Cylindrical Rolltop Laptops

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.

Comments

Enough is enough

[Anonymous Coward]

Something tells me it will be a little while before you will be unrolling your laptop on a plane.

Enough is enough. I have had it with these motherfucking rollup laptops on this motherfucking plane.

It's not a newspaper

[GrumblyStuff]

And even if it was, do you know how god damn annoying it is to read a paper after it's been rolled up?

Look, laptops do it right. The hinge? That's a crease, a fold line, and allows this thing that otherwise should not be bent to use space more efficiently. A cylinder is will have that big empty volume in the middle. Well, it will until the slightest bit of pressure to the sides squeezes it flat.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[shadowfaxcrx]

This. Just because you can make something doesn't mean anyone is going to want it. There's a reason we upgraded from scrolls to books. Rolled up things are an inefficient use of space.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[Whalou]

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.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[kevinNCSU]

I think there are some pretty clear advantages to bounded books over scrolls especially considering they started hand-writing them long before the printing press. For example, have you ever tried reading your scroll with one hand and a drink in the other while lounging by the pool? And God help you if you drop it, that's when everything REALLY starts to unravel.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[camperdave]

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.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[Inner_Child]

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).

Re:It's not a newspaper

[Splab]

They aren't using cylindical forms because they want to, but they have to to contain the pressure. Trust me, they complain a lot about the space lost due to cylindical containers.

Re:It's not a newspaper

[capnkr]

Rolled up things are an inefficient use of space.

Not necessarily. Next time you pack for a trip where luggage space is at a premium, try rolling up your clothing instead of packing it folded flat in your suitcase/seabag. When crammed full, not only will the result produce less wrinkles in the clothing (if care is taken with the rolling), but it is easier to go through the entire contents of the luggage container to find a specific item, and then remove it without 'upsetting' other items. Just sayin'...

Re:It's not a newspaper

[idontgno]

I believe Dilbert discussed this.