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yvanleterrible · 01-08-2008, 09:22 AM

I just hope they won't be as reflective as this one Tribble. I think the reader screens we have today reflect the heavy lighting they require too much already.

As for the foldability, in an other thread I wrote about the possibllity of a clamshell like dual display that could fold over. This bendable plastic screen could be the perfect candidate for such an application. It could make the two halves of one piece instead. The middle wouldn't have to crease, if the two halves leave some space, the screen could kind of roll into a "U" shape at the joint. The best way to describe it would be a sheet of paper pinned at each corner inside two halves of a box. The sheet rolls of floats to the shape it wants to take with no force or other restriction than the space it's set in to. You could open it part way like a laptop and have a virtual touch keyboard on one half of the display and e-media on the other half, or, the device opened flat to make a uniform display of one page, vertical or horizontal. All of which is dependant on customizable software "à la iTouch".

01-08-2008, 09:22 AM	#21
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	I just hope they won't be as reflective as this one Tribble. I think the reader screens we have today reflect the heavy lighting they require too much already. As for the foldability, in an other thread I wrote about the possibllity of a clamshell like dual display that could fold over. This bendable plastic screen could be the perfect candidate for such an application. It could make the two halves of one piece instead. The middle wouldn't have to crease, if the two halves leave some space, the screen could kind of roll into a "U" shape at the joint. The best way to describe it would be a sheet of paper pinned at each corner inside two halves of a box. The sheet rolls of floats to the shape it wants to take with no force or other restriction than the space it's set in to. You could open it part way like a laptop and have a virtual touch keyboard on one half of the display and e-media on the other half, or, the device opened flat to make a uniform display of one page, vertical or horizontal. All of which is dependant on customizable software "à la iTouch".