Posted on 05/06/2016 1:20:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The technology is built into a Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (FOLED) touchscreen that can be bent by the user. In addition to the oft stated upsides of a bendy smartphone, a built-in bend sensor (similar to what the lab deployed in its recent ReFlex prototype) leverages the motion as another means with which to interact with the handset.
The pair of disembodied hands in the demo video use the motion to move objects along the phone’s Z-axis. In the case of Angry Birds, that means stretching back the bird-catapulting slingshot. The tension on the phone correlates with that of the elastic band as it stretches back.
As is pretty clear from the video, this is all still very much in its early stages. Most notably, there’s the extremely low res 160 x 104 resolution (a result of dividing up the full HD display to achieved the desired 3D effect). But the lab has some grand plans, including holographic video conferences.
“When bending the display users literally pop out of the screen and can even look around each other, with their faces rendered correctly from any angle to any onlooker,” researcher Dr. Roel Vertegaal says in a release announcing the new technology.
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
3D sexting?
#3 You beat me to it. The new Princess Leia Hologram Phone and Bagel toaster.
Coming to a theater and store near you soon.
“May the Farce be with you”!
“In space - if a Hologram talks, can anyone hear it”?
I don’t care if it has new display capabilities so much as that it looks to be non-rigid. I have had a dozen cracked screen incidents in the past 10 years.
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