HP's prototype in a new wave of products incorporating flexible electronic displays

[Whipet]

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-...t-devices.html

Later this year, Hewlett-Packard researchers say, they expect to deliver to the U.S. Army a working prototype of what they're calling a "Dick Tracy wristwatch" - a lightweight, wearable device that soldiers in the field can use to view digital maps and other data on a flexible plastic screen that won't shatter or crack like glass.

[elcreative]

I really wish they'd hurry up with flexible screens... I was tidying up a pile of old magazines the day before yesterday and commented to my wife on a cover display of a flexible screen rolling back into a scroll holder, taking up very little space... the article was dated 2005...

[wannabee]

Photoshop works great for magazine covers. Fashion as well as soon to be introduced technology and I remember the 1964 Women's Weekly article that predicted the paperless office because when an office gets a computer you wouldn't need it any more.

[elcreative]

It wasn't Photoshopped as it had also been shown on a couple of TV gadget shows in prototype...

Originally Posted by wannabee

Photoshop works great for magazine covers. Fashion as well as soon to be introduced technology and I remember the 1964 Women's Weekly article that predicted the paperless office because when an office gets a computer you wouldn't need it any more.