third slide...

teekert 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well, that aged differently, on different fronts...

All set aside, I did always wonder, why the screen has to fold (be flexible), surely a very thin line between 2 hard screens is very workable, perhaps it is even possible to make it (almost) invisible with some optical tricks at the touching edges.

Another point: It is easy to think of such things, it's the manufacturing and specifically manufacturing at scale that is the real work. That's why I think patents can really hold us back, by blocking the market from trying stuff because a company made some nice drawings (coming from a guy that was in a company that wanted to "blanket some markets" with patents). Perhaps we could have had our flying cars ;)

Btw, that last slide is very much like the communicator from Earth: Final Conflict [0], but then again, what can you make with a rolling screen?

[0] https://earthfinalconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Global

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p_l 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The most insane flexible screen proposal from Nokia was the "nanotech" one - Nokia Morph [1], where the phone "normal" candybar shape was formed out of folding it twice with a clip for speakers - you would pull the clip and unfold it into something akin to A5 or A4 paper. Future sounded bright with software defined tactile buttons and the like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

	▲	tommica 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Looks amazing! And absolutely reminded of this scene from Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsRif1wVGs

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cube00 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's some nice cbf spelling of always and recognition on that slide.

	▲	myfonj 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"allways" (sic) feels quite 'normal' (as in very frequent for non-native speakers), but "regoqnition" (sic) is truly creative. Appreciated! There is also "stulys" (sic), supposedly instead of "stylus". That seems almost deliberate…

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tiborsaas 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Surely, foldable screens are not new desires