bottom of a PC screen. But the taskbar on the smartphone screen can be moved so the whole screen can be used for pictures, video or anything else."
Ok...so the entire story is about a screen that can be folded without having a break, and the only picture provided of said screen contains a line that had to be excused...?
...unfortunately it doesn't show anything.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
What does it mean for a before to be interstitial? Perhaps submitter meant "interstice".
It's what I first thought of when seeing the story. A pity the device in Earth: Final Conflict was given such a mundane name as "a Global" without even a trademarkable variation on the spelling to allow it to be more easily referenced in popular and technical cultures. "Earth: Final Conflict Global" also doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as, say, "Star Trek Communicator"; the series-as-adjective is too long and cumbersome to say, and even fans might not pick up on "EFC Global".
The fictional EFC phone still outclasses anything I've seen dreamt-up to date.
Still, holding a camera on yourself, even with image stabilization software built-in, isn't something most people would want to do in a portable videophone, especially without visual feedback that you're framing yourself properly. And then there's the 100% speakerphone and optical eavesdropping aspects.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?