The future is in laptops that roll up
We’ve done flex-displays before, we even imagined a day and age when we will fold our laptops and keyboards out of our pockets. Well, how about rolling them out? Complementing the advent of flexible display technologies is the development of “morphing materials” by Cambridge University researchers. These “morphing materials” are capable of retaining up to three structures and be fully-functional electronic devices – in other words, literally, laptops on paper?
The tech isn’t exactly there yet, and the Cambridge team is still studying their creation, but the team can’t help but imagine what a future made of “morphing materials” would look like.
In these photographs (taken by Gemma Simpson for Silicon.com), Dr. Keith Seffen shows off a mockup of the envisaged “roll-up PDA.” The screen would be made of a thin copper alloy less than a millimeter thick. The electronics would be contained in the vertical endpieces, which would also serve as a convenient way to hold the screen open.
Imagine: one day, you could fold a DS or a PSP into your pocket. “Morphing materials.” Redefining portability.
We’ve done flex-displays before, we even imagined a day and age when we will fold our laptops and keyboards out of our pockets. Well, how about rolling them out? Complementing the advent of flexible display technologies is the development of “morphing materials” by Cambridge University researchers. These “morphing materials” are capable of retaining up to three structures and be fully-functional electronic devices – in other words, literally, laptops on paper?
The tech isn’t exactly there yet, and the Cambridge team is still studying their creation, but the team can’t help but imagine what a future made of “morphing materials” would look like.
In these photographs (taken by Gemma Simpson for Silicon.com), Dr. Keith Seffen shows off a mockup of the envisaged “roll-up PDA.” The screen would be made of a thin copper alloy less than a millimeter thick. The electronics would be contained in the vertical endpieces, which would also serve as a convenient way to hold the screen open.
Imagine: one day, you could fold a DS or a PSP into your pocket. “Morphing materials.” Redefining portability.
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