Incredible new Samsung mobile display!

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I wonder how this might make advertisers think in the not too distant future!

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Incredible flexible mobile phone screen

"It won't break even if it's dropped, and we can actually bend the screen," Berkeley said, at which point he grabbed the edge of a prototype screen and started bending it forward and backward without anything happening to the display or the image quality.

Berkeley then pulled out a prototype phone that used a Youm display. The part of the device's screen curved around onto one of its edges.

"Content can now flow along the sides of the device," Berkeley said.

He then covered the phone with a case that left the curved part of the screen visible and showed how he could still read a message without having to use the entire display.

"This kind of display is going to allow our partners to create a whole new ecosystem of devices," he said. "Devices with bended, foldable and rollable screens."

Samsung then ran a video in which two guys have devices that use the Youm displays. One has a tablet that then folds up and has a second screen on the outside so it can be used as a phone. On the other man's device, the screen slides out of a box after he presses a button.

"Imagine the products you could design with this," Berkeley said.

Now, let me get back to rethinking fluid grids and responsive design a little bit further ;)
 


At the risk of sounding archaic one day, I don't see what the practical functionality would be of a bendable screen. Maybe here and there for niche type stuff, but I'm looking for the revolution and I'm coming up empty.
 
You can't see the value in being able to cram interactive advertising absolutely anywhere - shape / size / water-proof etc. and have that advertising fed from a 3G / 4G chip?

Side banners on edges of mobile phones would be easy for example, but just as easy to have thin strips stuck around lamp posts at head height. (waist height advertising wheelchair products knowing you lot). etc.
 
At the risk of sounding archaic one day, I don't see what the practical functionality would be of a bendable screen. Maybe here and there for niche type stuff, but I'm looking for the revolution and I'm coming up empty.
Eventually? This:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs]Nokia Morph Concept (long) - YouTube[/ame]

However, that's a long way away, despite Nokia constantly referring to it in the present tense and acting as if they've actually made one.
 
At the risk of sounding archaic one day, I don't see what the practical functionality would be of a bendable screen. Maybe here and there for niche type stuff, but I'm looking for the revolution and I'm coming up empty.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Seriously? Stay out of the tech biz, k?

For that matter, stay out of the advertising and content bizzes too. :/

I mean c'mon, you can't see any point in folding out a bigass screen from your pocket? Or wearable video advertising? Or putting screens easily on non-flat surfaces? Are you daft?

I predicted the phone-that-rolls-out-into-a-bigass-tablet a good decade ago. Actually, Arthur C Clark and Stephen Baxter predicted this flexible screen as being the centerpiece of a huge tech empire, years before me in "the light of other days." (Possibly the most awesome book ever written.)
 
Right, I've just refined my fluid-grid to a fluid-cube and about to port it to a fluid-sphere.

Selling my tools via my new business partner - Vodafone. ;)
 
At the risk of sounding archaic one day, I don't see what the practical functionality would be of a bendable screen. Maybe here and there for niche type stuff, but I'm looking for the revolution and I'm coming up empty.

The fact that it won't crack when dropped will be enough for most people to want one. It also opens the door to phone/tablet hybrid phones, the note 2 is too damn big for most people but make it the size of the s3 with the ability to fold out, flip open, or whatever to a full size tablet and that device has got some potential to replace 3 devices (phone, tablet, laptop) with a single device.
 
I can't. If you can, da fuck are they? Please enlighten me.

This is just gimmicky as fuck IMO.
Then your opinion is more worthless than most, at least when it comes to tech.

Here are three guaranteed winnars that will come out of this:

1. Wallpaper video screens. Fuck Big Screens... Wanna make the holodeck out of your Den? Just roll out the sheets of OLED. Since these things have a clear background, they'll be mountable on windows too for tintable/video windows to boot.

2. Every computer & TV you'll ever need in your pocket. Display size was the one sure thing that has separated smartphones from tablets from computers. It won't be long until we have a cellphone that can be pulled out a little to be your tablet and then more to be your desktop and then even more to be your big-screen party cinema-on-demand.

3. A Fashion Revolution. You could do so much with video display on your clothing it's impossible to even get a good start imagining it... The military would love to make Cloaking devices out of this simply by putting a camera on your back and displaying the feed on your front. Advertisers can buy lots of chest space, while the people on the street can rent out their chests by using an app with their shirts to make money when they're on the go. Got a logo? Cool, now how about a commercial, right on the clothes?


I could think of tons more of this stuff, but basically what this tech means is that anything with a surface can be covered in a video screen, even a sphere or a pen.
 
Shit, get the price point down and you can mail these fuckers. Open an envelope and a photo-sensor automatically starts playing the advertisement.
 
Damn. Having no imagination must suck.

Chap - there are people here on WF that still think responsive design is gimmicky ffs!

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The fact that it won't crack when dropped will be enough for most people to want one. It also opens the door to phone/tablet hybrid phones, the note 2 is too damn big for most people but make it the size of the s3 with the ability to fold out, flip open, or whatever to a full size tablet and that device has got some potential to replace 3 devices (phone, tablet, laptop) with a single device.

This.

We're not that far away from having tiny phones in our pockets which can fold out into full sized tablets or laptops.
 
For my first promotion I'll be offering ad space in my new network "Barside Promotions". Naturally WF stalwarts will get a good deal.

These flexible digital ads appear to "float" in the middle of the bottle thanks to the screen's clear ovoid shape - which when stuck around a glass bottle the shape compensates for 3D perspective when viewed from the front.

I have a video of them working in action (1st generation only - next ones will cover whole bottle). Honest guv - this is the genuine real product... really it is... ;)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkuLh4rKm0"]FlexiScreen - The Future of Digital POS Advertising[/ame]

I'm quite confident drinks companies would like to see advertising IN their actual product.

The great thing with this system is that it will ping your smartphone, check your Google & FB history and serve up a cocktail suggestion based on your tastes right INSIDE the bottle of the main ingredient, which doubles as the side-sell for the extremely profitable soft drink / mixers.

Now I just have to wait a few years for Samsung to get these produced cheaply.

:jester:

I have far too much time on my hands today. I really need to get out more. Or do some actual work.
 
Doffs hat to ITE for sorting the mess out.

For you lazy fucks here's the relevant clip from the speech (as if its not already plastered and 'monetised' all over YT already)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciI5RkJLhhA]Samsung Youm flexible screen technology - Brian Berkeley - YouTube[/ame]