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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. Enough is enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. It's not a newspaper by GrumblyStuff · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:It's not a newspaper by shadowfaxcrx · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

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    2. 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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    3. Re:It's not a newspaper by kevinNCSU · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

    4. Re:It's not a newspaper by Splab · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.