Knights Reborn

This is brilliant!
This is fantastic!
This is the future!

"On Monday, Hewlett-Packard and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University announced the purported first prototype of what they call affordable, unbreakable flexible electronic displays."

HP unveils displays that yields to the touch

omg, freakin awesome

Now I want one >_<

One step closer to the holoscreens ^^

i fear the future

Yeah I knew this technology was out there, once it becomes cheap enough you know you will go to buy you newspaper in the form of these scrolls, to turn the page you will simply push it in and back out!

Saunby, they could even make it so that you just download the news into just that one scroll to save costs if they want.

Edit: well... if they work the way I think they work anyway

DarkLink wrote:Saunby, they could even make it so that you just download the news into just that one scroll to save costs if they want.

Edit: well... if they work the way I think they work anyway

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They practically have that technology already, look at ebooks etc,

The Flexi screen I think is a little gimicky for now.

All well and good but cost and practicality prevail. especially given the current finanical climate, where niche markets cease to exist as people are more choosey on where to art with the limited disposible income.

No more books made of paper! Download for $X into your "scroll" device!

Exactly, people are always trying to find ways to be kinder to the environment, imagine newspaper companies never having to print news again, imagine just how much paper that would save!!!

Wi-Fi self updating news papers...Movies straight to your bookmark...possibilities of this are promising...

Hmm... I just thought of a slight problem if you could download everything/most things to just one display... What about memory? would it be very limited and you have to carry around flash drives for all your stuff, or even worse have to buy a new one when you reach the max... That last option would suck so much

DarkLink wrote:Hmm... I just thought of a slight problem if you could download everything/most things to just one display... What about memory? would it be very limited and you have to carry around flash drives for all your stuff, or even worse have to buy a new one when you reach the max... That last option would suck so much

Text and images does not take much size. However, I doubt there will be movies for the screens. Unless you plug it in to a DVD player or perhaps a movable hdd...

Don't forget this intervention is a "display"! ><

Akimoto wrote:

DarkLink wrote:Hmm... I just thought of a slight problem if you could download everything/most things to just one display... What about memory? would it be very limited and you have to carry around flash drives for all your stuff, or even worse have to buy a new one when you reach the max... That last option would suck so much

Text and images does not take much size. However, I doubt there will be movies for the screens. Unless you plug it in to a DVD player or perhaps a movable hdd...

Don't forget this intervention is a "display"! ><

You have a good point there... I wonder what it'd be like to use this display instead of a monitor, or along with a monitor...

It would be awesome. Super-flat-screen display! And they could make it very very big at low cost! (Lower cost!) ^_^

WEl i was readong over all the posts and u guys were ight asbout mem probplems....but dont forget how big some flash drives are gettign, one of my basic always have work tool is a 2gb USB flash drive

nowdays iv only seen (cause i ahvent really looked into it) 8gb flash drives
but im sure there are bigger ones out there

but whos to say in teh next year or 2 some1 might find a way to make hdds as small as a processor, have u guys ever pulled a laptop apart? 250gb drives in the palm of ur hand.

this coudl be an interesting concept, and it would make checking graphjics cards or monitor faliures easy yas pie,
im likeing the idea
thx for the post Aki ^^

goin to look into it some more c if hp has the spec and features on its website yet

Taipan wrote:WEl i was readong over all the posts and u guys were ight asbout mem probplems....but dont forget how big some flash drives are gettign, one of my basic always have work tool is a 2gb USB flash drive

nowdays iv only seen (cause i ahvent really looked into it) 8gb flash drives
but im sure there are bigger ones out there

but whos to say in teh next year or 2 some1 might find a way to make hdds as small as a processor, have u guys ever pulled a laptop apart? 250gb drives in the palm of ur hand.

this coudl be an interesting concept, and it would make checking graphjics cards or monitor faliures easy yas pie,
im likeing the idea
thx for the post Aki ^^

goin to look into it some more c if hp has the spec and features on its website yet

Before I say I may have massively mis read your post, But I found it very difficult to read.

I don't see how glitches or hardware failures are more apparent with this screen. Most of these problems are fairly indetifiable at least to an expreinced enthuiast, technician or Engineer.

Memory isnt something which I concieve as a problem either, since anything remote is purgable.. notebook PCs, iPods blackberries, mobile phones all from the same mould.

Flash however is still not fully solid state but we are getting there and we need to , since the disc mechanics of hard drives have limited their performance. Same in servers parity disc transfers is used to maximise this and keep fault tolerance.

As for the screen I think we will wait and see.. I think by 2020 the desktop PC will no longer be in existing as it will have merged with the mobile computing market.

Chantelle wrote: As for the screen I think we will wait and see.. I think by 2020 the desktop PC will no longer be in existing as it will have merged with the mobile computing market.

I would love to see desktops merge with mobile computing as long as nothing is lost in the transfer... I wonder what gaming would be like with a screen you could move around and bend like that..

So after touch screens came 3D screens (do you guys know about that yet? lol), and then after that will come these things, neato. They'll probably have all the same possibilities as an iphone when they start out, except probably not touch yet, but then they'll evolve into cool amazing things!