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Bend me, shape me: Flexible phones 'out by 2013' (Bendable Phones)
BBC ^ | 11/29/2012 | BBC

Posted on 11/30/2012 6:41:05 PM PST by Dallas59








Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.

Roll it up. Drop it. Squish it in your backpack. Step on it - without any damage.

Researchers are working on just such handsets - razor-thin, paper-like and bendable.

There have already been prototypes, attracting crowds at gadget shows.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bendable; phones
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1 posted on 11/30/2012 6:41:09 PM PST by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Nothing new under the sun!


2 posted on 11/30/2012 6:43:37 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Dallas59

Cool, now the Obama voters can snort they Obamacrack through they Obamaphones.


3 posted on 11/30/2012 6:43:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

After they dial 911 to report racism.


4 posted on 11/30/2012 6:45:13 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dallas59

What is the utility of it, let alone the durability? And why does that last rendering show a display on both sides of the phone?

Japanese tend to love new gadgets of questionable value just for the novelty. Most of them never see the light of day in the US.


5 posted on 11/30/2012 6:49:37 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: cripplecreek

Yass ‘n they can stuffum up they Obama too when the po-po po-pulls they ovah.


6 posted on 11/30/2012 6:51:03 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: cripplecreek

It’s the second administration Obamaphone 2.0.

More flexible.


7 posted on 11/30/2012 6:51:12 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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8 posted on 11/30/2012 6:51:58 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: Dallas59
I can't think of anything more stupid and useless.

Hello, ... honey?
Yeah ... milk, eggs and bread ...
got it ..
yeah .. I love you too.


and I close my flip phone.

9 posted on 11/30/2012 6:54:12 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Revolting cat!

Yes, those old rotary phones also bent, if you applied enough pressure.


10 posted on 11/30/2012 6:54:54 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

If they can fold like paper, you could have larger screens than can be folded to fit in your pocket. You might be able to have screens, when unfolded that might be 8”.


11 posted on 11/30/2012 6:57:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: knarf

LOL! Sounds like me and my flip phone.


12 posted on 11/30/2012 6:59:35 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Jonty30

Repeated folding doesn’t eventually stress the plastic to the point of hazing and cracking?


13 posted on 11/30/2012 6:59:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: knarf

I appreciate the great technological advances that are driven by the consumerism. On the other hand I can’t help but feel that the constant need for something new is driving the complete lack of fiscal restraint among the public which filters up to government.

There’s a balance to be struck but its one we can only act on at a personal level.


14 posted on 11/30/2012 7:00:27 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Inyo-Mono
I take an occassional picture I can't see, don't text and my bill is 25 a mo on my son in law's group plan.


sweeet.

15 posted on 11/30/2012 7:02:31 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Dallas59

Now when you feel for the phone you can check every pocket and still not find it. Imagine the advantage of no tactil feed back on a phone that is hard to hold and can blow down the street like a dropped piece of home work!

Yes folks, its the new tits on a boar phone. Coming to a high school near you.


16 posted on 11/30/2012 7:04:49 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

They must have overcome that limitation somehow, if they are getting it ready for the consumer market. Perhaps the screen is split when folded, but seamless when joined together.


17 posted on 11/30/2012 7:05:49 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The real money is in re-selling to the satisfied customer whose phone is all cracked and hazed.


18 posted on 11/30/2012 7:07:05 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Global Warming is a religion, and I don't want to be taxed to pay for a faith that is not mine.)
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To: Revolting cat!

Too bad we’ve lost the “space race”.


19 posted on 11/30/2012 7:08:45 PM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dallas59

"These old Obamaphones suck! When you gonna get us those new flexible Obamaphones?"


20 posted on 11/30/2012 7:13:24 PM PST by COBOL2Java (GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
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