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- Sonan, on 01/08/2009, -0/+49By "flexible" they mean it can be rolled up into a cylinder shape. It's not like you can fold it in half. Plus, there will need to be some kind of hardware on each end of the screen. So we're going back to the days of scrolls! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+32But lo, these scrolls shall be magically imbued, transforming their inscriptions in an instant at the whimsy of any sire or maiden.
- geoken, on 01/08/2009, -0/+30How many years away is this?
- hallihg, on 01/08/2009, -0/+28Finally the end of newspapers.
So we'll have one paper thin computer screen on our desks for New York Times, one for the Daily etc. And they'll update themselves. I like that. - MikeChino, on 01/08/2009, -0/+19Pay attention Kindle!
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+14I have a dream that one day, I'll be able to check the stock market while on the toilet... with the toilet paper itself.
- Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -5/+18I'm actually pretty happy right now. I don't have an exam tomorrow, I've got pork chops with mac n cheese and some nice beer for dinner, and I have 9 krispy kremes in my kitchen.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14Commercial use of this technology has been 'just on the horizon' for over 10 years now.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP, HIGH TECH. - diggum85, on 01/08/2009, -0/+13So I can watch a video on it and then roll it up so it has a hole on each end?
- benologist, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12Pfft.
Why *not* one for each? - AdrianKRAZY, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11I can see in 50 years coke using these to label there bottles of soft drink. Powered by piezoelectronics.
Totally Awesome!. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11tis a noble dream, a noble dream -
- gametavern, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11would make a cool map.
- Philbert, on 01/08/2009, -0/+10Why one for each?
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+10very cool
- glasnostic, on 01/08/2009, -0/+10but when do i get 1080p wallpaper
- detonatR, on 01/08/2009, -2/+11that's pretty cool, can't wait to see how this is expanded on in a few years!
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9must. buy. brains.
- Arcticfx, on 01/08/2009, -1/+8Sony apparently just showed these off at CES as well. Maybe not in full production yet, but they will be soon.
It'll just plug into your soul as a power source, and turn you into a consumer zombie. - Zaneris, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6I like the way you think.
- Soval, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Well, that's trivial. (Exept if you're a time traveller, then it's more complicated.)
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+6That might void the warranty.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5Apple's going to take this and their fanboys are going to claim it was their innovation!
- venuspcs, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5I see what you did there!
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+550 years? I think by then Coke will be nanotechnologically synthesized wherever it's desired, from whatever materials are at hand. That is if civilization still exists, and people are still stupid enough to drink high fructose corn syrup.
- p341250n, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Just imagine when this will be touch capable.
- jotate, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Put an ultra-compact computer in there and a blue tooth device you can use for voice commands and voice recognition. That's some sci-fi ***** right there.
- dutch726, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4And the end of printing. Oh wait. Isn't that HP's cash cow?
- com2, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Then you'd just forget where you put it.
- thescimitar, on 01/08/2009, -0/+3This isn't the end of printing (which has also been predicted over and over and over), but certainly portents the end of newspapers. When it comes to printing, though, think about that for a second. Your beer can is "print". So is the box it came in, the box your kid's doll came in, etc, etc. We have a LONG way to go before print is dead.
- duggtodeath, on 01/09/2009, -0/+3The submitter missed out on a perfect pun opportunity; "HP Rolls Out Flexible Computer Screens" HAR HAR HAR!
- haydesigner, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2@cubicledrone: "Yep, only problem is there's nowhere to outsource journalism because they no speaka-English."
Ah, the sweet smell of ignorance combined with racism... - Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -1/+3Futuristic to us. A PS3 or 360 would have been the work of an alien civilzation back in the 80s. In 20 years, our kids (metaphorically speaking, since we diggers can never get laid and we're too depraved to be allowed to adopt) will look back and say "computer screen toilet paper? hah, my hovercar can convert into a bomb shelter!"
- AndrewDB, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2No *****. Kindle V3 here we come.
- CaseyTech, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2Same thing happened to the HP Infinity Display. A year after HP does it, Apple does it on the new Macbooks. Now I see laptop reviewers saying "The new HP 1000 with Mac-esque Infinity Display"
- Culyt, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2It's coming anyway, better to embrace it and be ahead of the game in the new area that try and hang on to aging business models while newer startups take the technology and overtake you leaving you to scrape together your own system years behind the development of the others while stepping around a patent minefield left in their wake.
☢ - DelMonte, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2With video support, this will give a whole new meaning to the expression "Rick Roll"
- Culyt, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2Actually there is a good chance the beer cans and boxes will have these kind of screens instead of labels since they support animation and such.
It will of course take a while since the tech has to become very cheap and include things like invisible solar panels (unless you can use the beer itself as a power source ;)
Imagine buying a box of cereal with an animated captain crunch, on the back is a 5 min breakfast cereal propaganda cartoon that the kids can watch while eating breakfast.
The cereal box can log onto your wireless network and call home informing the company of your purchase (probably under the guise of entering you into some competition, updating the cartoon with the latest ep, or pulling in the captain crunch forum posts and latest promotional news). It can tell them when it is opened, how often is is opened and maybe even how much cereal is eaten.
Your cereal box is now a security risk, old boxes of cereal can be found vulnerable to exploits allowing hackers to gain access to your LAN by driving by and routing through the cereal box (which will likly have several multipurpose digital radio's to allow network hopping and such), the embedded microphone and camera built into the box so your kids can use voice recognition to control the box's interface and take pictures of them enjoying captain crunch to upload to crunch.flickr.com can be used to spy on your house.
Its a long way from flexible displays, but print on monitors are coming along as well as many other printable circuits and things like the above scenario will be possible within 15 years. The legislation to stop the privacy invasion will take several years to implement, thats assuming they want to (The NSA could put in backdoors and use the cereal boxes to spy on your house). Not to mention that candy companies lobbied (ie bribed) the FDA to make the recommended daily intake insanely unhealthy)
☢ - dystra, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2bout time
- T8erT0T, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2Far out man. You're about as deep as a kiddie pool.
- pinchduck, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2And you love obama? Interesting...
- consonance, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2ASU has been working on this for a while now. It's something they're proud of. If they have a prototype, then I would guess that within the next decade they'll go on sale (but not cheaply).
- com2, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2Anybody have any idea of the resolution they are getting with this display?
- tdp301, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2You could just feed the toilet paper through a receipt printer hooked to an rss feed.
- sadisticmind, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2yea, those kind of apple fans really get on my nerves.
- wisedude, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2How cool would it be if you plastered your walls with this *****, and then could control it from your computer? If you could change your wallpaper at home instantly to anything, and even make it a movie!
- Zaneris, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2I guess HP see's the end of paper coming soon, hence their heavy interest in such products... to replace their cash cow with a new one when necessary.
- Taiyoryu, on 01/08/2009, -0/+2continuous vs batch manufacturing process
imagine printing displays on a continuous sheet of plastic and then cutting them to size using less materials (imagine a modern printing press)
versus
assembling layers of the display on a precut sheet of plastic or glass one at a time (imagine a circuit board assembly line)
the cost reduction comes from the scalability of the process, the speed of the process, and the reduction in raw materials - danj484, on 01/09/2009, -0/+2Please discontinue feeding the troll
- Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -5/+7I actually got hard reading that. I love technology.
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