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Cylindrical Rolltop Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-this-is-a-slow-day dept.

akshaynhegde writes "Germany's Orkin Design has proposed this fantastic concept of a futuristic laptop. The rolltop is a 'rolled up' laptop. By using the flexible OLED and touchscreen technologies, the created concept is a cylindrical laptop which can be rolled out when it needs to be used and can be rolled up again when not used." Something tells me it will be a little while before you will be unrolling your laptop on a plane.

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  1. Re:It's not a newspaper by Whalou · · Score: 4, Informative

    From what I saw, the 'big empty volume' in the middle is used for the cylinder that appears to hold the actual computer. The rolled up part is just a screen that you hook up to the base.

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  2. Re:It's not a newspaper by camperdave · · Score: 3, Informative

    Could it be that we went to books because of the invention of the printing press, which was not able to print continuously on a long scroll (contrary to the more modern printers, starting with the matrix printer)?

    No. The change from scroll to book happened centuries before the invention of the printing press.

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  3. Re:It's not a newspaper by Inner_Child · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, we went to books before the printing press, but nice try.

    Also, while cylindrical containers are strong, they also don't repel bears very well (which has about as much to do with which is more efficient for the printed word as your beverage example).

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