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Old 28th Nov 2012, 10:19   #1
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Researchers make flexible circuit breakthrough
Cadmium selenide nanocrystals do the trick.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardwar...ible-circuit/1
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Old 28th Nov 2012, 12:55   #2
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does this mean we will start to see rollup screens like the ones in the tv series earth final conflict?
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Old 28th Nov 2012, 13:08   #3
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does this mean we will start to see rollup screens like the ones in the tv series earth final conflict?
The technology is already here. We're slowly working on making *everything* flexible and transparent: the displays, the circuits, even the battery. It hasn't got to the point where you can make a smartphone that can be folded like paper yet, but it's on the horizon. I wrote about it for Custom PC a few months back - amazing leaps from science fiction to commercial product.
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. It hasn't got to the point where you can make a smartphone that can be folded like paper yet, but it's on the horizon.
that's what I mean, will this mean more flexibility in real life products.

I haven't yet seen anything that actually uses a flexible screen, let alone a rollup one
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that's what I mean, will this mean more flexibility in real life products. I haven't yet seen anything that actually uses a flexible screen, let alone a rollup one
How about a flexible eReader? Products are out there, but they're not mainstream yet. Give it a few years, it'll happen. Then we'll all get board of accidentally creasing our smartphones and somebody will come up with an 'innovative' design based around a firm, non-flexing substrate that prevents folding and creasing...
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i heard Samsung had a breakthrough for flexible screens and are looking to bring products to market end of next year
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i heard Samsung had a breakthrough for flexible screens and are looking to bring products to market end of next year
Yeah me too, I've read in several places that Samsung are going to bring out a smartphone with a foldable screen next year.
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If something is bendy surely it becomes 'rounded' and apple already have a patent for that.
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If something is bendy surely it becomes 'rounded' and apple already have a patent for that.
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